How Dr Michael Mosley is going to get the nation a better night’s sleep
Let’s get the obvious joke out of the way: insomnia can be terrible but an hour of Michael Mosley doing his softly-spoken shtick works wonders. Joking aside,…
The BBC’s working-class quota demeans us all: real change takes time
Now, I have no axe to grind when it comes to inclusion and diversification, and I have, on occasion, among friends, been known to partake of mild…
BBC radio will be a much less welcoming place without Kermode and Mayo
Such was my initial upset at the announcement that Kermode & Mayo’s Film Review was coming to an end, I actually pretended it wasn’t happening. Given that…
What’s on TV tonight: National Treasure, National Disgrace: Savile, Harris & Hall, and more
Slow HorsesApple TV+Based on Mick Herron’s bestselling spy yarns, this six-part adaptation from The Thick of It actor Will Smith has attracted quite the cast. Gary Oldman…
What’s on TV tonight: Moon Knight, Anyone Can Sing and more
Wednesday 30 March Moon KnightDisney+From the mysterious opening, as a hooded figure walks on broken glass to the soundtrack of Bob Dylan’s Every Grain of Sand, it…
BBC wants quarter of staff to be from working class backgrounds by 2027
The BBC will ensure that a quarter of its staff are from working class backgrounds by 2027 in an effort to get “closer to the audience”, according…
Achingly liberal, eagerly inclusive: the BBC can stress its merits, but it can’t rewrite its history
Almost as interesting as her story is the way in which it has been laid out. Monday’s opening episode began with an impassioned, rather racy extract from…
Bafta TV nominations 2022: why on earth would you choose Vigil over The North Water?
Tahar Rahim for Leading Actor Bafta, it seems, doesn’t like baddies and it doesn’t do grey areas. Rahim was horrific and compelling as serial killer Charles Sobhraj in…
Holby City, final episode, review: the most poignant love letter to the NHS since London 2012
“I knew on day one I’d found my place in the world,” came her disembodied narration. “Somewhere I belonged. This is what the NHS means to us….
Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story, review: a wild ride through Britain’s tortured sexual psyche
Whitehouse was made to appear – perhaps not unfairly – the out-of-touch, comically repressed, bigoted caricature we think of today, tat-tattering on her typewriter with pursed lips,…
‘Holby City was special – it’s an unnecessary victim of the new BBC dogma’
His co-creator McHale points out that Holby’s shoestring budget meant no location scenes, which, counterintuitively worked very much in its favour. “Casualty is a series of guest…
What’s on TV tonight: Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story, Concert for Ukraine and more
Moon KnightDisney+From the mysterious opening, as a hooded figure walks on broken glass to the soundtrack of Bob Dylan’s Every Grain of Sand, it is clear this…
What’s on TV tonight: Winning Time: the Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, and more
Moon KnightDisney+From the mysterious opening, as a hooded figure walks on broken glass to the soundtrack of Bob Dylan’s Every Grain of Sand, it is clear this…
BBC News changes ‘assigned female at birth’ to ‘women’ after backlash
She said the BBC piece was a “classic example of data being obscured by de-sexed language”. “One in 10 people is not the same as one in…
Laura Kuenssberg to take over Andrew Marr’s Sunday morning BBC politics show
Jonathan Munro, the interim director of BBC News, said: “Laura’s the perfect host for our flagship weekend politics show – she’s an engaging presenter and a razor-sharp…
Moment in Time: Mary Raine becomes first woman to cover football for BBC’s Sports Report in 1969
Mary Raine insists she never was a trailblazer. The first woman to be heard on BBC’s Saturday tea-time institution Sports Report modestly and cheerfully maintains that those…
Peaky Blinders has finally achieved the impossible – it’s become boring
Peaky Blinders has, by contrast, shuddered more or less to a standstill. This week’s instalment started explosively enough, as Tommy tossed into a Birmingham canal the ticking…
What’s on TV tonight: Falklands War: The Untold Story, Peaky Blinders and more
Sunday 27 March Falklands War: The Untold StoryChannel 4, 9pmA remarkably punchy, sentiment-free, 40-years-on assessment of the war on the ground in the Falkland Islands by…
What’s on TV tonight: Chernobyl: The New Evidence, Celebrity Mastermind and more
Saturday 26 March Chernobyl: The New EvidenceChannel 4, 7.30pmEurope is on high alert over the occupation of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant by invading Russian forces. As…
What’s on TV tonight: Bridgerton, Pachinko, and more
Chernobyl: The New EvidenceChannel 4, 7.30pmEurope is on high alert over the occupation of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant by invading Russian forces. As a result, the timing…
What’s on TV tonight: Bridgerton, Pachinko, and more
Chernobyl: The New EvidenceChannel 4, 7.30pmEurope is on high alert over the occupation of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant by invading Russian forces. As a result, the timing…
The Apprentice: the Final, review: dessert parlours or dog pyjamas? Lord Sugar didn’t seem to want either
Do dogs wear pyjamas? The Apprentice (BBC One) is a programme that sticks so closely to a formula, and contains so few surprises, that only occasionally do…
What’s on TV tonight: Hospital, Cornwall: A Year by the Sea, and more
Chernobyl: The New EvidenceChannel 4, 7.30pmEurope is on high alert over the occupation of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant by invading Russian forces. As a result, the timing…
Eddie Mair retires: ‘My only regret is not joining LBC sooner’
Broadcaster Eddie Mair has announced he will retire later this year, it has been announced. Mr Mair, 56, has hosted the weekday Drivetime programme on LBC –…
They’ve changed the MasterChef recipe – and somehow made it even more bland
They’ve changed the rules on MasterChef (BBC One), which is back for what feels like its 3,000th series. John Torode and Gregg Wallace no longer hang around…