I have taken a page out of the complete idiot’s guide to Hollywood productions: if you have the material for a strong movie that’s going…

Yet another sitcom on the blog. I’ll drink to that! Like so many sitcoms, it ran for well over a decade and had about a…

Let me start with a quick warning: this is one of the most irredeemably bullshit things we’re seen yet.1 So, Scorpion. It is a show…

If you want suspense in your murder mystery, you have essentially two options: either you make the victim widely hated, so that you have many…

Time and time again, when I encounter yet another British detective series with a chess scene, I have to write a paragraph expressing my astonishment…

A new year, a new British detective series. Well, new isn’t exactly the right word, seeing that it aired in 1969. It features, as title…

Have we had a fairytale yet? I don’t think we have. Let’s have a fairytale. Our subject comes from an American anthology series of fairytales…

I’ve never been able to get on with sitcoms. I suspect the reason is that, if you have characters in a normal environment and you…

During the relatively short history of television, an unfathomable number of detective series have been produced in every language under the sun, in all sorts…

Let’s revisit our recent jelly-baby-loving, bescarfed friend Tom Baker, the fourth doctor. We meet him at the beginning of a new story about a company…