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Aidan Gillen - A slippery player you can bank on
From 'Queer as Folk' to 'The Wire', Aidan Gillen is an actor who refuses to be typecast. Next up, he plays a high-flying City boy in 'Freefall', the BBC's new credit crisis drama.
Inside Features
The Couch Surfer: 'Together, TMZ and Perez Hilton are a microcosm of the modern media'
Monday, 6 July 2009
Tim Walker: Perez made his name by being vile about celebrities, but he seems finally to have gone too far
Taking the Flak - The joy of foreign parts
Friday, 3 July 2009
In between dodging the snipers, everyone's having sex in BBC2's racy sitcom about overseas news reporting.
Ruth Jones: 'Gavin & Stacey generated a lot of warmth. It's good to warm your cockles'
Friday, 3 July 2009
The shy star of 'Gavin and Stacey' talks about her latest role, writing with James Corden and the pleasures of 'nice-com'
Why the BBC dominates TV drama
Friday, 26 June 2009
The recession has hit commercial television broadcasters so hard that we could witness the demise of drama on ITV and Channel 4. The BBC's dominance of the genre is unhealthy, says Gerard Gilbert
The 10 best soap exits
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Soap opera stars come and go, and so do the plotlines used to bump them off.
Win 'The Corner' - DVDs & books
Sunday, 21 June 2009
In 1997, David Simon and Ed Burns, co-creators of acclaimed TV series The Wire, published The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood, a book detailing the grim realities of the drug trade in the US city of Baltimore. Later, in 2000, they adapted the book into an acclaimed HBO mini-series. Now, both the book and a DVD of the series have been re-released.
Are chat shows just a big joke?
Friday, 19 June 2009
Alan Carr is the latest comedian to get his own chat show. Gerard Gilbert asks whether the traditional interviewer has gone forever, to be replaced by stunts and light entertainment
The Couch Surfer: ‘For a comedian, Jon Stewart places a high value on seriousness’
Monday, 15 June 2009
Tim Walker: Can a news programme be taken seriously if it’s sponsored by a coffee chain?
Clued-up for a new start
Saturday, 13 June 2009
The 'antidote to panel games' is back on air next week – this time without Humph. Alice Jones assesses the show's new hosts
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