CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend’s TV: While the Beeb sneers, Donald Trump enjoys the tweet smell of success By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 02:07 BST, 20 July 2020 | Updated: 02:10 BST, 20 July 2020 Trump in Tweets Rating: Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm Rating: During the 2004 U.S. elections, the … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: So just how did we get up that creek — and without a paddle? By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 02:14 BST, 17 July 2020 | Updated: 02:14 BST, 17 July 2020 Abandoned Engineering Rating: The Hunt For Cleopatra’s Tomb Rating: The surest way to make me … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: A house so full of music that even the doorbell plays its part By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:50 BST, 13 July 2020 | Updated: 01:55 BST, 13 July 2020 This House Is Full Of Music Rating: The Voice Kids Rating: The problem with getting everything … Read more
There She Goes Rating: Talking Heads Rating: There’s a moment in every dad’s life when he realises his growing child is now faster than he is, and always will be. For David Tennant’s character, Simon, in There She Goes (BBC2), it came at a school sports day as his 11-year-old daughter Rosie legged it across … Read more
Mrs America Rating: Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Rating: Two schools of thought prevail about historical drama on TV. One holds that, while facts can be simplified, the characters must be faithfully portrayed, with gratuitous cameos for the famous: ‘Why, isn’t that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, lunching with Virginia Woolf?’ That is how The Crown … Read more
The NHS is bracing itself for a second wave of Covid-19 later this year, its chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said today. Health bosses are already preparing for a resurgence of sick patients and say the ‘biggest ever’ flu vaccination programme will be needed to keep hospitals running. NHS chiefs feared in March that their … Read more
Ex Met Police chief Lord Stevens’ private investigation firm is linked to ‘bugging of billionaire tycoon Sir Frederick Barclay at Ritz hotel’ Sir Frederick, 85, is involved in a bitter High Court battle with three of his twin brother Sir David’s sons It is over 94 hours of secret recordings made over a number of … Read more
Keeping Britain Fed Rating: Amazing Spaces Rating: Malcolm would be regarded as a proper pest these days. He was the drippy student, played by Nigel Plaskitt in a series of Seventies telly ads, who tried to plead he was too poorly to sit his exams. His mum (Barbara New) was having none of it. ‘Course … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews weekend TV: They promised us a tale of royal skulduggery and then… pffft! By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:47 BST, 15 June 2020 | Updated: 02:03 BST, 15 June 2020 The Queen And The Coup Rating: Great Paintings Of The World With Andrew Marr Rating: What a downright swizz. … Read more
Staged Rating: Big Night At The Bingo – Our Lives Rating: As the whole country goes stark raving mad, it’s fitting that we all look like we have escaped from Bedlam. Three months without a haircut will make anyone seem like a loony. David Tennant and Michael Sheen are sporting magnificent lockdown hair in their … Read more