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Death in Paradise
Sometimes all you need in TV is a simple idea, and the one behind Death in Paradise is very straightforward. Having first aired on BBC...

Paul Gainey
Feb 22, 20243 min read


Jay Miller's Circus, Portishead
The traditional Jay Miller's Circus is back in Portishead this week and they have a completely new line-up of entertainers. I can never...

Paul Gainey
Feb 22, 20241 min read


Redemption
Detective Inspector Colette Cunningham is excellent as what she does. She’s cut-throat, funny, and knows how to get what she needs. In...

Paul Gainey
Feb 22, 20242 min read


Reacher
In crime thrillers it is usually the evil kingpin who gets nicknamed Mr Big. But it also works for Alan Ritchson, the star of Reacher,...

Paul Gainey
Feb 22, 20243 min read


True Detective: Night Country
Liz Danvers, Chief of police in the remote Alaska town of Ennis, and heroine of True Detective: Night Country, is fond of telling other...

Paul Gainey
Feb 22, 20243 min read
King Lear, Almeida Theatre London
Powerful, angry performances hold together Yaël Farber’s sprawling, bleak vision of a king and his country in terminal decline in King...

Paul Gainey
Feb 22, 20242 min read


Elles Bailey, Trinity Centre Bristol
Elles Bailey’s voice is truly something special – it’s equal parts raw and refined, fused with a real depth and emotionality, a heady...

Paul Gainey
Feb 21, 20244 min read


Mother Goose, Bristol Hippodrome
It’s not often that a panto bags a true A-lister, but this joyous production of Mother Goose at the Bristol Hippodrome has nailed it with...

Paul Gainey
Feb 21, 20243 min read


The White Lotus
It is a measure of just how good the first series of The White Lotus was – the writing, the blending of murder mystery and sharp satire,...

Paul Gainey
Feb 21, 20243 min read


The Time Machine, Theatre Royal Bath
HG Wells’s classic sci-fi novel, The Time Machine, is reimagined in a new stage adaptation at the Theatre Royal in Bath. In this...

Paul Gainey
Feb 21, 20242 min read


Michael Buble, Motorpoint Arena Cardiff
Michael Bublé is back with a bang for his first UK arena tour in four years, Higher, and he was in fine form at the Motorpoint in Cardiff...

Paul Gainey
Feb 21, 20243 min read


Lucy Spraggan, O2 Academy Bristol
Since wandering onto the X Factor stage in 2012, Lucy Spraggan has had an incredible journey, both professionally and personally. An...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read


Lucy Spraggan, O2 Academy Bristol
What to wear; what to eat; where to spend the hours – and who to spend them with; our days are full of choices, each of which has its own...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20241 min read


Steeltown Murders
The new four-part BBC One drama Steeltown Murders is from writer Ed Whitmore and director Marc Evans, who between them produced Manhunt...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read


Maryland
The ascendance of Suranne Jones from Coronation Street star to a creative force to be reckoned with over the last couple of decades has...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read


Poor Things
To describe director Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film Poor Things, which is adapted by Tony McNamara (The Favourite) from the 1992 novel by...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read


The Zone of Interest
Some films strike like a lightning bolt on a first watch and stay with you, scarring themselves into your psyche and subtly but...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20243 min read


Annika
Ever since Nicola Walker was unforgivably written out of Unforgotten, leaving Sanjeev Bhaskar with no one to moon at over the body bags,...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read


Ten Pound Poms
Danny Brocklehurst is perhaps best known as a writer on Shameless and Brassic, series with big mouths, big hearts and anarchic spirits,...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20243 min read


Without Sin
Without Sin is a heavyweight thriller cut from the same cloth as Happy Valley and Save Me, so fans of deep-rooted trauma and grief...

Paul Gainey
Feb 20, 20242 min read
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