TV Shows

📺By The Riff Report Blog | October 31, 2025 At 9:25pm on Halloween night, 1992, the BBC aired a “live” investigation into the UK’s most haunted house… and in doing so, unleashed one of the most terrifying, infamous TV moments in British history — GHOSTWATCH. 👻 What was billed as a harmless Halloween special turned out to be the stuff...

Netflix just dropped the first full trailer for Stranger Things 5, and ohhhh mun… it’s pure goosebumps from start to finish. 😱 Opening with that haunting swell of Queen’s “Who Wants To Live Forever”, the trailer weaves slow, cinematic shots of Hawkins’ survivors preparing for the ultimate showdown with Vecna — and yep, it looks apocalyptic. 🕷️🔥 We see: Eleven...

“It’s never too late to make some noise, mun!” 🧨 INTRO – THE SOUND OF SECOND CHANCES Every once in a while, a show comes along that hits harder than a Marshall stack turned up to eleven — Riot Women is exactly that. Forget glossy, airbrushed drama. This one’s for everyone who’s ever felt invisible, boxed in, or stuck watching...

(BBC Two / iPlayer) 🧠 The Prince of Darkness, Back in the Spotlight You’d think after a lifetime of bats, booze and bedlam, Ozzy would finally be putting his feet up with a cuppa and the telly remote. But no — No Escape From Now proves there’s still fire in the Brummie madman’s belly. The doc takes us deep into...

Because Springfield has more rock legends than Glastonbury and a worse bar tab than Download! 🍺😅 For more than three decades, The Simpsons has given us everything from flying pigs to flaming mohawks — and some of the greatest rock star cameos ever animated. 🤘From Metallica hitching a lift with Hans Moleman to Aerosmith setting fire to Moe’s Tavern, this...

“The bat bites back one last time…” When the BBC dropped Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home on 2nd October 2025, the world tuned in not just for another rock doc — but for the final word from one of the greatest metal frontmen to ever scream into a mic. The man, the myth, the Brummie bat-biter himself: Ozzy bloody...

“Huh huh huh…fire! Heh heh…metal rules!” — admit it, you just read that in the voices, didn’t you? Well, sharpen your pencils (to stab the desk with), grab your nachos, and crank up the AC/DC — because Beavis and Butt-Head are back on our TVs tonight after a jaw-dropping 27-year gap! The last time these two legends aired a new...

Oi oi, lads and lasses – grab your nachos and crank up the metal riffs because the most gloriously dumb duo in TV history are making a comeback! Yep, Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head are returning to Comedy Central with a brand-new season dropping Wednesday, September 3rd. 💥 That’s right – the giggling, fire-obsessed, headbanging halfwits who made the ‘90s...

Once upon a time (in the year 2000), the UK gathered around the telly to watch ten strangers locked in a house with no phone, no internet, and absolutely zero chill. And from that chaotic social experiment rose legends, memes, meltdowns and... Nasty Nick. 😈 But was he a plant? Did Big Brother peak in the noughties? And what the...

"Don’t you open that trap door… You’re a fool if you dare!" 😱🌀🍄🪦🫣 🎬 The Basics Show: The Trap Door First Aired: 1984 Creators: Terry Brain & Charlie Mills Episodes: 40 glorious slices of weirdness Voiced by: Willie Rushton (yes, the legend himself) Format: Stop-motion claymation Theme Tune: An absolute banger, seared into every ‘80s kid’s brain 🔥🎶 💀 The...