medical
Nurse Jackie, BBC TwoSaturday, 22 January 2011![]() Medical dramas have a never-ending appeal to television viewers; but whereas British versions are more about the heartstrings than open-heart surgery, America prefers its programmes to be done with scalpel-sharp wit and incisive social commentary.... Read more... |
Tiger Country, Hampstead TheatreWednesday, 19 January 2011![]() Playwright Nina Raine has a gift for evocative play titles. Her 2006 debut was called Rabbit, and her sellout success at the Royal Court last year was Tribes. This time, we seem to be on safari with Tiger Country, but appearances can be deceptive.... Read more... |
Getting On, BBC FourTuesday, 26 October 2010![]() When Getting On, a wonderfully lo-fi and dark sitcom, debuted last year, it had a run of just three episodes, which possibly reflected the BBC’s lack of faith in audiences being able to appreciate a programme rich in subtlety in its writing, acting... Read more... |
Pulse, BBC ThreeFriday, 04 June 2010![]() Call me a grumpy old man if you like, but on an average week it can be hard to see the point of BBC Three - unless the point is for an overly expansionist state broadcaster to patronise the nation’s youth as a generation of weight- and Wag-obsessed... Read more... |
Mental: A History of the Madhouse, BBC FourTuesday, 18 May 2010![]() Most people’s experience of the 120 or so Victorian asylums that littered the UK landscape for more than a century is, thankfully, oohing and aahing over the “sophisticated and sensitive” conversions they have become, providing “astonishing, unusual... Read more... |
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