18th-century British elections were brutal. Ever seen Hogarth's series? http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Was there a better casting choice for Johnson than Robbie Coltrane? I think not. He has the big man's legendary size, presence and bluster and could easily wander off into his own biopic.

Outstanding dialogue? 'Tis common down our way.

"A sad, insane old woman with an udder fixation"

The guards were originally meant to be Mark Ardern and Stephen Frost, the same guys who played the castle guards Soft and Anon in the previous season. Sadly they couldn't get the latter and instead replaced him with Lee Cornes, an old friend of the Blackadder team. We'll meet him again as Shelley in the next season,…

King Charles as Prince Charles is fantastic. "Tell me, have you come far?"

The Eva Green Goes Mental Hour is a superb show, and I'm really looking forward to the next season

Vikings is a show that's so much better than one would have expected. The casting, the production, the soundtrack - all combine into this living, tactile story that hooked me deeper than anything else this year.

Squirrel Girl

Full kudos to Mr Fishburne, he does superbly in the role. But Dennis Farina will always be my Jack.

More like Valkyrie, innit?

Thorsome!

When the hero being carted off to Russia for certain torture comes across as a relatively positive ending, you know you've just watched something truly special. That was a great twelve hours, and if they can build on that in another season, I'll gladly strap back in for another round of DAMNITs.

Nice to get a final shot of Hot Blonde Assistant at the end too. Sorry I suspected you luv!

I'm so glad the sniper draped his dead body out of the window. That's such a classic war movie trope and it made me smile.

Fry did extremely well with his modest role in this season. There was a certain gravitas to his PM, even in the middle of all the silliness.

The whole raid on the boat felt like a classic 8-bit, side-scrolling shoot-em-up to me. Bang bang, jump jump, boss fight, decapitation!

It's always so cool to see Mel doing stuff and being awesome. New Plymouth represent!

In 1994, an author called Lynley Hood - something of an expert on NZ moral panics - revisited the case from a revisionist angle. She showed how Minnie had really been the victim of a rabid press and a desire for someone to "pay" for all the horrid stories of baby farming. Many of the things she was accused of doing…

Y'know I was rewatching a whole bunch of classic Splitting Image episodes recently, and noticed something I never did as a kid - the way a Lord Lucan puppet is added in the background of some scenes, usually as a barman or waiter (as in the "Never Met A Nice South African" bit: https://www.youtube.com/wat….