Sunday, 27 September 2009

Comedy’s man of steel

Mark Steel's sharp and self-deprecatory humour shines through in his new laugh-out-loud radio show

Embarrassing Bodies is only a symptom of the deeper disease of dumbing down that now afflicts Channel 4

As yet another ‘world’s toughest job’ show, Oil Riggers feels like a substandard rip-off with a Texan accent

Cult comedy Red Dwarf, set on a spaceship, is returning to our TV screens, with an injection of postmodern irony

Forget Fred the Shred: in his weird, garbled tones, it’s the BBC’s business editor who’s been talking us into a recession

As two BBC documentaries revealed this week, we really need those 40 winks; without them, we'd go mad

Amish communities are often depicted as a monolithic ‘Other’ to modern society, but the truth is far more complex