Tag: Derek Riddell

Posted in TV

TV Review: W1A (Series 3)

W1A remains entirely watchable in Series 3 but repetition sets in to blunt its comic edges “It…

Posted in Howard Brenton Spooks TV

Lockdown TV Review: Spooks Series 1

I had already started a rewatch of Spooks earlier this year as part of a planned Nicola…

Posted in LGBTQ+ TV

TV Review: Gentleman Jack Series 1

Gentleman Jack proves a huge success, for Sally Wainwight, for Suranne Jones, for lesbian storytelling, for everyone…

Posted in Film

Film review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

“Please don’t be happy. Uh, sorry, I don’t… Obviously I want you to be. And I hear…

Posted in Doctor Who LGBTQ+ Mark Gatiss Russell T Davies Steven Moffat TV

Countdown to new Who: Doctor Who Series 2

“Some things are worth getting your heart broken for” David Tennant’s opening season took the template of…

Posted in Ripper Street TV

TV Review: Ripper Street Series 4

  “Edmund Reid did this” As I might have predicted after the soaring heights of Series 3,…

Posted in Happy Valley TV

TV Review: Happy Valley (Series 1)

  “Why would he do something like that? We’ve got caravans, we’ve got a games room that…

Posted in Ripper Street TV

TV Review: Ripper Street Series 1

“Whitechapel calls you back” Victorian crime procedural Ripper Street burst onto our screens at the beginning of…

Posted in John Logan Theatre West End

Review: Peter and Alice, Noël Coward Theatre

“We’re practically our own children’s book department” Second up for the Michael Grandage season at the Noël…