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Freedom—50 Years Of Pride

While we do not know yet who will win the May election, it is already clear that among the biggest losers will surely be the BBC. Whatever government we have, it is certain that the BBC will be mangled and probably dismembered. When a disease-carrying rat like Jeremy Clarkson abandons the Good Ship BBC (and...

The FallSeries 2 begins 14 November, BBC 2Gillian Anderson returns as dour Met detective Stella Gibson, transplanted to Belfast to investigate a series of stranglings. We pick up where series one left off, with serial killer Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) having slipped out of her grasp. The Fall is part of the current trend of...

The format of the TV police procedural has always been a good vehicle for writers to express criticism of society. Its basic principle is that agents of the state, usually cynical and damaged detectives, are the only ones capable of getting at “the truth”, but only if they challenge the system, and its many interests,...

In this, his 50th anniversary year, Doctor Who has become a contested figure. The right think he’s one of them. The Daily Mail, for example, sees him as an embodiment of “traditional values”. “What finer example of a man – brave, reflective, with a keen sense of heroic duty – is there than Doctor Who?”...

The US cable channel HBO has acquired a reputation for developing television shows that are both intelligent and compulsive viewing. The best of these programmes, such as The Wire and The Sopranos, were able to shine a light on contemporary society in innovative ways.

What's going on? It seems like every time I switch on my TV, so-called comedians and panel show celebrities are telling racist and other offensive jokes.

At the stroke of midnight on 16 January 1920 the US went dry. For the next 13 years Prohibition made it illegal to buy or sell alcohol.

From teenage romances to adult drama, vampires are currently popular in film, television and books. Recent news that a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer film is in the pipeline should have overjoyed fans, but it was revealed that the show's creator, Joss Whedon, would not be involved.

Channel 4's new series, Cast Offs, proved to be a breath of fresh air in the world of media and disability.

There was a time when the BBC produced some of the finest drama series. Not so now. US channels such as HBO have been leaving them standing.

The military theory of "rapid dominance" or, as it is more commonly known, "shock and awe", was deployed by the US military during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The theory is as simple as it is brutal.

You won't be surprised to know that I don't have much in common with Jamie Oliver.

The camera pans across a row of dilapidated and boarded up vacant properties. Stencilled across the doors is the message, "If animal trapped call 410 396 6286." Yet there are no trapped animals, just abandoned children living on their wits.