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
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Television
Family fortunes
- 18 September 2008
Can the revival of this fly-on-the-wall classic succeed in the 21st century?
The Family
Channel 4
Television
The same old story
- 11 September 2008
This tale of a twin towers fraudster is a fascinating one, but it's been told before
Cutting Edge: the 9/11 Faker Channel 4
Television
The plot thickens
- 04 September 2008
- 2 comments
This dumbed-down take on a literary classic patronises its female audience
Lost in Austen
ITV1
Television
Dramedy by numbers
- 28 August 2008
A clichéd comedy about grown-ups and suicide is no laughing matter
Mutual Friends
BBC1
Television
You're not who we think you are
- 21 August 2008
- 3 comments
Chinks in Johnson's charm armoury appear in a look at his colourful ancestry
Who Do You Think You Are?
BBC1
Television
The feel of what's real
- 14 August 2008
A drum'n'bass star saves this baton camp from being a dead loss
Maestro BBC2
Television
A very public act of charity
- 07 August 2008
There's something suspect about this reality show that promotes giving
The Secret Millionaire Channel 4
Television
Outrageous fortune
- 31 July 2008
- 1 comment
Inspired drama gives a Shakespearean dimension to a tale of Iraq's first family
House of Saddam
BBC2
Television
Three cheers for the X factor
- 24 July 2008
- 4 comments
What makes a man gay? The question, mercifully, is too complex to answer
The Making of Me
BBC1
Television
Lost in translation
- 17 July 2008
- 2 comments
Eighty minutes doesn't do justice to one of the world's seminal texts
The Quran
Channel 4
