Little Death Club
Little Death Club is an utterly remarkable show. It can be funny, poignant and awe inspiring without missing a beat. When you first enter the tent, the show’s host Bernie…
Danger Strip Show
‘You don’t know what you’ve got yourself into’, the host of Danger Strip Show manically shouts several times throughout the show. For better, or for worse, it is mostly true.…
An interview with Katie Norris & Sinead Parker
Comedy sketch due Katie Norris and Sinead Parker have brought their show Norris & Parker; Burn the Witch to the Edinburgh Fringe this year following their successful 2017 show See…
Mark Speight, Welfare and Observing the viewer-Presenter Dynamic
On the 7th April, it will have been 10 years since children’s TV presenter Mark Speight took his own life. Found hung outside Paddington station in London, Speight’s suicide note…
iPlayer breaks records, but does this justify the licence fee?
It has been a good year for BBC iPlayer. The BBC’s on demand service saw its most popular year in 2017, with 272 million shows being streamed every month. iPlayer’s…
Before We Die
This Scandinavian crime drama is cold. From the opening of Episode One where officer Hanna Svennson (Marie Richardson) arrests her son Christian (Adam Pålsson) for selling drugs, almost all the…
Around the world in 80 episodes: our pick of international TV
TV from back home, wherever home may be, can be not only entertaining, but a good way to combat the inevitable homesickness that comes with being away for a long…
Defying the mainstream with anti-fashion and alternative styles
There is a divide within fashion and music which at times is passionately defended. One the one hand you have the ‘mainstream’ – the H&M shopping, Bieber-loving, capitalist fools (as…