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The Orville is just Star Trek fan-fiction, but that’s not such a bad thing
The Orville is basically just Star Trek fan-fiction - but in the grand scheme of things, that's not the worst thing to be.
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The Cuckoo’s Calling was a compelling detective drama – but one that faltered at the last hurdle
Tonight saw the conclusion of The Cuckoo’s Calling, the BBC’s adaptation of Robert Galbraith’s novel of the same name. In every respect, The Cuckoo’s Calling was a competently executed detective drama, moving intelligently between the different hallmarks of the genre. Burke and Grainger have an easy, confident chemistry together, and after even a short time, it’s difficult to imagine anyone else portraying the characters.
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The Good Fight deserved an Emmy nomination – it’s the definitive piece of post-Trump television
Trump continued to haunt the narrative as the series went on, with regular reference to the realities of his presidency. John Cameron Mitchell played Felix Staples in an episode that satirised the realities of online abuse in a stark and discerning manner. Indeed, The Good Fight is shaped as an explicitly, brazenly post-Trump drama, intimately in tune with the concerns of the day.
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BBC adapting ‘The Spy Who Came In From The Cold’ for Television
Following their success with The Night Manager – which recently won three Golden Globe awards and was nominated for a fourth – the BBC are going to be bringing another John le Carré novel for the screen. Simon Beaufoy, Oscar award winning writer of Slumdog Millionaire, will be adapting le Carré’s famous novel, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Set in 1962 at the height of the cold war, the story is set in the wake of the building of the Berlin Wall – leaving a British intelligence network in
