TV

Who (no pun intended) is looking forward to the Doctor Who Christmas special ‘Twice Upon A Time’ where Jodie Whittaker debuts as the new Doctor? If you are, raise your hands and fists in celebration! Ah now, who’s actually looking ...

Two IT guys and an attractive woman walk into a bar… she must be a work colleague. Graham Linehan’s The IT Crowd is all about stereotypes. The humour is almost entirely derived from stereotypes of computer geeks as well as ...

Marvel’s relationship with Netflix began so well. The first season of Daredevil was exquisite. Since then, however, it’s all gone downhill. While many critics lauded Jessica Jones, I was not one of them. Luke Cage had some redeeming features but ...

BBC shows have such short seasons that I often feel as though I blink and miss shows entirely. I had never so much as heard of Bluestone 42 when I stumbled across it on Netflix. What’s this? A military sitcom ...

Video game adaptations have a poor track record, to say the least. Concepts of player agency and input translate poorly into more traditional narrative forms and little heed is often paid to actually rendering the central appeal of the game ...

The new female-centric Netflix show, GLOW, is very loosely inspired by the actual women’s wrestling league of the 1980’s, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. But beyond the idea of doing such a show, very little else in the series takes its ...

I know, I know, I need to stop re-watching the same shows and make time to tick off some titles on my enormous to-watch list. But sometimes an old favourite is the only thing that will hit the spot… which ...

The books and the 1980s adaptation of L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series of novels were staples of my childhood. Anne was one of the first weirdos I encountered in fiction and I thought of her as a kindred spirit. ...

In 1999, comic book writer Jhonen Vasquez pitched his idea for a cartoon to Nickelodeon. That wacky little idea became Invader Zim, a series that began airing in 2001. The network had no idea what a gem Vasquez had produced for ...

I’ve always loved a good sitcom. And while the traditional set-up of the genre allows for plenty of scope for great comedy, I am thoroughly enjoying the inversion of tropes and exploration of variations on the structure that modern television ...