Let’s be honest, I watch a lot of crap. Most of it not overly gratifying, the majority of it cartoonish in its characterisations and all of it nothing more than a distraction. Normally, a shoot-out, beat down or juicy murder to get the plot rolling never really fazed me in any way. But over the last little while, a few things have been lodging in my mind. It is really summed up in a word, escalation. So I started thinking about what was being shown and what I was watching.
Read MoreIt is rare that entertainment news makes me happy. Thankfully, last week, the BBC did just that, announcing that they were adapting The Last Kingdom. The Beeb is in an interesting place at the moment, they have huge global hits with the likes of Sherlock and Doctor Who, win Emmy’s for fun with Neil Cross and Idris Elba’s Luther and mange to keep us thrilled by the exploits of three ageing men who make poor jokes and ass about in cars on Top Gear. But in a TV world that is being rewritten using the rules the BBC used to commission by (1985’s Edge of Darkness, 1984’s incredible Threads, 1979’s Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy and comedy like Partridge and The Royal Family to name but a few), Auntie is being left to her knitting.
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