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Andrew Billen

Andrew Billen

Andrew Billen has worked as a celebrity interviewer for, successively, The Observer, the Evening Standard and, currently The Times. For his columns, he was awarded reviewer of the year in 2006 Press Gazette Magazine Awards.

Articles by Andrew Billen

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Rescue service

  • 15 August 2005

Television - An improbable plane crash resuscitates an ailing genre

Andrew Billen - Bananas republic

  • 08 August 2005

Television - A furry-hooded joker goes in for a spot of nation-building. By Andrew Billen

How to Start Your Own Country (BBC2)

Andrew Billen - Need to know

  • 01 August 2005

Television - Peter Taylor uncovers jihadists in Waziristan - and Wembley. By Andrew Billen

The New al-Qaeda (BBC2)

Andrew Billen - Price of success

  • 25 July 2005

Television - Ricky Gervais's celebrity satire is a little bit too smug, writes Andrew Billen

Extras (BBC2)

Andrew Billen - Lost for words

  • 18 July 2005

Television - Clueless celebs tie themselves up in verbal knots, writes Andrew Billen

Spelling Bee (ITV1)

Andrew Billen - All you need is love

  • 11 July 2005

Television - Ironic presentation cuts through the celebrity schmaltz. By Andrew Billen

Live 8 (BBC1, BBC2 and BBC3)

Andrew Billen - Dirty weekend

  • 04 July 2005

Television - Africa may be saved, but Richard Curtis's blushes aren't, writes Andrew Billen

The Girl in the Cafe (BBC1

Andrew Billen - Awkward squad

  • 27 June 2005

Television - People don't always improve with age, but Doctor Who does, writes Andrew Billen

Antisocial Old Buggers (Channel 4)
Doctor Who (BBC1)

Andrew Billen - Spot the difference

  • 20 June 2005

Television - The US David Brent is not enough of a loser, writes Andrew Billen

The Office: an American workplace (BBC3)

Brain strain

  • 13 June 2005

Everything Bad Is Good For You: how popular culture is making us smarter
Steven Johnson Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 256pp, £10
ISBN 0713998024

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