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EntertainmentJuly 13

Dark past not so long ago

It is comforting to imagine that some of society's worst systemic abuses against its most vulnerable members, such as children, are behind us.
EntertainmentJune 29

Bullies focus of NZ series

Murder and bullying are the tasty items on the Prime TV menu in July, with bullying pushing its way in first to begin the month on a cheery note.
EntertainmentJune 22

Murder most strange

The month comedian Alan Davies chooses to come to Dunedin on tour seems a good one to also broadcast the latest in his Jonathan Creek series.
EntertainmentJune 15

Cat-ch this and laugh out loud

There are those who demand some sort of intellectual response from their television watching: to be challenged with thought, for instance, or presented with a complex, vexed emotional issue to contemplate.
EntertainmentJune 8

Catching up what is missed

There are many reasons for missing entire series, year after year, of excellent television.
EntertainmentJune 8

Who's who on-farm

Julie Walters CBE is an English actress and writer who has won two Baftas, and four Bafta TV awards.
Who's who on-farm
Who's who on-farm
EntertainmentMay 18

To jab or not to jab?

Vaccination is an issue that divides the vast majority of people who realise the remarkable benefits of a science that has got rid of some of the appalling diseases that afflicted humanity, and the minority who do not.
EntertainmentMay 11

Journey on the dark side

The world is a confusing and ambiguous mix of good and evil, with an endless number of perceptions and angles, where no good deed goes unpunished.
EntertainmentMay 5

Happy families and not

Families are many things, and most of those things are either not talked about or occasionally, wincingly, confessed.
EntertainmentApril 20

Making bosoms heave

It was the year of our Lord 1783.
EntertainmentApril 13

Solving crime by design

When it comes to top-class office design, crime scene investigation units in the United States are clearly leading the field, with what must be some lavish spending.
EntertainmentMarch 30

Fine fare for fans of felines

There are two sorts of people in this world: cat people and dog people.
EntertainmentFebruary 9

Monkeys by the dozen

All the cool people like Terry Gilliam movies.
EntertainmentFebruary 2

Series slips into silliness

There is no end to defective detectives.
EntertainmentJanuary 26

Series a cool idea

In the innovation game, it pays to be cool.
EntertainmentDecember 8

Great plot for a movie

Giant New Zealand eagles and dead celebrities populate TV One in the lead-up to Christmas, in two shows that get into the spirit of things as they entertain the quick by raising the dead.
EntertainmentDecember 1

A ray of televisual hope

It is December. December is overshadowed by Christmas, a period so hyped among children that most spend their adult years trying to deny the sick feeling of disappointment they feel every Christmas day.
A ray of televisual hope
A ray of televisual hope
EntertainmentNovember 24

Seeing future today

In a long, difficult and often disheartening life, riven with unpleasantness, deceit, petty jealousies and nameless suffering, one has to take hold of any passing pleasure, no matter how small.
EntertainmentNovember 17

Barnaby called to Denmark

Danmark is a long way from the bucolic charms, stately homes and historic country churches of the beautiful but stunningly murderous English county of Midsomer.
EntertainmentNovember 3

An affair can be rather diverting

It slipped on to SoHo beneath Remotely Interesting's radar recently, but The Affair is the latest best thing on television for those of good taste.
EntertainmentSeptember 15

Fleming spied a gap

Here are some good stories about Commander Ian Lancaster Fleming.
EntertainmentAugust 11

Lo! The amazing Dr Phil

Everybody's happy nowadays.
EntertainmentAugust 8

Now for the really riveting...

There are some - decent people with responsible jobs - who worry television is the home of all that is flippant and glib in this world.
EntertainmentJuly 28

Familiar faces at Blandings

The morning sunshine descended like an amber shower-bath on Blandings Castle, lighting up with a heartening glow its ivied walls, its rolling parks, its gardens, outhouses and messuages, and such of its inhabitants as chanced at the moment to be taking the air.