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Tag Archives: UK TELEVISION
‘The Missing’ – THE COOLEST RETIRED DETECTIVE ON THE PLANET! Series 2, episode 1 review.
Now and again you quite literally get bowled over by a new programme that comes on the telly. You go to bed thinking about it, you wake up thinking about it and you cannot wait for the next episode to … Continue reading
Posted in BBC, BBC DRAMA, BBC ORIGINAL DRAMA, BBC1, DRAMA, EMOTION, ENTERTAINMENT, POPULAR CULTURE, screenplay, TELEVISION, THE ARTS, THRILLERS, TV, TV REVIEW, UK TV, Uncategorized
Tagged ABIGAIL HARDINGHAM, Alice Webstaer, ALICE WEBSTER, ANDREW LLOYD, ANDY LLOYD, ANDY LLOYD TV CRITIC, ART HOUSE, ART HOUSE CINEMA, BBC 1, BBC DRAMA THRILLER, BBC ONE, BBC ORIGINAL DRAMA, BRITISH TELEVISION, BRITISH TV, CLINT EASTWOOD, CRAIG REVEL HORWOOD, Daniel Ezra, DAVID MORRISSEY, DIRTY HARRY, DRAMA, ECKHAUSEN, EMOTION, entertainment, EUROPEAN CINEMA, FRANCE, French in British drama, GEMMA WEBSTER, GERMANY, HARRY WILLIAMS, JACK AND HARRY WILLIAMS, JACK WILLIAMS, JULIEN BAPTISTE, KEELEY HAWES, keely hawes, KIDNAP, multilayered narrative, narrative bombshells, PEDOPHILES, popular culture, Review of The Missing, SAM WEBSTER, SCARFMAN, Scarfman_, screenplay, SOPHIE GIROUX, suspence, TCHEKY KARYO, TELEVISION, Television detective, TELEVISION REVIEW, THE ARTS, THE MISSING, The Missing series 2, THRILLER, thrillers, TV, TV DRAMA, tv review, TV The Missing series two, TV THRILLER, UK TELEVISION, UK TV
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AN ASHAMED, INTROSPECTIVE AND HOODWINKED LOUIS! ‘Louis Theroux – Savile’. A review.
This was a BBC Two documentary by Louis Theroux with a difference. Never before have we seen him revisit one of his earlier programmes. First aired fifteen years ago, he looked back at the documentary he did with the now … Continue reading
Posted in ANXIETY, BBC, documentary, EMOTION, ENTERTAINMENT, grief, POPULAR CULTURE, TELEVISION, THE ARTS, TV, TV REVIEW, UK TV, Uncategorized
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‘NAKED ATTRACTION’…..more like NEVER AGAIN for me!! Naked Attraction – episode one review.
I am old enough to remember the good old glory days of Blind Date on ITV with the late, great Miss Cilla Black. It was a dating show that was fun to its core and was brilliant entertainment fit for … Continue reading
Posted in ENTERTAINMENT, lesbianism, POPULAR CULTURE, RANT, REALITY TV, TELEVISION, THE ARTS, TV, TV REVIEW, UK TV, Uncategorized
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No big Al, meant no big laughs! Stella – review of series 5.
Sky One’s Pontyberry comedy-drama Stella, is a sunny programme that really is the perfect antidote to those dark depressing winter months of January and Feb. I did a blog last year where I really praised series four(like the first two … Continue reading
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THE PLOT THICKENS IN THE BRILLIANT ‘HAPPY VALLEY’! Review of episode four, series two.
You know you are enjoying a programme when you glance over at the clock and curse the fact that that there is only thirty minutes left of it. You know you are watching a truly exceptional programme when you glance … Continue reading
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A TRIUMPHANT RETURN FOR ‘HAPPY VALLEY’! TV REVIEW.
Last Tuesday night saw the return to our screens of Sally Wainwright’s critically acclaimed crime drama Happy Valley. This second series has started off just as good as the marvelous first one ended, high praise indeed! If you are a … Continue reading
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FANTASTIC FRENETIC FURY, SHOCKS THE WORLD BY DETHRONING CLUELESS KLITSCHKO!
When I think of greatest upsets in sport that I have seen in my lifetime so far, then there are a few that immediately spring to mind. Little Wimbledon Football Club beating the mighty Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup … Continue reading
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