Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The granddaddy of British parody, and still the funniest thing Rowan Atkinson has ever done. Across four seasons, Blackadder reinvents itself each time: a snivelling medieval prince, a courtly dandy surrounded by gits, a butler in Georgian Bath, and finally…
Before W1A, there was the Olympics. Twenty Twelve follows the fictional Olympic Deliverance Commission as it prepares London 2012, which mostly means finding a way to agree on the shape of a traffic cone, arguing about whether the clock should…
The BBC takes the piss out of itself better than anyone, and W1A is the finest example. Hugh Bonneville’s Ian Fletcher leaves Twenty Twelve’s Olympic deliverance chaos to become the BBC’s Head of Values, a job that seems to consist…
Diane Morgan’s Philomena Cunk is the dumbest smart woman on television, and this five part Netflix co production with the BBC is her masterpiece. Cunk on Earth sends the professional idiot through the whole of human civilization, from the Big…