Louisa Mellor
Freelance Writer at Den of Geek
Freelance writer, @denofgeek TV editor, general enthusiast, not a duck.
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3 weeks ago |
denofgeek.com | Louisa Mellor
Have you read the news lately? I wouldn’t recommend it. You’re better off looking out of a window at any available sunshine, trees, and – if you’re lucky – the occasional dog. That said, the window solution is broadly limited to daylight hours. Come nightfall, you’ll need to turn elsewhere for diversion. That’s where the following 2025 British scripted dramas and comedies come in.
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3 weeks ago |
denofgeek.com | Louisa Mellor
Knowing that Slow Horses series five was already in the can by the time the series four finale aired has made the wait for it feel interminable. Come on, people, how long does it take to chop it into six parts, stick that Mick Jagger song on the credits, and digitally remove any boom mics left in shot? A week? Just over a year is the answer, as Apple TV+ confirm that series five will start streaming from Wednesday the 24th of September 2025.
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3 weeks ago |
denofgeek.com | Louisa Mellor
You expect tweaks. As budgets dictated, the costumes of classic era Doctor Who villains were made from tin foil and old pairs of tights, so whenever an alien race is revived for the modern show, they get a brush-up. The Cybermen went from looking like sock puppets carrying air conditioning units to looking like expensive chrome espresso machines. The Silurians went from creatures from the black lagoon to slinky handbag-faced dinosaurs.
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4 weeks ago |
denofgeek.com | Louisa Mellor
Warning: contains finale spoilers for Dept. QSee it? Blink and you won’t have, but it was there for a good half second: a smile on the face of DCI Carl Morck. It’s a rare enough occurrence across nine episodes of this Netflix crime drama to make it worthy of note. Matthew Goode’s irascible detective frowned, scowled and spitted out sarcasm through his new department’s search for missing prosecutor Merritt Lingard, until the show’s very last moment, when he smiled. He’d earned it.
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1 month ago |
denofgeek.com | Louisa Mellor
This review is spoiler free. First of all, let’s make a deal: Matthew Goode’s DCI Carl Morck is the last brilliant-but-grumpy traumatised city detective with a messy homelife that crime TV is allowed. They can have him and his crew of misfits solving cold cases out of a Scottish police basement, but that’s the lot. A line must be drawn. From now on, the genre will have to work a bit harder to deliver up detective characters with personality types other than ‘punchably abrasive’.
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