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Game of Thrones: Interview with Maisie Williams and Michelle Fairley
22 Mar 2013
The epic fantasy TV series returns for an eagerly anticipated third season
Game of Thrones can’t have been an easy sell to the executives at HBO. George RR Martin’s sprawling series of novels may have been critically acclaimed but most fantasy TV is of the Xena: Warrior Princess or Merlin ilk. Fantasy is rarely taken seriously…
TV review: Banshee
29 Apr 2013
Getting through Alan Ball’s new show requires a strong stomach and powerful painkillers
If Six Feet Under was Alan Ball’s attempt to create a Shakespearean family drama set among the funeral parlours of LA, then Banshee (Sky Atlantic, Mon, 10.15pm) might be his attempt at pitching himself for a Bourne writing gig. While Ball may be…
Eli Roth and Landon Liboiron discuss new horror series Hemlock Grove
18 Apr 2013
'It takes all those gothic characters and rips them open which makes them a lot more raw and real'
Hemlock Grove is the new TV series form horror maestro Eli Roth (the twisted mind that gave us Cabin Fever and Hostel). It’s also one of the first original productions form streaming site Netflix. We caught up with Roth and star Landon Liboiron to find…
Dexter season 7 hits UK TV screens
21 Feb 2013
All the makings of a very complicated season for serial murderer with a heart
Dexter (Season 7) Fox, Sun 24 Feb, 9pm. Caught very red-handed at the end of series six while plunging a sacrificial blade into the belly of the Doomsday Killer, serial murderer with a heart Dexter Morgan has a fair bit of explaining to do. The fact…
Gillian Anderson and Eve Myles return to TV in non-sci-fi roles for The Fall and Frankie
16 May 2013
The stars of The X-Files and Torchwood respectively play a homicide detective and cheery nurse
As a serial killer gently bathes the corpse of a woman he has just strangled, the investigating officer on the murderer’s trail is getting intimate with a burly Belfast cop in her hotel room. It’s not a scene for the faint of heart but The Fall has…
The Alternative Comedy Experience
22 Jan 2013
Stewart Lee curates a series of alternative comedians, but offers little discussion on the genre
Stewart Lee is not sure that he and Comedy Central will have the same hopes for his curated 12-part show. The comic sees it as being similar to a ‘slightly under-attended Tuesday night at an arts centre’; Comedy Central’s ambitions remain unclarified…
TV series Boss is a fine addition to More4’s US drama roster
22 Mar 2013
Kelsey Grammer stars in a non-comedic role as the brutish mayor of Chicago
If you think of Kelsey Grammer as either Frasier Crane or Sideshow Bob, it might be tough to accept him as Tom Kane, the brutish mayor of Chicago. There isn’t a single laugh to be had in the opening episode of Boss, unless you have a Lynchian soft spot…
CBeebies Live! Interview: Katrina Bryan, aka Nina of Nina and the Neurons
22 Mar 2013
The Scottish actress will be appearing as part of Justin & Friends with Justin Fletcher
If they were handing out titles in CBeebies land, it’s a fairly safe bet that Justin Fletcher would be crowned king. Appointed an MBE for his services to children’s broadcasting in 2008, Fletcher is currently playing stadiums across the UK in the first…
TV review: Parks and Recreation
1 Mar 2013
Single-camera mockumentary style does this US comedy few favours
There are some who might think that Ricky Gervais has an awful lot to answer for, and of course he does. But maybe we shouldn’t really lay the blame for the rash of recent mockumentary work on TV entirely at his door. Sure, The Office seemed to set a…
Opinion: Why do we love horror during times of economic uncertainty?
