I should like to declare a moratorium on all TV dramas concerning the devastating effect the death/disappearance of a young person has upon a small, close-knit and invariably photogenic comm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:23AM“I don’t disturb you when you’re working, do I?” snaps stand-up comic Jimmy O at a Comedy Store heckler. “I don’t come in the alleyway and knock the cocks out of your mouth.” H…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:02AMPity poor Thomas Briggs, catching 40 winks on his evening commute back home only to be bludgeoned across the head and thrown from the luxury of his first-class carriage on to the tracks. Bri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:04AMThe Spa stars the incomparable Rebecca Front as the long-suffering head of a health, beauty and fitness centre, where staff and clients alike prove a constant source of grief, inconvenience …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:44AMThe problem with Dancing on the Edge is that it doesn’t have much edge. At least, precious little is to be found in the first two episodes. It has intrigue, atmosphere and ostentation in a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:08AMFlick around the TV channels any afternoon, and soon they all begin to resemble the amorphous sludge that is ITV2. The exception to this rule is BBC1, which regularly serves up original, inn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMHaving achieved a highly commendable runner-up position on Strictly Come Dancing, Dani Harmer’s elevated star status is reflected in the fact her former CBBC show Dani’s House has been u…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMOn a cold January night, few things warm the cockles more satisfyingly than a large serving of medieval mayhem. Channel 4’s new big-budget drama series World Without End has it all – mur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMAdapted by Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais from the Alan Furst novel, Spies of Warsaw is a two-part drama set in the espionage-riddled, pre-war Polish capital. David Tennant stars as French …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMHarry Venning's guide to what to watch on the box this Christmas
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMy Christmas came early this year, courtesy of BBC4, and two splendid documentaries that turned out to have a lot more in common than their titles might suggest – Michael Grade’s History…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM“Coming up,” promised the continuity announcer during an ad break for The Royal Variety Performance 2012, “Alan Carr and David Walliams as you have never seen them before!” Which was…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMI have tried to like Full English, I really have. I love animated comedy – The Simpsons and South Park are two of my all-time favourite TV shows – and appreciate all the time, effort...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMMost artistic endeavours carry with them a fundamental and irrefutable acid test that establishes whether they have achieved their aim or not. If you laugh throughout a comedy, it’s fair t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMHarry Venning talks about Sky Arts' latest offering Nation's Best Am Dram and reports that amateur theatre is flourishing across the country
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWhen I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! first hit our screens it was fresh, fun, original and compulsive viewing. Ten years on and the very jungle screams with the tedium of it all....
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMCharles Dickens, it is sometimes suggested, created the format for soap operas. A combination of melodrama, exaggerated characters and social comment, his works were written and published in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:09AMFirst there were monsters versus aliens, then came cowboys versus aliens, and now CBBC wades in with its own genre mash-up, Wizards vs Aliens. Extraterrestrials, I can’t help feeling, have…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:36AMThere is nothing quite like a BBC4 documentary to shake you out of your complacency. Take Chas and Dave – Last Orders, for example. I had hitherto been quite happy to dismiss Chas and Dave…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMITV2’s new comedy drama Switch follows the romantic and magical misadventures of Stella, Jude, Grace and Hannah – four twentysomething, flat sharing female witches in super-trendy Camden…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMMe and Mrs Jones opens with a goldfish in a toilet bowl. I can only guess that the goldfish took one look at the script and attempted to escape before his television career suffered irrepara…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMA lot happens in the first 30 minutes of Hunted – fist fights, gunfights, kidnapping, betrayal, sex, flashbacks, flash forwards, disguises, assassinations and a dash of foreign travel. Abo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:01AMSix-part drama series Homefront follows a group of servicemen’s wives and families as they struggle to lead normal lives at home while their men are on active service in Afghanistan. Each …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMBlack Rock, Brighton Festival: It is amazing what can be achieved with a large industrial crane, a collection of freight boxes, a projector, light show, fireworks, live rock band, actors pre…
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