BBC ONE / iPLAYER While the impetus for remaking Alan Bennett’s classic TV monologues may have been a practical one (they’re easy to film with minimal cast and crew), (re)watching these stories of loneliness and isolation, it’s striking how thematically in tune with the times they are. Which I suppose might be slightly depressing, ifContinue reading “Talking Heads”
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The Salisbury Poisonings
The Salisbury Poisonings plays like one of those high-octane crime thrillers where you turn to your other half and say, “Well that would never happen”. Except, of course, it did happen, in March 2018, when Sergei Skripal – a former Russian intelligence officer who had worked as a double agent for the British – and hisContinue reading “The Salisbury Poisonings”
Alex Rider
AMAZON PRIME VIDEO Having lost the distribution rights to the James Bond films a couple of years ago, Sony must be rubbing their hands at the 007-shaped hole that’s suddenly opened up in the schedules – especially when they’ve got their own superspy replacement already revved up on the starting grid. Of course, Alex RiderContinue reading “Alex Rider”
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