Showing posts with label BBC2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC2. Show all posts
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Friday, 2 April 2010
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Friday, 5 March 2010
in spiked March 5, 2010
Why everyone laughs at Canada
With giant beavers and Alanis Morissette, the closing ceremony of the Winter Games was a feast of stereotypes.
Friday, 20 November 2009
Saturday, 10 October 2009
in spiked October 10, 2009
‘To coventrate’: destroy a city from the air
A documentary about the Luftwaffe bombing of Coventry in 1940 challenged prejudices about both Germans and Brits.
Sunday, 27 September 2009
in spiked 12/6/2009
Mitchell and Webb: third time unlucky
The third series of the comedy duo’s sketch show is too self-referential and knowing to be funny
in spiked 1/5/2009
How the bottle gets the Best of you
BBC2’s Best: His Mother’s Son was a poignant tale about how alcoholism can ruin the lives of the most unlikely people
in spiked 16/1/2009
The boring but
beautiful game
We should resist demands to ‘sex up’ snooker: this sport requires patience, silence, decency and dickie bows
in spiked 9/1/2009
A shooting star in the comedy firmament
True or false: the one-off Christmas special of Vic and Bob’s cult quiz show proved it still has comedy cache?
in spiked 5/12/2008
How to broaden the viewer’s mind
As the BBC’s recent Horizon programme proves, challenging, thought-provoking TV just needs a little time
in spiked 11/7/2008
Jeremy Clarkson: because he’s worth it
He may caricature greens as cabbage-eating lesbians, but Clarkson says what people think. And the Beeb is right to pay him handsomely
in spiked 15/6/2007
The Samsonite demise of heavy metal
BBC2's Seven Ages of Rock reminded us how great metal was, before it merged with grunge and emo to become yet another outlet for teen angst
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