Review: Paul Merton’s Impro Chums (rating 4/5) Improvisation is a popular format, with numerous shows of varying quality picking up on the template created by television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? in the 1980s. Among the spin-offs, Paul Merton’s Impro Chums is a sure-fire winner, drawing on a team of experienced stage and radio […]
Let’s stop pretending RBS isn’t already a London-based bank
As I See It: Terry Murden Ross McEwan, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, has been pontificating on the future of the bank after he departs for a new job in Australia, warning that it would be forced to relocate its head office in the event of Scottish independence. It was enough to prompt […]
Patience required in this search for the true story
Review: Fake News (rating 3/5) This show has already received some glowing reviews from high places, so there was no surprise that it drew a sold-out audience. Twenty minutes in and I have to admit I wasn’t sure why it had attracted such praise. It took the final 10 to realise where the story was […]
Gripping tale of hubris and helplessness in hunt for a killer
Review: The Incident Room (rating 5/5) Few crimes compare for notoriety to those of the man who came to be known as the Yorkshire Ripper, whose reign of terror spread fear across the north of England in the 1970s. Many who lived through those times will still bear a chilling recollection of the horror of […]
Faulty experience is a fun night of entertainment
Review: Faulty Towers, the dining experience (rating 5/5) Like the Beatles, and – at one time – Bobby Charlton – there are some individuals and institutions who everyone in the world seems to have heard of. Basil, Sybil and Manuel of Fawlty Towers, that short-lived Seventies television series, seem to share similar global notoriety. A […]