TELEVISION
January/February 2012
The stars have been axed because they tried to push their show an inch upmarket
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December 2011
Julian Fellowes’s Downton Abbey epitomises the worst features of the culture he claims to challenge
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November 2011
The boom years lasted so long that writers and artists lost their nose for trouble
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October 2011
Simplistic and divisive, the media response to the riots was utterly predictable
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