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Doctor Who: Series Seven, Episode Four- The Power of Three
After three weeks of bombastic, flashy episodes set variously in a Dalek asylum, the depths of space (with added dinosaurs) and in the old West (starring a gunslinger who looked like a half chewed...
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Waterloo Road: Series Eight, Episode Seven
If you’ve been thinking that what’s been missing from this school based drama is a wedding, you’re in luck. Well, sort of. It can’t be an official wedding, after it turns out Maggie is still married to...
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TV Review: The Secret of Crickley Hall (BBC1)
By Biondino A few months ago I was in the audience for an interview with the BBC commissioning editors. ‘We really liked [ITV’s] Marchlands‘, they said. Oh yes…? I really liked it too, so I was up for...
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TV Review: Doctor Who, The Snowmen (BBC1)
There are few tales as heart-warmingly, iconically festive as the traditional story of a lonely young boy who builds a snowman in his back garden, only for it to come to life and lead him on an...
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TV Review: Blandings (BBC1)
In this post-Downton era, producers are always looking for the next frothy period piece. Their latest search has led them straight to the bibliography of the classic English humorist P.G. Wodehouse,...
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Call The Midwife: Series Two, Episode One
I’m sure the BBC are very glad to welcome back Call the Midwife. They know a good thing when they broadcast it, and if the comments I received on a review last year are anything to go by, their...
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Broadchurch: Series One, Episode One
An eight-episode crime drama with overtones of The Killing, set in Dorset and starring David Tennant? That certainly ticks a good few boxes. There’s some plot-box ticking, too. There’s the ’sleepy...
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Broadchurch: Series One, Episode Two
In an eight-hour drama like Broadchurch, the writer and director walk a fine line between filling in the backstory and dropping in just enough nuggets of new information to advance the plot. Luckily...
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Broadchurch: Series One, Episode Three
The third episode of Broadchurch feels like a consolidation. There are a lot of moody clouds and plenty of moody music, thanks to Olafur Arnald’s excellent score. He tweets that it’s ‘…a bit more...
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Broadchurch: Series One, Episode Seven
First things first: Vince the chocolate Labrador is OK. Despite Nigel the plumber’s mate coming over all William Tell at the end of episode six, he didn’t pull the crossbow trigger. However, Nigel does...
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