... He plays Jed, a capstan lathe operator at a big Newcastle engineering plant, who writes country and western numbers in his spare time. Meanwhile, 250 miles away in London, Ade a nicely restrained performance from James Wilby is a flagging A ...

... upon a lonely widow. Walker is also developing a film about prostitutes in Newcastle with Craddock. It's a gimlet eyed, unsen timental, non-moralistic view of work ing women, he says. It's based on a beautiful book and is being adapted by ...

... black bags, lost some where on a council rubbish tip, with both men ferociously duelling with metal detectors. A real gem, worthy of a swift repeat. TV schedulers please note it was also refreshing to watch a show set in a small English ...

... Birthday a Celebration (ITV, Saturday, June 6, 9pm). Do you mind if we turn it on? I whimpered, I have to review it for The Stage. As you can probably imagine, the suggestion cast a pall over the evening like a cloud of anthrax. Let's go find a puppy ...

... humiliation. A formidable woman Mrs Armstrong, commented a friend. Too right. From Miles' first piercing Herbert, it was clear that this was a study in household horror. Husband and wife loathed one another but played out the pretence of a happy Edwardian ...

... Students in the soup guarantee a drama By HARRY VENNING FLY ON the wall documentaries don't work for the simple reason that while a fly on a wall is small and unobtrusive, a television camera crew isn't. Anyone who has ever found a camera ...

... to her frosted blonde beehive and thick black mascara from Police Woman days. Angie was truly terrifying in a way men never are as a member of a cult which snatched the children of opponents and (possibly) replaced them with holo grams. Her son-in-law ...

... second star spot she had a somewhat sombre and serious-looking Tom Jones churning out uninteresting facts and viewpoints regarding his career and his meeting with the great Elvis. The brightest bit was a chat with Alex Norton, a real Scottish actor-of- ...

... saying that the Gloria Hunniford gift of the gab show is not seen on the network. In which case that is a pity because it is arguably the beat of the chat shows. Silver blonde Gloria with her warm anile, fining teeth, high cheek bones, and ability to appear ...

... her talents to a more suitable context, her own chat show. The essential difference between Lawley's approach to the chat show and that of El Tel's is that Lawley approaches from a point of journalism while the blarney king comes from a ...

... dominated TV that there was no such thing as a funny woman. Now nobody could accuse Miss Wax of being a comedienne. She hasn't got a joke in her. Rather she is a brash and screwball personality ready to kick convention in the teeth and keen to make amusing ...

... approaches life with the conviction it is all a joke, and obviously believes that what passes for a chat show elsewhere is the yawn of the week. So she's different and full of pizzaz. But Ruby is less of a gem when she turns frenetic, constantly ogles ...