Making the Grade
Sunday, August 31, 2008 by Ian Jones · 3 Comments
Once I would have been appalled at the idea of scrapping ITV, but not anymore. Read more
Geoffrey Perkins, RIP
Saturday, August 30, 2008 by Ian Jones · 3 Comments
Geoffrey Perkins (centre) with Simon Jones and Geoffrey McGivern in 2005
A car accident has robbed British television of one of its most ubiquitous masterminds of comedy. Read more
MasterChef: The Professionals
Friday, August 29, 2008 by Graham Kibble-White · 8 Comments
“They’ve got to really kick it up a gear!” Read more
Apparatus, method and conclusion
Sunday, August 10, 2008 by Steve Williams · 1 Comment
When Chris Addison and Armando Iannucci were enjoying huge critical acclaim with The Thick Of It, you may not have thought their next move would be to remake The Goodies – but that’s what they’re doing with Lab Rats, which Addison is starring in and writing (with Carl Cooper) and Iannucci is overseeing as Executive Producer. Read more
Spooks: Code 9
Saturday, August 2, 2008 by Stuart Ian Burns · 1 Comment
The announcement of Spooks: Code 9 was greeted with the kind of collective internet sigh last heard through every episode of ’90s flop Attachments. The trailers looked like something someone might have knocked up for YouTube using clips from that failure to tap into the web zeitgeist, the main complaint being that this spin-off (then called Threat Level) made a nonsense of the parent programme because it showed everyone in London being wiped out, making the actions of the more familiar characters entirely pointless.
