Reviews

Last Night's TV - Blitz Street, Channel 4; World War II Lost Films, History

Master blaster misses the target

Inside Reviews

The Weekend's Television: The Prisoner, Sat, ITV1
Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids, Sun, BBC2

Monday, 19 April 2010

No escaping the cruel truth

Matt Gatward: Flintoff and Redknapp in relegation zone of their own

Monday, 19 April 2010

View From The Sofa: A League Of Their Own/Snooker, Sky One/BBC Red Button

The Reunion, Radio 4
Black and White Towns, Radio 4

Sunday, 18 April 2010

Whoever is at the top, Radio 4 continues to do its thing ... and it does it so well

Welcome to Lagos, BBC2
The Prisoner, ITV

Sunday, 18 April 2010

An uplifting gem of a documentary from the refuse tips of Lagos contrasts with a lacklustre US remake of a British classic

Britain's got plenty of exhibitionists, but has it got talent?

Sunday, 18 April 2010

Popular show returns with some scary people. But that's enough of Simon Cowell. What about the acts?

DVD: The Thick of It: Series 3, For retail (2 Entertain)

Sunday, 18 April 2010

Not since Yes, Prime Minister has there been a political TV series as entertaining as this delicious satire.

Last Night's TV: Welcome to Lagos, BBC2, Outnumbered, BBC1

Friday, 16 April 2010

Rich pickings in the waste land

Last Night's Television: Jamie Does...Marrakech, Channel 4
Human Target, SYFY
Desperate Housewives, Channel 4

Thursday, 15 April 2010

There was just enough time in the opening minutes of Jamie Does... Marrakech – a lurid, cacophonous whirl of chained monkeys, hawkers, Sufi dancing and charmed snakes – to recall the last time that primetime television sent a wide boy to the Moroccan city. That was two years ago when, how could we forget, Sir Alan dispatched his hapless apprentices to the heart of the souk to test their bartering skills and buy a kosher chicken, whereupon self-proclaimed "good Jewish boy" Michael collared a butcher, made the sign of the cross a few times and asked him to say "Allah!" over the doomed fowl.