TELEVISION
May 2012
Strangely, it is easier to write a state-of-the-nation drama if you set it in the past
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April 2012
With the tabloids’ public interest defence in tatters, the BBC should beware falling into the same trap
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March 2012
Politics is great drama, as Borgen, a fine Danish series, shows. So why do British scriptwriters ignore it?
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January/February 2012
The stars have been axed because they tried to push their show an inch upmarket
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