The ingenious product of a partnership between Billie Piper, treasured by many for her role as Doctor Who companion Rose Tyler, and Lucy Prebble, writer on HBO’s Succession, I Hate Suzie showcases the success that can come from female collaboration. Friends since they worked together on the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl […]Read More
Lockdown and COVID-19 restrictions meant that many ongoing productions were prematurely ground to a halt, resulting in a drought of highly anticipated programmes we had expected this year, leaving us with nothing but reruns. But not all hope is lost, as the end of August saw the return of BBC One’s Strike – the new […]Read More
From the mind of Levi Eddie Aluede comes a fascinating, award-winning web-series, Visions of a Vivid Life. In the same way that watching Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things feels like getting an insight into one of your nightmares, Visions is like recalling a dream; consistently surreal and not always forthcoming, the series certainly […]Read More
First aired on July 13th on BBC2 (and now available on BBC iPlayer), Once Upon a Time in Iraq covers a great deal in its five episodes, delving deep into the chaotic quagmire of the Iraq War. Beginning with the horror of 9/11, which provided the catalyst for the swift invasion and toppling of Saddam […]Read More
Selling Sunset lured many of us in at some point during lockdown with its glitzy houses, glamourous realtors, and a little bit of help from a very pushy Netflix algorithm. Giving an insight into the lives of the super-rich and their gorgeous houses, with a generous side order of catty drama, Selling Sunset is 2020’s […]Read More
As someone who grew up watching Diane Morgan’s appearances on Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe, it’s hard to separate her from the persona of Philomena Cunk. Cunk clearly became a phenomenon, going on to host the BBC2 five-part historical mockumentary Cunk on Britain, and Cunk and Other Humans, alongside releasing books under the name. Cunk is hard to describe […]Read More
“You’re kind of alternative… in a 90s way”, observes Kristy, the president and founder of her seventh-grade babysitting club – a fact she is never tired of reminding us. She might be talking about newcomer Dawn’s LA hippie style, but the nod to some of the audience’s childhood years (and the book series that originated […]Read More
When season one of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy dropped last year, it took the world by storm. With its exciting storytelling, interesting characters, and stellar soundtrack it quickly got recognised as one Netflix’s tentpole shows and was only a matter of time before a second season dropped. But after such an amazing first season, can […]Read More
Rupert Murdoch is a man that everyone should know well. After all, he has single-handedly controlled the swing of the political pendulum since the premiership of Margaret Thatcher. The Australian media mogul started out inheriting just one newspaper in Adelaide, but rose to control the Sun, the Times, Fox News, Sky, the New York Post, […]Read More
Check out our introduction to the show here. TV’s funniest vampires are back with a second series of What We Do in the Shadows, which manages to improve on the already-brilliant series one. The spin-off of the 2014 film of the same name by Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement presents vampires Nandor, Laszlo and Nadja […]Read More
On the 19th June, Netflix’s political comedy-drama, The Politician, returned for a second season after its first won two Golden Globes and a GLAAD award. Glee and American Horror Story writer Ryan Murphy is the man behind this political satire, with this season finding the main characters a few years older following the time jump […]Read More
I had no idea how much I needed some new, soothing, emotionally cathartic episodes of Queer Eye until it was back with its fifth season at the beginning of June. Antoni with his band shirts and obsession with guacamole, Tan judging everyone – especially straight men – for their poor fashion sense, Bobby and his […]Read More
A review of the BBC One drama The Salisbury Poisonings, starring Anne-Marie Duff, Annabel Scholey and Rafe Spall.Read More
The latest ‘All Stars’ season of RuPaul’s Drag Race sees the return of some audience favourites to the Werk Room. Alexis Mateo and Jujubee take their second turn on the All Stars stage, after appearing in season one, whilst Ongina, something of a legend from the very first season of Drag Race, is another competitor […]Read More
The second season of Selling Sunset is all silly drama and ridiculously fancy houses, and it's perfect as it is. Read More
