Category Archives: TV

Broadchurch, Television Review. Series Two, Episode Six.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Tennant, Olivia Coleman, Andrew Buchan, Jodie Whittaker, Arthur Darvill, Eve Myles, Charlotte Beaumont, Lucy Cohu, Joe Sims, Carolyn Pickles, Jonathan Bailey, Tanya Franks, Simone McAullay, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, James D’Arcy, Charlotte Rampling, Meera Syal, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, William Andrews, Matthew Gravelle, Adam Wilson, Shaun Dooley, Amanda Drew, Eliza Bennett, Hollie Burgess.

At some point the healing process has to begin, it must be seen to mend and restore; however before it does, like a scab that you cannot help but pick at, the blood-letting must continue and at times it may feel like the hurting will never stop.

Broadchurch, Television Review. Series Two, Episode Six. full post

(463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: Death By Magic. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Gwilym Lee, Fiona Dolman, Tamzin Malleson, Andrew Lee Potts, Jack Shepherd, Joe Absolom, Amanda Burton, Raj Awasti, Fraser Ayres, Pamela Betsy Cooper, Ashley Darwood, Noma Dumezweni, Anthony Farrelly, Deborah Findlay, Merelina Kendall, Stephanie Leonidas, Alan McKenna, John Neville, Justin Salinger.

The art of deception and the sleight of hand,  the act of illusion and slight bemusement needs both to succeed; and so too does a good old fashioned Detective/murder programme.

Midsomer Murders: Death By Magic. Television Review. full post

(478 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Broadchurch. Series Two, Episode Five. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Andrew Buchan, Jodie Whittaker, Charlotte Rampling, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Pauline Quirke, Arthur Darvill, Eve Myles, James D’Arcy, Meera Syal, Carolyn Pickles, Tanya Franks, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, William Andrews, Matthew Gravelle, Shaun Dooley, Joe Sims, Adam Wilson, Simone McAullay.

 

As is often pointed out in the national press via informed publications that deals with criminal statistics, offences can often be linked together, the perpetrator of one such misdeed is often responsible for others. Why should the town of Broadchurch, tearing itself apart at the seams with claim and counterclaim, be any different?

Broadchurch. Series Two, Episode Five. Television Review. full post

(381 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

The Musketeers: Amilie, Series Two: Episode Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Maime McCoy, Hugo Speer, Marc Warren, Emma Lowndes, Ellie Haddington, Laura Hobson, Charles Venn, Oliver Rix, Will Keen, Charlotte Salt, Celeste Dodwell, John Harding, Ed Stoppard.

 

Religion and politics, never easy bed fellows at the best of times, when the delicate balance hangs on the word of a young woman, that strange set of bed fellows becomes a dicey, almost inflammatory affair, which if left unchecked; could spell disaster for French-Spanish relations and have long consequences for the whole of Europe.

The Musketeers: Amilie, Series Two: Episode Four. Television Review. full post

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

Midsomer Murders, The Dagger Club. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Gwilym Lee, Fiona Dolman, Tamzin Malleson, Una Stubbs, Georgia Taylor, Ed Birch, Charlotte Cornwell, Adam Kotz, Simon Kunz, Howard Ward, James Lance, Kobna- Holdbrook-Smith, Grant Russell,, Raj Awasti, Paul Blackwell, Pamela Betsey Cooper, Anthony Farrelly, Susan Fordham, David Golt, Oona Kirsch, Liberty Mills, John Neville, Shaun Newnham, Terry Noble, Lia Williams, Timothy Watson, Allan Williams.

 

Midsomer Murders, The Dagger Club. Television Review. full post

(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Broadchurch, Television Review. Series Two, Episode Four.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Tennant, Olivia Coleman, Andrew Buchan, Jodie Whittaker, Charlotte Rampling, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Arthur Darvill, Eve Myles, James D’Arcy, Meera Syal, Carolyn Pickles, Jonathan Bailey, Tanya Franks, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, William Andrews, Matthew Gravelle, Shaun Dooley, Amanda Drew, Joe Simms, Adam Wilson, Lucy Cohu, Thusitha Jayasundera, Hannah Rae, Hollie Burgess, Brendan Murphy, Lucas Hare.

 

The writer of Broadchurch must love playing with audience’s minds so much that he seems to take them to the point of one explainable and rational theory, before offering a certain line or screen shot which might go unnoticed in the melee of damnation and finger pointing, and a new line of though runs through the head and screams, “What about me?”

Broadchurch, Television Review. Series Two, Episode Four. full post

(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Still Open All Hours, Television Review. Series One.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: David Jason, Lynda Baron, James Baxter, Stephanie Cole, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Johnny Vegas, Brigit Forsyth, Tim Healy, Kulvinder Ghir, Sally Lindsay, Nina Wadia, Barry Elliott, Mark Williams, Paula Wilcox, Vicki Pepperdine, Emily Fleeshman.

Over 40 years have passed since the immortal Ronnie Barker stuttered onto the screens of the nation as the tight fisted, corner shop owning Albert Arkwright. It was the days when Ronnie Barker was the B.B.C.’s comedy giant, when he was the lord of all he surveyed, from the Two Ronnies, to the phenomenal Porridge and of course the might of the Roy Clarke written Open All Hours, all he touched turned to gold.

Still Open All Hours, Television Review. Series One. full post

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

The Eichmann Show, Television Review.

Cast: Martin Freeman, Anthony LaPaglia, Vaidotas Martinaitis, Samuel West, Nicholas Woodeson, Rebecca Front, Andy Nyman, Ben Addis, Caroline Bartlett, Ed Birch, Zora Bishop, Dylan Edwards, Nathaniel Gleed, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Soloman Mousley, Anna-Louise Plowman, Ian Porter, Justin Salinger,

There are moments in history that have damned us as a species. No century, no civilisation, not one era is innocent of spilling bloodshed, but nothing perhaps can touch the 20th Century for the sheer desecration of humanity and the blood of so many children.

The Eichmann Show, Television Review. full post

(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Broadchurch, Television Review. Series Two, Episode Three.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: David Tennant, Olivia Coleman, Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan, Charlotte Rampling, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Arthur Darvill, Eve Myles, James D’ Arcy, Meera Syal, Caroline Pickles, Jonathan Bailey, Tanya Franks, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, William Andrews, Charlotte Latimer, Steve Bennett, Amanda Drew, Eliza Newbury, Pippa Gillespie, Andrew Darlington, Margery Knight, Neil Stanley, Abigail Hardingham, Stephanie Clift.

Courtroom dramas are the stuff of legends when it comes to television. The after effects and fall out of the police investigation just as riveting as the methodical way in which the case is built up from the start by the detective.

Broadchurch, Television Review. Series Two, Episode Three. full post

(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Foyle’s War, Elise. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Ellie Haddington, Rupert Vansittart, Tim McMullan, Daniel Weyman, Leo Gregory, Jesse Fox, Colin Connor, Simon Hepworth, Conleth Hill, David Ericsson, Julian Lewis Jones, Ronnie Fox, Henry Garrett.

All good things come to an end, some with a blast and some with an understated whimper. For Foyle’s War to contain both is quite possibly the single most maddening reason for this very successful police drama to finally come to its closure.

Foyle’s War, Elise. Television Review. full post

(584 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)