Rewatching the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmeses on BBC2 (Sat) has been fun for many reasons:
Such as Brett’s fabulous-absurd performances – his Holmes-method seems to have been, rather than play it small for the cameras, to take Victorian […]

The unpoliced zones of Brit TV are on a total high currently, as regards unexpected science, its hardcore and its social aspects – Monday 12 Jan on BBC2, C4 and C5 saw a fantastic run of documentaries, end to end (and not even clashing a bit!)[…]

On the whole I watch TV as anti-stimulation – same reason as I DON’T listen to music (music generates way too much whirly stuff in my head, so unless I’m actually writing about it or researching something I avoid it). Anyway, I don&[…]

Why oh why are there no cheese-based liqueurs? You get port IN stilton, you get cheese AND wine, you get beer-flavoured cheese, so surely the reverse would be unspeakably delicious: cheese IN wine? cheese IN beer? stilton IN port?
Anyway I got a bl[…]

It’s published by Routledge, it cites Derrida, Foucault and Barthes, it’s about British Theatre – more specifically John Osborne – so all in all this is a shoo-in to be hated by me (I like D, F and B, but on the whole I hate a[…]

There are several Turkish places called Mangal in Dalston, and my friend R characterises this one as “the one where they’re not incredibly rude to the customers” – I haven’t been to the others so I don’t know if th[…]

Obv when v.small the key to survival – during sermons, lectures, recorder concerts, nativity plays and the like – is to find a way to teleport yr wee brain elsewhere: my game, which I recommend to one and all, was to gaze up into the vast[…]

DO YOU DEE? Weighed down by its own “ironic” shtick and dreary self-awareness, DEE CONSTRUCTION: THE SIMON DEE STORY (C4, Dec 29, 10pm) nevertheless contained some gruesomely fascinating moments – almost all directly involving the s[…]

Are there any board games which are actually IMPROVED or AT ALL CHANGED – as opposed to momentarily coloured – by having their own classic scenarios recast to conform to some TV programme or other? My sister was given Simpsons Cluedo for […]

The heroic era of my Pringle consumption is behind me, of course. Those were the days when it was discovered that Sour Cream and Chive pringles must contain heroin as a secret ingredient, so addictive were they – and also that eating a whole ba[…]