Lucille Ball was a trailblazer, one of the icons of early television, an icon of comedy, an icon of womanhood. A no nonsense perfectionist who didn’t suffer fools gladly, she created television in her series ‘I Love Lucy‘ that has stood the test of time, and is still hilarious today. This week I finally caught up with the Aaron Sorkin Amazon Original Movie that is all about one terrible week in her life, when it seemed that everything she had worked hard to achieve would come crashing down, due to an allegation by Walter Winchell, that Lucille Ball was a communist. At the same time, there were further allegations, in…

Yes, I know I’m a bit late to the party, as this series dropped the week before Christmas, but I’ve literally only just got around to binge watching Series 3 of the frothiest, often silliest, but never less than lovable series around. I am talking about Emily in Paris, which, despite often being slammed by those real, highbrow critics, is pretty much loved by everyone else. I definitely put myself in that second category – Emily, Sylvie, Cami, Mindy, Alfie and Gabriel, I’ve sure missed you! This series starts with one break up,and then ends with another, along with a bombshell. Emily seems to be happy with the rather gorgeous…

I have to admit, I’m not the World’s foremost authority on Australian television. Home and Away and Neighbours, The Thorn Birds in the 1980’s…and that’s about it. But this week I discovered ‘The Newsreader’, a brilliant, funny, exciting 6 part series set in a news studio in Australia in 1986 and I have been absolutely hooked. Each episode is a joy, set around one of the key news stories of 1986, and the attention to period detail in terms of styling and costumes are absolutely spot on. The Newsreader is, quite frankly, a joy, and I can’t wait until series two. The stand out star of The Newsreader is Anna…

In the wake of the fabulous final series of Peaky Blinders, there has been another brilliant series on terrestrial TV at 9pm on Sunday nights, one which has been unfairly overshadowed in my opinion. This series is The Ipcress File, which has its own link to Peaky Blinders in its lead actor Joe Cole, who played John Shelby in the BBC series before coming to an untimely end. The Ipcress File is based on the 1962 novel by Len Deighton that is centred around Harry Palmer, an unlikely and rather reluctant British agent taking part in activities in Berlin at the height of the Cold War. It has been filmed…