Television

My review of Smith and Jones, the first episode of Doctor Who’s new series, is now online. A review of Any Dream Will Do is to follow. In something of a departure for TV Today, we’re going to try and review each episode of these series, along with ITV1’s Grease is the Word, every Saturday. […]

There’s a rather good interview in today’s Evening Standard (not on line, but it’s available for half-price on account of its half-hearted redesign launching today). Saul Dibb, director of Bullet Boy, is interviewed by the Standard’s Nick Curtis: The scenes of graphic gay sex in boathouses and gated gardens, on coke and on impulse, will […]

Take phenomenally successful, Man Booker-prize winning novel. Buy the rights to adapt it into a TV series. Give the job to the same bloody bloke who adapts everything. Watch him butcher it because some of the gay sex scenes “make him queasy”. Bear in mind this is the same Andrew Davies that described his adaptation […]

Last night, ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street said goodbye to Ray Langton, Deidre Barlow’s first husband, as he lost his battle against stomach cancer. Langton (played by Neville Buswell) left the soap in 1978, reappearing earlier this year. He told Deirdre and their daughter, Tracey, that he’d been living in Holland all that time. But […]