This week we review - Warren (Series 1 Episode 1) Warren is forced to move from the south up to Preston when his partner Anne's father falls ill. He suddenly finds himself living in an area he doesn't like, doing a job he's not emotionally cut out for and looking after two teenage stepsons he never wanted. Warren loves Anne, and somehow, Anne always sees the good in Warren, but he has a way of knowing best and speaking his mind that inevitably leads to conflict, chaos and disaster for those arou...
Mar 18, 2019•54 min
This week we review - This Time With Alan Partridge (Series 1 Episode 1) Alan Partridge is handed a career lifeline - the chance to stand in (temporarily) as co-host on This Time, an evening weekday magazine show. His first return to live television since his 90s chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You was cancelled after a guest was fatally shot on air, This Time is the perfect shop window for a man of Alan's gravitas and will, or should, see him finally recognised as one of the heavyweight broadcast...
Mar 11, 2019•52 min
This week we review - Friday Night Dinner (Series 1 Episode 1) Friday Night Dinner depicts Shabbat dinner in the middle-class secular Jewish Goodman family, reflecting writer and producer Robert Popper's own secular Jewish upbringing Every Friday night, twenty-something brothers Adam and Jonny Goodman return to their parents' home for dinner. Adam and Jonny think of the weekly event as a necessary annoyance, - necessary because they get fed, and annoying because, well, they have to spend the eve...
Mar 04, 2019•50 min
This week we review - Better Things (Series 1 Episode 1) `Better Things' is the story of Sam Fox, a single mother and working actor with no filter trying to raise her three daughters, Max, Frankie, and Duke in Los Angeles. She also looks out for her mother, Phil, an English ex-patriate with questionable faculties who lives across the street. Whether she's struggling to keep her daughters close or trying to push one of them out of the nest, Sam approaches every challenge with fierce love, raw hon...
Feb 25, 2019•55 min
This week we review - Lee & Dean (Series 1 Episode 1) Introducing builders Lee and Dean - brothers from other mothers. Since school they've been inseparable... until Lee meets Nikki. For the first time Lee seems smitten, and Dean's nose is put out of joint when she moves into their flat and takes over organising Lee's birthday party. Lee has also been enjoying 'builder's perks' with posh client Mrs. Bryce-D'Souza, who sees their dalliances as more than client aftercare. When Mrs. Bryce-D'Sou...
Feb 18, 2019•49 min
This week we review - Bleak Expectations (Series 5 Episode 2) A radio comedy which has been aptly described as "a gloriously daft Victorian romp in the style of Charles Dickens after too much gin." In this series, Pip Bin is beginning to miss the conflict with his absent evil nemesis Mr Gently Benevolent, when he receives an intriguing invitation to a house party with Britain's poshest man. Pip, Gently and Co visit India, Antarctica and other interesting locations. In this episode, The Victorian...
Feb 11, 2019•49 min
This week we review - Semi Detached (Pilot) Real-time sitcom following the hapless Stuart as he struggles through the worst half an hour of his life. When his new girlfriend April goes into labour, Stuart quickly finds himself having to rely on his ex-wife Kate to get her to hospital. As Stuart thinks he's getting a handle on the situation, he is forced to deal with a sexually promiscuous father, a daughter with a newly-shaved head and the surprise return of his errant brother, who is on the run...
Feb 04, 2019•57 min
This week we review - Party - Series 1 Episode 4 Based on the award-winning play from the 2009 Edinburgh Festival, Party is written by Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and Cowards member, Tom Basden. It explores what happens when a group of people try and change the world. Four young idealists have decided to form a new political party to save the world from itself. The new fifth member, Duncan, sets about saving the world from them. A suburban garden shed is the setting, as the adolescent adults d...
Jan 28, 2019•48 min
This week we review - Ideal - Series 2 Episode 1 Ideal is a BBC Three sitcom written by Graham Duff and centres around Moz, a small-time drug dealer and his varied regular clients. Moz (Johnny Vegas) has no ambitions beyond spending a quiet life dealing cannabis to a small group of friends and acquaintances and the action takes place in and around his flat - number 20. We get an insight into Moz's world, his oddball clients and his long term girlfriend, Nicki, who is about to give birth, even th...
Jan 21, 2019•57 min
This week we review - Alex Edelman's Peer Group - Series 2 Personal The so-called Millennial generation has been much maligned in the press for being lazy, entitled, vain, venal, self-involved, easily offended little emperors. Alex Edelman thinks these criticisms are baseless. This episode is about Alex's relationship with social media and how it has insinuated itself into his life. From the power of Twitter to the perils of Instagramming your sandwich, Alex takes a personal look at a very mille...
