ITV’s The Long Shadow trivialises the crimes of Peter Sutcliffe
For all its professed sensitivity, this drama turns the most terrible crimes committed against women into mere entertainment. I’m sad…
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Russell Brand: In Plain Sight made me sick with horror
This Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, which accused the comedian of rape, sexual assault and abuse, was nauseating and terrifying to…
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Laura Kuenssberg’s State of Chaos: a parade of strange and idiotic people
Watching this series about British politicians , you wonder how they made it to the cabinet – or out of…
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Please, Davina McCall: leave middle-aged people alone!
Her new dating show My Mum Your Dad left me in a state of almost pure trauma. Will this be…
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The delightful farce of The Lovers
Johnny Flynn is a joy to watch in this newsroom comedy from Sky Atlantic.
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Celebrities are now “honest” about diet, exercise and beauty. I wish they weren’t
Kim Kardashian says she’d “eat poop every single day” to look young. Jennifer Aniston admits to salmon sperm facials. At…
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Lucy Letby true crime content should worry us all
Countless TikToks, podcasts and even a documentary made by the police have emerged since Letby’s trial. When will we stop…
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The Woman in the Wall turns the Magdalene laundries into offensive melodrama
Ireland’s unfathomably cruel “mother and baby homes” are here just as set-dressing for a shlocky horror – as if the…
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Jake Paul’s cynical self-promotion
A Netflix documentary promises to show us the man beyond the boxing ring and the pranks. But it’s just another…
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Interviewing the interviewer: when I met Michael Parkinson
I was the last journalist to profile Parky. Here’s what he taught me about the craft.
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The Price of Truth: meet the journalists taking on Putin
Watching this documentary while drinking tea at my desk, I feel admiration and something close to shame.
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Michael Parkinson – The last interview
The veteran talk-show host on broadcasting’s halcyon days, car-crash interviews and today’s “charlatans in high office”.
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Henpocalypse! How did this painful dildo-wielding comedy make it to air?
I can’t remember the last time I endured a show as relentlessly laboured as this steaming dollop of faux-feminist puerility.…
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We must resist the hype machine
Our critical culture is grossly overinflated with positive and promotional content. But popular is not always best.
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Terry Pratchett would love the queer politics of Good Omens 2
David Tennant’s devil and Michael Sheen’s angel are one of television’s great odd couple romances.
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Hunger in Britain is mainstream now
Gregg Wallace’s savage satire about the cost-saving benefits of human flesh consumption exposes a day-to-day reality.
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The Power of Parker captures the particular quirks of Nineties northern England
Sian Gibson and Paul Coleman’s new series is comic perfection – but perhaps not everyone will find it funny.
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Why the “golden age of the documentary” is a myth
More are being released than ever before – but the documentary has entered its corporate era.
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The friendlier, softer University Challenge
As host, Amol Rajan takes a very different approach to Jeremy Paxman – he is more encouraging, even enthusiastic.
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The Sixth Commandment is a delicate dissection of human frailty
This unusually sensitive true crime drama features masterful performances from Timothy Spall, Anne Reid and Éanna Hardwicke.
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