TV Review: Martin’s Close.
“A Ghost Story for Christmas” is not merely a minor subgenre of the BBC’s drama output. It is in fact …
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Brexit: We Should Only “Negotiate” With Elected Politicians.
“We do not negotiate taking back control,” the MP John Redwood sniffed yesterday in an article for Comment Central, “that …
Series Review: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
[The following contains spoilers.] Tychy is staunchly pessimistic about BBC television drama and particularly its adaptations of literary classics. It …
Series Review: Wolf Hall.
It’s a lesson which Hilary Mantel should have surely learned along the way. One minute you are at a point …
TV Review: The Thirteenth Tale.
[The following contains spoilers.] Days after pronouncing that the BBC have “lost the knack” of making ghost stories, Tychy is …
TV Review: The Tractate Middoth.
Why can’t the poor old BBC make ghost stories anymore? In 1968, Jonathan Miller directed an eerie, nerve-wracking adaptation of …
“Now over to you at Holyrood”: The White Paper on BBC News 24.
BBC News 24 presenter: And now over to Jane Hill at Holyrood for the latest on the launch of today’s …
Scottish Independence: The Disaster Continues.
Tychy has taken a holiday from Scottish Independence over the last month, sojourning in the genuinely “better nation” of the …
Radio Review: Analysis, Labour’s New New Jerusalem.
It may seem a suspicious coincidence that politicians in the middle of a recession have suddenly discovered that welfare is …
The Lord McAlpine Conundrum in a Nutshell.
Our medieval hangover continues and Britain’s leading scandal of the day naturally features two lords. The first is Lord Alistair …
The Only True Ghost: Scepticism and the Enfield Poltergeist.
The word “poltergeist” is taken from the German for “noisy spirit,” and it is characteristically impossible to ignore these troublesome …
A Beast for our Time.
[The following contains spoilers.] Mark Gatiss‘ “The Hounds of Baskerville” was first broadcast on BBC1 on Sunday. Perhaps the smartest …
A Moment More with “Great Expectations.”
A couple of nights ago, Tychy reviewed the BBC’s new adaptation of Dickens’ Great Expectations, rather sinning against the light …
TV Review: Great Expectations (Episode One).
Another Christmas, another pointless and inexorably undistinguished BBC adaptation of a literary “classic.” This time, it’s back to Miss Havisham’s …
TV Review: David Miller’s “The Great Tram Disaster.”
Tychy has just returned from a holiday in the Baltic republics prejudiced anew against Edinburgh’s forthcoming tramlines. Latvia has convinced …
