(courtesy IMDb (c) 20th Television) SNAPSHOTIn “On the Fort Day of Christmas”, a record-breaking Christmas snowstorm means one thing to the Belcher kids — a record-breaking Christmas snow fort. (courtesy Animation Magazine) I fear with Bob’s Burgers that the TV horse has bolted. For me, at least. Kicking off in Continue Reading
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Believe again: Thoughts on Ted Lasso season 4
(courtesy IMP Awards) Revivals are, in the land of TV and streaming at least, often bittersweet affairs. On one hand, it is a joy and delight with an added dose of a fizzy sense of euphoric reunion to be back with characters you know and love and were sorrowfully ripped Continue Reading
Reviving a family culinary legacy: Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook
(courtesy AppleTV) SNAPSHOTThe eight-episode series follows Nora Lum, aka Awkwafina, on a cross-country culinary road trip as she attempts to revive her family’s beloved Chinese restaurant. Her family ran Lum’s, the iconic Cantonese restaurant in Flushing, New York. Nora inherited the family legacy. The cooking skills? Those still need work. Continue Reading
Once more into the majestic oceanic depths: Blue Planet III drops mesmerisingly enticing trailer
(courtesy IMDb (c) BBC) SNAPSHOTBlue Planet III is a forthcoming British nature documentary series co-produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, ZDF, France Télévisions, and Skai TV in partnership with The Open University. [With David Attenborough returning as narrator] Blue Planet III will have six hour-long episodes, with filming taking Continue Reading
“I didn’t think it might actually be real.” Trailer drops for delightful British series Small Prophets
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTSmall Prophets is a comic tale of the eccentric Michael Sleep (Pearce Quigley) who, since his darling Clea disappeared seven years ago, has lived a very ordinary life. He works in a DIY store, visits his dad Brian (Sir Michael Palin) and hopes for Clea to return. One Continue Reading
Christmas preview: All-new Peanuts and Fraggle Rock specials landing for this year’s festive celebrations
(via Shutterstock) One of the most delightful parts of any festive season is watching as many animated specials as time will allow and your hungry-for-happiness soul needs. There’s something quite special not just about the artform, which allows for the kind of visual Christmas energy and colour that live action Continue Reading
And so the season ends … review of Strange New Worlds S4 E9 “Once La’An a Time” and E10 “Tomorrow’s Enterprise”
(courtesy Star Trek Strange New Worlds Memory Alpha) E9 “Once La’An a Time” If ever you needed proof that Strange New Worlds is not interested in doing things as they have always been done in Star Trek, then “Once La’an a Time” (no prizes for guessing what that’s a play Continue Reading
Trio o’ terrific trailers (September 2026): MADFABULOUS, Treasure Island + Onwards and Sideways
(via Shutterstock) In an act of huge pop culture consuming nerdery, I keep lists of movies and TV/streaming shows I’d like to watch. I apologise for none of it because frankly with the sheer volume of content happily sliding down onto streaming platforms and into cinemas, it seems the only Continue Reading
The key to the future lies in the past … Thoughts on Silo S3
(courtesy IMP Awards) Unless you live under a rock, and honestly as living strategies go it’s not a completely unreasonable one at the moment, it won’t have escaped your notice that humanity is potentially screwed in any number of emphatically species-ending ways. As one character in the third gripping season Continue Reading
They’re not back … they never left: Trailer drops for Ghosts: The Possession of Button House
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT‘This Halloween, secrets will be unlocked…’ The beloved and award-winning BBC comedy Ghosts arrives on the big screen this Halloween. Ghosts‘ stars, writers and creators Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, and Ben Willbond are all back, along with Lolly Adefope, Charlotte Ritchie Continue Reading