‘The Director’s Commentary’ is one of those simple/genius ideas that you wish you’d thought of first…

‘Mad About Alice’ is rubbish. I feel so tiresomely predictable writing that, but then ‘Mad About Alice’ is tiresomely predictable as well…

Even now ‘Porridge’ is the best sitcom the BBC has ever made…

Though amazingly not as mind-numbingly awful as one might have thought, Richard Curtis’ latest still has incredible levels of both corn and cheese. Then again, that’s the whole point.

Being the archetypical cynical hack, it would be ridiculously easy to look upon ‘Love Actually’ as yet another churned-out piece of schmaltz from the Richard Curtis production line…

Ordinarily we wouldn’t cover a repeat screening here, but I’ve been waiting for Channel 4 to give ‘The Armando Iannucci Shows’ another airing for more than two years…

The co-creator of BBC2’s ‘Look Around You’, released on DVD this month, tells Shiny Shelf how he made water, calcium and maths funny…

Three episodes gone and this new comedy is starting to settle in…

It takes something quite significant for me to turn over from ‘Scrubs’ – so, what’s so good about ‘Trevor’s World of Sport’?

Since it doesn’t look like anybody else is going to praise this I suppose I’d better, because it’s brilliant.

It’s a mark of just how long a shadow ‘The Royle Family’ still casts over its co-writer Craig Cash that I haven’t seen a single review of his new show, ‘Early Doors’, that draws any comparison with ‘Cheers’.

‘Double Take’ is a series I decided to give a few weeks grace to after its entirely under whelming opening instalment. I did this partially because I thought it might grow on me…

I’m not sure what to feel worse about, that I spent ?8.50 for the privilege of watching second rate skater kids crap their pants and fire bottle-rockets out of their asses or that I enjoyed it so much.

Chris Morris’ BAFTA-winning short film arrives on a unique DVD…

It has taken Larry David’s HBO sitcom an age to reach Britain, and now they’re giving us double bills – talk about going from the ridiculous to the sublime.

‘A Fish Called Wanda’ is an oddity among 1980s comedies. An Anglo-American co-production with an eclectic, impressive cast, it’s a peculiar mix of rom-com, gross-out antics and crime caper.

As noted in my review of season one, when ‘Red Dwarf’ was at its best it wasn’t the series the show’s producers wanted to make. This, perversely, means that this, the finest season is presumably the one they’re least happy with.

I would’ve given you my full assessment of the opening night of the BBC’s new channel, but I’ve only been able to watch the first couple of hours on account of the lacklustre manner in which digital television has been introduced in this country.

Travel back in time to when it was all still funny and fresh; it’s three million years in the future and a dead man, a rasta and a semi-sentient cat are squabbling with a balding computer.

In which comedians Kim Noble and Stuart Silver accompany an old lady as she attempts to place a park bench at the North Pole to commemorate her dead husband. Some other things happened, too.

Last Christmas’ revival of ‘Only Fools and Horses’ must rank as the greatest crime a writer has ever visited upon his own creations. Fortunately this yuletide special is a touch better. Only a touch, mind…

Meet
Katie. She’s being divorced by the husband she loves because she slept with
his best friend. Think Bridget Jones, think Ally McBeal, think Carrie from Sex
and the City. Think Chicklit…

Now that Steve Coogan has finally accepted that no TV project will ever work as well for him we get a second series of I’m Alan Partridge, almost five years on from the first…

Good to see some shows retain a bit of creative vigour in their old age. In its fifth season South Park is still capable of finding new ways to offend people…

This is something that should have come out on DVD aaaages ago. The Young Ones easily ranks alongside British TV’s best ever sitcoms, with the added benefit that it stands up to more re-watching than most.

Despite the final instalment properly belonging to the very early 1990s, the Back to The Future trilogy remains perhaps the definitive 1980s franchise.

The main purpose of this review is to let people know that Look Around You exists at all because it’s the sort of show that you could very easily fail to notice.

A film like Goldmember almost defies review. It’s so like its predecessors in terms of style and humour that it’s difficult to say something which isn’t entirely redundant.

If anybody tries to tell you that Scrubs is anything less than the most relentlessly laugh-out-loud funny show on TV at the moment, ON NO ACCOUNT believe them. KEEP AWAY from these people. They are probably DANGEROUS.

There are some problems with the new live-action Scooby-Doo – but Eddie digs Matthew Lillard’s Method performance as Shaggy…

Inspired by a couple of comedy spots Ben Stiller created for the VH1 fashion awards, Zoolander is a cross between Austin Powers and Dumb & Dumber, with a pinch of Charlie’s Angels thrown in for good measure…

I didn’t catch the first episode of Caroline Aherne’s new project last week – a comedy-drama about an Australian couple struggling to adapt to retirement – because I was watching Teachers. After watching episode two, it’s not a decision that I

Who would have thought it – a commercial release for one of the most controversial comedy series of the 90’s, including last year’s even more controversial special for good measure.

Does anybody else still think of Keanu Reeves as Ted Theodore Logan? I know I do. I’ve had to review his last couple of movies, The Gift and The Watcher, and I just thought, ‘Oh look, it’s Ted and he’s a murderer.’

Excellent, we haven’t had a good Canonball Run movie in years. Actually, have we ever had a good Canonball Run movie? With the release of Rat Race, we have now…

Something strange is going on in the British film industry…

As soon as the present run of Black Books ended, Channel 4 seemed to feel that it was very important to have another book-related home-grown sitcom to replace it, and writer/director Annie Griffin’s The Book Group fits the bill.

8.1 – A strong season opener, following on directly from last season’s cliffhanger – obviously. Don’t expect any answers just yet, but this does forward the storyline of Rachel’s baby effectively,

Anthony Head returns to British TV like a prodigal son, and his presence ensures that the BBC will be able to sell this slick series about mid-life crises abroad. And it is very slick indeed…

Trust the BBC to jump on the bandwagon when it’s already fifteen miles down the road…

I’m sure that when this movie originally came out, nobody would have thought that it would become a historical artefact, but twenty years after its release, that’s exactly what’s happened. Fast Times

Between Jackie Chan’s early Hong Kong work and his mainstream Hollywood success with the ‘Rush Hour’ and ‘Shanghai Noon’ franchises came the likes of this,

After seeing The Royal Tennenbaums you’ll want to read the great American novel on which it’s based. Tough. There isn’t one…