2019 TV Highlights: Fleabag
I started writing this post back in October, knowing that I’d be unlikely to have time to write about more than one favourite TV show … Read more
Emmy 2019 Nominated Screenplays
The last year really has been a year of outstanding writing in what we still stubbornly insist on calling “TV”. I have favourites from every … Read more
From the Archives: Doctor Who? – Fifty Years of a Jack In A Box
I originally wrote this in 2013, for a different website. But I thought I’d resurrect this blast from the past, so it doesn’t vanish into … Read more
Britbox and the Balkanisation of SVOD
What an ugly term SVOD is: Subscription Video On Demand. And yet, there isn’t really a better term right now. Despite what Steven Spielberg might … Read more
2018 TV Highlights: Killing Eve
Remember 2016, when Fleabag was, in my opinion, the greatest new TV show out there? Well writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge outdid herself with this year’s BBC adaptation of Luke Jennings’ Codename … Read more
Best TV of 2017
Just as there have been some astonishing new movies in 2017, we’ve also been spoilt by some splendid new, or continuing, TV. Or serialised drama? … Read more
Digital Gems, Hidden Treasures 2017 – A Year of Streaming TV
I’ve been writing my Hidden Gems column for a year now over on The Digital Fix, so I thought it worthwhile to look back, crunch … Read more