Helena Bonham Carter Pays Fond Tribute to British TV Legend in Russell T Davies‘ ’Nolly’: TV Review

Shortly before Christmas, the eminent British critic and broadcaster Matthew Sweet embarked on a sponsored, round-the-clock watch of a new DVD set of “Crossroads,” the dogged ITV soap that first ran between 1964 and 1988. The prevailing idea was that negotiating the boxset’s 700 episodes might be as arduous — perhaps even as deadly — as any cross-Channel swim or Himalayan hike; that impression was soon confirmed by Sweet’s running Twitter commentary, which vacillated between the amused, the bemused and the increasingly discombobulated. A clumsily aspirational, shot-as-live serial set around a motel in the British Midlands — some distance removed… Read Full Article