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By Emma Silverthorn @HouseOf_Gazelle As the tag line goes The Royals is like Gossip Girl on coke, a tagline which I have to somewhat ashamedly admit attracted me. And yes the Gossip Girl parallels do abound. Youthful, attractive delinquents and delinquents with secretly big hearts populate The Royals as they do in GG. As well as a half-baked attempt at critiquing the danger of conforming to social pressures rather than your hearts’ desires. In GG this means Lily van der...

By Felicity Evans  @eff_evans HBO’s stylish and compelling cop drama returns to Sky Atlantic on 22 June with a fresh story and new characters…    ‘Well, I can't say the job made me this way. More like bein' this way made me right for the job’ Detective Rustin Cohle (Matthew McConaughey), True Detective Of all the justified praise heaped on True Detective’s first season for the quality of its acting, photography, dialogue and setting, surely most significant is the show’s...

Two days to go until your life is once again completely taken over by Orange is the New Black! Alex is back being a badass, Piper's power grows and a 'genetically perfect' newbie will be joining the ladies of Litchfield pen. Season three out on Netflix June 12th. Cannot wait. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbdfrd5JS-A&feature=youtu.be

By Felicity Evans Hit show Hannibal returns to Sky Living for a third season on Wednesday, 10 June. Just what is it that’s so incredibly tasty about the critically acclaimed drama? "Psychopaths are not crazy. They are fully aware of what they do and the consequences of those actions." Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), Hannibal It’s been nearly 25 years since Dr Hannibal Lecter appeared to audiences in The Silence of the Lambs, standing neatly and calmly to attention as he...

A list of the top 15 greatest ever TV shows has been compiled by Sky Atlantic with Breaking Bad and the Big Bang Theory both landing in the top 5.  It seems we could be living in a second Golden Age of television with eight of the top 15 TV shows made in the past ten years. Along with Breaking Bad and the Big Bang Theory, Game of Thrones landed in seventh place beating time-honoured British classic Doctor Who, which finished...

By Harry Bedford This week sees the twentieth anniversary of the American sitcom Friends exploding onto our screens. The show ran for ten years from 1994 until 2004 and was based around six friends living in New York in their late twenties and early thirties. Created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, it is one of the most popular television series in the history of the medium and has attracted audiences world-wide. The success of the show was also exemplified...

By John S.Locke What do you say when a hero of yours dies? Especially when he is only 4 years older than yourself. A man who has been in your life for over 30 years as a part of the consciousness of your generation. It is surprising how much it has upset me personally, and judging by the continuous stream of beautiful, touching messages, comments and statements of disbelief, grief and genuine sorrow on Social media, I am not alone...