Whisks at the ready. Ovens on. The Great British Bake Off is back for a fifth series. Over ten, tense weeks, twelve contestants will pipe, glaze and of course bake, all under the icy-blue gaze […]
TV | Freeview Flicks of the Week – The Godfather, The Inbetweeners Movie and Winter’s Bone
Our weekly LSi best freeview flicks picks are here! MONDAY – Betty Blue (Film4 22:45) France is regarded as being the nation of romance, with Paris known as The City of Love. Following the lives of […]
TV | Silicon Valley – Sky Atlantic’s latest import falls flat
Sky Atlantic’s latest import, Silicon Valley, arrives on our shores with the same quiet fanfare as shows such as Workaholics and Broad City. It certainly has an impressive pedigree, coming from the mind of Mike […]
TV | Freeview Flicks of the Week – Made in Dagenham, Planet of the Apes and Hugo
Our weekly LSi best freeview flicks picks are here! This week we go on a 1960’s strike, a magical adventure with an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station and battle with some apes. […]
TV | Freeview Flicks of the week – The Sixth Sense, Tron: Legacy and The Matrix
Our weekly LSi best freeview flicks picks are back! MONDAY – The Sixth Sense (More4 21:00) “I see dead people”; the line is a classic and so is the film, which delivers a cracking twist […]
Interview | Dawn O'Porter – 'TV networks don't think women are as good as men.'
You’d be mistaken for thinking that Dawn O’Porter is some kind of superhero. Journalist, reporter, performer, documentary maker and novelist are but a few of the titles she’s achieved in under a decade. Yet she […]
TV | The Walshes – 'Original, touching and very, very funny'
This new sitcom, from Graham Linehan deserves all the recognition it can get. What The Walshes does with this base is something original, touching, and very, very funny.
TV | Procedural Vs Serialised – Battle of the attention spans
It is accepted in television folklore that serialised television is much better than its procedural sister, or perhaps rival. Who ends up sitting on the Iron throne for the Game of Thrones fans out there […]
TV | Babylon – Danny Boyle's latest TV outing
Written by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong (the partners behind the satirical masterpieces Peep Show and Four Lions) it would be hard to imagine Babylon as a failing new drama. The same goes for the […]
TV | Backchat with Jack Whitehall and his dad – His dad being the highlight
“You know your mummy, she’s got very strong wrists.” God, you would hate to hear those words coming from your father, yet Michael Whitehall, the father of comedian Jack Whitehall, is just the sort of […]
TV | Last Tango in Halifax – More Alan Bennett than Wuthering Heights
You could be forgiven for having missed the first series of the BBC’s Last Tango in Halifax, not to be mistaken for the Marlon Brando film Last Tango in Paris, under any circumstances, students are […]
TV | The Sound of Musicals – The weird and wonderful ways of the West End
Whenever I have been fortunate enough to watch a West End production, I have never been preoccupied with the hard-work and effort that goes in to all of the technicalities. However, after watching the first […]