As well as a bravura performance from host Jimmy Fallon, the cast of Glee and a few ‘helpers’, last night’s Primetime Emmys delivered a few raised eyebrows. In a category featuring multiple winners The Office and 30 Rock it was mockumentary Modern Family which took home the prize for Best Comedy. Eric Stonestreet (Cameron Tucker) [...]

If you’ve been following the epic World War 2 drama The Pacific you’ll be looking forward to tonight’s penultimate episode, so here’s a sneak preview Excited? Why not enter our contest to win ‘Helmet For My Pillow’ by Robert Leckie and ‘With The Old Breed’ by E B Sledge,  the two books which inspired the [...]

It may be because WWII is once again in vogue, it may have something to do with the fact that these two geezers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are executive producers, but HBO’s new mini-series The Pacific has become one of the fabled ‘television events of the year’. Building on the legacy of the 2001 [...]

Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, The Pacific is a ten-part mini-series following the real life stories of three US Marines as they fight in the Pacific maneouvres of the Second World War. James Badge Dale (The Departed, CSI :Miami) plays Robert Leckie – co-author of the book ‘Helmet for my Pillow’ from [...]