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The BBC medical soap Doctors is coming to an end after being on British TV for 24 years. The series has produced over 4496 episodes by the time of publication and it has given many writers and actors their first gig on TV. It has played a major part in the film and TV industry […]
Channel 4 has developed a tradition of adapting popular children’s books into animated specials for Christmas. 2023 sees the second book in Judith Kerr’s Mog series getting this treatment. Mog is a dim and forgetful cat that the Thomas family owns. Her peaceful life gets disturbed by a strange tradition the humans celebrate. This includes putting […]
When discussing the final batch of episodes in The Crown’s sixth and final season with a friend, he mentioned something that got me thinking about how the series slowly, over the course of the last four seasons, fell apart. He lamented that the latter seasons of the series couldn’t manage to capture the heart and […]
Women Talking is a drama based on a novel by Miriam Toews which was inspired by true events in Bolivia. In an isolated Mennonite colony the girls and women have been the victims of systematic abuse. They have been drugged and raped when they were unconscious. When the perpetrators are arrested the colony elders plan to […]
Fans of seasons one and two of Netflix’s The Crown, fear not! I come bringing good news! Despite changing over nearly every single cast member from the shows first two installments (the lone holdover is a pleasant, if brief, surprise early in the third season), I’m happy to report that season three of The Crown […]
A few weeks ago, a question was posed to TV critics on Twitter: What are the Top 10 best streaming shows, not counting international shows that air in the US on streaming sites? A smattering of critics discussed what they would pick, and the choices included several common shows, but, for the most part, were […]
After a seven-year hiatus everyone’s favourite Goth hacker is back with Sony trying to reignite the Millennium series. Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) is a renounced hacker who uses her skills to hurt men who hurt women. She has become an underground figure who women see as a saviour. Lisbeth is approached by Frans Balder (Stephen Merchant), a British software engineer who made the […]
Neil Armstrong is a man known throughout the world yet was a private individual. The film First Man, based on a biography by James R. Hansen, sets out to tell this man’s personal and professional struggles. Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) was a test pilot who applies to become an astronaut after the death of his young […]