Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke is a writer at the Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year.

Ben Miller’s social media satire Austin misses the mark

This new BBC sitcom is no Colin from Accounts.

By Rachel Cooke

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This vaguely dirty take on Agatha Christie isn’t shocking – at times, it’s laughable and a bit gross.

By Rachel Cooke

This reboot of the classic detective series has lost all its drollness and sense of fun. C’est dommage!

By Rachel Cooke

This series, based on a real-life fraud peddling diets to cure cancer, explores how social media makes fools of…

By Rachel Cooke

Thanks to our sharp-eyed puppetmaster Mike White, this third series is an intensely satisfying slow burn.

By Rachel Cooke

The Motherland spin-off’s star returns diminished but undimmed.

By Rachel Cooke

Tom Gatti is joined by TV producer and editor Rob Burley, and the New Statesman’s TV critic Rachel Cooke.

James Graham’s Brian and Maggie, starring Harriet Walter as the prime minister, is shrewd on the class dynamics that…

By Rachel Cooke

This Apple TV+ thriller is derivative and extremely silly. And yet no producer seemed to think: is this too…

By Rachel Cooke