Arts & Culture: Television
Lead Feature
When two stars collide
The highbrow South Bank Show is as celebrity-driven as crummy reality TV
In television
A dangerous experiment
- By Rachel Cooke
- 24 April
This appalling documentary was exploitative and irresponsible
The Doctor Who Hears Voices Channel 4
Death by "dramedy"
- By Rachel Cooke
- 17 April
US series aiming for kooky charm comes across as cloying instead
Pushing Daisies
ITV1
Who's the daddy?
- By Stephen Armstrong
- 10 April
Donald Sutherland is a veteran Hollywood activist who in the 1970s made anti-Vietnam films with Jane Fonda. Those heady days pale in comparison to today's political battles.
No laughing matter
- By Rachel Cooke
- 10 April
Great acting aside, this series on the lives of comedians has been a let-down
Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me
BBC4
It's good to be back
- By Rachel Cooke
- 03 April
The former hostage makes a moving return to the scene of his kidnap
Brian Keenan: Back to Beirut
BBC2
All shapes and sizes
- By Annalisa Barbieri
- 03 April
High-street designers could learn a lot from the world of film.
Feature
A sobering experience
Is this the beginning of the end for tabloid-style TV news? Let's hope so
Ten O'Clock NewsBBC1
News at Ten ITV1
More in television
Too cute for comfort
- By Rachel Cooke
- 27 March 2008
Characters you can care about
- By Rachel Cooke
- 19 March 2008
A national embarrassment
- By Rachel Cooke
- 13 March 2008
Glenn Hoddle's mullet
- By Ashley Pharoah
- 06 March 2008
Hideously middle-class
- By Lynsey Hanley
- 06 March 2008
An old story behind every door
- By Rachel Cooke
- 28 February 2008
Cities of dreams
- By Jonathan Meades
- 28 February 2008
