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Family Strife: The Trouble With The Kennedys
There's something undeniably familiar about the opening titles montage of The Kennedys. The s...
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Freddie Steady Go: Rhys Thomas's Queen TV Special Previewed
When the makers of Channel 4's spoof celeb comedy Star Stories trained their mocking cameras ...
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Nurse Jackie: Pills, Thrills And Belly Laughs
As a succinct quality-by-association marketing tool, it's an increasingly common practice for...
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A Darker Direction For Doctor Who: New Series Preview
This time last year, Doctor Who as a series, Steven Moffat as a show runner and Matt Smith as a...
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Satirical Concerns: Looking Back At Channel 4's 10 O'Clock Live
David Mitchell is sarcastic, Jimmy Carr makes puns, Charlie Brooker doesn’t much like the media...
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Extreme Style & Steel: Patrick Macnee Of The Avengers Interviewed
2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the universally beloved and quintessentially British swingin...
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When The Levee Breaks: Treme Reviewed
For a long time, The Wire was the greatest television drama hardly anyone had seen. Tucked away...
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Reggae Britannia Reviewed: The Rise Of The Rebel Stance
Reggae had a rough ride from the British media in the 1960s. As lifelong fan Jerry Dammers sugg...
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Boardwalk Empire: Buscemi, Bootleggers And Brilliance
Following a handful of independent prototypes, the first version of what we recognise today as ...
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Justified: A Small Screen Redneck Noir Classic
In his 1968 film Coogan's Bluff, Clint Eastwood plays a rural Arizona sheriff at odds with the ...
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