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TV review: Maestro at the Opera

Where has all the laughter disappeared to in the BBC’s upper-class X Factor? One of the TV comedy highlights of 2008 was Peter Snow, who states he adores classical music, attempting to conduct an orchestra. With a wild look in his eye and a maniacal grimace, he waved his arms about all over the place, beating two, then three, then maybe five. He demonstrated no talent or understanding for Prokofiev, whose Dance of the Knights he left not just dead but horrifically dismembered. It was a joy.

US drama Awake to air on Sky Atlantic

NBC series featuring Jason Isaacs to be broadcast this spring Sky Atlantic has acquired US drama Awake, featuring Jason Isaacs, which is co-executive produced by programme-makers with credits including Homeland and 24. Awake features Isaacs, who has appeared in films including Harry Potter and The Patriot, as a detective who survives a serious automobile accident only to then find he is living simultaneously in two parallel worlds. In one world his wife dies and son lives, in the other it is his wife who lives and son who dies.

From the archive, 28 February 1985: Doctor Who fans upset as BBC postpones new series

Originally published in the Guardian on 28 February 1985 The controller of BBC 1, Mr Michael Grade, may well be longing by this morning to step into the Tardis and whisk himself beyond the range of the outcry stirred up by his decision yesterday to postpone the next series of Dr Who. Work on the new series, originally scheduled for January next year and starring Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant, was due to begin in a month’s time. But Mr Grade has decided that the money would be better spent on other drama projects and that the Doctor must be ...

Ben Gazzara dies aged 81

Emmy-winning stage, film and tv actor was known for intense countenance that won him tough-guy roles The actor Ben Gazzara, known for his brooding tough-guy presence in dozens of films, tv shows and stage productions over his long career, died of pancreatic cancer on Friday at a Manhattan hospital, his lawyer said. He was 81. The New York-born performer died at Bellevue hospital centre with members of his family at his side, according to his attorney, Jay Julien. Born Biagio Anthony Gazzara to Italian immigrant parents, he began his career in live theatre, most notably with the role of Brick ...

BBC Calls the Midwife for a second series

Hit Sunday night drama starring Jenny Agutter and Miranda Hart gets recommissioned after just two episodes The BBC has commissioned a second series of hit Sunday night drama Call the Midwife, which stars Jenny Agutter, Miranda Hart and Pam Ferris, after airing just two episodes. BBC1′s six-part drama, which grew its audience by 600,000 to average 8.6 million for its second installment on Sunday night, is based on the late Jennifer Worth’s trilogy of memoirs about life and midwifery in London’s East End in the 1950s.

The ideal tv of 2011: drama

British drama had an ambitious but somewhat uneven year – while the Scandanavians produced a surprise hit. But what were your favourites? It would be pushing it to suggest that 2011 was a landmark year for drama but viewers were certainly not badly served, with some fine new work emerging from both the UK and abroad. In Britain, BBC2 led the field, in part thanks to the much-trumpeted extra investment that gave us The Crimson Petal and the White, The Shadow Line, The Night Watch and The Hour.

Radio review: A Tale of Two Cities

This Dickens adaptation was commanding drama from the opening moments A Tale of Two Cities (Radio 4) looked on paper to be one of the Christmas radio highlights and it doesn’t disappoint. Yesterday’s first episode was commanding drama from the opening moments, with Robert Lindsay as Dickens describing a prisoner walking to his death at the guillotine. It was a momentous and yet taut opening building to Dickens asking us to imagine “what those two or three seconds must be like” as a life seeps away after beheading.

Sky’s thespians are perfect curtain-raisers for new football drama | Barry Glendenning

With the experience of Ray Wilkins and Graeme Souness, Sky’s acting team are on to a winner. Luis Figo, however, is not It’s been quiet on the football front; too damned quiet. We have been so bereft of action that we have been forced to subsist on a meagre drip-feed of – deep breath – Women’s World Cup, assorted European and world under-age jamborees, the Copa América, meaningless pre-season tournaments and the annual exit of Rangers from the Champions League. It is difficult to imagine why Sky felt the need to film and broadcast a series of promos to remind soccer-starved ...

Fish Town – review

I thought Sky Atlantic was all about huge imported US drama: Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Entourage, etc. It is mainly, but not exclusively. Because here is Fish Town, a 10-part observational documentary about Brixham, the Devon fishing port. Ten parts! Does enough happen in Brixham to warrant 10 hours of television? No, I’d state after watching this one, the third episode. At the Maritime Inn, 72-year-old Pat doesn’t have many customers, apart from every other Thursday, when the ladies’ darts team meets there.

Mad Men scoops top prizes at inaugural Critics’ Choice TV awards

Other winners at Beverly Hills ceremony to Emmys included 30 Rock’s Tina Fey and Cougar Town’s Busy Philipps The Emmy-award winning series Mad Men has continued its run of awards success after winning the top prize at the inaugural Critics’ Choice Television Awards in Beverly Hills. Although the Critics’ Choice awards are the new kid on the entertainment awards circuit, organisers stated they hoped victory here would prove an indication of further success at the Emmys. While Mad Men, the series set in the heady days of a 1960s New York advertising agency, has an impressive track record, winning the ...