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Three cheers for the X factor

  • Rachel Cooke
  • 24 July 2008

What makes a man gay? The question, mercifully, is too complex to answer
The Making of Me
BBC1

Lost in translation

  • Rachel Cooke
  • 17 July 2008
  • 2 comments

Eighty minutes doesn't do justice to one of the world's seminal texts
The Quran
Channel 4

The call of the weird

  • Rachel Cooke
  • 10 July 2008
  • 1 comment

Knights Templar, comedy accents and giant snails? It must be silly season
Bonekickers BBC1
Lab Rats BBC2

All the wrong lines

  • Rachel Cooke
  • 03 July 2008
  • 2 comments

Fine performances are wasted on a script that tries too hard to be "relevant"
Criminal Justice BBC1

I just can't get you out of my head

  • Rachel Cooke
  • 26 June 2008
  • 7 comments

For some reason, I keep imagining Jeremy Clarkson in his underpants
Top Gear
BBC2

Before the age of reality TV

  • Rachel Cooke
  • 19 June 2008

A look back to 1988 suggests that we've lost the art of making documentaries
Afghantsi
More4

The making of Margaret

  • Rachel Cooke
  • 12 June 2008

Did sexism help to shape Thatcher's icy persona? This drama suggests it did
Margaret Thatcher: the Long Walk to Finchley
BBC4

Who comes up with this stuff?

  • Rachel Cooke
  • 05 June 2008
  • 7 comments

The BBC fulfils its public service remit with some truly awful programmes
This Week, Florence Nightingale
BBC1
The Culture Show, Women in BlackBBC2

The original trout pout

  • Rachel Cooke
  • 29 May 2008

We shrug off Mary Whitehouse as a relic of the past at our own peril

Filth: the Mary Whitehouse Story
BBC2

An epidemic of self-pity

  • Rachel Cooke
  • 22 May 2008

Reality shows like this one encourage people to wallow in their own misery
The Duchess in Hull
ITV1

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