Rachel Cooke
Rachel Cooke trained as a reporter on The Sunday Times. She is now a writer at The Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year.
Articles by rachel cooke
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Television
Dramedy by numbers
- 28 August 2008
A clichéd comedy about grown-ups and suicide is no laughing matter
Mutual Friends
BBC1
Television
You're not who we think you are
- 21 August 2008
- 3 comments
Chinks in Johnson's charm armoury appear in a look at his colourful ancestry
Who Do You Think You Are?
BBC1
Television
The feel of what's real
- 14 August 2008
A drum'n'bass star saves this baton camp from being a dead loss
Maestro BBC2
Television
A very public act of charity
- 07 August 2008
There's something suspect about this reality show that promotes giving
The Secret Millionaire Channel 4
Television
Outrageous fortune
- 31 July 2008
- 1 comment
Inspired drama gives a Shakespearean dimension to a tale of Iraq's first family
House of Saddam
BBC2
Television
Three cheers for the X factor
- 24 July 2008
- 4 comments
What makes a man gay? The question, mercifully, is too complex to answer
The Making of Me
BBC1
Television
Lost in translation
- 17 July 2008
- 2 comments
Eighty minutes doesn't do justice to one of the world's seminal texts
The Quran
Channel 4
Television
The call of the weird
- 10 July 2008
- 1 comment
Knights Templar, comedy accents and giant snails? It must be silly season
Bonekickers BBC1
Lab Rats BBC2
Television
All the wrong lines
- 03 July 2008
- 2 comments
Fine performances are wasted on a script that tries too hard to be "relevant"
Criminal Justice BBC1
Television
I just can't get you out of my head
- 26 June 2008
- 7 comments
For some reason, I keep imagining Jeremy Clarkson in his underpants
Top Gear
BBC2
