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© Channel 4 & Roughcut Television And so to its tricky second series. Series two of Jack Rooke's autobiographical sitcom 'Big Boys' comes 18 months after the first aired on Channel 4 to much acclaim. A heartwarming mix of buddy comedy, sexual awkwardness, 2010s student nostalgia and honest observations about male mental health, the first run earned Rooke a Writers Guild of Great Britain award and one of its stars Jon Pointing BAFTA and Royal Television Society nominations for Best Male Comedy Performance. The first post ' Derry Girls ' vehicle for its main star Dylan Llewellyn, it followed the adventures of his version of Rooke as he came to terms with the death of his London minicab driving father, his arrival in the rather ropey Brent University and his desperation to lose his virginity as a gay teen who had yet to come out to his family. © Channel 4 & Roughcut Television  Along the way, Jack got to forge a close friendship with Pointing's Danny, a wor...

© Netflix What is it about Netflix and Richard Armitage? In recent years he's appeared in the Chloe Grace Moretz movie ' Brain On Fire ,' the animated fantasy action show ' Castlevania ,' two Harlan Coben adaptations ' The Stranger ' and ' Stay Close ' and the erotic thriller series ' Obsession '. In most of these projects his characters are flawed and enigmatic. So lo and behold, 2024 has begun with Richard Amitage as a flawed and enigmatic husband in 'Fool Me Once' - yet another Netflix series fashioned out of a Harlan Coben novel. © Netflix I'm sure Armitage is a nice bloke but you kind of get the impression that if a British TV series is pitched to Netflix these days their stipulation for making it is that there must be a flawed and enigmatic part for Richard Armitage. Armitage plays Joe Burkett, the flawed and enigmatic husband of Michelle Keegan's disgraced former British soldier. Not only is he flawed and enigmatic, he...

© ITV Just when you started to wonder if British network TV drama still resonates with audiences along comes ITV's 'Mr Bates versus The Post Office'. January 2024 has seen the four part docudrama spark public outrage and spur the Government into action by highlighting a terrible injustice. And that's no mean feat. In recent years, ITV has cultivated a reputation for mining prominent news stories for loads of primetime dramas. © ITV Crime dramas fashioned around real life murders have tended to dominate its output. Over the years, there have been excellent shows about the serial killers Fred and Rose West, the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, the Pembrokeshire murders and the Colin Howell case. Occasionally ITV makes forays into telling stories about injustice with dramas like ' The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries ' and ' Anne '. 'Mr Bates versus The Post Office,' however, focuses on the most extensive miscarriage of justice in UK history. ©...

© HBO  Not long ago, the website Screenrant published an article entitled ' 10 Harsh Realities Of Researching 'The Sopranos' 24 Years Later '. The article listed off things the author believed were troubling about David Chase's groundbreaking HBO gangster show. These included a "failure to address the uncomfortable age gaps in certain romantic relationships, including older men dating much younger women, which can be uncomfortable to watch." It cited the lack of remorse exhibited by James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano "when indirectly hurting children, such as ruining his son's life for his own benefit, highlighting his own lack of empathy and disturbing behaviour." © HBO There was also an observation that while none of the main characters were "bigoted towards other races as a whole, they primarily had problems with the notion of their Italian culture mixing with others. They had no problems using racial slurs and mocking other races....