Nothing fascinates more than an unwatched but much loved gem - shows that burn brightly for a few glorious seasons before being all-too-often consigne...

What I love about good film music is the use of silence and space. The medium allows for that. When you're writing to accompany an image you can stretch a piece in ways that wouldn't work in stand alone music; maybe leaving gaps of twenty or thirty seconds between phrases, using background sounds, or bits of dialogue as connectors.

Utopia was undoubtedly a show created with the best intentions, and despite the critiques I've just listed, it still rests high above the majority of the trash on TV in the quality stakes. When the plot was finally revealed, the show took a sharp turn for the better, it's just a shame this was only in the last two episodes.

'The Wire' star Robert F. Chew has died at the age of 52. The heavyweight actor died in his sleep at his home in Baltimore, Maryland on Thursday. ...

Derek Jameson, veteran broadcaster and newspaperman was buried today in an emotional send-off, with his wife Ellen paying tribute to a "one-off". ...

Breaking Bad season 5 is due to be aired in the US on 15 July. After being such a huge fan of the likes of The Wire and The Sopranos I never thought a series would completely engulf me as those two gems did. Breaking bad has more than filled that void for me.

Brits were on parade last night at the White House, as some of the cream of home-grown entertainment talent were among guests invited to dinner with B...

Dominic West has revealed that the man he plays in The Hour will become a little like his character in The Wire. The 42-year-old plays debonair new...

Monday night saw the first instalment of Top Boy, Channel 4's drama being hyped as the UK's answer to The Wire. For those emerging from under a st...

Actors Dominic West and Clarke Peters, best known for starring in TV drama The Wire, have started their stage run in Othello at The Crucible in Sheffi...

It was hailed as the British answer to the hit US show Mad Men. It stars the hunky Dominic West, previously known as Jimmy McNulty from The Wire. And ...

Another day, another press release announcing a new series heading to Sky Atlantic. Last month the channel announced they were taking cult favourite Nurse Jackie off BBC Four's hands. It's the latest in a longish list of acquisitions from other channels, Sky's wallet proving too big for the rest of the UK terrestrial broadcasters to compete with. And I say let Sky have them.