Midsomer murders, probably the most frequent subject of our derision, has been running for almost three decades and there have been, at the time of…

The inspector Alleyn mysteries ran only very briefly, for a mere nine episodes. Yet it now features for the second time on this blog. After…

I have quite some trepidation as I start writing this post, because I will have to judge the pythons!1 Their flying circus is perhaps the…

All you people are such sinners you probably don’t even know what Innocent is1, so here’s the rundown: it’s a quite recent British television show…

Some ten years ago, the whole internet — and presumably the remaining shreds of culture outside of it — was agog with talk about Orange…

I have taken a page out of the complete idiot’s guide to Hollywood productions: if you have the material for a strong movie that’s going…

Yet another sitcom on the blog. I’ll drink to that! Like so many sitcoms, it ran for well over a decade and had about a…

Let me start with a quick warning: this is one of the most irredeemably bullshit things we’re seen yet.1 So, Scorpion. It is a show…

If you want suspense in your murder mystery, you have essentially two options: either you make the victim widely hated, so that you have many…