TV

  Have you wondered what Linus would look like as a zombie? Or Pigpen as Daryl (he’s the one Peanuts character who’d be untroubled by the ablution-challenged environs of the zombie apocalypse). Or perhaps you think Game of Thrones could do with a dose of Calvin and Hobbes whimsicality? (Let’s Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT In the blink of a tornado’s eye, 20-year-old Dorothy Gale and a K9 police dog are swept into a world far removed from our own – a mystical land of competing realms, lethal warriors, dark magic and a bloody battle for supremacy. Starring Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil, Jurassic World) Continue Reading

  As it marches ever onward through its 10th season, The Big Bang Theory, sitcom ratings juggernaut, geek flagbearer and hilarious diversion from the travesties of real life, has finally been the recipient of something it should have had a long, long time ago. Which is what you ask as Continue Reading

  It’s one of the great truisms of life that, Pulitzer Prize winners and J. K. Rowling aside, writers don’t take on their craft as a profession to make money. In fact, pretty much any writer worth their blank Word page existential angst will tell you that they have to Continue Reading

  Another year, another deluge of TV shows delivered on multiple platforms that can be watched night and day, in single episodes or a hygiene-challenging bingefest of epic proportions. As ever, I am torn between the giddy delight of countless, immersive options straddling an enticing array of genres and a Continue Reading

  As we wait for the second half of season 7 of The Walking Dead to shuffle onto our screens in February next year, you wish to spend some time re-living the far away days, at least as far as storyline and still-present staff members are concerned, of season 1 Continue Reading

  I am usually the king of Christmas, convinced it’s so irrevocably the most wonderful time of the year that nothing can stand in its tinsel-draped, eggnog-soaked, ornament-decorated way. But after a year in which my dad died, easily the most horrible and difficult thing to happen to me in my Continue Reading

  Colony was one of the standout shows of 2016. A sophisticated, often tense exploration of the political and social schisms that emerge in society when a mysterious race of aliens arrive and take over the Earth, installing a proxy government to rule in their stead, it was never less Continue Reading