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

Results 131 to 140 of 512

Putting the "fun" into funeral

  • 06 November 2006

The queen may be dead, but long live the Royles in a fine piece of comedy The Royle Family: the Queen of Sheba BBC1

Piety and prejudice

  • 30 October 2006

The Moors murderer meets a bumbling Christian; the result is comic horror Longford Channel 4

We shall not see her like again

  • 23 October 2006

Helen Mirren's swansong as DS Tennison is deeply satisfying to watch Prime Suspect: the final act ITV1

Tin hearts and dead precedents

  • 16 October 2006

A hopeful "what if" docudrama about Bush's assassination is stuff and nonsense Death of a President More 4

A cracking good yarn

  • 09 October 2006

The politics jars, but the character is the draw in Jimmy McGovern's drama Cracker ITV1

An Eyre of intelligence

  • 02 October 2006
  • 1 comment

The creative team rises to the challenge of Brontë's novel, with pleasing results Jane Eyre BBC1

The bipolar condition laid bare with intelligence

  • 25 September 2006

A celebrity sufferer sensitively explains an illness often misunderstood Stephen Fry: the secret life of the manic depressive BBC2

California dreaming

  • 18 September 2006

An update of an old format obeys all the rules of sitcom with a watchable style Entourage ITV2

Google, the horseman of the TV apocalypse

  • 04 September 2006

The small screen is under threat from online viewing - and warring executives The MediaGuardian International TV Festival Edinburgh

Live from the heart - and groin - of England

  • 28 August 2006

Fluffy, cynical and informative, a new magazine show has the common touch The One Show BBC1

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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