Outstanding

Given what happened the last time they broadcast the Brits live (and you can no doubt search for yourself on YouTube for the gory lowlights of Mick Fleetwood, Sam Fox et al) someone clearly made a brave decision to take the event back to being a real-time event and showing it at a pre-watershed of 8pm on Wednesday.  However, given the exception of a few near-the-knuckle comments from Russell Brand, it was all fairly docile.  Russell was his usual self and, although I thought

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Tags: Alan-Carr, Arctic-Monkeys, Brit-Awards, Brits, General, Joss-Stone, Keith-Allen, Lilly-Allen, Mick-Fleetwood, Russell-Brand, Sam-Fox, Sophie-Ellis-Bextor, Steve-Tyler, Take-That

Christmas Review #4 of 12

Debuting with a more than respectable 8m viewers and keeping 5m or 6m of them happy throughout its 13-week run, the latest incarnation of Robin Hood was a curious beast.  Trying to capture the newly formed family viewing slot of “Saturday at 7pm on BBC1″ it was roundly panned by critics to begin with but I felt quite comfortable with it all along assured that it would get better as everyone settled down.  By the time the final episode aired last week (the oddly titled “A Clue: No”)

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Tags: BBC1, Castle, Christmas-TV, Jonas-Armstrong, Keith-Allen, Marian, Nottingham, Period Drama, Richard-Armitage, Robin-Hood, Sherriff, Sherwood-Forest

Robin Hoodie

So, Robin Hood is back on Saturday evenings on BBC1 and The Other Viewer and I (and by all accounts, 8.2million others) merrily watched the unfeasably young Jonas Armstrong in the lead role attempt to lure another mammoth audience to the “Doctor Who slot” in the latest incarnation of this medieval tale. Series pilots are always difficult affairs as they try and introduce the characters, situations and settings as well as the general theme of proceedings, while at the same time trying

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Tags: BBC1, Doctor Who, Jonas-Armstrong, Keith-Allen, Period Drama, Robin-Hood