Do the Writers’ Strikes Affect Film and TV as much as Hollywood Would Have Us Believe?
This week, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has finally agreed to end a gruelling five-month strike, which persisted for 146 days. Representing a significant workforce of 11,5000 screenwriters, the…
Review: Love Island’s Winners Can’t Salvage a Losing Season
Love Island’s ninth season concluded last week with Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan taking home the £50,000 winning prize. Fagan, a science teacher from Manchester, and Harrinanan, a social worker…
Microaggressions in dating: Love Island and the ‘reality’ behind reality TV
Ex-Islander Georgia Steel is under fire for calling Shaq ‘Zak’ on Love Island Aftersun, claiming she couldn’t pronounce his name. Host Maya Jama corrected her, but Georgia proceeded to go…
I’m an MP… get me out of here!
This is not a drill! I repeat, this is not a drill! It’s official – Matt Hancock is on I’m a Celeb. I’m sure everyone was excited for the return…
An interview with the winner of the Great British Sewing Bee
Serena Baker is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Edinburgh who was crowned the winner of BBC One’s Great British Sewing Bee. The seventh series of the programme…
Keeping Up With The Kardashians: the end of an era?
The rise and rise of the Kardashian family has been, as was always intended, well-documented. Premiering in late 2007, their eponymous show featured Juicy Couture-laden Kim and her wealthy, wannabe…
Five Guys a Week
Five Guys a Week arrives on our screens as a composite of reality TV excess and perversion. Blending Love is Blind, Come Dine with Me and your most horrific fever…
Love is Blind
Netflix’s new reality show turned out to be a tangled mess. But it’s also brutally indicative of the way Western society currently falls in love. Or into attraction. Or marriage.…