Matt Tidby reviews the launch of ITV’s Vicious, and is less than impressed.
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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.
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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.
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Merlin – the finale
Venue bids farewell to one family-friendly legend, as a far darker mythology hits our screens.
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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.