TV tonight: how Brief Encounter became the most romantic film of all time | Television
Classic Movies: The Story of Brief Encounter 8pm, Sky ArtsIan Nathan’s fascinating new series on film history begins with David Lean’s masterpiece. It’s often described as the most romantic film of all time, but perhaps its timing makes this story of fleeting, forbidden love so striking? Released in 1945, it symbolised an end to fear […]
TV tonight: watch amazing and terrible dates in action | Television
First Date 10pm, Channel 4The funny, sweet and sometimes toe-curling dating show is back. Fred Sirix invites a variety of people to his restaurant: 24-year-old William, who has never kissed a woman and is going on his first date; Glenn, who rather boldly compares himself to Christian Grey from “Fifty Shades”; and, perhaps most memorably, […]
Paris Olympics deal hands Discovery+ gold in UK TV streaming race | Television industry
Discovery+ has become the UK’s fastest-growing paid streaming service, with the nearly £1 billion deal its parent company spent to wrest Olympic rights from the BBC appearing to be paying off. Six years ago, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), which runs the Discovery+ streaming service in the UK and the Max streaming service across Europe as […]
Atomic People review – the quietly devastating truth about surviving Hiroshima | Television
TThe survivors of the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki said,Atomic bomb survivorsAtomic People combines interviews with several of them (all of them at least 80 years old, most in their 90s, and a few over 100) with period footage of President Harry Truman praising the achievements of the Manhattan […]
Paris Olympics opening ceremony review – soaring ambition deflated by patchy delivery | Television
TThe perfect staging of Tokyo’s opening ceremony was always going to be a challenge for any successor, and Paris made the wise decision not to try to replicate the stadium spectacle or high-tech trappings (remember the menacing array of 1,800 drones?). The ceremony’s creative director, Thomas Joly, had the bright idea to play up the […]
NBC Is Gloriously Returning Their Legendary ‘Roundball Rock’ Theme Amid Locking Up NBA Television Rights
NBC went against the corporate mold and actually gave the people what they wanted! When it comes to the NBA’s 11-year, $75 billion television deal, it has to be the league’s return to NBC that is getting people excited the most. And in particular, the television network’s return of their iconic “Roundball Rock” theme. It’s […]
Best TV shows with conservative message on television
Television was once the great leveller, a place where Americans of every color, creed and political persuasion could come together and clear their minds for a while. We may have had fewer options for what to watch and when to watch it, but at least the purpose of all the content (“shows” as we called […]
Elsbeth review – a tedious spinoff for the Good Wife character who makes you want to smash your TV | Television & radio
noDespite being a devoted fan of The Good Wife, I never felt more alone than when I despised the recurring character, Elsbeth Tacioni (Carrie Preston), the lawyer who would sometimes appear with a mind-bending “eccentricity,” plucking answers out of thin air to win her client’s freedom as if they were mystical puzzles rather than divine […]
TV tonight: The Good Wife’s Elsbeth Tascioni gets the spin-off detective show she deserves | Television
Elsbeth 9pm, Sky WitnessGiving The Good Wife’s charmingly goofy lawyer Elsbeth Tascione (Carrie Preston) a Columbo-esque “how-catch-chem” transplant from Chicago to New York is such a no-brainer that it makes you wonder why this spinoff took so long. Even better, it also stars Wendell Pierce from The Wire, as Inspector Wagner, an NYPD boss who […]
Piglets review – this comedy is so weak you wonder why the police bothered to complain about it | Television & radio
IIt’s time for the Police Federation of England and Wales to apply lavender oil to all pulse points, because ITV’s new comedy Piglet has just begun. When the title of the sitcom, which follows six rookie police officers as they enroll at the fictional Norborne Training School, was announced, the federation issued a swift and […]