‘Monroe’: Episode 6 review

The final part of ITV1’s latest medical drama brings the series to a suitably watchable conclusion, although this is not a Casualty-style blockbuster climax, with no major calamity leaving bodies strewn all over the landscape and the hospital struggling to cope under the weight of the blood and gore.

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‘Spiral: The Butcher Of La Villette’: Episodes 3 & 4 review

As guiltily enthralling as your neighbours having a screaming row in their back garden, unaware that you’re peeking through a hole in the fence, BBC Four’s French police drama series Spiral is not exactly enjoyable; it’s hard to even define it as entertaining. Yet once you start watching, it’s increasingly difficult to stop.

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Arthur Darvill (‘Doctor Who’) interview

Doctor Who returns to BBC One for Series 6 later this month, starring Arthur Darvill as the Doctor’s companion Rory Williams. returning for his second series, Arthur reveals how his character has grown and what being married to Amy Pond is really like.

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Karen Gillan (‘Doctor Who’) interview

Doctor Who returns to BBC One for Series 6 later this month, starring Karen Gillan as the Doctor’s companion Amy Pond. Returning for her second series aboard the TARDIS, Karen reveals what lies in store for Amy…

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Matt Smith (‘Doctor Who’) interview

Doctor Who returns to BBC One for Series 6 later this month, starring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor. Here he reveals what lies in store for the Doctor and his fellow TARDIS travellers in 2011, and why the Fez is no longer his favourite hat.

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Steven Moffat (‘Doctor Who’) interview

Doctor Who returns to BBC One for Series 6 later this month, starring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor alongside Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill as his companions Amy and Rory. Lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat answered seven quick-fire questions on what to look out for when the show returns at Easter.

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‘Campus’: Episode 1 review

Kirke University, home to Channel 4’s new comedy series from the makers of Green Wing, is possibly the crudest college of higher education since the Central University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, its staff a collection of grotesque super-stereotypes whose self-absorption is matched only by their ability to break into verbosely obscene soliloquy at will.

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‘Spiral: The Butcher Of La Villette’: Episodes 1 & 2 review

The actual title of Spiral, BBC Four’s imported French police drama, is Engrenages, which literally translates as ‘cogs’ or ‘gears’ – and if your stomach can stand the gore and your heart can stand the shocks, watching the show will give your own cogs and gears as thorough a grinding as they’ve had since the climax of The Killing.

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