TV Shows

Right then, brace yourselves, because The Simpsons has just smashed through its 800th episode — and instead of fireworks or some lazy clip show cobbled together on a Friday afternoon, they brought back alt-rock royalty. Yes. Proper indie legend behaviour. 🤘 The show welcomed the return of Michael Stipe, co-founder and former frontman of R.E.M., who stepped up to deliver...

There are moments in British TV history that feel like a collective fever dream.MTV’s The Valleys is absolutely one of them. Back in 2012, MTV rolled into South Wales, pointed cameras at a group of loud, glamorous, unapologetically Welsh twenty-somethings, and told the rest of the UK: “This is happening. Deal with it.” 📺🔥 Britain gasped.Wales shrugged and said, “Only...

Right then… cancel your plans, hide your Eggos, and warn the neighbours — Hawkins is humming again. Netflix have dropped the official teaser for Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, and yeah… this one doesn’t knock politely. It kicks the door in, drags us back to peak Reagan-era paranoia, and whispers “you thought we were done?” 😈 This isn’t just nostalgia-bait....

Hide the bikes, lock the doors, stock up on snacks and dim the lights, mun… Stranger Things is crawling back out of the Upside Down with Tales From ’85 – and the hype levels are officially off the scale. ⚡❄️👾 Let’s be clear from the jump: this isn’t just another TV show. Stranger Things was a full-blown cultural event. It...

Right. Deep breath. Confession time, mun. Yes — The Riff Report absolutely, unapologetically loves The Apprentice.And no, we will not be taking questions from the metal police at this time 😅🤘 Twenty. Bloody. Series.That’s two decades of dodgy business plans, PowerPoint crimes against humanity, taxis to nowhere, and Lord Sugar firing people like he’s tuning a Marshall stack. 🧠 FROM...

Strap in, butt — because this is not your average rock documentary. Netflix have gone full galaxy-brain with Brian May: The Cosmic Guitarist, a beautifully shot, brain-tingling, heart-on-sleeve deep dive into the mind, music and mad brilliance of one of rock’s most fascinating figures. 🤘🪐 This isn’t just about riffs.It’s about curiosity, science, survival, and what happens when you refuse...

John Lydon Unmasked on The Masked Singer and Britain Loses Its Tiny Punk Mind 🤯🤘 Just when you think Saturday night telly can’t get any stranger, boom — out waddles a Yak and underneath the fur is John Lydon. Yes, that John Lydon. Former Sex Pistols frontman. Founder of Public Image Ltd. Professional wind-up merchant. Punk’s most stubborn survivor. Over...

Internet rumours vs reality. Grab a brew, mun. Right, let’s calm the Upside Down-shaped panic for five minutes. If you’ve logged onto social media today and thought you’d missed a stealth-drop, surprise finale, bonus goodbye episode, or some mad Netflix mic-drop… don’t worry. You haven’t. Stranger Things is not releasing an extra episode today. No shadow drop. No secret link....

One song. One scene. Absolute emotional carnage, mun. 🎸🌌 If you didn’t feel something when the final seconds of Stranger Things rolled into silence and David Bowie’s towering anthem ‘Heroes’ crept in through the speakers… check your pulse, butt. 🖤 The series finale pulled its final trick straight from the emotional playbook of the gods, dropping Bowie’s Berlin-era masterpiece into...

Five minutes.That’s all it took. Five minutes of a kid quietly, nervously, bravely saying who he is… and suddenly the internet’s acting like Netflix personally kicked down their door with a rainbow megaphone. Yep. Episode 7 is now the lowest-rated episode in Stranger Things history.Not because of dodgy writing.Not because of bad acting.Not because Vecna turned into a CGI loaf...

There’s nothing more brutal than investing years of your life into a TV show, defending it in pubs, arguing about it online at stupid o’clock, buying merch you absolutely didn’t need… only for the finale to rock up and absolutely faceplant. The so-called Golden Age of Television gave us massive budgets, sprawling worlds, and characters we lived and breathed with....

🔥By The Riff Report Blog Right then… dust off the Eggo crumbs, crank up the synths, and check the calendar because Stranger Things is crawling back into our lives next week and it’s bringing secrets, tears, and behind-the-scenes chaos with it. Before anyone starts screaming into the void, no, this isn’t Season 5 itself. But it is the next best...

He filled stadiums.He topped charts across the world.He soundtracked summers, festivals, road trips, and late nights everywhere. And yet, behind the lights, the drops, and the deafening applause… he was quietly falling apart. Avicii, I’m Tim isn’t a victory lap. It isn’t a greatest hits package. It’s a deeply human, painfully honest look at what fame can take from you...

Right then, mun… just when we thought the Upside Down had finally zipped itself shut, the internet’s gone and cracked the door back open with a crowbar. Following the explosive finale of Stranger Things, a very vocal chunk of the fandom has been waving pitchforks, lighting torches, and demanding the holy grail of streaming chaos: an “uncut” version of the...

Thirty-four years on, mun, and we’re still sat here scratching our heads like we’ve missed the final page of the instruction manual. Back in 1991, Clarissa Explains It All burst onto our tellies, looked straight down the barrel of the camera, and promised answers. Proper ones. Life stuff. Teen stuff. The big questions. What we actually got was a bedroom,...