Strictly Come Dancing 2015: week 2, as it happened
So with the two weeks’ scores combined, Peter Andre remains top of the standings, with Jay McGuinness and Helen George just behind. Down the bottom, Iwan Thomas is propping up the rest, with Jeremy...
View ArticleFeminists abused my mother's suicide, says Sylvia Plath's poet daughter
She was just two years old when her mother Plath committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, while in the grip of depression in an episode once described by Frieda in a poem as “head in oven,...
View ArticleDoctor Who, Under the Lake, review: 'enjoyably old-fashioned'
Cue lots of running down corridors, then closing hatches in the nick of time. This was enjoyably old-fashioned Who territory – a return to the “monster of the week” and “base under siege” storylines...
View ArticleAre the dances too sexy? Saturday's Strictly talking points
2) A chemistry lesson for Antony Ogogo Who’s winning the chemistry contest? We know who isn’t winning, and that’s boxer Antony Ogogo. Sex appeal-wise, there’s one thing more damaging than splitting...
View ArticleAndrew Lincoln interview
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View ArticleOut with the old, in with the old: New Tricks and Close to the Edge
Older people are now more numerous as a percentage of the population, more economically powerful and more active and vigorous than they’ve ever been. And television has struggled to keep pace with...
View ArticleStrictly Come Dancing 2015: Iwan Thomas eliminated
Olympian Iwan Thomas has endured the mortification of being the first contestant to be booted off Strictly Come Dancing 2015. The sprinter-turned-pundit, who finished last on the leaderboard after...
View ArticleThe brutal Six Chair Challenge: Sunday's X Factor talking points
The nasty bit is that, with up to 15 acts left in each category, much swappery must take place before the final Judges’ Houses lineup is complete. And afterwards, those who don’t get a seat are taken...
View ArticleNew life after the zombie apocalypse
All of which would no doubt be something of a shock to Lincoln’s legions of American fans. To them he’s Sheriff Rick Grimes: gun-slinging leader of men. Buff protector of women and children. And, most...
View ArticleBranson's dramatic return: Downton Abbey talking points
One hesitates to hope it might at last be Lady Edith and that nice, polite, gallant chap Bertie Pelham, who helped her in her hour of need. But Downton creator Julian Fellowes seems to delight in...
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