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Television: Why ‘talented children’ deserve the spotlight
April 28, 2016
Most of us live in horror of “talented children”. It suggests a vile eight-year-old girl with pigtails and freckles, screeching The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow as mum watches hungrily from the wings. Or, God forbid, one of those strange toddler pageants that Americans go in for – magnets for trailer trash and sexual deviants.
Television: Why are we looking for ET anyway?
April 21, 2016
The hunt for alien life is essentially atheistic. Evidence is so slim for ET that you might as well be chasing fairies at the bottom of the garden – so why do loony boffins persist? Because the discovery of an alternative civilisation hiding in the stars would prove man’s relationship with God is not unique and
Television: Travolta shines in the trial that made history
April 07, 2016
The other day, a tyke in the office said that he didn’t know who OJ Simpson was. I nearly hit the roof. It wasn’t his fault: he was too young to remember the 1995 court case that put a retired American football player on trial for the murder of his ex-wife and a friend. But
The American Catholic dilemma
March 31, 2016
Will it be President Trump, at war with the Vatican? Or President Clinton, de-Christianising America? The Catholic vote is dividing in unexpected ways
Television: The heartbreaking choices of a good dad
March 31, 2016
I really don’t know what I’d do with Joe Hughes if I were his parent. The boy at the centre of The A Word (BBC One, 9pm, Tuesdays) has autism. The writer could have pussyfooted around the issue, casting him as shy but retiring. Instead Peter Bowker has written scenes that make you want to
The American Catholic dilemma
March 31, 2016
The sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13 caused despair among many American Catholics. They had lost one of their most prominent intellects, and suddenly had to take the rise of Donald Trump a little more seriously. If he became president and there was a vacancy on the bench, who would
Television: Nostalgia is not cheap on Sunday evenings
March 24, 2016
Sunday night has become the most expensive night in TV history. On BBC One there’s The Night Manager (£20 million for the whole series), ITV boasts Doctor Thorne (£3 million) and Channel 4 is thought to be spending around £14 million on Indian Summers. The money is best spent on the latter. Set in the
Television: Time to throw House of Cards devil into jail
March 17, 2016
The US political drama House of Cards (Netflix) has been eclipsed by the real thing. None of the current candidates for president are murderers (so far as we know), but what a cast of crazies and vagabonds! Donald Trump uses a debate platform to boast about his genitalia. Hillary Clinton could end up in jail
Television: The English are scarier than North Koreans
March 10, 2016
Why are spies so popular right now? Following on the back of Homeland, Deutschland 83, The Honourable Woman and London Spy comes The Night Manager (BBC One, Sundays, 9pm), a John le Carré mini-series. Tom Hiddleston – a man with no discernible shoulders whom the ladies adore – plays a former soldier turned hotel worker
Television: UFO show that looks square but is oddly hip
March 03, 2016
Watching the new series of The X-Files (Channel 5, Mondays, 9pm) feels like I’m in an episode of The X-Files. A yeti must have knocked me out with chloroform and flown me back to the 1990s in a UFO. How can I tell? Because the music is Muzak, everyone’s wearing pastels and Fox Mulder still
Television: A murderer with no chance of redemption
February 11, 2016
On March 11, 2009, a citizen of Texas called Daniel Lopez was pulled over for driving erratically. He made a run for it and struck a police officer. The officer was killed. Lopez was found guilty of murder and faced a choice between life without parole or the death penalty. He chose the latter. So
Television: The War and Peace of crime documentaries
February 04, 2016
Making a Murderer, which is available on Netflix, is the War and Peace of true crime documentaries. It tells the convoluted story of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man falsely imprisoned for rape in 1985, exonerated in 2003 and then tried for the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach. The documentary implies Avery is innocent. The viewer
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