Screen Babble

Benji has been glued to 'Forged in Fire' a History channel programme that is quite niche - think sword-makers competing to make the best sword - I told you it was niche. Meanwhile Steven has been spending his viewing time very wisely and checking out some films he'd not see before. The classic war time film that is The Dirty Dozen and from a more recent era Blade Runner 2049 - hear all about what...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for National World will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about The Crown (Thurs 16th, Netflix), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Friday 17th, cinemas), Big Brother Live Final (Fri 17th, ITV1), Monarch: Leg...

Today we are 1 - 52 episodes of all killer and no filler content! We hope you've been enjoying Screen Babble and will stay with us into our toddler-hood!  As always we start this week with what we've been watching, Steven has been overdoing it with the 90s media/news satire with Brass Eye and The Day Today which saw the first outing of Alan Partridge.  Benji has been rewatching a lot of...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for National World will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about 007: The Road to a MIllion (Fri 10th Nov, Amazon Prime), For All Mankind (Fri 10th Nov, Apple TV), The Killer (Fri 10th Nov, cinemas and Netflix), The Marvels (Fri...

In fabulous news this week we can announce our new co-host - Benjamin Jackson. And although he has big boots to fill (we miss you Alex) we are delighted to have Benji on board and we know you enjoy his take on TV and film too. First up this week Steven tells us about not one, not two but three films he went to see in the cinema this week. He tells us all about Martin Scorcese's new flick 'Killers...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for National World will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about Blue Eye Samurai (Fri 3rd, Netflix), Sly (Fri 3rd, Netflix), Selling Sunset (season 7) (Fri 3rd, Netflix), The Voice UK (Sat 4th ITV1 & ITVX), JFK: 24 Hours Th...

This week Steven has been rewatching some old Friends episodes following the passing of Matthew Perry. The team is sad to see him go for his work that impacted our lives but also for the way he helped other people in real life to deal with addiction issues.  Steven has also been watching Time, as has Kelly, and they both have enjoyed it immensely. The second series of Jimmy McGovern...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for National World will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about Five Nights at Freddy's (Friday 27th Oct, cinemas), Sister Death (Fri 27th, Netflix), Pain Hustlers (Fri 27th, Netflix), Fellow Travellers (Sat 28th, Paramount+),...

This week the regular crew of Kelly and Steven are joined by Jacob Pannons, Senior Reporter for Sussex World. On what we've been watching Kelly talks about Three Little Birds, which just started on ITV and is written by Lenny Henry who worked with Russell T Davies on the show. Kelly laughed and cried in the first episode as you might expect and is loving it thus far. Steven has been catching...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for National World will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about Bosch: Legacy (Friday 20th, Amazon Freevee), Upload (Friday 20th, Amazon Prime), Elite (Friday 20th, Netflix), Killers of the Flower Moon (Friday 20th, cinemas), T...

We start this week's podcast as we always do - talking about what we're watching. Steven is blitzing Scrubs, which may or may not be affecting his work/life balance.  Craig has just finished Only Murders in the Building, all 3 seasons, he's also picked up Stargate (again) a comfort watch in his house. Kelly is just about persevering with Big Brother but enjoyed the culmination of a long-runni...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for National World will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about The Conference (Fri 13th, Netflix), Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Fri 13th, cinemas), Frasier (Fri 13th, Paramount+) Goosebumps (Fri 13th, Disney+) Rick and Morty s...

Screen Babble returns to normal this week and we kick off as ever with what we've been watching recently Steven checked out Partygate, the Channel 4 drama based on the misbehaviour in Downing Street during the pandemic. He's also checking out and enjoying Crime season 2. Benji has taken a chance on Loki and is pleased to report he believes this may just be the saviour of us all from superhero fati...

This week we have a slightly different set up. We are focusing on five things you should have in your TV diary for the coming autumn and winter months. Gen V, spin off of superhero series The Boys is up first. Set after season 3 of The Boys. Steven takes us through what to expect including a lot of violence. The first three episodes came out on Amazon Prime on 29th September with weekly...

This week host Kelly is joined by Benjamin Jackson, Digital Journalist at National World and resident anime expert. Craig Sinclair, Senior Video Editor also joins the team. Benji has been bingeing on wrestling and he tells us why it's a legitimate form of entertainment. Craig has been watching Yellowjackets and Kelly has been all over the place but gives two big recommendations for Netflix th...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for National World will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about Sex Education (Thurs 21 Sept, Netflix), Crime (Thurs 21 Sept, ITVX) The Continental (Fri 22nd, Amazon Prime), The Expendables 4 (Fri 22nd, cinemas), Love is B...

This week Kelly and Steven are joined by Mark Dunford, Editor of the Crawley Observer. The team have enjoyed a wide range of TV and film this week. Steven shares the dark and light. The light in the form of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Steven is enjoying the new season much more than the last and we debate whether it would be better to burn out than fade away. The dark is brought b...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for National World will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Fri 15th, Netflix), Love at First Sight (Fri 15th, Netflix), Coco Chanel Unbuttoned (Fri 15th, BBC2), Jimmy Doherty's New Z...

This week on Screen Babble host Kelly is joined by resident TV Critic Steven Ross and National World reporter Hiyah Zaidi. We start with our usual chat around what we've been watching. Steven took Benji's recommendation from last week and has been catching up on Arrested Development and been surprised by Michael Cere's role in it. Hiyah has been catching up on Schitt's Creek and Ann...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for National World will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about Top Boy (Thurs 7th Sept, Netflix), Virgin River (Thurs 7th, Netflix) Celebrity Masterchef Final (Fri 8th,BBC1) The Nun II (Fri 8th, cinemas), The Changeling&n...

This week on Screen Babble Kelly and Steven are joined by Benjamin Jackson, Digital Journalist for National World. Steven has been watching Derry Girls, following its arrival on Netflix last month. Benji has been checking out One Piece and lots of classic anime. Kelly has started Screw and The Tower which she's enjoying but has thrown out hospital drama The Resident after only 2 episodes. She also...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for National World will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about Classic Movies: The Stories Of (Thurs 31st, Sky Arts), The Wheel of Time (Fri 1st Sept, Amazon Prime) Warrior (Fri 1st Sept, Sky Max), Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone...

The first week of the new regime is here and Kelly and Steven are joined by Paul Trainer, Editor of Glasgow to join us as guest host. Steven tells us about the anime series he's been watching Attack on Titan (Crunchy Roll), which he is enjoying very much. He also watched Bad Times at the El Royale (Disney +) - not so happy with this one. Paul is keeping up with the new series of Only Mur...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for National World will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about Ashoka (Wed 23, Disney+), You Are So Not Invited To My Bar Mitzvah (Fri 25th, Netflix), The Dive (Fri 25th, Cinemas), The Woman in the Wall (Sunday 27th, BBC1), Se...

A slightly sad episode today as we bid farewell to Alex, our favourite TV critic, but before he goes we chat Rebellion, Doctor Who and Not Dead Yet. It's worth pointing out that Alex and Steven have a barney over who the best Doctor Who was/is. On the 'deep dive' Alex tells us about one of his favourites 'Riverdale', another great coming to the end of their run. On 'back to the future' Steven take...