Tag Archives: Ben Miller

Suspect. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Miller, Celine Buckens, Dominic Cooper, Eddie Marsan, Vinette Robinson, Gina McKee, Nicholas Pinnock, Tamsin Grieg, Sharon Verdegem, Patrick Jeffries, Ricky Champ, Moora Vander Veken, Liam Smith.

The story of deception and investigation never ends, kick over one stone where the grubs and dirty insects lay their eggs and you will see them scurry away from the light that suddenly showed their activities and head to another rock further away, their behaviour, their innate actions driven by instinct making them continue digging in the dirt.

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(411 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Professor T. Series Three. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Ben Miller, Emma Naomi, Francis de la Tour, Barney White, Douglas Reith, Sarah Woodward, Andy Gathergood, Juliet Aubrey, Ben Onwukwe, Rupert Turnbull, Juliet Stevenson, Sunetra Sarker, Lee Ross, Jeany Spark, Richard Lintern, Roger Barclay.

Reason is the greatest weapon in any detective’s arsenal, the ability to see through the conflicting lies and deceit with just the use of the mind is enough to elevate any investigator in the eyes of the public. Surveillance, the reliance on electronic snooping on a suspect in any criminal case is all well and good to dot the I’s and cross the T’s in the courts of law, but it is the intuition, the logic and wit of those who devote themselves to the dogged truth that prove a lawbreaker can be caught with sound judgement at all times.

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(517 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Professor T. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ben Miller, Emma Naomi, Barney White, Andy Gathergood, Juliet Aubrey, Frances de la Tour, Sarah Woodward, Douglas Reith, Ben Onwukwe, Rupert Turnbull, Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong, Keith Dunphy, Juliet Stevenson, Lucy Anna Richardson, Barbara Verbergt, Tom De Beckker, Phil McKee, Sara Vertongen, Gaetan Winders, Alannah de Loor, Leo Long, Muna Otaru, Miles Jupp, Clare Perkins.

A television detective must have a flaw to convey a sense of security with the viewer, and in a period when flaws are accurately shown as a different kind of strength, the connection between viewer and the solving of a complex crime has perhaps never been keener.

Professor T. Series Two. Television Review. full post

(527 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Suspect. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: James Nesbitt, Imogen King, Sacha Dhawan, Sam Heughan, Antonia Thomas, Richard E. Grant, Joely Richardson, Niamh Algar, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Miller, Tabitha Green, Adam Kiani, Adele Marie, Alexander F. James.

Originality is a scarce commodity, and even then, the chances are it has been done before, but that doesn’t stop the belief that what you are witnessing is a novel approach to an age-old problem, that of how to entertain, educate, and inform, whilst keeping the attention of the one who has invested their time in your product, in your story.

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(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Professor T. Television Series Review. (2021).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Ben Miller, Emma Naomi, Barney White, Sarah Woodward, Juliet Aubrey, Frances de la Tour, Andy Gathergood, Douglas Reith, Martin Swabey, Rupert Turnbull, Ben Onwukwe, Lizzie Back, Barbara Verbergt, Keith Dunphy, Lucy Anna Richardson, Robert Cavanah, Kammy Darweish.

The detective with a unique quirk is nothing new to the overwhelming amount of television programmes dedicated to the genre; even those who assist the police have their own routines and ways which can, if written with care, make them stand out in such a way that the public takes to them, and watch them become, if not national treasures, then at least interesting enough to warrant their inclusion in the television watchers weekly habitual intake.

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(511 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Johnny English Strikes Again. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Olga Kurylenko, Emma Thompson, Jake Lacey, Charles Dance, Ben Miller, Miranda Hennessy, Adam James, Irena Tyshna, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Adam Greaves-Neal.

Rowan Atkinson will always be considered one of the finest pursuers of comedy truth that the U.K. has been blessed with nurturing, supporting and enjoying, of that simple fact there can be no doubt, no argument and yet as time goes on it is possible to wish he would concentrate his considerable talents on the straight television drama, or theatrical endeavour. As his time occupying the role of Inspector Maigret has proved, his talent for empathy, for the understanding of what drives certain men in the periods they live in is just as keenly honed as his notable characters of Edmund Blackadder, Mr. Bean, and the inept but ultimately decent Johnny English have been explored.

Johnny English Strikes Again. Film Review. full post

(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Upstart Crow. Series Three, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Mitchell, Liza Tarbuck, Paula Wilcox, Harry Enfield, Helen Monks, Gemma Whelen, Tim Downie, Rob Rouse, Mark Heap, Dominic Coleman, Steve Spiers, Spencer Jones, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Adrian Edmondson, Rosanna Beacock, Joe Willis, Beattie Edmondson, Brandon Fellows, Ben Miller, Peter Hamilton Dyer, Ken Nwosu, Nigel Planer.

If there is one thing an audience can count on with Ben Elton, aside from being involved in some of television’s most iconic comedies in the last thirty years, it is his unequalled ability to take a moment and turn it completely on its head and leave you with the feeling of being driven over the edge emotionally, of having the laughter pulled from underneath you and understanding that with great comedy must come empathy and grief in equal measure.

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(493 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Paddington 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Noah Taylor, Peter Capaldi, Brendon Gleeson, Joanna Lumley, Eileen Atkins, Ben Miller, Tom Conti, Meera Syal, Samuel Joslin, Madeline Harris, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Simon Farnaby, Jessica Hynes, Richard Ayoade, Tom Davies, Cal McCrystal.

It is through the eyes of the innocent that we perhaps see beauty and good in the world, that we don’t just tolerate the storms and the fire that surround us but that we embrace it, we seek out the violence not to get a thrill from the fight but to hopefully offer a solution, a kind word spoken can make the difference in a day and in a person’s life.

Paddington 2. Film Review. full post

(451 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Robot Of Sherwood. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Colman, Tom Riley, Ben Miller, Roger Ashton, Ian Hallard, Rusty Goffe, Joseph Kennedy, Adam Jones, Sabrina Bartlett, David Benson, David Langham, Tim Baggaley, Richard Elfyn.

We are but stories in the completion of history’s guide book, some will have volumes written about them, some if they are lucky a rip-roaring novel, most a paragraph, for many just a sentence, however as long as we avoid being a footnote in the end then we should be satisfied.

Doctor Who: Robot Of Sherwood. Television Review. B.B.C. full post

(543 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)