The sign of a good writer or director is when you can watch a programme that you have no previous knowledge of, and instantly recognise who it is by.  With Avenue 5 we have: an HBO production. It has English actors as leads (Hugh Laurie and a barely recognisable Rebecca Front). It involves an ensemble […]

If an alien was to come down and watch a typical weekend’s telly they would think us a peculiar planet.  We dress our leaders up in sequins and make them dance like performing monkeys; we take old singers and put them in spinning chairs like a day trip from the old people’s home to visit […]