ZAPPED! 2.1 – “The Trial” (TV Review)

Dave – 9:40pm – Thursday 12^th October 2017

Available to stream from UKTV Play service NOW

Created and written by: Dan Gaster, Will Ing and Paul Powell

Directed by: Dave Lambert

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PIE AND HAMMER

Expanded from last year’s water-testing micro-run (click the following links for my 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 reviews), digital channel Dave’s original fantasy sitcom makes a welcome return next week, once again nestled in a post-Red Dwarf XII Thursday night slot. “The Trial” follows directly on from “Mr. Wuffles”‘s cliffhanger ending, in which modern day office temp-out-of-water Brian Weaver (James The Inbetweeners Buckley) has inadvertently pissed off a legion of shell-backed Snail people by kicking their ambassador, which he had mistaken for a football.

JACK WHITEHALL: TRAVELS WITH MY FATHER – Series One (Netflix Review)

15 – 6 x 30mins – Streaming on UK Netflix from: Friday 22^nd September 2017

Series Producer: Mark Chapman

Executive Producers: Jack Whitehall, Michael Whitehall, Ben Cavey

Produced and directed by: John Hodgson

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DAD EDUCATION

Despite being on a plethora of popular panel shows and performing sell-out stand-up comedy tours for the best part of the last decade, Fresh Meat ‘toff’ Jack Whitehall is still in his twenties. His act has often played upon not only the naivety of his age but also his sheltered-if-cushy upbringing by his stuffy agent-to-the-stars father, Michael. The jovial comic and his often stubbornly-rigid pa have previously partnered up as an odd couple on BBC chat show Backchat, but now streaming super-service Netflix has paid for the Bad Education star to have the gap year he never went on – provided his dad tags along for the (joy)ride!

Toploader “SEEING STARS” (Album Review)

Released digitally on: 12^th May 2017

Purchase link

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IT’S A KNOCKOUT AGAIN

20 years after they first formed, 17 years after “Dancing in the Moonlight” gained them nationwide attention and 8 years since they reformed after an extended hiatus, Eastbourne alternative rockers Toploader have released their fourth long player, Seeing Stars, fan-funded via a successful PledgeMusic campaign (see HERE).

CARNIVORE Release Day!

FINGER LICKIN’ FESTIVE FRIGHTENER

Can a ride on THE ROAD TO HELL turn the principles of a strict vegetarian upside down?

On the first day of advent your good CR@B gave to thee… news of a festive short story you can download for FREE!

That’s right folks, December 1st 2016 marks not only the first door you get to open on your advent calendar but also the Book Birthday of my first ever officially published eBook!

Carnivore is a Christmas horror story with added BITE and it is available to download and loan from Suffolk Libraries’ Overdrive website for all who own a library card. A direct link to the book’s page is HERE and a list of installation instructions for the app and all compatible tablets, smartphones, eReaders and PCs is HERE.

I realise this method is a little restrictive to those who live further afield, but as a first step towards publication I am majorly chuffed that an example of my fiction is out there to be DEVOURED by the hungry masses…

Happy Horror-days!