Articles by James Keast

30 Rock Season 1

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2007

NBC sitcom 30 Rock, headed by former Saturday Night Live writer/performer Tina Fey, about a SNL-like sketch comedy show, started the year i...

In the Shadow of the Moon

David Sington

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2007

There are documentaries that explore, in the spirit of investigative journalism, the hidden truths and untold stories of history, and there...

Friday Night Lights Season 1

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2007

How do you sell a small-town Texas football show that’s neither about football nor a Texas small town? That’s the challenge faced by NBC, w...

The Office Season 3

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2007

Amongst the sitcom pitfalls that NBC’s brilliant show The Office is deftly avoiding, two of them are usually deadly: it’s a remake of a hig...

Drawn To History

Book

PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2007

For comics fans who’ve struggled with the lack of respect the medium (not genre!) gets, Reading Comics (Da Capo Press) is a godsend book, a...

The Simpsons: Season 10

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

In the land of The Simpsons on DVD, this tenth season (which aired in 1998/’99) is the tipping point, the moment when you decide if you’re...

Flash Gordon: Saviour of the Universe Edition

Mike Hodges

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

Turns out there’s a reason why I know every note of Queen’s awesome soundtrack to this 1980 sci-fi comic adaptation yet barely remember a m...

The Lives of Others

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

Change comes slowly to humans, as it does to the protagonist in von Donnersmarck’s remarkable Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others, which...