20 Feb 2013
Twilight, The Walking Dead and Dead Set are just some of our recent horrific cultural highlights
After the Wall Street crash of 1929, was it pure coincidence that Universal set about creating a canon of classic horror movies with iconic creations? Bela Lugosi’s Dracula, Boris Karloff’s monster of Frankenstein and Lon Chaney Jr’s Wolf Man continued…
Kevin Spacey set for talk at 2013 Edinburgh International TV Festival
13 May 2013
MacTaggart lecture from actor will address change in ways TV is commissioned and watched
Actor Kevin Spacey will deliver the MacTaggart Lecture at the 2013 Guardian Edinburgh TV Festival. Being a broadly industry-focused festival, the lecture is only open to Edinburgh TV Festival delegates. Spacey recently starred in 13-part Netflix series…
Spartacus: War of the Damned
18 Apr 2013
The third series of the bloody drama has questionable accuracy but a solid storyline
The goriest, nudiest show on television, Spartacus is set in the world of Roman gladiatorial combat. Packed to the gunnels with blood, guts and sex, it would be easy to dismiss this show as crass and relentlessly macho. But the blood and boobs are so…
WWE Survivor Series and WWE Royal Rumble
28 Mar 2013
Two of the main events in the over the top world of wrestling are released on DVD and Blu-ray
You already know if you like WWE. If you don’t like wrestling this won’t change your mind. But if you enjoy the over the top presentation, physicality, pomp and cermenony of massively muscled men grappling for your entertainment WWE are still the top…
Interview: Sidse Babett Knudsen of Danish political TV drama Borgen
4 Feb 2013
Denmark’s fictional leader wants the public to cut politicians some slack
Like Martin Sheen in The West Wing, Sidse Babett Knudsen has done her bit in giving politicians a good name. As Danish leader Birgitte Nyborg in two seasons of Borgen, Knudsen’s popularity rating with British TV viewers would have Cameron, Clegg and co…
TV review: Louis CK's Louie and Ricky Gervais' Derek
28 Jan 2013
The comedy chums present us with two very different mononymical shows
On Channel 4’s opening night in 1982, Ian McKellen starred in Walter, a drama about a man with learning difficulties who tries to make his way in a cruel world filled with suspicion and derision. In Derek (Channel 4, Wed, 10pm), Ricky Gervais stars as a…
Nashville
22 Jan 2013
Hayden Panettiere and Connie Britton star as two country music rivals in this feisty TV series
In the world of country, you might be implored to stand by your man no matter what, but if another woman gets in your way, those cowboy boots suddenly become made for kicking. So, in Nashville, Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and Connie Britton (Friday Night…
New Year 2013 TV highlights
20 Dec 2012
TV drama in January featuring Borgen, Ripper Street and Mr Selfridge
While all Scandicphiles will be mourning the death of The Killing, relief is at hand with the return of Borgen (BBC Four, Sat 5 Jan, 9pm). In the spate of publicity about the recent rash of dramas from Scandinavia, much has been made of the seemingly…
Kevin Bacon talks about role in new TV drama The Following
13 Dec 2012
Movie star's first TV role is in new series by Kevin Williamson
Anyone who has followed the career of Kevin Williamson should be prepared to jump a little. The first of the iconic Scream franchise made his name in the mid-90s while later penmanship on the likes of I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cursed and The…
Ben Verth talks about his comedy hero, Peter Richardson
16 Apr 2013
Edinburgh comic Verth reveres the architect behind The Comic Strip club and TV series
My comedy hero is Peter Richardson. 'Who?' I hear you ask. Richardson was the driving force behind London’s Comic Strip club during the early 80s Alternative Comedy boom, and was the main writer and director of, and actor in, its spin-off TV show, The…
Review: Mad Mad Series 6 - Don Draper and co return with the stench of death everywhere
10 Apr 2013
Sixth and penultimate series screens Sky Atlantic, Wed 10 Apr, 10pm
Could Mad Men be the most subtle TV drama ever made? While fans of The Sopranos and The Wire tuned in mainly for the bold writing and brilliant characters, there was always the juicy carrot of some rat or business associate being brutally dispatched. As…
Utopia TV series released on DVD
21 Feb 2013
Peculiarly British modern-day conspiracy thriller
‘What do I have to do to convince you people I’m on your fucking side?’ For anyone who has yet to see the finale of Utopia, it would be unfair to reveal the identity of the person who utters those words, but it does nutshell the last episode’s winding…
Chris Addison talks The Thick of It, The Look of Love and returning to stand-up
20 Feb 2013
The baby-faced comic is in Scotland for the Glasgow International Comedy Festival
Were he not wholly spoken for, Chris Addison is the kind of genial, jovial, nice tall chap that a prospective suitor would happily introduce to their parents. But that doesn’t mean he will hold back when giving both barrels to certain scaremongers of…
Mental health TV drama Takin’ Over the Asylum set for stage adaptation
22 Jan 2013
Donna Franceschild on adapting landmark TV series feat David Tennant and Ken Stott for the stage
Not one for the simple life, Donna Franceschild gave herself what has to be one of the hardest jobs in showbusiness. How do you cut down five hours of your own mid-90s television drama and turn it into a two-hour stageplay set in the here and now? Not…
The Fear
22 Jan 2013
Peter Mullan and Richard E Grant star in this TV series about a gangster with Alzheimer's
Tony Soprano might well have ruined it for all TV gangsters. Now, rather than being an unreconstructed bad guy whose only problem was running out of asses to pop a cap into, they all have to have some health issues. So, in The Fear, Peter Mullan’s…
Christmas 2012 TV round-up
12 Dec 2012
Featuring Bad Santas, Friday Night Dinner, The Office, The Girl and The Snowman and the Snowdog
It’s not exactly a particularly seasonal thought, but 2012 might be less than fondly remembered as the year when many of our showbusiness heroes of the past were outed as, at best, sleazy letches and, at worst, sexual predators. Hurtling headlong into…
