Jack Bauer’s real-time heroics were intense, addictive and occasionally absurd, but like nothing we had ever seen before He gets shot, tortured, addicted to heroin, imprisoned and even, on one memorable occasion, pronounced dead, all the time singlehandedly fending off the threat of a terrorist atrocity on US soil....
This week the teams head to Scotland to create gourmet mobile food outlets. But who will appeal to Lord Sugar’s palate? Good evening, and welcome to The Apprentice Week 6 Liveblog! Tonight our teams are selling gourmet street food in Edinburgh. This requires some level of understanding of “gourmet”,...
Ratings hit The Great British Bake Off returns and the Hairy Bikers demonstrate how to eat well The appetite for television food shows is as voracious as ever, with BBC2 unveiling a summer of programmes that will include a new series for Nigella Lawson and the return of ratings...
Hidden Talent reveals the pure joy of watching people be good at things I think Hidden Talent (Channel 4) may turn out to be a rare – possibly unique – instance in which a programme started out as a high concept in a meeting room, and then ended up...
Don’s dirty weekend plan is doomed, but Roger manages a trip of his own, through space and time … SPOILER ALERT: This blog is for those who are watching season five of Mad Men on Sky Atlantic. Don’t read on if you haven’t seen episode six Paul MacInnes’ episode...
It’s Colin’s quail in the woods against Charlie’s wild rabbit in the Olympic chefs’ race ‘Is this a gold medal dish?” asked judge Nigel Haworth on Olympic-themed Great British Menu (BBC2). No, it’s a go home in tears of shame after being disqualified in the heats dish. It’s a...
The full brutality of war is rammed home – but is it a weapon, vengeance or just a game? Spoiler alert: Don’t read on unless you have watched the fourth episode of Game of Thrones season two. For the purposes of this blog we are also going to (hopefully)...
BBC4′s latest instalment of Scandi noir is a Swedish-Danish co-production, which the channel hopes will feed British desire for Nordic thrillers When it comes to imported dramas on BBC4, viewers have grown used to scanning the translation at the bottom of the screen. But for the channel’s latest Scandinavian...
BBC2′s joyous Olympic mockumentary starring Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes has proved a Friday night comedy treat In the face of this summer’s big two landmark events, I had remained steadfastly unexcited. But that was before Siobhan Sharpe uttered the magic word Jubilympics: Jubilympic village, Jubilympic flame, Jubilympic 100...
The age-old Kirk v Picard battle will be dusted off when the two Starfleet officers are joined by captains Sisko, Janeway and Archer for a live event in October. Who is your favourite? This October, all five Star Trek captains will travel to London to be united on stage...
