Inside No 9 – ‘Tempting Fate’
Three council contractors find a strange artefact in a dead hoarder's house - Inside No 9 wraps up a top fourth series with 'Tempting Fate'.
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Reece Goodall
The race to one trillion
It’s looking as though 2018 could see a business first – it is possible that we could see a US company valued at $1 trillion. Currently, we have five US tech companies valued at over $500 billion and, if technology shares prices continue to rise as they did in 2017,...
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Endeavour – ‘Muse’
Morse investigates the attempted theft of a Faberge egg and a series of grisly murders in 'Muse' - Endeavour returns for a new series.
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Solving the Chinese boat captain riddle
Reece Goodall looks at the viral puzzle with seemingly no answer - just how old is the boat captain?
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Inside No 9 – ‘And The Winner Is…’
It's time to pick a Best Actress in 'And The Winner Is...' - this week's Inside No 9 is the weakest this series, despite strong elements.
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Inside No 9 – ‘To Have and To Hold’
Inside No 9 shifts from a marriage in decline to something much darker in 'To Have and To Hold' - our series blog continues.
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The Shape of Water: Review
When I sat down to watch The Shape of Water at the ODEON Screen Unseen, all I knew about the film was the description that an American friend had given me – ‘it’s essentially Splash,’ she said, ‘during the Cold War.’ Now, she wasn’t wrong there, but there’s so much more to this film...
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A look back on the best indie albums of 2017
Our writers present their contenders for best indie and alternative album of the year. A Crow Looked at Me – Mount Eerie “Death is real / someone’s there and then they’re not / it’s not for singing about / it’s not for making into art”. The first line croaked from...
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Inside No 9 – ‘Once Removed’
A murder story told in reverse time makes 'Once Removed' another inventive and compelling episode of Inside No 9.
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Russians on the Small Screen
As the BBC's McMafia hits screens, we look back at changing (and non-changing) portrayals of Russians on TV.
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Why I’m fed up of everyone saying sorry
Reece Goodall tells us why he's annoyed by the demands that people constantly apologise
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Inside No 9 – ‘Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room’
There's wonderful acting by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton in the solid character work of 'Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room'.
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No business like snow business- the economic cost of snow
Winter is here and, depending on your standpoint, we’ve either been blessed or cursed with a bit of snowfall – the cold spread across the country, paralysing roads, shutting down schools and businesses and filling news broadcasts for what felt like weeks on end. With all the hyperbole about the...
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