Tag Archives: Annette Badland

Midsomer Murders: The Blacktrees Prophecy. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Aran Bell. Sonita Hery, Cora Kirk, Robert Cavanah, Pal Aron, Nina Wadia, Tej Obano, Holly Aird, Kate Robbins, Cayvan Coates, Carly-Sophia Davies, Chelsea Mather.

Ignore the warnings of impending doom at your peril, scoff at the ones who prep for the eventual fall of humanity, for they have at least given thought to a future where survival is an immediacy, where every eventuality is considered and given credence; and while we must live for today, tomorrow must have at least some hope in a world willing to tear itself apart.

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(409 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: The Witches Of Angel’s Rise. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Clive Mantle, Caroline Lee-Johnson, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Sarah Paul, Ian Bartholomew, Colin Salmon, Janie Duvitski, Cian Barry, Tristan Sturrock, Richard David-Caine, Jordan Ford Silver, Bettrys Jones, Jessica Whitehurst, Erin Mullen, Holly Willoughby.

In every English village there surely must be at least one person to whom the belief of the dark arts marks them out as strange within the tightly wrapped community. The interest shown at a young age in magic, in spells, the lure of the Tarot cards and all that it entails, can leave the collective gossiping, pointing the finger at the outsider, and marking them out as one to avoid.

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(425 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: For Death Prepare. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Alexander Hanson, Clive Rowe, Kevin Whately, Samantha Spiro, Shobna Gulati, Jenna Russell, Jane Bertish, David Rubin, Dylan Wood, Tessa Wong, Matthew Bose, Ben Godard.

“A policeman’s lot is not a happy one…”

No matter how hard people within certain professions try, what they see whilst they are holding communities together, stopping cities from becoming zones overrun by fear, hate, damnation, they can never truly see the sparkle of a day without something reminding them that underneath it all the spectre of humanity’s more base instincts will rise to the surface and threaten to pour oil over small fires burning, will make any compulsion to sing one that becomes a mumble of forgotten promises in front of the paying audience.

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(538 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Beyond Paradise. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kris Marshall, Sally Breton, Zahra Ahmadi, Dylan Llewellyn, Felicity Montague, Barbara Flynn, Jamie Bamber, Jade Harrison, Annette Badland, Ingrid Oliver, Phil Daniels, Monserat Lombard, Ruth Madoc, Pooky Quesnel, Marcia Warren, Samantha Spiro, Don Warrington, Ralf Little, Shantol Jackson, Tahj Miles, Spencer Jones.

“Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.”

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(656 words, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: Mr King. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Annette Badland, Elin Owen, Charlie Baron, Rosie Ekenna, William Newton.

We are continually told to cherish our children, they are after all, our future, the ones who will inherit our mess, the ones who will pay the price for our folly, our ignorance, and mismanagement.

In the world of the macabre and chilling, children though are perhaps the more gruesome of observers in the game of life, ghoulish in the spitefulness, morbid in their fascination of what makes their adult counterparts tick; it is no wonder that some of the finest horror films have had children, or the childlike, at the very heart of their narrative.

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(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: Happy Families. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Rachel Stirling, Adrian Edmondson, Caroline Quentin, Stuart Milligan, Paul Bazely, Lee Byford, Vanessa Emme, Greg Lockett, Aki Omoshaybi, Georgina Rich, Ed White, Chris Wilson.

A country house murder, what could be more riveting for a party of guests to get their minds around when a storm plunges the home into darkness and the torrents of rain threaten to overwhelm the senses?

There is an element of the enigmatic, the ethereal and timeless when a writer places their observations into the world of the lonely house full of secrets in some neglected part of the country.

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(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: The Stitcher Society. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Keith Allen, Lizzy McInnerny, Colin Murtagh, Manoj Anand, Raj Awasti, Nimmy March, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd. Peter De Jersey, Michael Nardone, Sirine Saba, Natalie Simpson, John Thompson, Harriet Thorpe.

A heart attack is a life changing moment, a point of reckoning, a path that splits in two, and depending on how you recover, can lead to decisions being made that have ramifications down the line, and which, like murder, can lead to others suffering for your spur of the moment actions.

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(481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: The Wolf Hunter Of Little Worthy. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Louise Jameson, Maimie McCoy, Mark Williams, Siobhan Redmond, Poppy Gilbert, Mollie Harris, Ferdinand Kingsley, Kojo Attah, Brian Bovell, Lee Byford, Kadell Herida, Ruth Horrocks, Sinead Matthews, Mat McCooey.

Every village has its myth, its local legend, and if doesn’t then it should take a leaf out of the playbook of the long running and popular series, Midsomer Murders.

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(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: With Baited Breath. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Vincent Franklin, Eleanor Fanyinka, Nicola Stephenson, Nitin Ganatra, Bronagh Waugh, Miles Jupp, Lloyd Everitt, Andrew Brooke, Morgan Watkins, Krupa Pattani, Aneurin Barnard, John Stahl, Paul Hunter.

Many a lake and village pond hold a dark and terrible secret. On the surface what is seen is just the ripples caught by the wind or the thrown and skimmed stone, a gentleness of English countryside, the majesty of the Scottish Loch, is in fact a burial ground for the dead and the forgotten.

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(495 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: The Sting Of Death. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Griff Rhys Jones, Imogen Stubbs, Wendi Peters, Jacquetta May, Jack Fox, Bryan Dick, Nina Toussaint-White, Derek Griffiths, Renee Castle, Ben Starr, Aaron Anthony.

Perhaps in all the ways someone can die at the hands of a murderer, it may be surprising that the creative team and the multitude of writers of Midsomer Murders have never considered using bees as a means of delivering the final, fatal blow.

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(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)