Author Archives: Vicky Frost
Birdsong comes to Holmes’s roost
The BBC is to fill the post-Sherlock Sunday-night void with an adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s first world war novelWith an impatient flick of his greatcoat collar, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock has helped BBC1 re-establish itself as the home of mus… Continue reading
After The Killing: Danish drama Borgen comes to BBC4
A new import from Denmark – a political thriller – seeks to emulate the success of Sarah Lund and companyFollowing the enormous success of The Killing, the Danish detective series that made subtitles an essential part of Saturday nights on the sofa… Continue reading
Channel 4 to celebrate 30 years with a ‘mash up’ where presenters swap shows
Made in Chelsea cast, Alan Carr, Kirstie Allsopp and Channel 4 News team among the celebrities taking part in special nightIt began in an age when crafting a special mixtape was a popular way to impress a loved one.So it seems appropriate that Channel … Continue reading
Harry Judd favourite to win Strictly Come Dancing final
McFly drummer hotly tipped to take crown but actor Chelsee Healey’s growing popularity threatens to cause an upsetThey have tangoed, foxtrotted and waltzed; covered themselves in fake tan and glitter; worn satin, sequins and flesh-coloured mesh in publ… Continue reading
My Killing honeymoon in Copenhagen
We had four glorious days before the rain set in and we got stuck in the mudYou’d have thought we’d have realised about the weather after 20 hours of watching the TV show. But somehow the never-ending gloom and near-constant rain of The Killing seemed … Continue reading
Doctor Who: goodbye, Amy Pond
Executive producer Steven Moffat warns of ‘heartbreaking’ exit for companions Amy and Rory in forthcoming seasonThey have never had the most straight-forward relationship. But now Amy Pond – childhood friend, mother-in-law and long serving companion … Continue reading
Ash Mair named winner of Masterchef: The Professionals
Tasmanian ‘culinary genius’ crowned winner ending a season that has delivered more than three million viewers tuning inAsh Mair has been named winner of Masterchef: The Professionals, ending a season that has delivered the show’s best ever ratings, wi… Continue reading
Downton Abbey takes on EastEnders in Christmas Day ratings war
ITV costume drama to air opposite BBC soap on Christmas DayHaving no problem with Downton Abbey being labelled a “posh soap”, its writer Julian Fellowes appears to have been taking hints from EastEnders for his Christmas Day special.The two shows will … Continue reading
Peter Capaldi joins The Hour for second BBC series
The Thick of It star Peter Capaldi takes on a decidedly more buttoned up role for BBC2′s 1950s newsroom drama The HourThe Thick of It’s Peter Capaldi, who plays belligerent spindoctor Malcolm Tucker, will take on a decidedly more buttoned up role when … Continue reading
Martha Kearney: ‘I wouldn’t think of myself as a Loose Woman’
The presenter of BBC’s The World at One on career rumours, ageism and preferring Radio 4 to NewsnightIf Today is Radio 4′s irritable, short-tempered start to the morning, then what does that make The World at One? Its lunchtime reflection, perhaps? A m… Continue reading