On Television

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?

Lost dream of coexistence

Adam LeBor delves into The Bureau, the utterly absorbing French spy thriller series

A trauma that never ends

Adam LeBor commends the BBC’s latest documentary on the Iraq war

Rave that runs out of puff

Summertime and the streaming is easy, but Netflix’s White Lines leaves Adam LeBor cold

Shakespeare in the West Bank

Adam LeBor has found one of the most immersive, and exhausting, experiences television has to offer

We have been here before

A 1970s drama played on a nagging sense that modern life was fragile

A tale of two Harrys

Adam LeBor on the sharply written TV show: The Windsors

Pure gold among the C4 dross

Adam LeBor strikes television gold

She’s not the messiah…

Watching Greta Thunberg and the hysterical devotion she arouses, I am reminded of Judaism’s best-known self-styled redeemer