© C4 Everyone Else Burns
Review of Channel 4's new apocalyptic cult comedy
23/01/2023 … It’s the end of the world… and it’s remarkably mundane.
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© Manuel Harlan The Unfriend in the West End
Review of Reece Shearsmith and Amanda Abbington in Steven Moffat's comedy
20/01/2023 … How many farces are based on an English character’s social awkwardness and the misunderstandings that arise from their inability to be unambiguous, paralysed…
Thu 19 January 2023
© Alistair Muir Alex Edelman: Just For Us
Review of the Jewish comic's tale of meeting racists
19/01/2023 … Alex Edelman barely needs any more praise for Just For Us, given that its much-extended off-Broadway residency last year attracted plaudits from the likes of Jerry…
Mon 26 December 2022
© Channel X Detectorists Christmas special
Review of Andy and Lance's return to TV
26/12/2022 … Detectorists is a TV treasure as priceless as anything Andy and Lance could ever dig up in the fields around Danebury.
Sun 25 December 2022
© BBC/Monumental Ghosts 2022 Christmas special
Review of the charming ensemble comedy
25/12/2022 … Not every supernatural Christmas story has to be a spine-chiller.
Sat 24 December 2022
Christmas Carole
Suranne Jones stars in yet another Dickens adaptation
24/12/2022 … Of the many, many, many versions of Charles Dickens’s classic tale produced each year, Sky’s retelling adds an intriguing twist or two – but can’t…
Fri 23 December 2022
© BBC/Merman Motherland: Last Christmas
Review of the comedy's festive special
23/12/2022 … If spending Christmas with the family fills you with stress, Motherland’s seasonal special – rightly promoted to BBC One from its normal BBC Two home…
Thu 22 December 2022
© BBC Inside No 9: The Bones of St Nicholas
Review of the Christmas special
22/12/2022 … ‘Come on,’ says Reece Shearsmith’s Pierce enthusiastically.