TelevisionThe groundbreaking flat-sharing comedy’s very concept terrified ITV. Its writer and actors reflect on its smashing of gender stereotypes and the wildly successful spin-offs it launched
According to Philip Larkin’s poem Annus Mirabilis, “sexual intercourse began / In nineteen sixty-three.” But sex in peak-time television did not start – and, then, only fumblingly and furtively – until 1973. On 15 August that year, ITV premiered the sitcom Man About the House. Read More...
TelevisionFrom Transparent and Master Of None to Fleabag and Flowers, the latest comedy series are ditching gags for harsh reality and breaking new ground in the process
'Am I still a feminist if I watch porn?' Meet Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the British Lena DunhamRead moreIn the final minutes of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s BBC3 series Fleabag, the young female protagonist delivers a tearful monologue about her self-loathing and isolation. It provides a coda to the show’s disturbing portrait of a lonely, tormented woman, something that – as the eponymous anti-hero is at pains to point out between sobs – “isn’t fucking funny”. Read More...
ArtInterview'I love staring at one spot for six hours!' Life models on the secrets of disrobingTim JonzeWhat sort of person would stand naked and still for hours, often in agony? Nude models talk about how tough yet life-changing the work can be, even when posing for hen parties
The first time Dominic Blake took his clothes off in front of an art class was, as you might imagine, a daunting experience. Read More...
