Some ten years ago, the whole internet — and presumably the remaining shreds of culture outside of it — was agog with talk about Orange…

I have taken a page out of the complete idiot’s guide to Hollywood productions: if you have the material for a strong movie that’s going…

Yet another sitcom on the blog. I’ll drink to that! Like so many sitcoms, it ran for well over a decade and had about a…

Let me start with a quick warning: this is one of the most irredeemably bullshit things we’re seen yet.1 So, Scorpion. It is a show…

If you want suspense in your murder mystery, you have essentially two options: either you make the victim widely hated, so that you have many…

Time and time again, when I encounter yet another British detective series with a chess scene, I have to write a paragraph expressing my astonishment…

A new year, a new British detective series. Well, new isn’t exactly the right word, seeing that it aired in 1969. It features, as title…

Have we had a fairytale yet? I don’t think we have. Let’s have a fairytale. Our subject comes from an American anthology series of fairytales…

I’ve never been able to get on with sitcoms. I suspect the reason is that, if you have characters in a normal environment and you…

During the relatively short history of television, an unfathomable number of detective series have been produced in every language under the sun, in all sorts…