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The Couch Surfer: 'Matt Damon's Green Zone is Bourne again, but this time in Baghdad'
Matt Damon has either the best taste in Hollywood, or the best agent.
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A (fictional) trial of life and death for Gary Glitter
Monday, 9 November 2009
Capital punishment is back in Britain in a new TV drama. Rob Coldstream, its creator, explains the idea behind it
Collision - Anatomy of an accident
Friday, 6 November 2009
Car crashes provide an endless source of intrigue for screen drama. As ITV's 'Collision' begins, Gerard Gilbert asks why pile-ups fascinate us
The Week In Radio: Keep taking a trip down memory lane
Thursday, 5 November 2009
There are times when the whole of BBC radio seems in the grip of one vast, unstoppable wave of reminiscence, like some garrulous granny of the airwaves whom no one likes to interrupt. Nostalgia is the order of the day. Here's just a small list of things people have been nostalgic about this week. The Berlin Wall. The M1 motorway. The BBC's Maida Vale studios. Victorian photography. Izal lavatory paper. Yes, lavatory paper! The nasty, hard, shiny kind. Incredibly there was an entire programme about this on Radio 4, Now Wash Your Hands, which examined how Izal was made, how it was good for writing on and playing with a comb. What it actually felt like on the skin. What feelings were aroused by its coal tar aroma. You can keep your madeleines, Marcel Proust. Here in Britain, we get misty-eyed over medicated loo roll.
Should we switch off The X Factor?
Thursday, 5 November 2009
'Freak and geek show', says Pete Waterman. Highlight of her week, says Alice-Azania Jarvis. Who's right?
Spooks: A drama that sees the future
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
The uncanny premonitions of its writers remain the key to the success of the BBC's MI5 series Spooks, says James Rampton
The Agitator: 'I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them'
Monday, 2 November 2009
The 2nd of November, like each of its 364 essential cousins of calendar, is almost inevitably twinned with an historic anniversary snoozing somewhere in the catacombs of history
The Couch Surfer: 'If political parties insist on invading pop culture, they won't re-engage anybody'
Monday, 2 November 2009
Tim Walker: ‘If we elect the Tories, it won’t be because we’re impressed by Eric Pickles on Spotify’
How TV drama became university challenged
Friday, 30 October 2009
When TV drama focuses on higher education, the results are excellent. Why, then, has it so often ignored academia? Gerard Gilbert reports
Small world: How television ate itself
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Entourage, 30 Rock, Extras...TV shows about the TV industry are bigger than ever, and tonight's episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm takes the conceit a step further. So what's behind this trend for self-examination? Tim Walker switches on to 'meta-television'
Can TV be radical again?
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
As a BFI season examines the golden era of political television, Gerard Gilbert meets some of the talents who made it, and asks where the cutting edge is today
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