Louisa Mellor Jan 26, 2017
BBC Four’s Time Commanders is joyful, nerdy, educational fun. We’d like a million new episodes commissioned please…
1) A dog carrying an unwieldy but clearly excellent stick.
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2) A child being presented with an ice-cream that’s bigger than their face.
3) Me whenever somebody falls into a paddling pool on You’ve Been Framed!
Until December 2016, those were the purest examples of joy I could name. Now? There’s a new addition to the list. Ladies and gentlemen I give you: the joy of BBC Four’s Time Commanders.
Engage skirmish
Time Commanders aired its first sixteen-episode series on BBC Two in 2003. Devised by Adam Macdonald,...
BBC Four’s Time Commanders is joyful, nerdy, educational fun. We’d like a million new episodes commissioned please…
1) A dog carrying an unwieldy but clearly excellent stick.
See related Upstart Crow: Shakespeare sitcom gets a second series 24 great comedy shows that deserve more love Peep Show: saluting a cynical, honest, brilliant sitcom Bridget Jones’s Baby review Raised By Wolves: saluting a witty, hugely likeable sitcom
2) A child being presented with an ice-cream that’s bigger than their face.
3) Me whenever somebody falls into a paddling pool on You’ve Been Framed!
Until December 2016, those were the purest examples of joy I could name. Now? There’s a new addition to the list. Ladies and gentlemen I give you: the joy of BBC Four’s Time Commanders.
Engage skirmish
Time Commanders aired its first sixteen-episode series on BBC Two in 2003. Devised by Adam Macdonald,...
- 1/25/2017
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Dec 13, 2016
Time Commanders is back! But is the revival a magnificent victory or ignominious defeat?
This review contains spoilers.
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Prior to episode one of the revived Time Commanders, it would have been fair to describe my knowledge of the Punic Wars as ‘not extensive’ and even fairer to describe it as gleaned entirely from this Eddie Izzard routine. Post-episode one, I don’t mind saying that I picked up a few things.
I learned that Carthaginian leader Hannibal, for instance, had the look of Michael Sheen playing the lead in a CG animation biopic about Beppe from EastEnders. Roman general Scipio (pronounced Skippy, oh – the disappointed utterance of someone discovering the famous bush kangaroo pleasuring herself against a Eucalyptus tree) however,...
Time Commanders is back! But is the revival a magnificent victory or ignominious defeat?
This review contains spoilers.
See related Guardians Of The Galaxy 2: James Gunn on Baby Groot Thor: Ragnarok - will John Cena make an appearance? Marvel Studios movies: UK release date calendar
Prior to episode one of the revived Time Commanders, it would have been fair to describe my knowledge of the Punic Wars as ‘not extensive’ and even fairer to describe it as gleaned entirely from this Eddie Izzard routine. Post-episode one, I don’t mind saying that I picked up a few things.
I learned that Carthaginian leader Hannibal, for instance, had the look of Michael Sheen playing the lead in a CG animation biopic about Beppe from EastEnders. Roman general Scipio (pronounced Skippy, oh – the disappointed utterance of someone discovering the famous bush kangaroo pleasuring herself against a Eucalyptus tree) however,...
- 12/13/2016
- Den of Geek
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