Half way through its second season, Felix has yet to review My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Shame. The oddly popular TV series based on the line of Hasbro toys has gained immense popularity since ...
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Junior Doctors: Your Life in their Hands is back! After a first series in Newcastle General Hospital and the Royal Victoria Infirmary, eight newly-qualified doctors hit the wards of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. After ...
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Following Sherlock and Great Expectations, another one of Britain’s favourite novels, Birdsong has been adapted for the small screen by the BBC. The first part was broadcast last Sunday. The book, written by Sebastian Faulks, ...
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First of all, it’s worth saying that I enjoyed Sherlock and, overall, thought it was a good watch. In fact, I think that the first series was excellent, except for ...
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So the second series of the BBC’s brilliant Sherlock has come to an end. The first series showed that it is possible to make a fresh, modern television adaptation while remaining impressively faithful to the hundred year old source material. The second showed that the creative team has lost none of their spark in the intervening time.
The first episode ‘A ...
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I’m afraid that I missed out on the phenomenon that was The Killing so I was eager to watch the BBC’s newest Danish import Borgen. Produced by the same broadcaster as The Killing, Borgen is a political drama about Birgitte Nyborg whose small Moderate party’s massive election gains, following damaging revelations about her rivals, has made her Denmark’s first female ...
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After a successful first season, Sherlock is back on our screens. Giving the detective stories a 21st century make-up, the second season does not disappoint. In fact it picks up ...
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Blue Monday (the statistically most depressing day of the year) is approaching. The weather is ever gloomier. Work starts to pile up. Festive feelings slowly disintegrate into utter misery. In ...
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