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May 9, 2025 • 26min

Smart TV: BAFTA TV Awards Special

Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week. You can get in touch with our hosts via email (⁠⁠podcast@radiotimes.com⁠⁠) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode.    SHOW NOTES: TV: BAFTA TV Awards, BBC1 Inside Our ADHD Minds, BBC2 The Game, C5 OUR READERS SAY... The best of this week’s RT readers’ postbag FROST BITE: Do we need therapy on reality TV? THE ARCHIVE: The War Lords, BBC4 . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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May 2, 2025 • 21min

Smart TV: Malpractice Season 2 and Is Not Laughing Funny?

Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week. You can get in touch with our hosts via email (⁠podcast@radiotimes.com⁠) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode.    SHOW NOTES: TV: Malpractice, ITV1 Long Way Home, Apple TV+ Dead Man Walking: Dan Walker on Death Row, C5 OUR READERS SAY... The best of this week’s RT readers’ postbag FROST BITE: What is humour on TV without the sound of laughter?  THE ARCHIVE: Gods of Snooker, BBC iPlayer . . . Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Apr 25, 2025 • 24min

Smart TV: Non-Fiction and the American Dream

Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week.You can get in touch with our hosts via email (podcast@radiotimes.com) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode.  SHOW NOTES:TV:Louis Theroux and the Settlers, BBC2The Assembly, ITV1Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes, Disney+OUR READERS SAY...David says, Great British Railway Journeys can't be reached by train...Bernice says, Quit the jazz hands on the news...FROST BITE:TV and the American dream - fiction offers us solace that wealth brings only sorrowTHE ARCHIVE:VE Day 80, We Were There, BBC2...Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Apr 18, 2025 • 25min

Smart TV: You Final Series and Race Across the World Returns

Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week.You can get in touch with our hosts via email (podcast@radiotimes.com) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode.  SHOW NOTES:TV:I, Jack Wright, AlibiRace Across The World, BBC1You, NetflixOUR READERS SAY...Legend from Gladiators should watch what he says...FROST BITE:We discuss Ride or Die...THE ARCHIVE:Sally Lindsay's 70s Quiz Night, C5...Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Apr 11, 2025 • 26min

Smart TV: The Last of Us Returns and Legal Drama Unleashed

Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week.You can get in touch with our hosts via email (podcast@radiotimes.com) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode. SHOW NOTESTV:The Last of Us S2, Sky AtlanticBarristers: Fighting for Justice, Channel 4 Ride or Die, BBC iPlayerOUR READERS SAY...Clean wheels, French bays that aren’t, and the sharpest eyes in the land.FROST BITE:Why Netflix can make Adolescence, but UK broadcasters might never fund The Post Office Scandal again.THE ARCHIVE:Men Behaving Badly, U&Gold Comedy...Happy viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Apr 4, 2025 • 19min

Smart TV: Black Mirror and New Simon Schama Doc

Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week.You can get in touch with our hosts via email (podcast@radiotimes.com) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode.  SHOW NOTES:TV:Black Mirror, NetflixSimon Schama: The Holocaust, BBC2Your Friends and Neighbours, AppleTV+ OUR READERS SAY...More Beyond Zero Talk...FROST BITE:Breaking the fourth wall, does it work?THE ARCHIVE:The Two Ronnies, BBC and SKY...Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Mar 28, 2025 • 17min

Smart TV: Austin and Dying for [title censored]

Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this week.You can get in touch with our hosts via email (podcast@radiotimes.com) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode.  SHOW NOTES:TV:Austin, BBC1 The Secret Genius of Modern Life, BBC2Dying for Sex, Disney+OUR READERS SAY......Any Answers isn't what it used to beFROST BITE:Does the ancient game of chess work on TV? Spoiler: sometimes!THE ARCHIVE:Wogan Night, BBC4...Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Mar 20, 2025 • 23min

Smart TV: Doctor Who Special

Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law and Huw Fullerton about the best things coming up on the box this week.You can get in touch with our hosts via email (podcast@radiotimes.com) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode.  SHOW NOTES:TV:Beyond Paradise, BBC1Great British Menu: The Finals, BBC2Doctor Who, BBC1OUR READERS SAY...Please stop ad banners at the end of BBC shows...Stop trying to improve the already perfect Miss Marple... THE ARCHIVE:Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined our Future, Sky Arts...Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Mar 13, 2025 • 22min

Smart TV: Michael Sheen and Protection

Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this weekYou can get in touch with our hosts via email (podcast@radiotimes.com) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode.  SHOW NOTES:TV:Protection, ITV1The Marlow Murder Club, U&DramaThe Residence, NetflixOUR READERS SAY...When will the BBC realise they were wrong about Question of SportFROST BITE:Giving Michael Sheen his DueTHE ARCHIVE:Face to Face, BBC Four...Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Mar 7, 2025 • 24min

Smart TV: Adolescence and Is Meghan's New Show Any Good?

Caroline Frost chats to Shem Law about the best things coming up on the box this weekYou can get in touch with our hosts via email (podcast@radiotimes.com) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode.  SHOW NOTES:TV:Adolescence, NetflixTen Pound Poms, BBC1The Au Pair, C5 OUR READERS SAY...Poor ServiceEastenders AppreciationFROST BITE:All the sound and fury (Caroline's!) aside, is Meghan Markle’s lifestyle show any good?THE ARCHIVE:The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin, BBC4...Happy Viewing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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