TV Lovely profile of Gilmore Girls by Abigail Radnor in The Guardian : "I first watched Gilmore Girls around the same time I first ...

TV Although the launch of television broadcasts is celebrated on the 2nd November each year, there were a number of unofficial test transm...

Commerce On Tuesday I visited Leeds for the first time since 2003, when, you'll remember, my mission was to visit all halls and houses...

Film Kunis writes on Medium about some of the male behaviour she's encountered during her career, even after becoming a successful pro...

TV The BBC website has published a history of television on the occasion of its 80th birthday, starting with John Logie Baird. So many in...

Film The Atlantic has a well researched column by Megan Garber about how refracted through another prism, the behaviour of the male charac...

About The clocks have gone back in the UK, Christmas is close at hand, so it's time, as every year to look towards what's going ...

Film My first viewing of Murnau's Nosferatu was exactly eight years ago today and I can't think of a better way of celebrating ...

TV Having booked this weekend away from work due to my birthday happening on Monday and wanting to treat myself, theoretically I could h...

Technology Twitter's announcement of the closure of Vine doesn't really impact me. I never did use the service properly. But he...

TV Find above the final official trailer for the Gilmore Girls revival which just looks astonishing. Some of the line readings are all ...

Life Recently, no actually not that recently, I've become quite aware that I'm not a standard forty-one year old and that if anyth...

Shakespeare In the past, I've written about how the uncertainty surrounding Shakespeare's authorship of some plays has led me to d...

Film Is Harold Lloyd's Safety Last and my first viewing although I can't completely confirm this because it happened (comparati...

TV Second episodes of any new show are always trouble with a capital T. Now that all the characters have been introduced as well as the...

TV Good. So, so good. Satirically launched ten years on from the exact day of the second official television attempt at a Doctor Who s...

Art The first and so far only comments card I've ever filled in Tate Liverpool was about Yves Klein. One of his blue paintings, IKB...

Music Writing for The Guardian : "I learned from Bob Dylan that, if you are good with words, you can invent whatever life you want....

Books Here's a brief but fascinating explanation for the origin of the "kill Hitler" genre of time travel stories. Doctor...