ITV has received a number of complaints following Sunday night’s episode of the popular costume drama. Many viewers were left ‘shocked’ and ‘distressed’ after Anna May Bates (Joanne Froggatt) was attacked and raped by a guest’s valet. Although a warning alerted viewers to the episode’s content before it was broadcast, many viewers felt the scene…
After a powerful climax to season two of Homeland, with the death of 219 people in a terrorist attack at Langley, viewers would expect an equally dramatic and tantalizing start to season three. However, ‘Tin Man Is Down’ was a disappointing follow on from such an impressive closing episode. Viewers were edged in too gently…
Kirstie Carter tells why The Vampire Diaries deserves the hype, and is a post Twilight vampire hit.
Russell Howard’s surprise gig at The Nuffield Theatre, as he tests his new material for his 2014 tour ‘Wonderbox’.
With seven series in the can and a slowly vanishing sense of wonder, everybody’s favourite blood-spatter analyst turned serial killer was just about ready to hang up his knives. The eighth and final season of the once darkly hilarious detective drama promised to be a grand finale to the mad little life of Dexter Morgan,…
Everyone loves a Dickens adaptation at Christmas, and this is one of the best ever produced. Spread over fifteen compelling episodes, acclaimed screenwriter Andrew Davies superbly adapts Dickens’s huge multi-stranded novel so that it works perfectly as a mini-series. The cast list contains some of Britain’s finest actors, but for me Gillian Anderson is the highlight. She plays the mysterious…
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Peter Kilduff’s historical novel is well worth a read, says Sophie King-Stevens.
*This is a spoiler heavy review of the final episode of Breaking Bad* It’s done. Finished. Breaking Bad is no more. It has been a massive part of my life this summer and, having timed it pretty well, I jumped on the bandwagon at just the right time. On Sunday (in the US, Monday for…
The year is 2517, and the Alliance has united all known planets under one flag, defeating the rebel Independents. There are differing degrees of prosperity, as those who live on the Core planets have all the amenities they desire, while those on the rim fight for what they need to survive. The contrasts between the slick…
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In light of the release of Grand Theft Auto V, Cat Olley explains why Rockstar’s biggest achievement is still Red Dead Redemption.