Features

Grains of truth: Laura Linney stars as Cathy in Darlene Hunt's 'The Big C'

It's Showtime for compelling female roles

A US cable channel is challenging the male-dominated world of TV drama – and not before time, says Sarah Hughes

Inside Features

Going postal with Terry Pratchett

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

The Discworld author talks about a new television adaptation of "Going Postal," the problems power brings, and the impossibility of living in a world when he isn't writing a book. Matilda Battersby reports.

The Prisoner - The show remains the same

Friday, 16 April 2010

As a remake of The Prisoner begins on ITV1, James Rampton examines other reinventions and distinguishes the durable from the dated

The Week In Radio: Is there no escape from the E word?

Thursday, 15 April 2010

We can't be talking about this for a whole month, said an exasperated John Humphrys on day one of the election campaign proper. Oh yes you can, John, indeed the amount of talking about it could probably fill many months laid end to end. Perhaps all the hot air will vaporise into Radio 5 Live's ingenious "Election word cloud". When I first heard about this I imagined some kind of Swiftian conceit – a giant balloon inflated with invective and tweets and euphemisms for "savage cuts" drifting across the land. It turns out to be an interactive application that assembles all the words spewed by politicians on 5 Live and then sorts them in order of size. Why you would want to know this, who can say, but last time I looked, the big word was economy, obviously.

Treme: Better than The Wire?

Monday, 12 April 2010

Last night the first episode of David Simon’s follow-up to his Baltimore epic premiered on HBO in America.

The aliens are here! Again!: The five golden rules of sci-fi remakes

Sunday, 11 April 2010

Two-and-a-half decades after the rodent-scoffing invaders of 'V' first landed on our TV screens, they're back. But will they conquer the schedules?

Katrina on screen: How the creators of The Wire are dramatising the tragedy of New Orleans

Friday, 9 April 2010

Treme, set in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, is the latest epic from The Wire's creator, David Simon. Ahead of its American premiere, Tim Walker looks at how the Big Easy and the disaster have inspired great art

V - Alien visitors speak with forked tongue

Friday, 9 April 2010

A remake of the Eighties cult classic, V, taps into a growing unease in US society and has been interpreted as a barbed commentary on Barack Obama. Sarah Hughes recommends this clever sci-fi reboot

The Week In Radio: What would Jesus have made of it all?

Thursday, 8 April 2010

There's a saying they have in America that is used to fit all occasions: What Would Jesus Do? What Would Jesus Drive, for example, or What Would Jesus Vote? One programme this week asked What Would Jesus Eat?, and the suggestions, according to painters of The Last Supper, included grilled eels, crayfish and guinea pig. This prompted me to wonder what Jesus would listen to, and to hope it wasn't Monday's Start the Week.

Justified - Rogue male who's calling all the shots

Friday, 2 April 2010

Justified, featuring a gun-toting cowboy cop with killer charm, is the latest critically acclaimed hit to arrive here from America. Macho, no-nonsense heroes are all the rage this season, says Sarah Hughes