Stumbling across the TV show Modern Love was a weird experience – it was promoted on the Apple TV homepage and warranted further investigation. When we saw it was created by John Carney, who was also behind some of our favourite Dublin-based films, then it was a given we were going to watch this one. Anthology series’ aren’t always my favourite, but when they’re done well, like Black Mirror and …

When Apple Arcade launched, I was very excited and blogged about it a couple of times. I intended to try ALLLLL the games, even though there were over 100 at launch and the collection was only going to grow. If I’m honest, I tried out a handful, mostly the ones mentioned in those prior blog posts and realised the rest didn’t really appeal. And now, for the moment, I’ve cancelled …

This week, the BBC aired a celebration of Miranda Hart's self-titled sitcom that has been in our lives for ten years already. That seems like a bizarre amount of time to have passed but what would we have done without it? I remember bidding the show a fond farewell at the time it left our screens and it was so nice to revisit our beloved characters just a few years …

Everyone has their own unique way of dealing with the apps on their phone. Some are very organised, keep everything in folders, download an app, try it, store it or immediately delete it. Others, like me, are a bit more haphazard about things: lots of apps that have been downloaded to try, lots of things taking up space that don’t need to, half-hearted folders and a bit of a mish-mash …

This seems to be a bit of a tradition now, making a handful of resolutions on this blog for the coming year. I try not to put too much pressure on myself to achieve these things, because twelve months is a long time and who knows where we'll all be at the end of it? But sometimes it's nice to have some guidance, so I've got some more for 2020. …

The flagship offering of Apple TV+'s launch was The Morning Show, a complicated drama set in a network television morning show and featuring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston as sparring and unwilling co-anchors. The show came in for a lot of early criticism, being a bit corny, full of tropes and stereotypes and generally not telling the story well. I didn't get any of that. There were a few cliches, …

So I did this round up last year, quickly running through other posts that had already collected upcoming releases and pulling out films that I thought I'd be interested in. Turns out, I picked twelve films and only managed to watch half of them. Oh well! Let's see how well I do this year. For reference, I've looked at the BBC, a selection from Total Film and a pretty long …

It's that time again! A whole year of music listening gets distilled down to a choice of five top albums and seeing if any of them can break into my top ten of all time. I don't usually enjoy this process and this year hasn't been any different, although if I'm honest, the choice was slightly less inspiring than usual. It felt like the year was very top heavy in …

If you've followed my adventures, you know I've gone back and forth on the whole album thing, but I think getting to the end of my fourth year of listening to two albums a week (400 albums!) means that I'm on board. So I was surprised when I first heard that Sheryl Crow wasn't going to make any more records after her latest release Threads. At the time the album …

I don't know if it's just me, but Christmas television this year hasn't felt as special or as inspiring as it sometimes does. There's no Christmas Doctor Who special, and no superb films finally showing on TV, so that the only thing to look forward to seemed to be Gavin & Stacey. Wait a minute, Gavin and Stacey returning after a decade?? Yes! Many, many, many of us were looking …

As is tradition now, I have come to the latest Sims game very, very late. When I talked about The Sims 3, it was about four years after the game had been released. I love a good late review, honestly. Well, The Sims 4 is slightly different. I did download it slightly nearer its release date - 2017, I think. But it didn't work on my Mac, because it's an …

When I first wrote about For All Mankind, it was out of duty rather than enjoyment really. This was a show about the moon with a sprinkling of feminism and couldn’t have been made more for me if it tried. I talked of how the first episode dragged and the second picked up and by the third I was hooked. Well, I should have sensed the pattern there because every …

I had heard that a new version of Baby It's Cold Outside was going to be released, with updated lyrics, but I hadn't heard it until recently. Kelly Clarkson and John Legend have rewritten the old classic which has come under fire for some difficult lyrics that could be considered to fall on the wrong side of consent. I do get why the old song is problematic for some people. …

Final thoughts! How can it be over already? I mean, I know it's been weeks and we've all been on a journey and it'll be quite nice to have my Saturday nights back but still... it's all done! What a final show it was, kicking off with an incredible routine, and featuring Taylor Swift, plus all the old gang back for one more round including lovely Will! I really, really …

Whilst we’re on a roll with female representation in our entertainment spaces, the Country Music Awards this year were an incredible show of women’s strength. Hosted by Reba, Carrie and Dolly, the show kicked off with a medley of songs from many, many, many women from throughout recent country music, including many I’d never heard of and need to know more about. (Who knew Delta Dawn wasn’t just the song …

I had seen in passing the news that James Corden was taking a break from his Late, Late show for other projects and guest hosts would be filling in. Alicia Keys kicked things off but it wasn’t until I caught the clips on YouTube that I realised just what a fab job she’d done. We all know already that Keys is brilliant, but her take on the year wrap-up is …

Somehow we have whittled the contestants down to just four and it's time to wave goodbye to the one who will miss out on the final. Somehow it feels so soon that we have reached this point, and yet when you watch the titles it's like "oh yeah, they were in it, that was so long ago!" Time is weird. Anyway, here's how my thoughts flowed as the couples tried …

As soon as it hit December, I restarted my Netflix subscription, because there’s no way I was going to miss out on all those cheesy Christmas movies. However, the bonus alongside festive treats is catching up on the big series’ that were released over the last six months that I have fallen behind on. Starting with the final ever series of Orange is the New Black, bringing to a close …

We watched the third movie in Netflix's Christmas Prince franchise this week and... huh. It was an experience. I've obviously reviewed the film itself in the proper place but I wanted to expand upon this with a note about the fiasco that is the credits. The normal movie credits roll, that's fine. Cast, crew, music and location credits. Then we get to the geographic specific stuff, the dubbing and additional …

Quarter finals, musicals week, the famous five, all the ingredients for a fun show. It's amazing how short and sweet the broadcasts are now - just an hour of dancing and we're done. But we're getting close to the end now, who will miss out on the semi-final spot? Here's my thoughts throughout the show. This is an opening. Anton and Kevin singing?? Craig? Bruno being under-utilised for a change? …