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© Amazon Prime After giving us four sprightly seasons of 'The Marvelous Maisel,' this is it for one of Amazon Prime's most treasured shows. A Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy winner for Best Comedy, its stars Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Tony Shalhoub and Luke Kirby have during its run picked up either or both awards for their performances on the show. And if that wasn't enough, it also landed Emmys for its creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino for directing and writing. In spite of all this, Sherman-Palladino has decided to call time on the comedy drama and you can kind of understand why. © Amazon Prime After four mostly upbeat seasons, it feels like the right time to say goodbye. Season Four  showed signs that the story of Midge Maisel and her tough talking manager Susie Myerson was running out of road. After all, how long can you get away with a show charting the ups and downs of a gifted comedian before it eventually becomes one note?  With nine more episodes, all Sherm...

© Amazon Prime Starting Season Four of Amazon Prime's 'The Marvelous Mrs Maisel' is a little bit like watching a game of snakes and ladders. Having been on an upward trajectory for three seasons with the occasional setback, Rachel Brosnahan's stand up comic Midge Maisel suddenly finds herself sliding down the board. Unfortunately, this setback is of her own making. (PREVIOUS SEASON SPOILER ALERT!!) Jokes made in the Apollo Theater at expense of Leroy McLain's Shy Baldwin's effeminate nature left Midge and her agent, Alex Borstein's Susie Myerson stranded on a runway at the end of Season Three as the singer shut them out of a flight they should have been boarding for Europe. © Amazon Prime To add to their woes, the money earned touring the US with Shy has also been gambled away by Susie. In order to repay her friend and client, Susie cooks up an insurance scam with her sister, Emily Bergl's Tess. Gutted by her firing from the European tour, Midge is for...

© Amazon Prime The third season of Amazon Prime's 'The Marvelous Mrs Maisel' begins with a burst of optimism and the belief that she is about to have a real breakthrough. After catching the eye of Leroy McClain's crooner Shy Baldwin in Season Two , Rachel Brosnahan's Midge Maisel is very much on the up. Her star is so much in the ascendant, she embarks on a tour supporting him that will ultimately lead to a slot in the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem. However as Midge basks in the glory, she is rocked by the discovery that her manager Alex Borstein's Susie Myerson has agreed to take on her comedy nemesis, Jane Lynch's Sophie Lennon as a client. © Amazon Prime Meanwhile Midge's ex, Michael Zengen's Joel Maisel is hoping to open up a club with the backing of his businessman father, Kevin Pollak's Moishe. They identify a potential property in Chinatown and strike a deal. Not long afterwards, he begins to realise his Chinese landlords are also ope...

© BBC Studios Amid all the hoopla around the final seasons of ' Succession ,' ' The Marvelous Mrs Maisel ' and possibly ' Ted Lasso ,' it's been all too easy to miss another one closer to home. For two seasons, Neil Forsyth's BBC Scotland drama ' Guilt ' has built a loyal following around the world with its tale of a shyster lawyer getting into scrapes in Leith and Edinburgh. A Coen Brothers style tale of foolish errors compounded by catastrophic decisions, the show has been enjoyed by audiences in Ireland, Australia, Sweden, Germany, France, Portugal, South Africa and the 'Masterpiece Mystery' slot on PBS in the United States. It's even been optioned in India for a remake in Hindi. © BBC Studios Not only that but it has enjoyed enthusiastic reviews from international TV critics. Forsyth's show began in 2019 with a fatal road accident and an attempt to cover it up. However over two series, his tale has spiralled into a dark comedy...

© Amazon Prime After a vivacious  debut season , can 'The Marvelous Mrs Maisel' build on its success? Season Two finds Rachel Brosnahan's Midge still struggling to adjust to the breakdown of her marriage. (SPOILER ALERT!!) Demoted to the role of switchboard operator at B Altman's department store after her ex's former mistress makes a scene, she has to deal with the fallout from dissing Jane Lynch's Sophie Lennon during a stand-up routine in the previous season's finale. Midge's manager Alex Borstein's Susie is feeling the heat too, with two low level Mafia hoodlums, Erik Palladino's Frank and John Scurti's Nicky being deployed by David Paymer's arrogant, powerful showbiz agent Harry Drake to abduct her in retaliation for her client's public trashing of Sophie. © Amazon Prime Realising they hail from the same neighbourhood, Susie befriends the duo and they let her go unharmed. There's a crisis in the Weissman household following t...

© Amazon Prime There's something wonderful about those snappy New York comedies where family members trade banter and puncture each others' pomposity. Woody Allen has built a filmmaking career on that. So has Paul Mazursky, Noah Baumbach and the late Neil Simon. Add to the list Amy Sherman Palladino, whose Amazon Prime series 'The Marvellous Mrs Maisel' is a colourful tale of a 1950s Manhattan housewife finding her voice as a stand-up comic. At the start of Sherman Palladino's show, Rachel Brosnahan's Miriam "Midge" Masel seems to have it all. Midge is a bright, witty mother of two. She is married to a nice Jewish boy with great career prospects, Michael Zegen's Joel who works at his uncle's plastics factory and whose sarcastic father, Kevin Pollak's Moishe runs a garment company. Joel's mum, Caroline Aaron's Shirley dotes over him. © Amazon Prime Midge's socialite mum, Marin Hinkle's Rose and her academic father, Tony Shalh...