The other evening I was driving back in heavy rain from my pilates class when I noticed something rather upsetting…

In his latest documentary for the This World series, the Romanian film-maker Liviu Tipurita could have been forgiven for treading…

Sometimes I wonder whether, of all the literary genres, graphic novels aren’t the most stupidly overrated. I can say this…

Spoiler alerts aren’t normally required for reviews of Shakespeare — but perhaps I’d better issue one before saying that in…

Going Forward (BBC4, Thursdays) is a BBC comedy about the continuing adventures of Kim Wilde, the fat, cynical but lovable…

Let me start this week with an admittedly hard quiz question: in 1954, how did the sudden illness of Jack…

There’s no way of saying this without shredding the last vestiges of my critical credibility, but this new Ben Elton…

The big returning show of the week began with servants laying out the silverware at a large country house in…

So: Game of Thrones. Finally — season six — the TV series has overtaken the books on which it is…

Five Star Babies: Inside the Portland Hospital won’t, I suspect, have been a hard sell to BBC2’s commissioning editors. Childbirth…

‘Our findings will shock many people,’ promised Trevor Phillips at the beginning of What British Muslims Really Think (Channel 4,…

In recent years there’s been a fashion for arts documentaries presented by celebs rather than boring old experts — presumably…

Now the kids are back for the school holidays, I have a licence to watch complete trash again. No more…

Which is better, British TV drama or American? A couple of years ago, merely asking the question would have had…