On Television

Press Gang

Croatia’s war runs like a dark thread through the excellent series ‘The Paper’

A widow’s might

The Widow is intelligent television that probes the dark side of the international aid industry

Match of the dull

How Match of the Day needs modernising

Back to the wall

Despite the fact East Germany has disappeared, it continues to live on in this outstanding trilogy

Finn noir

A Bergmanesque miasma of gloom hangs over every episode in this new Scandinavian thriller

A treasure trove of memories

T.V. show, The Repair Shop, is just what we need in these dark and fractured times, says Adam LeBor

Memories of a massacre

Rinder’s documentary is the kind of television at which the BBC excels, says Adam Lebor

The universal appeal of self-pity

Zeinab Badawi’s ‘The History of Africa’ (BBC World News)

Learning to love Big Brother

A contemporary political drama uses the double whammy of Covid and Brexit to reanimate older, primeval forces

Reviving the inner anarchist

A new series shows Britain sliding into authoritarianism. Sound familiar?