The Street

The Street is a drama series written by the acclaimed writer Jimmy McGovern which was recently shown on Monday evenings on BBC1. The series was critically acclaimed and rightly so as it was head and shoulders above most television we watch, the idea is that it contains episodes about different inhabitants of one street in Manchester, I didn't catch them all but the ones I saw included Timothy Spall as a lonely man whose wife had left to care for her mother, who developed a relationship with a fellow worker (Ruth Jones), a fantastic episode with Anna Friel as a struggling young mum trying to bring up her son, and doing anything necessary to do it. The episode ...  Read the complete review

The Street is a BBC drama that has just finished its third season. Each series is made up of 6 one hour episodes. It is set on a fictional street in Manchester and each program deals with a family that lives or works on this street. I hadn't watched series 1 & 2 thinking that it wouldn't be to by tastes as generally I prefer a good comedy. However, after catching episode 6 I rushed to my computer and, thanks to the genius that is BBC iplayer and its catch-up service, I sat down to watch the other 5 episodes. It is now safe to say that I am a convert and am keeping my fingers crossed for a fourth series. Unusually the episodes tend not to follow on from ...  Read the complete review

I'd never really fancied watching this programme before, it's not one that's caught my imagination particulary. After watching The Apprentice and afterwards, the 'You're Fired' bit on BBC2, I was still fancying watching something else so had a flick and found The Street was on BBC1. Like I said it's not one of those things I thought was me, but I'd heard a lot of good things about it. Seeing Timothy Sspall, who I rate as an actor, was starring in it I thought, 'well I'll watching the first ten minutes and see what it's like.' When you are still sitting there and hour later and hadn't realised the time going by you know you've been watching something good. The ...  Read the complete review