カテゴリー: Television & radio
This documentary can’t help but be moving as it follows the Cam On group in Kolkata, who are creating a drama based on their experiences – even if it could do with more depthCam On is a film-making collective comprising some of the estimated 500 sex wo…
Corporation responds to ‘urgent need’ following earthquake by taking over Voice of America’s former channelThe BBC has stepped in to launch a news service in Myanmar after the devastating earthquake in the country, replacing a US service that Donald Tr…
Begum TV beams educational and entertainment shows into homes of women living under strict Taliban ruleFrom a tiny television studio in Paris, 4,500 miles from Kabul, a raft of programmes geared towards women and presented by female hosts beams 24 hour…
There is unease about how to strike a balance between tourist numbers and the need to protect natural resourcesAlong the beachfront on the Thai island of Samui, vendors are busy setting up tables covered with souvenirs and sunglasses. Staff stand outsi…
Jeremy Clarkson’s reality TV show has particular appeal for young people with no experience of farmingTo one Chinese reviewer, Jeremy Clarkson is “a stupid old British man with too much money who farmed for a year without harvesting anything”. To anoth…
Drag star celebrated with massive support at home after taking top prize in the long-running US reality showA drag queen has sparked national celebration as the “pride of Taiwan” and won praise and congratulations from the island’s president after winn…
Footage of green-fingered BBC presenter obscured from waist down to hide ‘symbol of US imperialism’His calm demeanour and wholesome vocation have apparently endeared him to one of the most authoritarian regimes in the world. But there is something abou…
Epic new TV adaptation of the 1975 novel reignites interest in the exploits of the Kent sailor William AdamsOn a backstreet in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo, between a seafood wholesaler and a jewellery shop, stands a simple monument. It marks the f…
Eight-episode series based on Liu Cixin novels triggers accusations of ‘Americanisation’ of a Chinese storyNetflix’s big-budget adaptation of Three-Body Problem, a series of novels by the Chinese author Liu Cixin, has divided opinion on Chinese social …
High-budget series with largely Japanese cast avoids well-worn western orientalist fantasies and wins plaudits in JapanJapanese audiences could have been forgiven for bracing themselves when Disney announced Shōgun, a 10-part adaptation of James Clavel…
First two episodes inaccessible to viewers in city, with some attributing censorship to umbrella protest scenesAmazon’s big-ticket series Expats, set and filmed in Hong Kong, is not available for viewing in the city despite being billed as a worldwide …
Killer of Juan Jumalon, 57, pretended to be a listener to enter home studio in Misamis Occidental provinceA radio anchor in the southern Philippines has been fatally shot by a man inside his studio in a brazen attack witnessed by people watching the pr…
This chilling Dispatches documentary reports on the aftermath of 2019’s apparently random terrorist attack, and alleges unpalatable truthsOn Easter Sunday 2019, six suicide bombings hit Catholic churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, killing 269 peop…
News anchor Kumar stays quietly courageous amid nationalist hysteria in Vinay Shukla’s tense documentary – but its final note of hope has been undermined by recent eventsEvents have overtaken this sombre documentary, which, though interesting and relev…
Military personnel speak frankly of the chaotic, terrifying evacuation, in moving new documentary series from Channel 4Just occasionally a documentary series makes you stop and rethink what you know of the world. Evacuation, three unforgettable films a…