Jan 14, 2019•56 min
This week we review - Pls Like Series 1 Episodes 1 & 2 A mockumentary about a cynical YouTuber. Pls Like is a weekly series follows struggling comedian Liam who, as an unlikely competition victor, must undertake a series of challenges in order to win a £10,000 prize. With the help of established YouTubers Charlie South and Millipede, as well as Talent Manager James Wirm, Liam must undertake a series of challenges to see if he has what it takes to become the next big vlogger. Series 2 sees Li...
Jan 07, 2019•57 min
This week we review - The Christmas Club Series 6 Episode 13 Broadcast between 29th September 1959 and 29th December 1959, series six comprised 14 episodes all of which survive in the archive. The series was broadcast on Tuesdays at 20:00 and repeated on Sundays at 18:30. Episode 13 was also repeated at 13:10 on Friday 29th December 1959. With Tony Hancock, Sid James, Hugh Morton, Wilfred Babbage and Frank Partington. Hancock has been putting money into the slate club at the Hand and Racquet pub...
Dec 31, 2018•52 min
This week we review - Zapped Series 2 Episode 1 Brian Weaver, an online data marketing assistant (even he doesn't know what that is) finds himself abruptly transported to a parallel world. Fortunately, there's a pub. There he meets the owner, Herman (a former warrior) plus a handful of regulars: Barbara (a hopeless soothsayer), Steg (an armchair revolutionary) and Howell (a brain-fried Wizard). Brian is desperate to get home, and his new acquaintances are no help at all. Instead he finds himself...
Dec 24, 2018•47 min
This week we review - Geoff Norcott - Right Leaning But Well Meaning Geoff Norcott is working class, had two disabled parents, votes Tory and voted Leave. How did he end up a comedian? In this stand up show, Geoff introduces us to his family, his early career as a teacher and how he ended up on Question Time. He has a starring role in The Mash Report on BBC 2, has done a national tour and appeared on Live at the Apollo, Edinburgh Nights, Comedy Bigmouths, and The Wright Stuff, as well as Questio...
Dec 18, 2018•48 min
This week we review - The Walshes Episode 1 The Walshes are a warm, tight-knit family from the West Dublin suburb of Strollinstown. But sometimes tight-knit is too much, and they're tripping over each other as the kids out-grow the family home. Tony, head of the household, tells the sort of Dad jokes that most people would cross continents to avoid; his wife Carmel is the typical Irish Mammy, and they're parents to Ciara and Rory, both still living at home because the state of the Irish economy ...
Dec 03, 2018•1 hr 1 min
This week we review - Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Episode 1 Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a British horror parody television series created for Channel 4 by Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness. The show focuses on fictional horror author Garth Marenghi (played by Holness) and his publisher Dean Learner (played by Ayoade), characters who originated in the Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight stage show. Darkplace is presented as a lost classic: a television series produced in the 1980s, though only broad...
Nov 26, 2018•54 min
This week we review - Curb Your Enthusiasm Series 4 Episode 5 Larry David stars as an extreme fictionalized version of himself. Like the real-life David, the character is well known in the entertainment industry as the co-creator and main co-writer of the highly successful sitcom Seinfeld. For most of the series, the Larry David character is living a married-without-children life in Los Angeles with his wife, Cheryl (played by Cheryl Hines). David's main confidant on the show is his manager, Jef...
Nov 19, 2018•52 min
This week we review - Josh Howie's Losing It Series 2 Episode 6 Episode Six: The Cake. Stand-up comic Josh and his wife comes to terms with the arrival of their first child. Josh and Monique organise their son’s first birthday party. However Monique isn’t happy when she realizes Josh has only invited a certain group of people. Written by Josh Howie Cast Josh Howie Pippa Evans Dana Alexander Gavin Forward Judith Jacob Ed Kear Jo Romero Written by Josh Howie. Produced Asley Blaker Josh Howie's Los...
Nov 12, 2018•48 min
This week we review - All Bar Luke Series 1 Episodes 1 & 2 Luke Walsall missed the education boat, never got out of Cheveley, and spends his weekends as the hapless designated driver for his ungrateful friends. Sipping his Coke and chatting hyperactively, while they drink themselves into absurdity, Luke struggles, with excruciating awkwardness, to climb the macho pecking order. Each episode of All Bar Luke covers the dying minutes of another nightmare evening for Luke. Whether he's trapped w...
Nov 05, 2018•1 hr
This week we review - Dad's Army Series 1 Episode 1 In World War II, with a German invasion looming, the defence of Walmington-on-Sea rests in the hands of the local bank manager and a motley collection of volunteers in the Home Guard unit. Despite being woefully ill-equipped, the rag-tag crew is ready to take on invading troops from across the Channel. In this episode, After hearing of the formation of the Home Guard, George Mainwaring, a bank manager, takes it upon himself to form a platoon in...
