Category Archives: TV

Great Expectations (2011). Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 5th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Gillian Anderson, David Suchet, Douglas Booth, Ray Winstone, Shaun Dooley, Claire Rushbrook, Mark Addy, Jack Roth, Vanessa Kirby, Harry Lloyd, Tom Burke, Oscar Kennedy. Izzy Meikle-Small.

One of the big shows for the B.B.C. this Christmas period has to have been the latest big budget version of Great Expectations. An all-star cast, one of the biggest for a television series for a while on the channel, was greatly added to by newcomers Oscar Kennedy as the young Pip, Izzy Meikle-Small as the young misguided and manipulated Estella and a towering performance by Douglas Booth as the elder Pip.

Great Expectations (2011). Television Review. full post

(545 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

Sherlock. Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 5th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Scott, Lara Pulver.

It’s been a long wait but finally television audiences were able to greet Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ version of Sherlock Holmes with open arms and once more willing to see the great detective transplanted from the ideal of 1880’s London through to the present day.

Sherlock. Television Review. full post

(522 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Endeavour. Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 4th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Patrick Malahide, Danny Webb, Abigail Thaw, Flora Montgomery, James Bradshaw, Rachael Heaton.

I admit; I was quite prepared to hate it. However, the moment Barrington Pheloung’s musical composition started, a new dawn in the life of Morse began. This though wasn’t the chiselled, finally tuned, instinctive Morse that viewers first came across 25 years ago, this was a Morse that was nervous, shy, prone to mistakes, somewhat damned egotistical but still instantly loveable.

Endeavour. Television Review. full post

(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Inspector George Gently. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Originally published by L.S. Media. August 27th 2011.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Maggie O’ Neil, Eamonn Walker, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Lenora Crichlow, Craig Conway, Gary Carr, Simon Hubbard, Cliff Lee.

In the last few years Martin Shaw has proved that a good actor cannot be kept off the screen for too long. The 1970’s saw him as part of The Professionals and in recent years he has kept his fans happy by being the star attraction in Judge John Deed and as the man out of place in Inspector George Gently.

Inspector George Gently. Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Inspector George Gently. Gently With Class. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 2nd 2012.

Originally publushed by L.S. Media * * * *

Cast: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Christopher Fairbanks, Geraldine Somerville, Ebony Buckle, James Norton, Simon Hubbard, Don Gallagher, Chris Brailsford, Nick Hendrix, Nicholas Lumley, Fred Pearson, Alex Childs, Beverly Fox.

Like Inspector Morse before it, it is the charm of the actors and the spark between two policeman that makes Inspector George Gently worthwhile and cracking television vision.

Inspector George Gently. Gently With Class. Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(525 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Dinosaurs On A Spaceship. B.B.C. Television, Review.

Cast: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Mark Williams, Rupert Graves, Riann Steele, David Bradley, Sunetra Sarkur, David Mitchell, Robert Webb.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating ****

Cruelty, genocide and wading knee deep in Ankylosaurus and vicious raptors, just your average job for the Doctor but just that little bit beyond the ordinary for viewers of series seven of Doctor Who.

Doctor Who: Dinosaurs On A Spaceship. B.B.C. Television, Review. full post

(428 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Inspector George Gently: The Lost Child. B.B.C.Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media Aeptember 9th 2012.

Cast: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Helen Baxendale, Alison Steadman, Mark Gatiss, Simon Hubbard, Andrew Frame, Faye Castelow, Katie Anderson, Tony Haygarth.

It is every parent’s worst nightmare, the sudden disappearance of their child and the awful truth that can be associated with it. For Bacchus and Inspector George Gently is perhaps was one of their most harrowing cases.

The Inspector George Gently series has never been shy in looking at some of the more destructive and heart-breaking sides of 1960’s northern life and this episode The Lost Child was absolutely no exception.

Inspector George Gently: The Lost Child. B.B.C.Television Review. full post

(494 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *****

Cast: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Ben Browder, Adrian Scarborough, Dominic Kemp, Rob Cavazos, Joanne McQuinn, Andrew Brooks, Garrick Hogan, Byrd Wilkins, Sean Benedict.

Time is running short for Amy Pond/Williams and her husband Rory, there is a reckoning coming and it seems that time for the Doctor is fraught with perceived future knowledge of Amy’s demise and this knowledge is changing the Doctor in ways not really seen in on television.

Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy. Television Review. full post

(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Inspector George Gently: Gently In The Cathedral. B.B.C. Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 16th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Kevin Whatley, Diana Quick, Ralf Brown, Morgan Watkins, Katie Anderson, Nigel Lindsay, Simon Hubbard, Tom Hutch.

The final episode of the series of Inspector George Gently is perhaps one that will have the thoughts of the last week kept firmly in the mind of its viewers as it dealt with the insidious and detestable world of police corruption.

Inspector George Gently: Gently In The Cathedral. B.B.C. Television Review. full post

(399 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Angels Take Manhattan. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating *****

Cast: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston, Mike McShane, Rob David, Ozzie Yue, Bentley Kalu.

The hype surrounding the final episode of the mini-like series of the seventh new outing of Doctor Who has had the plethora of fan sites working themselves into frenzy since it was announced that one of the best companions, the red-haired and forthright Amy Pond, was going to leave at some point during the current season. The reason is simple, not every-one leaves the Tardis in good circumstances; sometimes they don’t come back at all.

Doctor Who: The Angels Take Manhattan. Television Review. full post

(561 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)