Richard Berry

Imagine if 24 - nerve-wracking, terrorist-torturing, twist-laden show that it is - was called 48 or even 72. More hours more fun, perhaps, but it would probably start to drag a little over that second or third day. Now to make matters worse, imagine that at some point...

When George Orwell died he was planning a new novel about the class system set aboard a ship: a follow-up to his dystopian masterpiece 1984. It has always felt like a great literary loss that he didn't live long enough to finish it. In that sense,

When Dawson's Creek left our screens in 2003, two potential successor shows were left to compete for the position of America's leading high school drama, and the adoration of teenage hearts. They went about it in very different ways.

The OC represented an evolution in the...

Any show pitched as "the new" something is bound to be a disappointment. Only the most successful shows are followed by their very own "the new"s, so the comparisons between BBC Three's new sitcom Pramface and two leading forebears, Gavin and Stacey and The...

Channel 4's 10 O'Clock Live returned to our screens on Wednesday night for its second series. While impressions of Tony Blair by Rory Bremner and Alastair Campbell by Peter Capaldi had accompanied Labour's time in power prior to 2010, 10 O'Clock Live represents a...

Great Britain won 47 medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, an impressive haul that exceeded the target of 35 set by UK Sport. But performing at home at London 2012 will mean the pressure is on to better that performance. This is the first in a

At London 2012, Britain is preparing to take part the Olympic football competition for the first time since 1960. Quite how 'British' our representatives will be a still a matter of controversy, with the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish football associations refusing to cooperate with their English counterpart...

Imagine the scenario. It's the eve of a general election. Public satisfaction with the major parties of right and left is at an all-time low. In a televised debate the leader of a small, centrist party gives a stirring performance, surges ahead in the polls and wins the election, becoming...