Category Archives: Television

TV REVIEW: John Simm, Philip Glenister in ‘Life on Mars’

Posted on January 9, 2006 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Taking its title from the David Bowie song, the BBC’s intriguing new sci-fi police series “Life on Mars” pitches a sophisticated 21st century police detective back 30 years to a time when policing relied on … Continue reading →

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TV REVIEW: Thomas Hardy’s ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’

Posted on December 20, 2005 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – ITV’s screen adaptation of “Under the Greenwood Tree” misses the point of Thomas Hardy’s slim but evocative novel by a country mile so that if it was a bland and predictable rural English tale they … Continue reading →

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Mark Hollis, Stevie Winwood win BMI London honours

Posted on November 30, 2005 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Mark Hollis’s “It’s My Life”, recorded originally by the band Talk Talk in the 1980s and a recent hit for No Doubt, was named song of the year at the Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) 2005 … Continue reading →

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TV REVIEW: ‘Agatha Christie’s Marple: The Body in the Library’

Posted on December 7, 2004 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – One of the great legacies of the Agatha Christie mystery canon is the rich vein of weird and wonderful characters she left for Britain’s vast array of character actors to mine. The new film series … Continue reading →

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TV REVIEW: ‘Sex Traffic’

Posted on October 12, 2004 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – The men who trade in women that are bought and sold into prostitution have a simple way to distract the police when they ship them between countries. They throw one of them overboard. When the … Continue reading →

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TV REVIEW: ‘Green Wing’

Posted on September 10, 2004 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Victoria Pile’s outrageously silly and deliciously vulgar hospital comedy “Green Wing” picks up where it left off for its second season now running on Channel 4. The show has the shape of a typical television … Continue reading →

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TV REVIEW: Trollope’s ‘He Knew He Was Right’

Posted on April 16, 2004 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – From the moment wealthy young Louis Trevelyan sits down with Sir Marmaduke Rowley, governor of the Mandarin Islands, to negotiate his betrothal to Rowley’s beautiful and spirited daughter Emily, two things are obvious: They are … Continue reading →

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MUSIC REVIEW: George Fenton and ‘Blue Planet’ in Hyde Park

Posted on September 16, 2002 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – They call Hyde Park the lungs of London and on Sunday evening there, 10,000 people took a collective deep breath and metaphorically plunged into the ocean depths to experience the marvels of “The Blue Planet.” … Continue reading →

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