Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke trained as a reporter on The Sunday Times. She is now a writer at The Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year.

Articles by Rachel Cooke

Results 11 to 20 of 224

Dead on revival

  • 23 April 2009

Dated and unfunny, this is one remake of a classic Seventies sitcom too far

Thank you for sending me an angel

  • 16 April 2009

Skellig: Sky 1
The Department Store: BBC2

Gone, but not forgotten

  • 09 April 2009

Northern Ireland is the backdrop for a provocative look at the politics of grief

Preaching from the choir

  • 02 April 2009

Surely the BBC doesn’t think that viewers will put up with this rubbish?

The gimmicky chef achieves a new level of attention-grabbing silliness

  • 26 March 2009

Heston’s Roman Feast
Channel 4

Turn on, tune in, drop off

  • 19 March 2009
  • 1 comment

Round-the-clock reporting has not made Britain any better-informed
BBC News 24
Sky News

Too much of a good thing

  • 12 March 2009

A Gavin and Stacey spin-off is long on fat jokes but short on belly laughs
Horne and Corden
BBC3

Darkness doesn’t always mean authenticity

  • 05 March 2009
  • 3 comments

David Peace’s Yorkshire thrillers make fantastic TV but dubious history
Red Riding
Channel 4

The shadows of shadows

  • 26 February 2009

Lindsay Duncan is the latest actor to portray Margaret Thatcher in drama, but the lady herself remains elusive, a mystery to us, as she was to herself

Determined not to be impressed

  • 19 February 2009

Away from politics, Paxman's bulldog interviewing style hits a wrong note

The Victorians
BBC1

Cricket's revolution

The Ashes and globalisation

The empire strikes back

Ziauddin Sardar

Move over viagra

Put a little spice in your box

Religion

Does God hate women?

Does God Hate Women?

Art

Medals of dishonour

Pin the blame on them

James Macintyre

Cameron the bully?

A fresh approach?

Canada

The new dope lords

Traffic out of control

Travel

Brussels and surrealism

Nothing is as it seems

Television

Revelations

Revelations: How to Find God

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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