Oct 29, 2018•58 min
This week we review - Bad Move Service 2 Episode 1 Steve and Nicky are both on their second marriages and have decided that moving to the countryside from Leeds is the perfect setting for them. They've watched all the TV relocation shows and read the glossy lifestyle magazines and fell in love with the idea of 'getting away from the rat race'. Unfortunately living a quiet existence in beautiful surroundings is a big disappointment and Steve and Nicky soon find living in the countryside might not...
Oct 22, 2018•57 min
This week we review - Ellie & Anna Have Issues Episode 7 Regular listeners of Ellie and Anna's Heart show will know that nothing's off limits - and now you'll be able to enjoy even more of our 30-something presenters' observations, struggles and musings from the last seven days. Dating, sex, to family matters, fashion disasters and those little things you notice and need to tell someone, Heart's very own dynamic duo don't hold back. And now you won't have to wait until Sundays to get your E&...
Oct 15, 2018•57 min
This week - Quacks Series 1 Episode 1 Quacks is set in the 1840s, when medical science as we know it was still in its infancy, when doctors were just as likely to kill their patients as cure them, when they experimented on themselves and each other. The show explores an era of surgery when the operating theatre was just that: a theatre, full of spectacle and showmanship, where people would come to watch revolutionary procedures, or a surgeon try to beat his amputation speed record. It stars Math...
Oct 08, 2018•52 min
This week - Total Eclipse Of Descartes Series 1 Episode 3 One of Britain's finest comedians, Rob Newman, sets his sights on the world of philosophy, unpicking 3000 years of good and bad ideas to discover how we got into this mess. In a world gone mad, can philosophy provide the answer? In episode three, Rob navigates the wonders and pitfalls of genetics and internationalism. Written and performed by Rob Newman Edited by John Whitehall Produced by Jon Harvey Executive Producer: Richard Wilson A H...
Oct 01, 2018•54 min
This week - Who Is America? Series 1 Episode 7 Who Is America? is a half-hour series from comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in his return to series television for the first time in more than a decade. In the works over the past year, the seven-episode series explores the diverse individuals who populate the United States, and features Baron Cohen experimenting in the playground of 2018 America. Four By Two Television / Spelthorne Community Television Who Is America? is available on The All4 website ht...
Sep 24, 2018•54 min
This week - Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy Series 2 Episode 3 Part 3: Seventy-Five Years. Multi-award winning storyteller Sarah Kendal returns with more hilarious, gripping and moving stories. This second volume of Sarah Kendall's Australian Trilogy, is one show in three parts. A collection of seemingly unconnected stories and memories, which, together, form a meditation on luck, survival and hindsight. Scrolling backwards and forwards in time to different moments in her life, over the three ...
Sep 17, 2018•47 min
This week - Hang Ups Series 1 Episode 2 After the collapse of his previous group therapy practice, Richard is no longer able to conduct the traditional 50-minute sessions most therapists have with their patients. Instead, he's developed a new form of therapy - weekly quick-fire sessions with his patients which take place online, through a webcam. The few patients on his list present a hilarious and outrageous catalogue of neuroses, phobias, issues, anxieties and psychopathies, but even these sho...
Sep 10, 2018•46 min
This week - Jake Yapp's Media Circus Series 1 Episode 4 Jake Yapp applies his sharp satirical eye to the modern media, exploring its strengths, weaknesses and idiosyncrasies through stand-up, sketch and music. Episode 4 - Social Media Jake turns his focus to Social Media and makes an argument as to why you should delete your accounts and throw your laptops out of the window. Written, performed and composed by Jake Yapp Starring George Fouracres and Emily Lloyd-Saini Additional material by Robin ...
Sep 03, 2018•45 min
This week - Stath Lets Flats Series 1 Episode 1 Stath Lest Flats is a brand new E4 sitcom, written by and starring one of the UK's leading young character comedians, Jamie Demetriou (Fleabag, Paddington) - described by the Independent as 'a Steve Coogan in the making.' Main character Stath is a chaotic but well-meaning lettings agent, working for his Greek-Cypriot father in North London. Across the series, Stath tries to prove himself a worthy heir to the family business, 'Michael and Eagle', de...
Aug 27, 2018•44 min
This week - Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle Series 2 Episode 4 Created by and starring Stewart Lee and broadcast on BBC Two, it features stand-up comedy and sketches united by a theme for each episode. It was script-edited by Chris Morris and was initially executive-produced by Armando Iannucci. The BBC declined to make any further series due primarily to cuts to BBC 2's comedy budget which would focus on scripted comedy. The main body of the show is a Stewart Lee stand-up comedy performance, recor...
Aug 20, 2018•41 min
