TV: Ripper Street
Ripper Street is set in east London in 1889, just six months after the last Ripper murder. Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Macfadyen) is a modern sort of man, interested in the science of forensics and eminently rational in his approach to solving crime.
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TV: Mr Selfridge
What is it that makes a period drama so irresistible? Is it the clothes? (I’m thinking the charming, suit-clad men? Everyone looks good in a bowler hat.) The lack of iPhones and headphones, with Edwardians actually talking to each other on their way to work instead of their Facebook friends?
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TV: Girls – Series 1 Catch Up
Take a deep breath and step into the world of Girls, a New York sitcom about four best friends which has been compared to Sex and the City but is actually quite different.
Here we go
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TV: Revenge
The matriarch died in a plane crash her husband organised, her daughter had overdosed on painkillers and the mysterious protagonist Emily Thorne’s plans to put the Graysons behind bars went down with the plane. So endeth the first season of US show Revenge.
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TV: Young Apprentice – Part One
The recruitment has begun once more. Sir Alan Sugar is “on the hunt for Britain’s next young apprentice”. And what he really means by “young apprentice” seems to be a teenager on the verge turning psychotic for the benefit of good TV.
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TV: Fresh Meat – Series Two
We were all relieved when series two of Fresh Meat began after Christmas, rather than the start of second year; all the more good times to have with our favourite fictionalized university students. Captivatingly, they continue to teeter between adulthood and adolescence – but is the meat still delectable?
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TV: The Hour
Back for a second series, The Hour is one of the most exciting televisual prospects this year. Created by Abi Morgan (Shame, The Iron Lady), and starring, among others, the excellent Ben Whishaw and Romola Garai, The Hour is clever, gripping, and visually absorbing.
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TV: Secret State
Dominic Jones
The leader of the country is involved in a suspicious plane crash, leaving the audience to ponder whether it was an accident or something more sinister, while shady Government ministers plot behind the scenes to take power
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TV: Derren Brown’s Apocalypse
I finished watching Derren Brown’s Apocalypse an hour ago and my heart rate has only just about got back to normal.
That show was an emotional rollercoaster, to say the least.
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TV: Mad Men
Mad Men, the impossibly glamorous TV programme with the unprecedented cultural cachet, was almost set up to fail in this latest endeavour – the fifth series opening episode.
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TV: Alcatraz
Dom Jones
When I first saw the advert for JJ Abrahams’ new vehicle Alcatraz I was filled with what can only be described as mixed emotions.
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TV: Take Me Out
Take Me Out is not only entertaining television; it also satisfyingly confirms our darkest apprehensions that romance in the age of digital televised reality is initiated, more than it ever was, by an olympics of contrived first impressions, one-liners and gimmicks.
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TV: The Walking Dead
Tim Butcher
Warning – this article contains spoilers for the entire second series of The Walking Dead.
It’s been a mixed barrel of a series.
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TV: Homeland
Ellie Swinton
Just as Homeland was at risk of falling into a mid-season lull, last night’s episode – the fifth in the series – turned out to be the most explosive one yet.
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