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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.

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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

TV and Radio
Piety and prejudice
30 October 2006

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

Longford

TV and Radio
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 fi

TV and Radio
Tin hearts and dead precedents
16 October 2006

A hopeful "what if" docudrama about Bush's assassination is stuff and nonsense

Death of a

TV and Radio
A cracking good yarn
09 October 2006

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

Cracker

Books
An Eyre of intelligence
02 October 2006

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

Jane Eyr

The bipolar condition laid bare with intelligence
25 September 2006

A celebrity sufferer sensitively explains an illness often misunderstood

Stephen Fry: the

TV and Radio
California dreaming
18 September 2006

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

Entourage<

TV and Radio
Google, the horseman of the TV apocalypse
04 September 2006

The small screen is under threat from online viewing - and warring executives

The MediaGua

TV and Radio
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

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