Do you love War World II era costume dramas, mystery procedurals, Silence of the Lambs,  and dramas about the feminist struggle in the post-war west? THEN DOES ITV HAVE A SHOW FOR YOU. It’s called the Bletchley Circle, and it’s a three part mini-series starring Anna Maxwell Martin and the husky-voiced Rachel Stirling. (Next podcast [...]

  I like my British procedural police comedies the way I like my robot-centered Japanese animation – that’s right, Brit Fix is back, and more inexplicable than ever! You know you missed it, you one commenter who piped up, you. Today on the block, in honor of its series two premiere, we’ve got series one [...]

In the early 90s Red Dwarf came on at 10:30 and Doctor Who came on at 11:00 and every Saturday night my sister and I would be there with a giant bowl of air popped popcorn swimming in melted butter and salt. She’d put a tape in the VHS and hit record and we’d watch [...]

Ugh, I probably shouldn’t even been commenting on this show, given that I only watched the pilot, but oh my Lord since it’s happening even as we speak I am practically itching to share it and all it’s eye-rolling-ness with you. I stumbled into watching Love Life because I heard Evil Thomas from Downton was [...]

    If your introduction to the singular Ruth Jones was as the deeply-voiced, monolithic, Louise-Brooks coiffed Welsh-woman with a hilarious past, ‘Nessa of Gavin and Stacey, it will be very, very, very, difficult – in the best possible way – for you to get over how easily she slips into the persona of pretty, [...]

  The thing I love the most about Scott and Bailey, a more richly layered take on  Cagney and Lacey that airs on ITV is the way in which it was conceived. Actress Suranne Jones (Tennant fans may remember her from her stint on Single Father) and her pal, Coronation Street veteran Sally Lindsay were [...]

    Chances are if you own a TV and that TV is hooked up to cable, that you’ve seen ads for Syfy’s adaptation of this great hit from UK, Being Human. I mean, even if you don’t have cable, or a TV, the ad campaign stateside has been pretty pervasive. Although in my neck [...]

When Bob & Rose, a six-part mini series written by the much-lauded Russell T. Davies (Queer As Folk, Dr. Who) hit the airwaves courtesy of ITV  in 2001 it was met with instant controversy. This wasn’t fair, but it was far from surprising. The story, simply put, is about a gay man who falls in [...]

Oh my god you seriously haven’t watched Gavin & Stacey? Get away from me you monster! Get away and go to your local place of shame to present yourself for a pubic shaming! Ha, ha, ha, I meant ‘public’ but that typo is delicious and so it remains: Your pubes should be shamed for having [...]

We’re dipping your other foot in the water this week, and while we’re not exactly jumping into the deep end – this is not watching Keeping Up Appearances with your granny (What’s up Granny? How is heaven? Can you smoke Kents non-stop up there? I bet you can.) or the geek in you spending too [...]