Over at The Dabbler I review The Shadow Line (BBC 2). Not glowingly, it must be said.

Over at The Dabbler I review Jamie's Dream School (Channel 4). And when I saw 'review', I mean I take a sledgehammer to it, smas...

Watching Question Time last night, in the usual wincing, groaning, masochistic way, a disturbingly elitist thought came to me, and try as I ...

The luxury of being in political Opposition is that you don’t have to worry too much about reality, which is a series of compromises, fudges...

Following Welsh rugby captain Gareth Thomas’s courageous self-outing there is an interesting television documentary to be made about the rea...

Talking of daughters, for God's sake don't accidentally catch the new John Lewis ad if you have a young one, or an old one, or indee...

BBC2 live cultural discussion programme The Review Show (formerly Newsnight Rev iew, formerly The Late Review ) has of course declined sign...

Following the Great Big Historic Seemingly-Endless Telly Debate last night , I’m sure the question on everybody’s lips this morning is: how ...

I’d forgotten what an enjoyable film Elizabeth is (the 1998 one with Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush etc). Structurally it’s similar to The G...

Last night on an episode of Channel 4’s hard-hitting social documentary Come Dine with Me , a young lady uttered the following profundity: ...

With the BBC deciding to kill off one of its best bits of expansionism , 6 Music (home of Pavement Panto fans Adam and Joe), we can only hop...

Not really a successful discussion programme : too short, too many guests and too broad and therefore shallow. You can watch it on iPlayer h...

The Yard is on telly tonight, which explains why he has removed himself from the country. Scoffing and Waffling with Portillo - 21.10 on B...

Didn’t watch as much Christmas telly as usual this year but I did catch The Royle Family , which the BBC managed to squeeze into one of the ...

Does anyone else feel they’re being diddled out of their rightful allocation of Time? I refer, of course, to rubbish television programmes. ...