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Hot, rich and murderous: Welcome back to The White Lotus (heat, January 2025)

15 half-hour comedies to watch for a burst of joy (The i, October 2024)

Return to The Office (heat, October 2024)

Now you can take part in Taskmaster! (heat, September 2024)

Strictly Come Dancing: The biggest launch show talking points, from Amy Dowden’s return to Robin Windsor tribute (The Independent, September 2024)

How Taskmaster became a stratospheric, and very silly, success story (The Independent, May 2024)​

15 years after its premiere, why is Glee still constantly going viral? (The AV Club, May 2024)​

Doctor Who has Russell T Davies back. Its lost fans need to follow him (The i, May 2024)​

TikTok Detectives Are Going Too Far Trying To Find Baby Reindeer’s Real Martha (Grazia, April 2024)​

The Taskmaster effect: How a gameshow became the comedian’s golden ticket (The i, March 2024)​

The Traitors: Mollie Shouldn’t Be Ridiculed For Following Her Heart (Grazia, January 2024)​

The Crown’s dialect coach on teaching actors to sound like Princess Diana: ‘Everybody struggles with this posh “ah” sound’ (December 2023)​

Ed Sheeran auditioned and Gary Barlow wrote the songs: Why wasn’t Britannia High a hit? (October 2023)​

From the extremes of Euphoria to the funny fumblings of Sex Education – how to get sex in teen dramas right (September 2023)​

Love Island can’t hide from its ugly past – what place does the series have in 2023? (June 2023)​

Succession finale theories: Our biggest predictions for the final episode (May 2023, collaborative)​

Perfect Match shows that self-awareness is ruining reality TV (February 2023)​

Physical: 100 is the ‘real-life Squid Game’ – and Netflix’s most meta show to date (February 2023)​

Who snuffed it? The White Lotus finale theories, featuring sex tapes and supervillain Daphne (December 2022, collaborative)​

Can Russell T Davies fix what Chris Chibnall broke in Doctor Who? (October 2022)​

From bearpit to a ‘baby comedian academy’: How Mock the Week launched the UK’s brightest comedy stars (October 2022)​

Strictly’s problem with women is deeper than Shirley Ballas (State of the Arts, October 2022)​

‘Winning ain’t gonna make you memorable’: The queens of Drag Race UK Versus The World sharpen their swords (February 2022)​

Shirtless Josephs and ruby slippers: Remembering Andrew Lloyd Webber’s bizarre reality TV empire (December 2021)​

‘It’s the Olympics of drag, innit’: The new Drag Race UK queens on turning looks and making history in a pandemic (September 2021)​

What’s it like to spend just three days on Love Island? (July 2021)​

After a sexless year, Love Island 2021 is back to its randy former glory (June 2021)​

The Circle USA is full of loneliness and boredom – it’s perfect for a pandemic (January 2021)​

Strictly Come Dancing 2020 has renewed the nation’s love of live TV (December 2020)​

Beyond bodice rippers: How the period drama got with the times (December 2020)​

‘Each drag child comes to the show with their own story’: We’re Here stars on Drag Race, fame and the importance of trans representation (August 2020)​

RuPaul’s Drag Race needs to slow down, or risk burnout for both its fans and contestants (May 2020)​

From Glee to The Eddy, why are TV musicals so few and far between? (May 2020)​

I Think You Should Leave: the shortform sketch show breaking the rules of TV (April 2020)​

Ugly Betty, 10 years on: the Noughties show that struck a blow against TV's beauty myth (April 2020)​

Strictly Come Dancing’s unrealistic obsession with the poppy is stripping it of meaning (The i, November 2019)​

School's out: how Glee made fans stop believin’ (The Guardian, November 2019)​

From Euphoria to Big Mouth to Sex Education, teenagers are finally seeing normal bodies on TV (The i, September 2019)​

Absence makes the heart grow fonder – a winter Love Island will ruin it for all of us (The Independent Voices, July 2019)​

What happens when reality TV stars are frozen in time (i-D, June 2019)​

How Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Revived the TV Musical—And Liberated Its Heroine (The Atlantic, April 2019)