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Sharpe Week, Day 1: Sharpe’s Rifles

The hype has been immense, but can Sean Bean and Brian Cox produce the goods?

Sharpe Week: An Introduction

Every year Americans go absolutely hot bananas for Sharks. The Discovery Channels devotes day after day to the ancient fish, talking about their evolution, their skills as a hunter, then showing how you catch and kill them. In their thousands. You can love too much, apparently. I recently realised, in a chat with a friend,Continue reading “Sharpe Week: An Introduction”

This Week In TV Land III

Another week, and I’ve pushed myself to watch more new and interesting television – and that’s why this week I had planned to write about two new shows from Netflix, Mindhunter and Dark, both of which are very well shot and impressively macabre, but last night I found something on the BBC iPlayer that madeContinue reading “This Week In TV Land III”

This Week in TV Land II

With Robot Wars coming to a fantastic and genuinely moving ending on Sunday – even if you’re not a 12-year-old you will love it, it was such good brainless television – it’s time for me to watch some more of the television that I’ve been missing for the last few years, and see what IContinue reading “This Week in TV Land II”