Arts & Culture: Television
Lead Feature
The plot thickens
This dumbed-down take on a literary classic patronises its female audience
Lost in Austen
ITV1
In television
Romantic comedy can survive
- By Graeme Allister
- 29 August
America could be on the verge of falling in love with Gavin and Stacey
Dance, dance, wherever you may be . . .
- By Lorna Martin
- 28 August
Britons are dancing like they've never danced before
Truth imitates fiction
- By Rachael Jolley
- 27 August
The appointment of Joe Biden suggests Barack Obama is borrowing campaign tips from The West Wing
You're not who we think you are
- By Rachel Cooke
- 21 August
Chinks in Johnson's charm armoury appear in a look at his colourful ancestry
Who Do You Think You Are?
BBC1
Life in the goldfish bowl
- By Jonathan Dawson
- 20 August
For good or bad, television cameras have become an unavoidable part of life in the ecovillage
The feel of what's real
- By Rachel Cooke
- 14 August
A drum'n'bass star saves this baton camp from being a dead loss
Maestro BBC2
Feature
Dramedy by numbers
A clichéd comedy about grown-ups and suicide is no laughing matter
Mutual Friends
BBC1
More in television
A very public act of charity
- By Rachel Cooke
- 07 August 2008
Outrageous fortune
- By Rachel Cooke
- 31 July 2008
Three cheers for the X factor
- By Rachel Cooke
- 24 July 2008
Small screen, bigger picture
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 17 July 2008
Lost in translation
- By Rachel Cooke
- 17 July 2008
The call of the weird
- By Rachel Cooke
- 10 July 2008
All the wrong lines
- By Rachel Cooke
- 03 July 2008
