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Black Doves is well worth a watch

Slow Horses

Television

Black Doves is well worth a watch

Critics will probably complain that it is derivative — which it is

James Delingpole

The best film, TV and music of 2024

Spectator writers on their culture picks of the year

The Spectator

This feels like an interim year for the Golden Globes

A quirky throat-clearer before something more straightforwardly commercial happens next year

Alexander Larman

Why is British espionage drama so in vogue?

We may not want to be on the receiving end of their attentions, but it’s hard not to be seduced, all the same

Alexander Larman

Television

Emmys 2024: Shōgun, shocks and surprises

The Japan-set drama won virtually everything this year

Alexander Larman

Television
September 2, 2024
The welcome return of Slow Horses
Mick Herron and Will Smith have a rug-pulling conceit that makes for high-octane viewing
Alexander Larman
Books and Arts
August 19, 2024
This month in culture: September 2024
What to watch this September
The Spectator
Television
July 17, 2024
Emmy nominations 2024: shocks and surprises
Largely a fair judgement on a considerable year for television
Alexander Larman
Television
December 9, 2023
Slow Horses is the best thing on TV
It’s better than James Bond because it is missing the grim portentousness, over-earnestness and pomposity
James Delingpole
Television
April 6, 2022
‘Slow Horses’ is thriller television at its best
It’s not funny, but it’s terrific
Alexander Larman

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