Category Archives: TV

Endeavour, Television Review. I.T.V.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Anton Lesser, James Bradshaw, Nigel Cooke, Jonathan Coy, Jessica Ellerby, Pooky Quesnel, Sean Rigby, Abigail Thaw, Sarah Vickers, Philip Martin Brown, Jessie Buckley, Liam Garrigan, Beth Goddard, Richard Herdman, Jack Bannon, Michael Hobbs, Celyn Jones, Jack Laskey, Tieva Lovelle, William Mannering, Schorne Marks, Caroline O’Neill, Samuel Oatley, James Palmer, Jamie Parker, Emily Plumtree, Nick Waring, David Westhead, Colin Dexter.

The peak into the world of Ccrime drama that seems to dominate the British television schedules would not be the same without the treasure that is Inspector Morse or his younger incarnation Endeavour.

Endeavour, Television Review. I.T.V. full post

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

The Musketeers: Knight Takes Queen, Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 71/2/10

Cast:  Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Peter Capaldi, Luke Pasqualino, Howard Charles, Ryan Gage, Maimie McCoy, Hugo Speer, Alexandra Dowling, Charlotte Hope, Roger Ringrose, Sarah Belcher, Alice Patten, Gabrielle Reidy, Peter-Hugo Daly, Robert Krejcik, Miroslav Navrati, Leigh Jones, Filip Nespor.

The question may well have been asked, “Who will rid me of this troublesome barren queen?”  The penultimate episode of the B.B.C. Series, The Musketeers, sees the four heroic French swordsmen protect Queen Anne from the drunken amorous ravings of her husband who states that she must be murdered so that he is free to marry another woman.

The Musketeers: Knight Takes Queen, Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(397 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Arena: Whatever Happened To Spitting Image? Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whatever happened to Spitting Image?  Whatever happened to the truly anarchic satire that had the so called great quaking in their boots at the thought that at least some of the decisions they made on behalf the British population might be held up to the kind of scrutiny in which they would at least have to grin and bear the extra publicity or come out looking even more foolish than they do?

Arena: Whatever Happened To Spitting Image? Television Review. B.B.C. full post

(516 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Shetland: Raven Black. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Douglas Henshall, Brian Cox, Mark Bonnar, Alison O’Donnell, Stewart Porter, Sophie Carr-Gomm, Chris Reilly, Erin Armstrong, Rebecca Benson, Finn Den Hertog, Anthony Flanagan, Julie Graham,  Steven Robertson, Gowan Calder, Francis Grey, Tunji Kasim, Cara Kelly, Anne Kidd, Freya Monk, Jana Reinermann, Matthew Zajac,

There is perhaps no place more remote in the U.K. than the Shetland Isles, the bleakness of the landscape betraying the cold that sits just below the surface of an island race who are closer perhaps in spirit to their old Nordic heritage than that of Scotland who has been their de facto Government since the 16th Century.

Shetland: Raven Black. Television Review. full post

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

The Musketeers: The Challenge. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Luke Pasqualini, Peter Capaldi, Zoe Tapper, Howard Charles, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Maimie McCoy, Hugo Speer, Vinnie Jones, John Lightbody, Perry Fitzpatrick, Bo Poraj, Christos Tolera, Richard Symes, Simon Meacock, Giles Taylor.

Just how does the best swordsman not in active service in France become a member of the elite guards known as The Musketeers? Help from friends, patronage from a great lady, luck, skill, taking on Vinnie Jones in a sword fight that on paper would surely have had footballers of a previous generation checking more than their equipment at the sight of one of the hard men of the game brandishing a weapon.

The Musketeers: The Challenge. Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

The Musketeers, A Rebellious Woman. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Peter Capaldi, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Annabelle Wallis, Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Maimie McCoy, John Lynch, Hugo Speer, Alice Sanders, Hannah Sharp, Richard Hawley, Christian Jenner, Brian Pettifer.

A Rebellious Woman or a woman who understood the complexity of wanting equality in an age of misogyny and pathetic fear in wondering what education would do to a female mind. Not an episode set in the current era, nor back in the dark days of 1970s Britain in which sexism was incredibly rife but in the days of France in which the rule of law was not in the lap of the King as is supposed but in that of the Cardinal and of the Church.

The Musketeers, A Rebellious Woman. Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

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

37 Days, Television Review. B.B.C. 2.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Ian McDiarmid, Nicholas Farrell, Kenneth Cranham, Nicholas Asbury, Mark Lewis Jones, Rainer Sellien, François-Eric Gendron, Bill Paterson, Tim Pigott-Smith, Kate Ambler, Sinéad Cusack, André Kaczmarczyk, Holger Kunkel, James McArdle, Ludger Pistor, Urs Remond, Bernhard Schütz, Stephan Szasz, Niall Cusack, Gordon Fulton, George Lenz, Mary Moulds, Chris Reilly, Rainer Reiners, Patrick Fitzsymons, Ian Beattie, Simon Coury.

37 Days, Television Review. B.B.C. 2. full post

(595 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

The Musketeers, The Exiles. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Peter Capaldi, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Amy Nuttall, Tara Fitzgerald, Ryan Gage, Alexandra Dowling, Hugo Speer, Tamla Kari, Ben Adams, David Burke, Michael Kucera, Simon Merrells, Phil Snowden, Curtis Matthew, Madelyn Marcella.

When your biggest enemy is your mother you really have problems. When she is plotting to bring about your downfall and replace you with someone younger, more pliable and easily moulded to her will, then your problems become seemingly insurmountable and terrifying.

The Musketeers, The Exiles. Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(445 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Inspector George Gently: Gently Going Under. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Lisa McGrillis, Lucy Cohu, Poppy Lee Frair, Michael Socha, Simon Greenall, Lewis Reeves, Jack Deam, Dale Meeks, Ralph Ineson, Simon Hubbard, Jane Elizabeth Walsh, Jaqueline Philips, Anna Bolton, Nicholas Rowe, Rick Warden.

Inspector George Gently: Gently Going Under. Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

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

The Musketeers: The Homecoming. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Luke Pasqualino, Santiago Cabrera, Tom Burke, Howard Charles, Ashley Walters, Anton Lesser,     Peter Capaldi, Ryan Gage, Hugo Speer, Matt Slack, Michael Cochrane, Helen Cotterill, Fiona Glascott, Brian Pettifer, Vaclav Chalupa, Christophe Gilland, Michael Jenn.

Where do the good come from? Those that change the lives of all for the better! This is the question lurking at the back of the latest episode of B.B.C.’s smash Sunday night 16th century historical romp The Musketeers.

The Musketeers: The Homecoming. Television Review. B.B.C. full post

(390 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)