The wine’s hopefully been mulled, the chestnuts are roasting… or at the very least you’ve unscrewed a bottle of Lambrini and opened a box of Celebrations. So what televsisual treats are there to see you through this festive season?
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From the category archives:
Documentary
BBC Four’s seasons are some of my favourite telly events. It’s not that every season interests me in the same way, but I love the diversity of them. The new Electric Revolution season is one of the more interesting, with its focus on gizmos and gadgetry.
Last night, Simon Armitage gave us an interesting, [...]
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How can an agnostic be converted into a Christian? Jon Ronson films a group at the well-known Alpha Course at St Aldate’s church in Oxford to find out the secret of this course’s apparent power to create new believers in ‘How to Find God’, the first episode of a new series of religious-themed documentaries [...]
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My third favourite (after Sue Perkins and Sandi Toksvig) celebrity lesbian, retailing superstar Mary Portas returns to our screens tonight in the first of a new three part series, Mary Queen of Charity Shops. The series is essentially the same as the last series, only she’s now gone all credit crunch and instead of turning [...]
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Apparently, the BBC have decided tonight is the night to confront the nation about its overeating. Two ‘human interest’ documentaries follow the attempts of two women (I’m hoping some overweight men turn up in at least one of these programmes because I’m getting very sick of the emphasis in the media on women needing [...]
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