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…

‘We have a problem. Yes. At the wind farm.’ Any conspiracy thriller with lines like that has definitely got my…

Every now and then, a costume drama comes along that’s so daringly unconventional as to make us re-examine our whole…

Some things I have learned about Iceland after watching six episodes of Trapped (BBC4, Saturdays). 1. They seem to feel…

The Night Manager (BBC1, Sunday) announced its intentions immediately, when the opening credits lovingly combined weapons and luxury items. ‘Blimey,’…

Vinyl (Sky Atlantic) — the much-anticipated series, co-produced by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, about the 1970s New York record…

Judging from its website, Hebden Bridge’s tourist office considers the fact that BBC1’s Happy Valley is filmed in the town…

When the time comes to make programmes looking back on the 2010s, I wonder which aspects of life today will…

On the face of it, the Netflix documentary serial Making a Murderer should only take up ten hours of your…

No one remembers this now but there really was a period, not so long ago, when the Eighties were universally…