Apple TV
Despite the presumably thousands of viewers who assume Hugh Laurie is from the U.S., thanks to his many years starring in the FOX medical drama House with an American accent, he's actually a very British actor, with the awards hardware to prove it. (He was given an
Better Late Than Never
John le Carré's status as a (spy)master of espionage fiction has yet to be seriously challenged, not least because his 60-year writing career spanned one of the most eventful periods of international relations in human history – from the dawn of the '60s to the equally fractured
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
I'm not here to upset anybody, but I'd like to point out that it's been almost a decade since the original six-part limited series The Night Manager originally aired on BBC One in February 2016. Based on the John Le Carre novel of the
Mystery
When asked if I would be interested in writing about the most recent screen incarnation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? I jumped at the chance. The casting announcements alone made watching this mini-series must-see TV for me. What Anglophile wouldn’t want to
Mystery
BritBox's announcement of Hugh Laurie's adaptation of Why Didn't They Ask Evans? last year marked the production studio's most prominent, most expensive original to date, and the first clip looks spectacular. If the company's response is any indication, it seems
Mystery
With the announcement of the new original limited series Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, BritBox entered the ever-growing market of Agatha Christie adaptations for a new generation. Directed by and starring Hugh Laurie, the BritBox original is part of a growing slate of series for the streaming service.
Mystery
When David Suchet hung up his little mustaches, it was the end of one era for Agatha Christie on the small screen, but it opened the way for another new wave of different adaptations. Fans have since been treated to Sarah Phelps' imaginative BBC takes and subjected to Kenneth
Movies
We deserve something good this year, don’t we? Well, it's here - The Personal History of David Copperfield is finally available to stream or rent on most video on-demand platforms. Taking on Charles Dickens’s longest and most autobiographical novel with its cast of grotesques and eccentrics
Drama
Political thriller Roadkill wraps up with a rushed, messy finale that sees Peter Laurence triumph, despite the best efforts of lawyers, journalists, and even some members of his own family and staff, because lol nothing matters. It probably comes as no surprise that the show concludes with Peter becoming Prime
Drama
Roadkill is a series that’s comprised of just four episodes, the sort of short length that makes you think that it has to be a show that knows what sort of story it’s telling and what its ultimate endgame is. But three-fourths of the way through the thing,
Drama
The second episode of Roadkill continues along in much the same vein as the first, full of ridiculous subplots, some over the top grandstanding from Hugh Laurie’s self-serving Peter Laurence, now officially the Minister of Justice, multiple car crashes of both the literal and figurative variety, and just enough
Drama
The new Masterpiece political thriller Roadkill is certainly entertaining viewing, but it often feels as though it arrived on our screens from a parallel dimension, one in which any fallout from Brexit didn’t really happen and where a pandemic isn’t dominating every conversation in the halls of government