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What Is Inside No 9?
It’s been almost 24 hours since this bizarre comedy graced our screens.
If you missed Inside No 9, then seriously, stop whatever you’re currently doing. Cancel any plans for the next 30 minutes.
Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith have brought us yet another amazing programme, but in the usual weird style. After Psychoville, we’d expect nothing less than creepy characters and shocking storylines.
Episode 1 is appropriately named ‘Sardines’. The hiding game, which you’ve probably never played (unlucky). If you’re still confused, Yahoo has the answer to everything. No really, it does.
If all this talk of sardines has made you a bit peckish, here’s a load of recipes you might want to try.
So, the entire episode is more or less set in a wardrobe, the best part being when Ben Willbond, (the attractive one from Horrible Histories), joins the fun. Who wouldn’t want to be trapped in a wardrobe with Ben though? Really.
If you’re on the edge of your seat, click this wonderful link to visit BBC iPlayer. If you’ve already seen it, episode 2 will be opening its door next Wednesday at 10pm on BBC2.
Have You Been Watching… The Taste?
I have to admit I had no idea what this show was when I first started watching it. I know for a fact that it’s a very popular show on ABC in America, but how would the jolly old English version play out instead?
Waterloo Road
In 2006, the country was graced with a wonderful new drama, Waterloo Road. Who’d have thought that 8 years down the line we’d have had 9 series? Definitely not us.
Last week the show returned to our screens on BBC1, after the Christmas break, bringing yet more drama and troublesome teens to the school. Continue reading
Sherlock Series 3 Review
DIDYOUWATCHSHERLOCKTHISWEEKEND!? Okay, take a deep breath and let me reiterate that. Did you watch Sherlock this weekend? We know! OHMYGOD!!!! Before you carry on reading this, we will warn you that it will be full of spoilers of series 3. This is elementary, my dear Watson. Continue reading
The Bridge Returns To BBC Four This Saturday
Why should you care?
It’s bloody brilliant, that’s why.
A fellow co-author of this website, Alice Rose, used to watch these live at the same time I was, we would feverishly text at the moments between one episode and the next. Being a public programme broadcast in Sweden and Denmark, the BBC has rights to it, there are no ad breaks, and you have to pay attention to the screen for the subtitles all the way through. This means opportunities to text or tweet about the show are few and far between.
Many people are thrown off the thought of watching a show if it involves subtitles (lazy), but I assure you the quality of the script and listening to the lovely Nordic languages more than makes up for it.
Last time around, the programme followed a “truth terrorist”, who was basically a mass murderer who was killing people to make a point about each of his victims (he poisoned a nursing home to point out how little we care about old people, for instance). It’s dark, twisted, and I cannot wait.
The two detectives on the case are a man from Denmark and a woman from Sweden. He spends his life trying to explain to her social etiquette, she’s hired as she’s brilliant, but mildly autistic, meaning she will come out with things like “we probably won’t find your son, by the way”, this sounds very dark, but this kind of humour in an otherwise murky series is often needed.
If you didn’t see Season 1, they’re all available on iPlayer for another week, and I’d strongly advise you watch this excellent series before everything restarts after Christmas. Set up iPlayer downloads on your computer every week, and enjoy. It is simply fantastic.
Here’s a trailer.
What’s On Channel 5 This New Year?
Many people like to try and reinvent themselves at the start of a New Year. But sadly, the people at Channel 5 don’t seem to have heard of “New Year, New You.”
In fact, New Year’s Eve is basically a day of the 1950s.
What’s On Channel 4 This New Year?
We all know New Year TV is a pile of crap compared to Christmas TV. It’s very rare anything remotely decent is on. However, we’re here to help you filter through the crap and hopefully find you a decent watch or 2, whether you’re having a night in or end up spending New Year’s day curled up in a corner bawling…
What’s On ITV This New Year?
Always much anticipated, new year is the time when everyone tries (and usually fails), at making their new years resolution. But we’re here to make everything that little bit better, with a guide to the best ITV has to offer and the perfect opportunity for you to finish off that tin of Quality Street, if you haven’t already. Continue reading
What’s On BBC This New Year?
As the New Year is upon us, we need to know what to watch on the last day of 2013 and on the first day of 2014. Again, this is where we come in. We did one for Christmas and we’re doing one for New Years because obviously we know what TV is all about.
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What To Expect From TV In 2014
Let’s be honest, it’ll be mostly shit.
But, let’s also try and be positive, it may now all be that bad.
I’ve tried to get together a list of the stuff which I think will be worth watching out for, the stuff you should be watching if you’re not, and compiled them into a sort of “list”.
Only Connect – BBC Four (moving to BBC Two) – This may look boring as hell, and also as difficult as trying to pull a nipple off, but it is actually brilliant. Watch an episode and I promise you it’ll intrigue you enough to watch the next episode on iPlayer, you have to find connections between seemingly unrelated objects. This is the hardest episode ever produced and is available on YouTube. You’ll also see how unbelievably British the whole affair is.
If you don’t get a single question right in that whole episode, don’t worry, no-one does. But isn’t it relaxing to watch, what with it’s nice music and lack of audience? I can’t stop watching it. The first few episodes of every series usually has a few easy questions and then you feel AMAZING having watched it and got a few right. So yeah.
Top Gear – BBC Two – This will invariably return, it always does. Despite it being presented by an idiot and his two much nicer friends, it’s always enjoyable to watch. I find myself increasingly wanting to watch the special episodes these days, and I’m not so bothered about the normal episodes. Judging by Idris Elba hosting a number of shows recently on BBC Two about Motor Racing, it looks like he’s up to take Clarkson’s job upon his eventual leaving of the show. This would make it actually perfect. In case you hadn’t gathered, I dislike Clarkson intensely.
Big Brother – Channel 5 – Am I the only one who stopped watching this once it moved to Channel 5? I actually stopped watching it before then. It’s apparently still around, though.
Sherlock – BBC One – This is a “modern” programme even my parents like (and that is seriously saying something, they hate most things they see), and I love it too. Returns early January, I can’t wait. Presumably he’ll actually be alive this series, I mean, he did die at the end of the last series and all that, unless they’ve got a morbid sense of humour I presume he faked his own death.
What’s On Channel 5 This Christmas?
Trucks and Christmas clearly go together like, well, nothing. So what better way than to celebrate Christmas Eve than by watching not one, but two festive themed episodes of Eddie Stobart. Yes, it’s all about the trucks on Channel 5 this Christmas.