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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Television
Modern life is rubbish
- 07 August 2006
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Two satires on Blair's Britain take savage swipes at celebrity culture
Time Trumpet BBC2
Modern Toss Channel 4
Television
When too much is never enough
- 31 July 2006
A punchy drama of shopaholism proves as addictive as any reality-TV series
Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart BBC2
Television
Don't panic: it's only a leaky reactor
- 17 July 2006
The scaremongers are wrong - a little radiation may even be good for you
Horizon: nuclear nightmares BBC2
Television
Officers and gentlemen
- 10 July 2006
At the Battle of the Somme, heroism was not confined to ordinary soldiers
The Somme - From Defeat to Victory BBC1
Television
What? No more big African adventures?
- 03 July 2006
A stupid scheme by greedy public-school boys makes oddly delightful viewing
Coup!
BBC2
Television
As American as apple pie
- 26 June 2006
A subtle satire on polygamy reveals the secret oddness of every family
Big Love
Channel 5
Television
There's no business like show business
- 19 June 2006
A Pop Idol for playwrights is short on ideas, long on naked ambition, writes Andrew Billen
The Play's the Thing
Channel 4
Television
For youth, for Christ and for liberty
- 12 June 2006
America's bonkers Christian soldiers save a borderline-dull documentary, writes Andrew Billen
God's Next Army
Monday 5 June, 9pm, Channel 4
Television
Detective chic
- 05 June 2006
Television - A French thriller brings style to a US series' gritty substance
Spiral (BBC4)
Television
Spaced out
- 29 May 2006
Television - Captain Kirk parodies himself in a tribute to a seminal series, writes Andrew Billen
How William Shatner Changed the World (Channel 5)
