If ever you feel like watching something inspirational or educational, don’t look to Channel 4. Their documentaries seem to have gotten more and more vacuous lately and, quite frankly, it’s beginning to bore me. Beauty and the Beast: The Ugly Face of Prejudice: what an offensively...

Looking at our favourites from the last ten years, it’s clear that if you want a TV show to be a hit this century, you should make sure the title starts with ‘The’! It’s been a decade dominated by reality TV in all formats – from Big Brother to The Apprentice. Strictly Come...

The Family returned to Channel 4 last night for a second series. This time, cameras are following a British Indian family, the Grewals of West London – all nine of them, with five under one roof. And don’t forget the two dogs. The question is, will we warm to them the way we warmed to the...

News has surfaced that Channel 4 are looking for a new family for a follow-up series to The Family, which made stars of the Hughes household last year. This time though, producers want to represent a ‘different perspective on what it means to be British’. The first series followed Simon...