Category Archives: TV

“I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I’ve come up with recently is advertising.” In many ways, the 70s proved to be a difficult time for Peter Cook professionally and mentally. With the success of the 60s came the depression of the 70s. The 70s saw the end to…

How a classic Christmas BBC children’s drama became an annual tradition I have vivid recollections of 1984, mainly because it was the year that I began secondary school. It was a year that stands out in my mind as people kept talking about a certain book by George Orwell which at the time, even as…

I always struggle to answer when anybody asks me my favourite of any movie, genre, book, author etc. However, this comedy show is definitely my all-time favourite. Dad’s Army is a classic sit-com featuring the weekly escapades of a bumbling and mismatched British Home Guard unit during World War II. It was broadcast by the…

Sunday 16th July 2017. I'm watching the Men's singles Final of Wimbledon (Federer and Cilic) and I'm getting more and more nervous. Not about the result, I was pretty sure that Fed would win, but about the announcement of the 13th Doctor casting. Lots of reasons to be nervous: I don't want Capaldi to go…