Derrick Taylor’s day starts early. Every workday for more than a year, the 19-year-old gets up at the crack of dawn in order to begin the 10-mile walk to his 4am shift at the UPS Customer Center in Oxford, Alabama. After his long walk, Taylor does a day’s work, loading and unloading UPS vans with … Read more
On a cold March night in Norfolk, Virginia, a passer-by made a shocking discovery: a tiny new-born baby, wrapped in a dirty towel, her navel tied with red yarn, abandoned and left to die at the side of the road. A tiny leg kicked out and she heard the baby scream. Scooping the bundle up … Read more
Five months after Bill Conner suddenly lost his 20-year-old daughter Abbey, he felt he had to do something to honour her short life. What he decided to do is heart-breaking. Tragedy had struck on a winter break in Cancun, Mexico, when Abbey and her brother Austin had been found unconscious, face down in a resort pool, … Read more
Imagine looking in the mirror every day and despairing. For one woman from Louisiana, this was her reality for years. Ever since she was a teenager she had become extremely self-conscious about her face. But from these pictures it’s difficult to understand why. That’s because when Pamela Ichard was a little girl she looked completely … Read more
If your TV schedule is in need of more political intrigue, double dealing and sinister machinations then you could do a lot worse than House of Cards. The show started out in life as an American remake of the 1990 British show of same name. Conservative Chief Whip Frank Urquhart (Ian Richardson) was replaced with Kevin … Read more
It’s now been over a year since the last episode of Game of Thrones aired and the wait for the next season to premiere could not be any easier. Considered by many as the King of TV, the show has gathered a lot of loyal followers, cult of fanboys and numerous rumors and plot theories … Read more
The Walking Dead is the most nail-biting TV show ever created in the history of television.The show follows Rick Grimes and his friends as they struggle to hold onto their humanity in a post-apocalyptic world ridden with flesh eating zombies. But they soon discover that the living amongst them are even more deadly than the … Read more
Stranger Things shook its audience into a stunned silence when Netflix released it in July 2016. The science fiction-horror web television series is set in Indiana in the 1980’s. It focuses on a young group of kids who meet a psychokinetic girl who helps them find their missing friend. The show received critical acclaim for … Read more
Orange is the New Black has been going from strength to strength since it first premiered on Netflix in 2013. It started out focusing on the loosely autobiographical story of Piper Chapman’s time in a women’s prison, but since then it’s grown into a funny, poignant and sometimes controversial ensemble piece about the nature of life … Read more
It’s only been a few years since Breaking Bad drew to a close, but even before it ended it was being referred to as one of the greatest TV shows ever made. While the concept behind the show – a chemistry teacher turning to meth cooking after a cancer diagnosis – was there from the beginning, the … Read more
If you ask Margaret Atwood about her novel The Handmaid’s Tale and its TV adaptation, she won’t mince words. As she said of the plot, “Everything I wrote in that book was happening at that time, or had already happened.” The book is rich in references to actual horrors committed against women by regimes, religious … Read more
Ask someone what Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is about, and it would be hard to believe it’s an adorably cool comedy. The show centers around Kimmy Schmidt, a 29-year-old woman who was held in a bunker by a cult leader for 15 years. The adorable part is this: She’s free. She survived. And now she’s in … Read more