This month’s Five Books For theme is historical detectives and it has a kind of inevitability about it, given that detective fiction is my favourite genre - and there are so many wonderful books to...
The boom in TV series that are based on romantic novels has not happened by accident. Readers have spent years longing for adaptations that honor the emotional pulse of the stories and don’t reduce...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read /...
Ben McCann, Adelaide University Catherine O’Hara, the beloved actor and comedian who has died aged 71, occupied that rare position in contemporary screen culture: a comic actor, a cult figure and a...
The Netherlands had a right wing government for less than a year, and the administration was not very effective on any of the urgent issues and threats facing our time. But it did manage to achieve...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read /...
Children’s stories have often found a second life on screen. From illustrated classics to contemporary sagas, the leap from page to film or television has become a way to reimagine the worlds that...
Can you believe we're almost entering a new year? That means saying goodbye to 2025 and welcoming 2026! And what better way to start the year than by diving into a new series that deserves a TV...
Relatively few groundbreaking science fiction series were broadcast in 2024. Among the most notable were Fallout, Prime Video's post-apocalyptic phenomenon; Netflix's ambitious 3 Body Problem; and...
As a writer, I’ll be the first to say it - writers are kind of boring. Especially when someone is trying to feature us on television. What viewer really wants to see someone agonizing over their...
