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David Bowden
Plonking the Amish on a London estate
Amish: World’s Squarest Teenagers provides an enlightening and upbeat insight into teenage life.
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| Monday 26 July 2010 |
Neil Davenport
Why mad inventors don’t survive the Dragons’ Den
The hit BBC show reveals the bean-counting cautiousness and lack of entrepreneurial spirit of today’s capitalists.
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| Friday 23 July 2010 |
David Bowden
Tony and Barrie: the queens of family life
C4’s film about the world’s first gay parents was both thought-provoking and tacky at the same time.
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| Friday 16 July 2010 |
David Bowden
Rev: keeping faith with intelligent comedy
A witty sit-com about a vicar who is not from Dibley is in stark contrast to most of the BBC’s bland, safety-first comedy output.
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| Friday 9 July 2010 |
David Bowden
Investigating the politics of privacy
So it’s not The Wire, but at least ITV’s new drama Identity is an intriguing exploration of the surveillance society.
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| Friday 2 July 2010 |
David Bowden
Don’t leave satire to the satirists
The old school of political comedy shares too many of the new elite’s pretensions to be able to make fun of them.
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| Wednesday 30 June 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Is the climate around global warming changing?
Monday’s Panorama was the BBC’s most balanced look yet at the real ambiguities of climate science and policy.
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| Friday 18 June 2010 |
David Bowden
A brief history of edgy entertainment
BBC4’s impressive Rude Britannia explored the tension between working-class fun and middle-class disapproval.
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| Friday 11 June 2010 |
David Bowden
A teen drama aimed at kidults
Poor Skins: it’s been trying to provoke the Establishment for years yet keeps getting lovely write-ups in the Guardian.
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| Thursday 27 May 2010 |
David Bowden
Appealing to our
inner teenage boy
US import Spartacus: Blood and Sand makes Up Pompeii! look like a work of serious classical scholarship.
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| Friday 21 May 2010 |
David Bowden
Taking refuge in a mythologised 1980s
Packed with clichés and simplistic politics, the BBC’s Eighties season revealed why liberals love that decade.
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| Tuesday 18 May 2010 |
Emily Hill
Money, money, money...it isn’t funny
The BBC’s adaptation of Martin Amis’s classic 1984 novel has none of the book’s zing, insight or fast satire.
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| Friday 14 May 2010 |
David Bowden
Junior Apprentice: taking yoof seriously
Watching young people being forced to account for themselves in the boardroom was strangely exhilarating.
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| Friday 7 May 2010 |
David Bowden
Glee: camp, fun, won’t change the world
Finally a high school show that makes a song-and-dance out of Big Issues with sarcasm and lightheartedness.
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| Friday 30 April 2010 |
David Bowden
Is there a General Election taking place?
spiked’s TV columnist goes all Baudrillardian after sitting in the audience of a weird ITV politics show.
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| Friday 23 April 2010 |
David Bowden
The TV leaders’ debate: channelling Sartre
More than The X Factor, it’s like Sartre’s No Exit in which three men locked away from the real world gang up on each other.
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| Friday 16 April 2010 |
David Bowden
How our leaders bored the Great Ignored
The first leaders’ debate was electoral porn for the media classes. The rest of us were left uninspired on the sidelines.
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| Friday 9 April 2010 |
David Bowden
Doctor, leave the moralising in the past
It isn’t only Doctor Who who has been regenerated as a younger model: so has spiked’s weekly TV columnist.
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| Wednesday 7 April 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
‘No, I am the true saviour of the world!’
The clash between Bob Geldof and Make Poverty History is an unsavoury battle of ‘Africa-saving’ egos.
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| Thursday 1 April 2010 |
Rob Lyons
It’s not only cars they want to slow down
Are the dangers of ‘out of control’ Toyota cars being exaggerated to attack ‘out of control’ economic growth?
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