Matt Tidby reviews the launch of ITV’s Vicious, and is less than impressed.
TV
Fantastic females – Game of Thrones
The success of HBO’s hit blood-soaked, swords-and-swearing fantasy epic Game of Thrones is rooted in the show’s broad appeal, and its genre-defying representation of women.
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Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents
Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents is part of a wider, long-term trend in youth sexuality on television; a spectrum of extreme behaviour, ‘shock and awe’ sexual representation to entice an audience into outrage, and crucially, viewership.
Featured Posts, TV
Spies of Warsaw, part 1 – review
BBC 4’s latest ambitious drama is held together with atmospheric direction although it’s rather slow to get going.
TV
Merlin – the finale
Venue bids farewell to one family-friendly legend, as a far darker mythology hits our screens.
TV
Doctor Who – Christmas preview
Doctor Who returns to BBC1 this Christmas with ‘The Snowmen’, with Matt Smith’s normally exuberant Doctor at an uncharacteristic low ebb.
News
Nick Griffin interview sparks NUS fireworks
Controversy has stirred between leaders of the NUS and The Leeds Student after the paper published an interview with BNP leader Nick Griffin.
Features, Travel
Local trips around Norwich
Matt Tidby knows where to go for a decent day out beyond Norwich.
TV
The timely return of The Thick of It
The hit satire returns for its fourth and final series, with lasers set to kill and coalition politics in its sights.
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