CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Our Girl’s Kabul kit… make-up as thick as a bulletproof vest! By Christopher Stevens for Daily Mail Published: 01:57 GMT, 25 March 2020 | Updated: 01:57 GMT, 25 March 2020 Our Girl (BBC One) Rating: Back in Time for the Corner Shop (BBC Two) Rating: Gone Girl returned to … Read more
Putin: A Russian Spy Story Rating: Toxic Town: The Corby Poisonings Rating: Young Vladimir Putin faces the TV cameras for an interview in 1992, as chief political fixer to the St Petersburg mayor. He’s a slight figure, even boyish, though boyish like Damien (the devil-child) from the Omen movies, not Kevin from Home Alone. The reporter … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: It takes a rare superpower to make superheroes super dull… Published: 01:45 GMT, 20 March 2020 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 20 March 2020 Mark Kermode’s Secrets Of Cinema: Superheroes (BBC4) Rating: Meet The Richardsons (Dave) Rating: There’s a great TV programme to be made about the obsession of the … Read more
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
When times get tough in this country, that’s when British courage and fortitude are at their best. We pull together. It’s our national characteristic, one we are rightly proud of. And there’s one group of older people above all who can be relied on for their ingrained sense of public service, their knowledge and experience, … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Lust, blasphemy — and Bob The Builder as an unfaithful husband! By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 02:26 GMT, 18 March 2020 | Updated: 02:26 GMT, 18 March 2020 Penance Rating: The Great Celebrity Bake Off Rating: Not so long ago, the sheer blasphemy would have been … Read more
Miss World 1970: Beauty Queens And Bedlam Rating: Age Of The Image Rating: To his great credit, Michael Aspel did not try to excuse his 14-year stint as compere of the Miss World contest with the phrase: ‘Things were different in those days.’ That pretext is becoming as hackneyed as the plea: ‘I was only … Read more
Noughts + Crosses Rating: Villages By The Sea Rating: Every generation remakes Romeo And Juliet in its own image. In the Fifties there was West Side Story, with its fabulous music and whirling petticoats, set against a backdrop of gang violence in New York. The Nineties gave us Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic, … Read more
The Trouble With Maggie Cole (ITV) Rating: Tigers: Hunting The Traffickers (BBC2) Rating: Have you heard the latest? Look, I’m not saying this is true, but I think it probably is… I believe it anyway. You know that one from the boy band, the one who always looked dodgy and apparently has a real drink … 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