I’ve got a new favourite TV series, and you absolutely have to watch it. It isn’t very intellectual. People don’t do a lot of staring into the distance. There isn’t loads of blood and torture – nobody gets their chins cut off with industrial pliers. It isn’t set in a 1960s advertising agency, nor do…

The Fades is another show from BBC Three’s growing stack of original British drama. It’s intricate, sprawling, smart and witty. It can also be rather terrifying at times, but in a way more reminiscent of Being Human rather than The Exorcist. The title of the series is the name given to the dead, or rather…

Barnaby Walter gives his view on the heated debate surrounding Clarkson and co.’s behaviour on the BBC show.

Anime tends to hang from a huge chain of stereotypes, both good and bad. But one particular stereotype that constantly hangs over the majority of this medium of animation is being completely over-the-top. The bar has constantly been pushed, with planets being destroyed in Dragon Ball Z, adoring crowds being hammily addressed in Code Geass,…

In one of the promotions for Life’s Too Short, Ricky Gervais laconically states: “Watch it. It’s like a cross between The Office and Extras.” From watching episode 1 this seems like a pretty accurate description, though that’s not to say that it’s as good as either previous sitcom. Life’s Too Short is not much more…

This winter sees the return of Absolutely Fabulous, or Ab Fab as we all know it. After twenty years, Patsy and Eddy are celebrating theri anniversary in assuredly drunken style with three new specials for the BBC. Although the show started before most of us could even walk, the re-runs and Christmas specials have always…

As an all-new series approaches, The Edge looks back at what we loved about the original series

Though I only found what I saw of The Inbetweeners moderately amusing at best, the premise of actors and writers Simon Bird, Joe Thomas and Jonny Sweet’s Channel 4 comedy showcase pilot Chickens intrigued me. Mainly because period comedy, when done right (Dad’s Army, Ripping Yarns, Blackadder) is often excellent, but the show’s set up has a…

A look at TV comedy for October 2011

Has Louis gone a bit too far this time…? The EDGE find out, in their review of Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Lagos