Screen Babble

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 Derry Girls, season 3 (Fri 18th, Netflix), Mask Girl (Fri 18th, Netflix), Shelter (Fri 18th, Amazon Prime), Fifa Women's World Cup Final (Sun 20th, 11am on BB...

This week the trusty team of Kelly, Alex and Steven are joined by National World's sports reporter extraordinaire Susanna Sealy. In what we've been watching we cover everything from Schitt's Creek to The Thin Blue Line, Greg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat and Henpocalypse! On the 'deep dive' this week Susanna takes us through what to expect from the World Cup Final which takes place o...

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 Reunion (Friday 11th, ITV), Heart of Stone (Friday 11th, Netflix), Jagged Mind (Friday 11th, Disney+), Billions (season 7) (Saturday 12th, Paramount +), R...

Lots of animal references in our chat this week - we've been watching quite a diverse range of things from Boston Legal to How to Become a Cult Leader, Bull and over to Only Murders in the Building. On the 'deep dive' Alex tells us all about the new Netflix drama Painkille'. Steven takes us 'back to the future' with Yellowstone, the every-popular American West drama. Thanks for...

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 Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Friday 4th, Amazon Prime), Crazy Rich Agents: Selling Dream Homes (Sunday 6th, BBC2), Alone (Sunday 6th, Channel 4), the Women's Wo...

Kelly, Alex and Steven are back to save you from boring telly! This week we've been watching lots of different things, The Bear, The Sixth Commandment, Futurama, Evil, the World Cup, Cunk on Earth and that Neighbours trailer! On the 'deep dive' Alex tells us about Heartstopper - the new series is out now on Netflix. Steven tells us about cult classic 'Firefly' on 'back to the future' and the compl...

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 Fifteen Love (Friday 21st July, Amazon Prime), They Cloned Tyrone (Friday 21st, Netflix), Venom: Let there be Carnage (Saturday 22nd July, Netflix), Special Opps&n...

A busy week for new film releases but we're still on top of the telly and some films! In what we've been watching Steven shares his disappointment in the new Indiana Jones flick - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, but it's still Indy so we're gonna say it's worth a watch anyway. Alex talks about new BBC drama Champion which he is really enjoying and Kelly tells us about The Stranger, a film n...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for NationalWorld will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about Bird Box Barcelona (Friday 14th, Netflix), Foundation (Friday 14th, Apple TV), Too Hot to Handle (Friday 14th, Netflix), World on Fire (Sunday 16th, BBC1), The Sixt...

On this week's Screen Babble we have lots of great TV chat. We kick off with one of Alex's and Steven's current watches - Whose Line is it Anyway? Then Alex keeps us up to date with his never-ending pursuit of Halt and Catch Fire. We talk about the impending Emmy nominations and what fun it will be to see how right or wrong we are about them. On the 'deep dive' this week Alex tells us about the ne...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for NationalWorld will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about The Outlaws (Friday 7th July, Netflix), Hack my Home (Friday 7th, Netflix), The Horrors of Dolores Roach (Friday 7th, Amazon Prime) A Spy Among Friends (Sunday...

The dream team is reunited once again - Kelly is back from Glastonbury and worn out from watching sets she missed in real life - on the iPlayer. In other recent watches Steven give a resounding recommendation for Living as does Alex for The Other Two and the second series of Halt and Catch Fire. This week the deep dive is into new Sky drama Then You Run and excitingly, Alex spoke to writer Ben Cha...

This week Katie leads the team into this week's TV - with a surprising theme. We chat about The Bear, Wes Anderson's back catalog ahead of the release of Android City and There She Goes. In the 'deep dive' real-time thriller Hijack starring Idris Elba. In 'back to the future' Steven tells us all about another Idris Elba appearance in 2017's Five by Five. There's some good back pocket recommendatio...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for NationalWorld will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about Not going out (Friday 23rd, BBC1), The Perfect Match (Saturday 24th, Netflix), The Good Fight Club (Saturday 24th, Sky Documentaries), Boris, The Lord and The...

This week the team is diligently trying to stay up with TV despite the continuing good weather. On what we've been watching we chat about Supernova, Boston Legal and Britain's Got Talent. In the 'deep dive' Alex tells us about new Marvel superhero series Secret Invasion. In 'back to the future' Steven tells us all about 2013 true crime drama The Great Train Robbery. There's some good back pocket r...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for NationalWorld will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about Outlander Season 7 (Friday 16th, Amazon Prime), Queen of Oz (Friday 16th, BBC1), The Grand Tour: Eurocrash (Friday 16th, Amazon Prime), Tudum (Saturday 17th, Netfli...

We are still watching TV despite the temperatures! This week we chat about Best Interests, Star Trek, The Gallows Pole and Avatar 2 in our what we've been watching section. Then Alex tells us all about the new series of Black Mirror which is coming to Netflix; a departure from previous series in his opinion - in a good way. In 'back to the future' Steven talks to us about The Wire and it's not all...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for NationalWorld will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about The Playing Card Killer (Friday 9th June, Netflix) Soccer Aid (Sunday 11th June, ITV1), Best Interests (Monday 12th June, BBC1), Sarah Beeney vs Cancer (Monday 12th...

Steven returns this week and the dream telly team are reunited. First up we spend way too long talking about The Idol which it is fair to say, is getting slated in the reviews at the moment. Then Steven tells us about the premiere of the new Full Monty series he went along to this week in Sheffield. On the 'deep dive' Alex talks to us about The Crowded Room and let's just say he doesn't hold back...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday we will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week Alex Moreland, TV Critic at National World tells us about Manifest (Friday 2nd June, Netflix), Gods of Tennis (Sunday 4th, BBC1), Britain's Got Talent Final (Sunday 4th, ITV), For her Sins (Monday 5th, Channel 5), Love Island (Monda...

Our focus is firmly on the biggest TV event yet this year with the finale of Succession taking place earlier this week. Superfan Katie joins host Kelly and resident TV critic Alex to dissect this monumental piece of TV. On the deep dives his week Alex tells us about Shane Meadow's new series The Gallows Pole. Katie takes us back to the future, with what we believe is the oldest item to have been d...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for NationalWorld will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about The Kardashians (Thursday 25th, Disney+), Black and Gold (Friday 26th, Netflix), Fast 9 (Saturday 27th, Netflix), The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist (Saturday 27t...

This week we've been watching random stuff, Steven talks to us about Local Hero, Alex has been continuing with the Mindy Project despite some bad storylines and Kelly is enjoying MalPractice. We discuss the penultimate episode of Succession and speculate what might be yet to come. On this week's 'deep dive' Alex tells us about the new Sky crime mystery Poker Face. Steven takes us 'back to the futu...

Need a recommendation for what to watch this weekend? Look no further. Every Friday Steven Ross, digital trends writer for NationalWorld will take you through the best of TV and streaming in the coming days. This week he tells us about Selling Sunset season 6 (Friday 19th, Netflix), White Men Can't Jump (Friday 19th, Disney+), Muted (Friday 19th, Netflix) the Chelsea Flower Show (Sunday 21st- Sund...

There's a lot going on this week as we catch up on the many big TV events of the past week, namely, Eurovision and the Baftas. Kelly has started watching Mood. Alex has started Colin from Accounts and Halt and Catch Fire (find out what these two programmes have in common!). Steven tells us about Cleopatra by way of warm up for his main feature this week, Rome. Alex, talks us through new drama No E...