The year that made Jane Austen sexy again
Thirty years ago, a flood of new adaptations gave the novelist a second bloom
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Christmas telly has lost its magic
No one asked for The Great Peep Show Christmas Bake Off but I must begrudgingly admit it might be the…
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The discomforting nostalgia of the American sitcom
New releases are tapping in to the cosy sentimentality of cult classics – and social conservatism
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The Abandons needs a better idea than “girlboss Western”
In an already stuffed TV Western market, this Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey version doesn’t offer much that’s new
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The triumph of The Death of Bunny Munro
The bruising TV adaptation of Nick Cave’s 2009 novel is more palatable than the book – but still not for…
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Pluribus’s very polite zombies
Vince Gilligan’s new series asks whether the price of peace is worth the subordination of the individual
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Re-reading the utterly original Rachel Cooke
The writer, who was the New Statesman’s TV reviewer for nearly two decades, has died aged 56
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The insidious cruelty of justice porn
A new documentary explores the moral complexity of To Catch a Predator, a 2000s show based on hunting paedophiles
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