CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: An ITV sitcom to make even Victor Meldrew laugh? I don’t believe it! By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:52 GMT, 19 March 2020 | Updated: 01:53 GMT, 19 March 2020 Kate & Koji Rating: Feel Good Rating: Beyond any argument, what ITV does well is costume … Read more
Some people leap out of bed in the morning, raring to go. Others need an alarm clock — preferably two — to get them off to work on time. My wife will quite happily stay up working until the small hours, while I prefer to head for bed soon after 10pm. I’m itching to leave … Read more
As someone who has been plagued by insomnia for the past 15 years, averaging just five to six hours of broken sleep and spending most nights between 3am and 5am wide awake, I was intrigued to hear about the UK’s first ‘sleep hotel’. This promised land, Zedwell, opened last month at a site just off … Read more
Miriam’s Big Fat Adventure Rating: This Country Rating: Perhaps it’s her unique ability to liven up any chat show that sparked the idea in a TV executive’s mind that Miriam Margolyes would be the perfect choice to front documentaries. It turned out not to be a bad punt. In her latest, Miriam’s Big Fat Adventure … Read more
Insomnia has been an unwelcome part of my life for a decade. An unbroken night’s sleep is a luxury I rarely enjoy. As a musician, my sleep patterns are regularly disrupted by my working schedule. At weekends, that can mean working odd hours – sometimes starting at 11pm, and finishing at 6am. Then I have … Read more
Last Easter in Venice’s Guggenheim Museum, my daughter Deia, then aged 13, announced she’d had enough culture for one morning, was fed up with my ‘selfishness’ and wasn’t prepared to do what I wanted a minute longer. ‘I want to go shopping,’ she insisted mutinously. So we trudged to a grimy area near the station … Read more
Beauty Laid Bare Rating: Back In Time For The Corner Shop Rating: My taxi driver in Bristol last week gave me a sideways look, as if I were mad, when I asked which TV programmes he enjoyed. He didn’t own a television, he said. He had never owned a television, and he didn’t know anyone … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Those royal doubles are back and they’re bitingly bananas By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:34 GMT, 26 February 2020 | Updated: 01:45 GMT, 26 February 2020 The Windsors Rating: Back In Time For The Corner Shop Rating: As she gives the footmen a night off and … Read more