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Spooks terminatedThursday, 11 August 2011
With theartsdesk readers still reeling from the demise of Italianate sleuthing series Zen, now comes news of the axing of glossy MI5 drama Spooks. The BBC has announced that the show's 10th series, starting next month, will be its last, though it... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Fes: The Festival and the Moroccan SpringWednesday, 15 June 2011
Strange portents – the weather is always dry and baking hot this time of year in Fes. This time it was like winter, with lashing rain and thunder for the first few days of the Fes Festival. But then things are strange in general here; events are... Read more... |
Reverberations: The Influence of Steve Reich, BarbicanMonday, 09 May 2011
Sometimes you can leave a concert feeling slightly shortchanged: a perceived weakness in the programming; an unprepared, lacklustre conductor; a phoned-in performance. No danger of any of the above at the marathon session three of Reverberations, a... Read more... |
The Big Fellah, Lyric HammersmithMonday, 27 September 2010
When cultural talk drifts toward Mr Big, thoughts tend to turn to Sex and the City's Chris Noth, whose New York is world enough and time away from the doomed metropolis populated by the "big fellah" played by Finbar Lynch in Richard Bean's play of... Read more... |
The Last Night of the Proms, Fleming, Rysanov, BBCSO, BělohlávekSunday, 12 September 2010
It must have been with a leaden heart that the BBC Proms planning team realised that 2010's Last Night would fall plumb on 9/11. How to reconcile all the traditional Brit triumphalism and singing of Jerusalem with the rather more contemporary need... Read more... |
Television 2000-9: TV in the Age of UncertaintyThursday, 24 December 2009
If reality TV became a mass-audience opium for a world turning bleaker and nastier, what we might as well call unreality TV has been fulfilling a related role while following a different trajectory. In a world that has never been quite... Read more... |
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