‘All she talks about is bees’ – Samson Kayo and Jane Horrocks on their new sitcom Bloods
The Famalam and Ab Fab favourites play ambulance-driving paramedics in Sky’s star-studded new show. The pair reveal how they made a sunny, funny series in the midst of the pandemic
January 2021
TV review
A Discovery of Witches series two review – vanilla vampire romp is a bloodless bore
Sky’s fantasy series promises a time-travelling war between good and evil, but this chaste second season reveals a show that’s lacking in magic
October 2020
Brave New World review – or should that be Brave Nude World?
Sky’s nine-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s dystopian classic hasn’t got much to say – but that’s easy to ignore with all the bare flesh on show
September 2020
Hannah John-Kamen: 'I love that Brave New World is too close to home'
From Black Mirror to Ready Player One, the Yorkshire-born actor has spent her career delving into dystopia – making her ideally placed to star in a prescient adaptation of Huxley’s novel
August 2020
Maisie Williams: 'The people at the top of TV don't want equality'
As the Game of Thrones star returns to screens in Sky’s Two Weeks to Live, she talks on-set scrapes, off-screen battles, and how the television industry could up its game overnight
February 2020
Rebecca Front: 'I'd love to do Shakespeare – or be the next Bond!'
From The Thick of It to The Day Today, she’s been in every edgy comedy going. But Rebecca Front has now gone interstellar in space spoof Avenue 5. Is she about to crack America?
August 2019
TV review
Brassic review – a tale of northern ne’er-do-wells with humour and heart to spare
This caper about a gang of friends creating their own entertainment on this and that side of the law brings to mind the best of Shameless
April 2019
What's the next Game of Thrones? All the contenders for fantasy TV's crown
The saga of the Seven Kingdoms may be bowing out, but it has opened the floodgates. Here’s your guide to the next big heroes
February 2019
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Traitors; Curfew; Flack; Baptiste – review
TV review
Curfew review – Sean Bean races into a diesel-fuelled zombie apocalypse
September 2018
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Trust; Killing Eve; Black Earth Rising and more
TV review
A Discovery of Witches review – a bubbling cauldron of fantasy cliches
May 2018
London activists paper over TV show poster of actors pointing guns
Men cover up weapons on ad for Sky’s Bulletproof over concerns about violent crime
February 2018
TV review
Jamestown review – new settlers make a splash in Virginia
Girl power may not yet rule 17th-century America, but it’s only a matter of time in the tobacco colonies’ big smoke
January 2018
Jump the shark
When good TV goes bad: the moment Don’t Tell The Bride got over its Honeymoon phase
When the show left BBC Three, the car crash weddings - once enjoyably uncomfortable - turned into predicament bondage
November 2017
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Alias Grace; Blue Planet II; Trust Me I’m a Doctor and more
Netflix’s Margaret Atwood adaptation is every bit as mighty as The Handmaid’s Tale. And David Attenborough’s oceanic survey is a gorgeous triumph
May 2017
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Jamestown, American Gods, Why Did I Go Mad?
Sky’s Jamestown has its stock characters all present and correct, while Amazon’s American Gods sticks too closely to Gaiman’s holy writ
June 2016
James Corden's Late Late Show coming to Sky
The hugely popular chat show, home to viral phenomenon Carpool Karaoke, will be available on Sky from mid-July
April 2016
Harry Hill to make Sky debut with spoof cookery show
Comedian will teach celebrity guests recipes such as ‘chicken àla Tom Jones’ in Tea-Time, his first series for the pay-TV broadcaster
January 2016
TV and radio blog
Lucky Man: can Stan Lee help Sky hit the jackpot?
The Marvel man behind Spider-Man and X-Men has created a new series starring James Nesbitt as a cop whose fortunes turn around after meeting Sienna Guillory
