It's not cool to like panel shows, and as a supporter of creative, doesn't-always-work-on-TV comedy, I know I'm meant to complain about the combative, macho atmosphere generated by the likes of Mock The Week. But sometimes, having funny people sitting around being funny is... well, just really … [Read more...]
Friday Night Dinner and a Mad Dogs update: What We’ve Been Watching
It's unusual for a British comedy to go straight onto Channel 4 these days, without having to work its way up, Inbetweeners-style, from the network's digital outpost E4. So with Friday Night Dinner appearing fully-formed in what should properly be described as The Peep Show Slot, the commissioners … [Read more...]
Misfits: Christmas Special – Dork Review
The festive Misfits is here, providing me with a long-awaited excuse to put something other than a dull episode number in the review title. It also contains a much more exciting end to the current series. So perhaps this was planned all along and all that whining in my last review was a bit … [Read more...]
Misfits: Series 2, Episode 6 – Dork Review
After a series that has firmly established E4’s Misfits as one of the most creative and fun mainstream shows the UK is currently producing, we have the kinda-finale of the second series. “Kinda” because it was the final episode in this run of six, but in actuality, we have the Christmas special … [Read more...]
Misfits – Series 2, Episode 5 – Dork Review
As Misfits has continued, they’ve worked their way through the big taboos in swearing, sex and violence, and this week, they finally cover one of the big ones. In fact, it’s more or less only incest left now. Can’t wait for that to turn up. And it’s not even the only disturbing sexual event in … [Read more...]
Misfits: Series 2, Episode 4 – Dork Review
This series of Misfits is flying by, isn’t it? I spend so many TV reviews nowadays talking about incrementally progressing subplots or clinging rigidly to a status quo (yes, I am talking about Merlin), and this show is untroubled by any of this stuff, barrelling forward on a wave of mad ideas and … [Read more...]
Misifts: Series 2, Episode 3 – Dork Review
In the formulaic world of British TV drama, Misfits often stands alone, thanks to its unpredictability and sheer bad taste. And this week, it launches itself from the pack again by virtually resolving the big mystery of the year in the third episode. Maybe I’ve been beaten into submission by … [Read more...]
Preview: E4’s Misfits. Superheroes with ASBOs
This week E4's highly-anticipated new drama Misfits hits our screens. It's being tapped as a kind of Skins-meets-Being Human-meets-Heroes romp, and it's all about a group of misfit yoofs on community service who get caught in a freak hailstorm that gives them super powers.Yep, so far, so … [Read more...]
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