American dramas have become a thorn in my side.  I can’t go to work, or round my friends without hearing the words “have you see the latest episode of … yet?”   I have a few issues with them, like the endless cliff-hangers, the explosives, the cheesy one liners and that they are all so pretty or hunky despite being put under the most extreme conditions. 24 was not 24 episodes long, they decided that Bauer just didn’t have such a [...]

‘Television’s most talked about show’ is a marketing-tag thrown around so often it has become redundant. In the case of LOST, however, it is true firstly for being an irrefutably superior drama, and secondly, because the series asks the audience to fill in the mysterious blanks, something that has enraged almost as many viewers as it enthralled. Testament to the show’s strength are the theories that surround it: Are the characters already dead? Are they part of an elaborate experiment? [...]

Murder, corruption, coitus, war, tyrannicide, lesbianism, witchcraft, deities, breasts, large penises…’IT’S EDUCATIONAL!’ as The Pixies might say. Considering the popularity, or at least, spectacle of Hollywood’s renaissance with the swords and skirts epics: Gladiator, Troy, Alexander, et al, it was only a matter of time before Gladiator: The Series raised its hackneyed head; yet we may have feared not; brothers, for Rome, the amalgamated works of drama-titans HBO and the BBC, is an study of ancient civilisations not through it’s [...]