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Category Archives: POPULAR CULTURE
NADIYA’S FAMILY FAVOURITES – SEASON ONE, EPISODE ONE.
The BBC is at its finest when it makes shows like Nadiya’s Family Favourites. This was a new cookery show that was traditional, yet at the same time it also had this original fresh feel to it too. After she won … Continue reading
Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing – fun, fishing, and friendly banter
Think of a fishing version of that classic road movie Thelma and Louise, but with less sex and more jokes, and that pretty much sums up episode one of Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing! In this first episode, we saw … Continue reading
Posted in BBC, BBC COMEDY, COMEDY, EMOTION, ENTERTAINMENT, HEALTH, mens health, POPULAR CULTURE, TELEVISION, TV, TV REVIEW, UK TV, Uncategorized
Tagged @SCARFMANANDY, ANDY LLOYD, BOB MORTIMER, BRITISH TELEVISION, BRITISH TV, COMEDIANS, COMEDY, HEART DISEASE, Mortimer and Whitehouse : Gone Fishing, PAUL WHITEHOUSE, POIGNANT, ROAD MOVIE, TELEVISION REVIEW, THELMA AND LOUISE, TRAVEL SHOW, tv review, UK TV
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‘THE AMERICANS’ – My love for this show will live with me forever
June 17th, 2018, was somewhat of a momentous day for me. You see, finally I finished watching the incredible spy thriller drama series that is The Americans. All six seasons of it I have now watched, and I feel rather … Continue reading
Posted in DRAMA, ENTERTAINMENT, HAPPY VALLEY, POPULAR CULTURE, SARAH LANCASHIRE, THE AMERICANS, THE ARTS, TV, TV REVIEW, UK TV, Uncategorized
Tagged 1980S, AMAZON PRIME VIDEO, DRAMA, ELIZABETH JENNINGS, FX, KERRI RUSSELL, MATTHEW RHYS, PHILIP JENNINGS, SPY THRILLER, TELEVISION REVIEW, THE AMERICANS, THE COLD WAR, TV, tv review
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Fight Like a Girl: review.
As thirty minute documentaries go this wasn’t a bad effort at all. As part of BBC1’s Our Lives, it focused on the life of Glaswegian, Kimberly Benson. Kim being twenty-six years old and said to be Scotland’s most popular female … Continue reading
Posted in BBC, BBC1, documentary, EMOTION, ENTERTAINMENT, MENTAL HEALTH, POPULAR CULTURE, REALITY TV, TELEVISION, TV, TV REVIEW, UK TV, Uncategorized
Tagged #FightLikeaGirl, BBC1, DOCUMENTARY, EDITH BOWMAN, FIGHT LIKE A GIRL, ICW, JAPAN, JAPANESE, KIMBERLY BENSON, MARK DALLAS, mental health, OUR LIVES, SCOTLAND, TELEVISION REVIEW, TONI STORM, tv review, VIPER, WRESTLING, WRESTLING DOCUMENTARY, WWE
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HELLO STRANGER – Episode one review.
The good news is that Hello Stranger was better than the truly awful Naked Attraction. You must have seen or heard about the latter, the only dating show where people select each other based on the aesthetics of their bits and … Continue reading
Posted in ENTERTAINMENT, POPULAR CULTURE, REALITY TV, TELEVISION, THE ARTS, TV, TV REVIEW, Uncategorized
Tagged @SCARFMANANDY, AARON CALVERT, ANDY LLOYD, BLIND DATE, CHANNEL 4, DATING SHOW, GEORGE, HELLO STRANGER, HYPNOSIS, JOHN MOTSON, LUCY, NAKED ATTRACTION, REALITY TV, TELEVISION, TELEVISION REVIEW, TV, tv review
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PEAKY BLINDERS, SERIES 4, EPISODE 6 REVIEW. SIMPLY THE BEST!
Sometimes you really look forward to watching the series finale of a gripping drama on TV, but unfortunately it turns out to be a right big letdown. ITV1’s Prey(series one) and The Replacement from BBC One, are two recent examples … Continue reading
Posted in BBC, BBC DRAMA, BBC ORIGINAL DRAMA, ENTERTAINMENT, POPULAR CULTURE, TELEVISION, THE ARTS, TV, TV REVIEW, UK TV, Uncategorized
Tagged adrien brody, ALFIE SOLOMONS, ARTHUR SHELBY, BBC, BBC CRIME DRAMA, BBC DRAMA, BBC TWO DRAMA, BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM GANGS, BONNIE GOLD, BOXING, charlie murphy, CILLIAN MURPHY, entertainment, EPISODE 6, GANGS, GOLIATH, HELEN MCRORY, JESSIE EDEN, KATE PHILLIPS, LUCA CHANGRETTA, MAFIA, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, PEAKY BLINDERS, PEAKY BLINDERS SERIES 4, POLLY, popular culture, PREY ITV, SOPHIE RUNDLE, TELEVISION, TELEVISION REVIEW, THE ARTS, THE REPLACEMENT BBC ONE, TOM HARDY, TOMMY SHELBY, TV, tv review, UK TV
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‘PEAKY BLINDERS’ DELIVERS A PERSONAL BEST! Series 4, episode one review.
