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The Politician’s Husband: Episode 1
I love David Tennant. I love love love him as Dr Who and I loved him just earlier this week in Broadchurch. My friend Sarah possibly loves him even more and even does cultured things like seeing him...
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Banshee: Pilot Review
A man gets out of prison, immediately gets into a gun battle in the middle of New York, legs it to Banshee, a small town in Pennsylvania and finds himself assuming the identity of the new sheriff. All...
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Hannibal: Pilot Review
Based on the Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon (most widely known for the Silence of the Lambs film) Hannibal follows the FBIs behavioural analysis team hunting serial killers by working out what makes...
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The Americans: Pilot Review
It’s 1981 and Phillip and Elizabeth are a suburban couple living outside Washington DC. They have 2 kids, brownies in the oven, an embarrassing fondness for line-dancing, a body in the boot of the car...
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Pilot Reviews: Do No Harm and Emily Owens, MD
I’m bundling together a couple of pilot reviews because the two shows have three things in common – they’re both set in hospitals, they were both cancelled within the first few episodes and neither is...
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Under the Dome: Pilot Review
The town of Chester’s Mill is your average American town, local sheriffs, small town politics, troubled teenagers and a passing hit-man. Then an invisible, impenetrable force field appears around the...
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Revolution: Pilot Review
One day, sometime now-ish, everything switched off. 15 years later everything’s gone back to pretty much the dark ages, but one family may hold the knowledge of not just why it all switched off, but...
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Catching up on pilot reviews
As it comes to the end of the televisual year, I realised there were a fair few pilots that I’d not written reviews for. The ones I’ve managed to catch up on in the last couple of weeks all have one...
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Ray Donovan: Pilot Review
Ray Donovan is a fixer for the rich and famous in LA, he spins and covers up stories they don’t want to come out and he’s pretty flexible on moral and legal lines when he does it. He’s also got...
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2012-2013 Freshman Class
I tried out pilots for 32 new shows this year, 9 British, 1 French and 23 American. I tried to get through all the pilots for the major dramas from network and cable in the US, and did a better job...
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