TV Safari

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TV Safari Podcast - Extant, Silicon Valley, Utopia
July 16, 2014

Hi, We know, we know, it's been AGES! Sorry about our summer hiatus but what with the World Cup and all that other sport, there's been little on TV to pique our interest. But now we're back and this week we're deliberating on Halle Berry in Extant, crit

TV Safari Podcast - Quirke, Mr Sloane, Harry & Paul’s Story Of The Twos, 50 Years Of BBC2 Comedy, Penny Dreadful
May 21, 2014

We're going back in time this week - to the Fifties with new BBC1 drama Quirke, to Watford in the late 1960s in Nick Frost-starrer Mr Sloane on Sky Atlantic HD and then all over the place in two celebrations of BBC2, Harry & Paul's Story Of The Twos and 5

TV Safari Podcast - Good Morning Britain, Happy Valley, 24: Live Another Day, Cardinal Burns, Black Sails, The League, The Good Wife
April 29, 2014

Hello and welcome, loyal listeners. And all you new people too, it's lovely to have you. We're spanning the TV dial once again this week with BBC drama Happy Valley, ITV brekkie show Good Morning Britain and the return of Jack Bauer in 24: Live Another D

TV Safari Podcast - Britain’s Got Talent, Fargo, Mad Men
April 10, 2014

This week sees the return of a Cowell behemoth to TV screen, as Britain's Got Talent gets underway. Then we say yah or nah to the television adaptation of Fargo, starring Billy Bob Thornton and preview the (sort of) final season of Mad Men. Meanwhile, To

TV Safari Podcast - Game Of Thrones, Rev, Believe
March 25, 2014

This week's TV Safari podcast sees the team in conflict. There's no swords drawn, but opinions on Game Of Thrones and new JJ Abrams/Alfonso Cuaron show Believe are divided. We're also discussing the new series of BBC sitcom Rev. Meanwhile, Ben tries to

TV Safari Podcast - W1A, The Widower, Cosmos
March 11, 2014

It's TV Safari time again and in this episode we're blasting off into space courtesy of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Twenty Twelve is done, but some of the same characters pop up in the new show W1A, this time set in the murky world of BBC corporateville.

TV Safari Podcast - Jonathan Creek, Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, Gogglebox, Hair
February 28, 2014

It's a broad range of returning programmes we're discussing in TV Safari this week, from the the fifth series of BBC stalwart Jonathan Creek to cult C4 hit Gogglebox. Plus Toby ponders Hair presenter Steve Jones's career trajectory, Alex discusses why th

TV Safari Podcast - Line Of Duty, True Detective, Doll & Em, House Of Cards
February 15, 2014

Welcome to TV Safari. We're talking cops this week, with Line Of Duty and True Detective, comedy in Sky Living's Doll & Em and political intrigue with House Of Cards on Netflix. Plus Ben gets to grips with a potential nanobot invasion, Toby revels in the

TV Safari Podcast - Babylon, Inside No. 9, Bonnie + Clyde, Suits, Salamander
January 31, 2014

We're talking dark tales with Inside No. 9, berets in Bonnie & Clyde and Boyle doing Babylon this week, though you'll be pleased to know there's not that amount of alliteration in the actual episode. Toby also wonders whether he could get onto the next s

TV Safari Podcast - The Musketeers, The Kumars, The Voice, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
January 13, 2014

Happy 2014! And welcome back to the new year with TV Safari. Thanks for bearing with us while we take our winter break (in caves watching telly, not in the Caribbean, unfortunately). But we're back with some big shows, including the new Musketeers, Kylie