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Why we watch... Doctor Who
Something old, something new... Nicola Wilson's old fan's perspective on the new Doctor Who...

Why we watch... Friends
Jo Smee explains why familiarity doesn't always breed contempt...

Why do we watch... Top Gear?
Martin Dorset-Purkis unpacks the truth about our guilty secret...

Why we watch...Skins
Emma Bradfield does not recognise the teenage years depicted in the new Channel 4’s series ‘Skins’...

Jekyll
Kirsty Nunn enjoys the new BBC take on Stevenson’s Jekyll & Hyde. We’re not sure if her alter-ego agrees...

Building Britain
Alex Marshall wonders why a man who seems to hate Durham is selected to host a programme about the City

Life On Mars
Kirsty Nunn enjoys the start of the new series...

Torchwood
Elizabeth-Anne Grummitt checks out whether the Dr. Who spin-off can fill the shoes of its popular predecessor...

When in Rome...
Elizabeth-Anne Grummitt compares two BBC attempts to portray the glory of the ancients (or at least their sex lives)...

Screen Wipe
Elizabeth-Anne Grummitt listens to Charlie Brooker rant on about his screen...

Francesco`s Italy: Top to Toe
Elizabeth-Anne Grummitt fails to be charmed by the silver-haired one's travelogue...

The Beauty And The Dirt
Maxine Roper is moved by BBC2's The Line Of Beauty, depicting the excesses of Thatcher's Britain...

Is that it?
Elizabeth-Anne Grummitt wishes the Brit Awards were a bit more, well, interesting...

Big Brother: damn and set fire to it
An ashamed and bitter Roger Jeffery rues the return of Celebrity Big Brother...

Bleak House
Elizabeth-Anne Grummitt enjoys the BBC's latest costume drama...