Tag "TV"

TV review: Rick Stein's India

Rick Stein is looking to discover some lesser-tasted treats

Keith Floyd has a lot to answer for. The late TV chef, traveller and bon viveur, who loved more than just the odd tipple, paved the way for a lot of charisma-challenged chef clones who only seem to have to boil an egg efficiently to become a fixture on TV screens.

TV review: The White Queen

Rebecca Ferguson as Elizabeth Woodville who enchants the king and becomes his queen

In my opinion the Medieval ages are one of the most fascinating periods of history – a dark, sinister and mysterious time filled with sometimes evil kings and queens, barbaric battles and double crossing.

TV review: Panorama and Watchdog

Speed cameras axed in Swindon

Councils are looking at motorists as the answer to their funding shortfalls, that was the warning that came out of last night’s eye-opening edition of long-running current affairs programme Panorama.

TV review: Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun

Doctor Eric Shaw looks after the 200 famous macaques monkeys who live on the rock

Gibraltar, that iconic piece of rock perched on the southern tip of Europe, just a few miles across the water from Africa, is one of the UK’s smallest overseas territories, and is the focus of a fascinating new six-part series on Channel 5.

TV review: Dates

Will Mellor as David and Oona Chaplin as Mia/Celeste

You can get anything online these days. The internet has become the one-stop shop that supermarket bosses can only dream of.

TV review: D-Day: The Last Heroes

British veterans Fred Walker and Roy Cadman were the stars of the show

Heorics of all kinds should be celebrated at every opportunity, and the anniversary of the Normandy Landings on D-Day is indeed just such a chance.

TV review: Love and Marriage

Pauline (Alison Steadman), Rowan (Celia Imrie) and Tommy (Larry Lamb) in new series Love and Marriage

The worst thing in life is to be ignored. That is what Pauline Paradise discovered in the first episode of ITV’s new comedy drama, Love and Marriage.

TV review: Skint

It is a miserable existence for people like Gail

Modern life is rubbish: smack-heads and shoplifters, window cleaners and prostitutes, money lenders and car park casinos. The mean streets of Scunthorpe, featured in Channel 4’s Skint, were a modern day Dante’s Inferno.