Bring Back Grange Hill

Grange Hill – complete with that iconic image of a cartoon sausage on a fork flying across the screen as the classic theme chugs along – is fondly remembered by those of a certain age, and the mid-’80s period is seen by many as the golden era. Read more

Doctor Who

“I was hoping for a philosophical debate. Is that all I’m going to get?” Read more

Doctor Who

It always took a half dozen or so episodes for a new Doctor Who to comfortably pigeonhole themselves by way of a signature quirk: “the grumpy one”, “the young one” and so on. Read more

Porn Shutdown

The porn – sorry – adult entertainment industry is now a multimillion-dollar business and has undergone an image overhaul in the last few years as it aims for mainstream appeal. Read more

Doctor Who

It is often the case that the first part of a two-episode story is the one which is the most exciting. Read more

Doctor Who

Four episodes in, and the ninth Doctor has shown us the present, the future and, last week, the past. In this instalment, we return to present day Earth, and the Doctor’s companion Rose is taken home. Read more

The Apprentice

In the same way the General Election campaign is unearthing the sort of unfailingly well-scrubbed young faces who’ll dominate our political scene for the near future, so our next generation of business leaders are also currently parading their similarly spotless credentials for public view. Read more

Doctor Who

There are moments during each episode of the new series of Doctor Who when you know the programme makers are having the time of their lives. Read more

The Quatermass Experiment

There’s still nothing – absolutely nothing – which comes close to matching the mix of elation and wonder that surfaces in the wake of a genuine TV event. Read more

Doctor Who

Doctor Who and popular culture have never made for good bedfellows. During the series original run, its flirtations with youth-speak (“Gordon Bennet!”) and chart music (John Smith and the Common Men, indeed) were shamefully embarrassing. Read more

Hustle

If you’re looking for a drama full of convincing dialogue, believable plotlines and gritty realism, then Hustle is not the first show you would turn to. Read more

Doctor Who

“Nestene consciousness? Easy!” And so it proved, as Doctor Who finally made it back in a frenzy of publicity, courting an outrageous level of anticipation is it came. Read more

The Two Ronnies Sketchbook

It’s the same faces, the same theme tune, the same punchline over and over again – and it’s all to the good. Read more

Comic Relief Night

“Those nice people at McCain have taken the humble potato and turned it into a fundraising phenomenon!” Read more

The Late Edition

Unashamedly lifting the majority of its format from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, BBC4′s The Late Edition is the Corporation’s latest attempt to recapture the elusive topical satire that it thinks it remembers doing so well in the past. Read more

The Culture Show

It was a little over a year ago that OTT was busy lamenting the absence of a decent choice of programmes on TV at 7pm. Read more

Help

For a long time Paul Whitehouse has been considered to be – in his various guises – as merely Harry Enfield’s sidekick or “that bloke off The Fast Show“. Read more

EastEnders

Resurrected on a whim, then killed off by expediency. What a way to go. Read more

Joey

Much like its main character, Joey is already lost during the opening moments of the first episode simply because its a spin-off from the biggest live-action sitcom on the planet. Read more

Gerry Anderson’s New Captain Scarlet

It seems as though former puppetmaster Gerry Anderson has had his new hi-tech version of Captain Scarlet in development ever since the original series finished its original run. Read more

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