Fleabag, Series 2 finale, BBC Three review - Phoebe Waller-Bridge's miraculous situation tragedy

★★★★ FLEABAG, SERIES 2 FINALE Tear-jerking farewell to a towering dramatic creation

Tear-jerking farewell to a towering dramatic creation

The problem with Fleabag (BBC Three/BBC One) is that it makes almost all television look pedestrian. It’s like the difference between Fleabag’s scummily inadequate boyfriends and the unattainable perfection embodied by the cool sweary priest. Earth vs heaven. Water/wine. And now it is gone.

Fleabag, Series 2 review - a standing ovation

GOLDEN GLOBES 2020 'Fleabag' earns two gongs for Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Phoebe Waller-Bridge knocks it out of the park as the show returns to BBC Three and BBC One

What a super-talented woman Phoebe Waller-Bridge is. Hot on the heels of the success of her adaptation of Killing Eve, she now spoils us with a second series of Fleabag (BBC Three, then BBC One) that opened with an episode so gobsmackingly good that I wanted to give her a standing ovation in my living room when I watched it for the second time.

This Time with Alan Partridge, BBC One review - a man out of time?

★★★ THIS TIME WITH ALAN PARTRIDGE, BBC ONE A man out of time?

Shameless return of Steve Coogan's cringetastic broadcaster

“I’ve remained a vital presence on the fringes of TV Land,” argues Alan Partridge in an interview with Radio Times, the man whose latest claim to… well, not fame, but at least he has been presenting Mid Morning Matters on North Norfolk Digital.

Shetland, Series 5, BBC One review - uneven start to new season

★★★ SHETLAND, SERIES 5, BBC ONE Uneven start to new season

Dismembered bodies, drugs and sex-trafficking... in Shetland?

And so back to the windswept landscapes of the Shetland archipelago, where stoical DI Jimmy Perez is still keeping the bad guys at bay while continuing to cope with life as an ageing widower. You do wonder, though, how he sustains his commitment to the job in a territory offering such a restricted career ladder.