Category: TV

16 February is the date in my diary for series 2 of this fun drama. Can’t wait.

Last night Five had the start of the new series of CSI and later Boomtown. The former is tried and tested, and very interesting, with its Miami spinoff this weekend. From the first episode of the latter, I couldn’t say. The cast is very strong, but whether the complex narative structure can be kept up…

It seems that I might have had a result. Telewest Digital have recently had an annoying habit of shutting down BBC4 at 2.15 every night, regardless of whether programming had finished. This is particularly frustrating if you’re recording one of their regular late night repeats. Anyway, today I got a positive response from the BBC…

BBC1 showed the second and final part of The Lost Prince last night and I’ve got to admit that I haven’t enjoyed a piece of historical drama so much for a long time. Superb.

Channel 4 have just started re-showing this – probably the first time it’s been on terrestrial television since it first aired in the early 80’s. Monkey magic, Monkey magic…

Shown as part of BBC4’s Poliakoff season, this was a drama that I hadn’t previously seen. It was originally a Play For Today in October 1977, starring Francesca Annis as Kate, a disaffected scientist working in a northern nuclear facility producing plutonium. She meets Tom Bell’s Alan who is the person who first starts to…

Last night saw the first part of the new Stephen Poliakoff drama, The Lost Prince. I’ve enjoyed his work since I first saw Caught on a Train (repeated tonight on BBC4) some years ago. He’s always though provoking, and has interesting characters and subject matter. In this case, about a little known royal prince who…

Sunday mornings are worth getting up early for at the moment. At 8.00am we have The Adventure Game (also on Saturday mornings) being repeated for the first time since it was last shown in 1985. Challenge TV have shown 4 so far, but they’re scheduled for the next couple of weeks at least, and there…

The following is my response to the review of the year published by OTT. A great review of the year. And now, permit me to go through some of my own highlights, but mostly lowlights. This is a very snobbish set of views, which I stand by whole-handedly. Apologies if this is sometimes rambling, and…

The series finished on telly last night, and I was very impressed. I enjoyed it a lot – probably better than Dr Zhivago overall.

Two science programmes on the same channel in the same week, and we end up with this? Now I’ll admit to having a soft spot for programmes which build things, like Secrets of the Ancients and it’s ilk. Yes they have some slightly contrived tensions amongst the participants as they decide how to deal with…

BBC2 has just shown a most entertaining Horizon on homeopathy. It investigated the claims made by homeopathy; claims that have absolutely no scientific basis as we currently understand it. A few months ago I read the fascinating book, Voodoo Science by Robert Park which goes through many scientific “debunks” of modern times. But he also…

Well the BBC have announced that BBC Three is launching on February 9 next year. I really do hope that they change tack a bit from the current BBC Choice. “Tack” is the right word. The quote from Stuart Murphy on the BBC News website story is encouraging, but we’ll have to wait and see.…