Why 10-year-old Max knocks grown-ups into a cocked hat! CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV By Christopher Stevens for Daily Mail Published: 00:07 BST, 6 May 2020 | Updated: 00:43 BST, 6 May 2020 The A Word Rating: Life and Birth Rating: The best actor on the box right now isn’t Sandra Oh in Killing … Read more
Grayson’s Art Club Rating: The Great British Intelligence Test Rating: Three cheers for the irascible Maggi Hambling. While celebrities were falling over themselves to appear on Grayson’s Art Club (C4), the 74-year-old sculptress announced that either she did it her way or everyone else could get stuffed. First of all, she wasn’t doing any of this … Read more
Insomnia has been an unwelcome part of my life for a decade. An unbroken night’s sleep is a luxury I rarely enjoy. As a musician, my sleep patterns are regularly disrupted by my working schedule. At weekends, that can mean working odd hours – sometimes starting at 11pm, and finishing at 6am. Then I have … Read more
The Real Marigold Hotel (BBC1) Rating: First Dates Hotel (C4) Rating: You can tell a lot about a celeb from what he packs in his suitcase. Henry ‘Blowers’ Blofeld, cricket commentator and bon viveur, took an armful of colourful shirts and a bottle of champagne to India, on The Real Marigold Hotel (BBC1). Paul ‘Chuckle … Read more
The Great British Sewing Bee Rating: Our Queen At War Rating: How things change. When comedian Joe Lycett arrived to transform The Great British Sewing Bee (BBC1) last year, home-made clothes seemed as old-fashioned as steam trains and oil lamps. But if lockdown goes on much longer, we’ll all be at it — as well … Read more
Last Easter in Venice’s Guggenheim Museum, my daughter Deia, then aged 13, announced she’d had enough culture for one morning, was fed up with my ‘selfishness’ and wasn’t prepared to do what I wanted a minute longer. ‘I want to go shopping,’ she insisted mutinously. So we trudged to a grimy area near the station … Read more