Last week saw the dramatic return of Peaky Blinders on BBC Two for a fourth series, a family gangster crime drama set in the 1920s in Birmingham, England. A tired script or tired acting were nowhere to be seen here because … Continue reading
Posted in BBC, BBC DRAMA, BBC ORIGINAL DRAMA, BBC1, EMOTION, ENTERTAINMENT, POPULAR CULTURE, TELEVISION, THE ARTS, TV, TV REVIEW, UK TV, Uncategorized
Tagged @SCARFMANANDY, adrien brody, ANDY LLOYD TV CRITIC, BBC 2, CILLIAN MURPHY, CRIME DRAMA, DRAMA, gangster, Helen McCrory, PAUL ANDERSON, PEAKY BLINDERS, PEAKY BLINDERS SERIES FOUR, STEVEN KNIGHT, TELEVISION, the mafia, TOMMY SHELBY, TV, tv review
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HAVEN’T I SEEN YOU SOMEWHERE BEFORE?? 2017 ‘STRICTLY COME DANCING’ LAUNCH SHOW.
Haven’t I seen you somewhere before?? This was the question that I asked last night as I watched the 2017 Strictly Come Dancing launch show. With the odd one or two notable exceptions(which I’ll come on to shortly), it was … Continue reading
Posted in BBC, BBC1, COMEDY, EMOTION, ENTERTAINMENT, lesbianism, POPULAR CULTURE, REALITY TV, STRICTLY COME DANCING, THE ARTS, TV, TV REVIEW, UK TV, Uncategorized
Tagged AMY DOWDEN, BALLROOM DANCING, BBC, BBC ONE, BBC1, BRIAN CONLEY, COMEDY, DEBBIE MCKEE, EMOTION, entertainment, GIOVANNI PERNICE, KEVIN CLIFTON, KEVIN FROM GRIMSBY, LEN GOODMAN, LESBIANISM, MARK WRIGHT, MOLLIE KING, popular culture, QUEEN, REALITY TV, SHIRLEY BALLAS, SIMON RIMMER, SIR BRUCE FORSYTH, STRICTLY COME DANCING, STRICTLY COME DANCING 2017, STRICTLY LAUNCH SHOW, SUSAN CALMAN, TELEVISION REVIEW, TESS DALY, THE QUEEN, TV, tv review, UK TV, UNCATEGORIZED
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I’VE FALLEN IN LOVE AGAIN………..WITH ‘THE AMERICANS’! ‘The Americans’, review of season 3.
It is official, I’ve fallen in love again with The Americans, but in all honesty I’d never really fallen out of love with it since ITV1 stopped showing it a few years ago. Recently, I finally twigged(bit of a technophobe … Continue reading
Posted in DRAMA, ENTERTAINMENT, ITV1, POPULAR CULTURE, RANT, TELEVISION, THE AMERICANS, THE ARTS, TV, TV REVIEW, Uncategorized
Tagged #TELEVISIONREVIEW, AMAZON VIDEO, AMERICA, ARTS, DRAMA, ELIZABETH JENNINGS, FX, HENRY JENNINGS, HOLLY TAYLOR, itv, ITV1, KEIDRICH SELLATI, KERI RUSSELL, MATTHEW RHYS, NOAH EMMERICH, PAIGE JENNINGS, PHILIP JENNINGS, popular culture, RUSSIA, RUSSIA SPY DRAMA, SEASON 3, STAN BEEMAN, TELEVISION, TELEVISION REVIEW, THE AMERICANS, THE AMERICANS SEASON 3 REVIEW, THE ARTS, THE COLD WAR, THRILLER, TV, tv review, US RUSSIAN SPY DRAMA
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The woman with a plan! ‘EILEEN’ by Ottessa Moshfegh – A REVIEW.
A sure way of knowing you’ve enjoyed a good book is when you’re sorry to have finished it, this is what has happened to me recently with the novel Eileen written by Ottessa Moshfegh! Not the best novel that I’ve ever … Continue reading
Posted in BOOK REVIEWS, EMOTION, ENTERTAINMENT, lesbianism, POPULAR CULTURE, THE ARTS, Uncategorized
Tagged #BOOKCRITIC, #bookReview, #FICTIONREVIEWS, 2016, alcoholic, AMERICA, BOOK REVIEW, book reviews, BOOK THRILLER, books, BOSTON, EILEEN, EILEEN BY MOTTESSA MOSHFEGH, EILEEN THE BOOK, entertainment, FEMALES IN BOOKS, females in fiction, fiction, LITERARY REVIEW, literature, literature review, man booker shortlisted, moorehead, OTTESSA MOSHFEGH, popular culture, psychological thriller, Randy, reading, Rebecca, REVIEW, THE ARTS, THRILLER, UNCATEGORISED, UNCATEGORIZED, X-ville
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