The Scandinavian drama’s quirky characters and fast-paced plot have kept viewers riveted. Share your theories about the killer ahead of this weekend’s final episodes Spoiler warning: this blog presumes you have seen episodes seven and eight of The Bridge. Don’t read on if you haven’t – and don’t post...
After losing about 4m viewers and the spinning chairs stage, can the talent show tweak things to win viewers back? Remember when people liked The Voice? It wasn’t that long ago. Back then we were all dazzled by how committed it was to fairness, vocal ability and fighting back...
Nudity on screen can often seem unnecessary or gratuitous – but Sky Atlantic’s new drama suggests this isn’t always the case A drama producer who has worked in both television and radio once told me that the great benefit of working on the wireless was that there was never...
It was a short, one-season flight for this space combat drama but its influence can be seen in Battlestar Galactica and many other sci-fi series TV history is littered with one-season wonders: perfectly decent shows that, for a variety of reasons, never made it to series two. Sci-fi TV...
Join me from 9pm as the candidates try to put the fizz into English sparkling wine Good evening, and welcome to The Apprentice Week 9 Liveblog! Tonight our teams are re-inventing the English sparkling wine industry, which apparently rivals champagne in quality, but not in market dominance. So basically...
It’s arguably sensible to put all children’s output in one place but will this bring an end to family viewing? Children’s programmes are to be entirely expunged from the BBC1 and BBC2 schedules as soon as digital switchover is complete – to roars of knee-jerk disapproval from many. In...
Would you be sad if the show described as not being ‘on its best form’ by Channel 4′s chief creative officer Jay Hunt was pulled? Now is not a good time to be a real-life teenager who enjoys watching fictional teenagers on Channel 4. E4′s Skins will clatter to...
We only get snapshots of lives in 56 Up – but it’s more real than most reality TV So we’re reached 56 Up (ITV1) in Michael Apted’s extraordinary, bold series of films that follows its characters throughout their lives and spans an entire generation. They’re middle-aged now. Sue is...
You can keep your Cumberbatch and Rathbone. Of the 75-odd actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on screen, Jeremy Brett is the man You can keep Basil Rathbone, fond as I am of him. You can keep Robert Downey, Jr, Benedict Cumberbatch and Peter Cushing. You can even keep...
After seven years, it’s time for Coast to pack up – I’m starting to recognise the gannets Now that the painting of the Forth bridge has been finished, thanks to a triple layer of special glass flake epoxy developed for the offshore oil industry, we need a new metaphor...
