Tag Archives: David Pearse

Shardlake. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Arthur Hughes, Anthony Boyle, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Sean Bean, Matthew Steer, Joe Barber, Miles Barrow, Babou Ceesay, Paul Kaye, Mike Noble, David Pearse, Irfan Shamji, Brian Vernal, Michael Rivers, Tadhg Murphy, Peter Firth, Alex Bhatt, Ken Nwosu, Louis Goodwin, Kimberley Nixon.

Dalgliesh: A Certain Justice. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Bertie Carvel, Carlyss Peer, Michael Culkin, Sara Stewart, Michael Maloney, Silas Carson, Yaseen Aroussi, Daisy Waterhouse, Barbara Marten, David Pearse, Alistair Brammer, Michael Amariah, Charlotte McCurry, Alex Hope, David Bamber, Liz Crowther, Marsha Miller.

The trouble with the law is that it does not take into consideration the actions of those who implement it.

Justice not only comes with a price, and as the statue insists, is blind, but if wielded in the wrong hands can be a weapon more potent than that in which it is in place to discourage, to outlaw.

Paula, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Denise Gough, Tom Hughes, Owen McDonnell, Siobhan Cullen, Sean McGinley, Aoibhinn McGinnity, Jane Brennan, Emily Taaffe, Ameilia Metcalfe, Jonny Holden, Edward MacLiam, Ciarán McMenamin, Aislin McGuckin, David Herlihy, Rachael Dowling, Marty Maguire, Dylan Breen, Gary Liburn, David Pearse.

 

It is infuriating when a drama on television cannot decide if it is one thing or another, especially when in theory the premise of the story is not bad, a light entertainment by the small screen and one willing to find a way to bring a necessary point of view to the adult conversation. Yet in Paula, the makers of the programme managed to make a perfectly good idea somehow unpalatable, degrading and almost thrown straight into the bin where all other nonsense is kept.

The Musketeers, The Queen’s Diamonds. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Alexandra Dowling, Rupert Everett, Hugo Speer, Paul McGann, Matthew McNulty, Sarah Smart, James Callis, Matt Stokoe, Laura Haddock, Olivia Poulet, Thalissa Teixeira, Allan Corduner, Harriet Thorpe, Lucie Cerna, Barbora Cerna, Monika Timkova, David Pearse, Michael Peavoy.