It’s a hugely effective structure, well supported by Julie Anne Robinson’s direction, which keeps the energy up while never being flashy – it might be the best pairing of writer and director since Moffat and Rachel Talalay (“The Doctor Falls”, “Heaven Sent”, among others). The repeated close-ups of Ncuti Gatwa’s …

But, again, those would be fannish nitpicks, that are ultimately visual and superficial, and ultimately, petty. So, what’s a historical complaint about “The Devil’s Chord” that’s not petty? Well, the entire episode seems to misunderstand, or at least, ignore, the way the Beatles met, and became musicians in the first …

A Doctor Who premiere, especially one doubling as the entry point into a new era, has a very specific set of goals to fulfil. It needs to establish something resembling the tone we can expect going forward (Matt Smith’s debut “The Eleventh Hour” is a great example of this – …

When the 2019 Newsnight interview finally blew up the time bomb that was Prince Andrew’s friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, not all of the pieces came back down to Earth in the same place. The interview that the Duke of York’s team were hoping would charm the public …

Warning: contains spoilers for Constellation episode four. Nothing is wasted in Apple TV+ Constellation. Its story of an astronaut coming back from space a changed woman is a sci-fi puzzle that viewers are invited to solve, and clues to its mysteries are everywhere: in apparently trivial details, in paintings hanging …

Warning: contains spoilers for all three episodes. The definition of stalking in the UK is repeated behaviour that makes a person feel scared, distressed or threatened and only needs to happen two or more times to qualify. Despite those seemingly straightforward parameters, the charge, prosecution and conviction rates for stalking …

First of all – is the BBC allowed to air a drama without a detective or a horse-drawn carriage in it? Can somebody check? Crime and period’s drama dominance isn’t the only modern TV trend bucked by The Way. Actor Michael Sheen’s directorial debut is a wild throwback to the …

This is easy to rationalise as the Thirteenth Doctor talking through the Seventh’s avatar, because there’s not a chance in hell this dialogue would have been aired during the actual McCoy era, which had its anarchic and darker leanings airbrushed since Ace became a charity CEO in “The Death of …

Alexander’s family life adds a fascinating soap opera featuring relationships all tangled up in a dramatic way. The Macedonian royal family, unlike other ancient Greeks, practiced polygamy. This is what led to Alexander’s mother rivalry with Philip’s new, younger, Macedonian wife Eurydice (Olympias was Molossian, another Greek kingdom). Alexander himself …

Bringing ACOTAR to the Screen Given its massive popularity, it’s not going to surprise anyone that there have already been attempts to bring the story of Feyre and friends to life. Tempo optioned the film rights in 2015 and the project progressed to the point where Maas herself teased an …

Champion delivers punches with its storytelling as it draws on British culture that we all can’t help but relate to, from the themes of Black male mental health to the exploitative nature of the music industry and sometimes of family. It highlights the complexity of family conflict that if not …

The raw ingredients of Rainbow’s winning recipe may have been there from the start, but it took a little tinkering to strike edutainment and pop-culture gold. When the show arrived in 1972 it was trumpeted as a rival to Sesame Street, albeit a very low-budget, culturally homogenous, and restrainedly British …