Benson is a well-regarded but otherwise unremarkable American sitcom. It focuses on the antics of the titular character in his role as the state’s governor’s…

With a title like Pat a Mat, of course there must be a chess scene in this series! Yet that’s apparently a bit of a…

Kids these days may not know it, but almost twenty years ago the fledgling internet was abuzz with a memes, pictures, and quotes from a…

Danger 5 is the most surreal television series I’ve spotlighted since Monty Python’s Flying Circus. It is set in a very unserious alternative universe during…

Simenon is, by an enormous margin, the best-sold Belgian author — and he is very well sold indeed. According to Wikipedia, he has sold between…

When I previously wrote about a Tatort episode, I quietly passed over the fact that that was episode one thousand three hundred and two of…

Coupling is mostly known from quantum theory, where it means that a change in states of one of the coupled systems will instantaneously produce in…

Tintin is perhaps Belgium’s most successful export product,1 so it’s not surprising that I feature him on my blog when he plays chess. And yet,…

Wolf Hall is a romanticised biography of Thomas Cromwell. As such, it is necessarily set at the English court in renaissance times. And that, in…