House of Lies is brash, crude and features a central character who should, by all accounts, be reprehensible. But yet, he is not, and there is something about this show which pulls you in and refuses to let you go. A warning for the easily offended – this is not the show for you. If…

Over the past few years, we’ve seen some great original UK shows hitting our screens, and ITV’s new supernatural show Switch seems likely to join the ranks. With one of the girls accidentally microwaving her boss’s cat and another romantically enchanting a customer who turns out to play for the other team, what’s not to…

Supernatural, the incredibly successful series about two brothers who travel around America hunting supernatural creatures, returned to UK screens earlier this month in its seventh season. The show presents a unique and interesting premise – the supernatural creatures that the two Winchester brothers fight are not only mainstream creatures, such as the werewolf or vampire, but…

It’s amazing how all the horrors of the world seem to dwindle into insignificance when Downton Abbey returns. When the series is finally axed, or writer Julian Fellows decides the time has come to end the saga of the Crawley family, I’m sure we will enter into a nationwide depression. People will drift aimlessly in…

Dinosaurs on a spaceship. A mysterious alien prison. Queen Nefertiti. And Daleks. Put them together and what do you get? Doctor Who of course! The show bounded back onto television screens with its normal flair and effervescence, and exploded with a bang, literally as the secret ‘asylum of the Daleks’ is blown up. The first…

On the 26th August new comedy A Touch of Cloth hit our screens courtesy of Sky 1. Written by Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier, this new show tells the story of DCI Jack Cloth – played by John Hannah – who finds himself investigating a string of brutal murders whilst dealing with the tragic loss…

Last year, US TV show 90210 did something radical. It shouldn’t be radical, but in the world of American teen dramas, it was radical. It was revealed one of the hot leading male characters, Teddy, was actually gay. The third series of the show saw him coming out to his close friends and becoming confident…

Bones is an engaging crime drama, one that has a very fascinating and individual premise – the team at the Jeffersonian Institute solve criminal cases where human remains are compromised. Often, these are older corpses where the only thing left is bone. What makes or breaks a crime procedural drama is the team of professionals…

Alan Ball’s Six Feet Under first aired in 2001, coming soon after the success of American Beauty, for which he wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay. The show concerns the Fisher family, whose existence is thrown into disarray after patriarch Nathaniel Fisher (Richard Jenkins) is killed in a car crash just before Christmas. Widow Ruth (Frances Conroy),…

Filmmaker, television writer and producer Ryan Murphy has had – and hopefully will continue to have – a brilliantly successful career. He has a collection of established, highly popular television shows to his name (Glee, Nip/Tuck and American Horror Story) and he also directed the Julia Roberts drama Eat Pray Love. Murphy is openly gay,…

Prisoners of War is the Israeli series, recently shown on Sky Arts 1 HD, that inspired the hugely successful US series Homeland. It’s very different to its American cousin, and fans of that show may be disappointed if they watch this expecting the same levels of stomach-churning tension. Prisoners of War is a very human…

We all witnessed the emergence of that parody of Ke$ha’s ‘Tik Tok’ back in 2009. Never did I think that this small three piece gimmick-rap band from South East London would make their own TV programme for E4. Made up of Stefan Abingdon, Dru Wakely and Ashley Horne, The Midnight Beast have made the rare transition…

A gem of a show featuring family drama and black humour which has so far been snubbed by UK television.