7 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Neil & Martin's Bon Voyage: Still behaving badly... it's Morrissey and Clunes on their 'lads' road trip

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Badly behaved or not, most men never grow up. That's why blokes are never insulted to be called 'lads' or 'boys'.

Politics

9 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews This City Is Ours on BBC1: Sean Bean exudes menace in every grizzled glare as a Scouse drug lord

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Oh, the shark has pearly teeth, dear. But Sean Bean doesn't need to show his teeth.

Events

1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Residence on Netflix: Even a foul

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Every eccentric amateur detective needs a hobby, whether it's playing the violin (Holmes) or knitting (Miss Marple), Cordelia Cupp is a birdwatcher.

Politics

1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Marlow Murder Club on U&Drama: Clever, funny, unashamedly English... it's a murder mystery masterclass

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: There's no better way to learn about chemistry, history and even astronomy than by unravelling a few puzzling killings.

Events

2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Tempting Fortune on Ch4: This obnoxious woman's shameless self

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Fashion blogger Imani is determined to become the most loathed woman in Britain, two days into her unpopularity campaign, she looks unstoppable.

Politics

2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Protection on ITV1: Siobhan Finneran's wig is the most convincing thing in this police drama

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Right now, according to a series of stodgy captions that prefaced the police drama Protection (pictured), up to 3,000 people in the UK are officially living in secrecy.

Events

2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Adolescence on Netflix: Brilliant but bleak, this one

What's most frightening is how plausible it seems. When 13-year-old Jamie Miller is arrested in his bedroom and charged with murder, in the opening scene, it's obvious what police expect to find.

Politics

2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Miss Scarlet on U&Alibi: Her Duke may have gone, but feisty Miss Scarlet's lost none of her fizz

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Miss Scarlet on U&Alibi: Her Duke may have gone, but feisty Miss Scarlet's lost none of her fizz

Politics

3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Au Pair on Channel 5: The useless villain in this bonkers drama wouldn't have fooled Poirot

Sir David Suchet's deductive power are slipping. In his Poirot days, he'd never have failed to spot a body in bovver boots, laid out in front of him.

Events

3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway on Channel 4: His debt crusade was egotistical and profoundly pointless

Michael Sheen plays a bumbling angel in the fantasy serial Good Omens. Playing God, it turns out, is more difficult.

Economics

last month CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Towards Zero on BBC1: A superlative adaptation of one of Christie's overlooked masterpieces

Agatha Christie did it first. Whatever fiendish plot device, impossible solution or dazzling denouement a mystery writer comes up with, you can be sure the Queen of Crime invented it.

Events