Roland White

Celebrity MasterChef is further proof that you can make successful television from pretty much anything. The cooks' first task was to reveal a piece of food, and prepare something with that ingredient in question.

He drew our attention to the movement and thickness of the paint, and highlighted the way the artist expressed turbulence and unrest.

Channel 5 is developing a successful line in reviving things that the BBC used to do well (like All Creatures Great And Small).

The people at Panorama who doctored President Trump's speech have done more damage to the BBC than they can possibly imagine.

BBC series Civilisations Rise And Fall seems to believe its core audience struggles with detail and has the attention span of a hyperactive squirrel.

You might remember that John Major once defined Britishness as warm beer, long shadows on cricket grounds, and old ladies cycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist.

ROLAND WHITE: Michael Gove was ridiculed during the Brexit campaign when he said that people 'have had enough of experts'. After watching Poison Water, you might well think that he was right.

Please spare a thought for the people who write detective dramas. They can try, but they'll never produce anything as dramatic and mysterious as real life.

Everything in this feelgood programme was bathed in sunshine. You could virtually feel the summer holiday warmth in the air, and the cool breeze in her hotel room as she opened the shutters.

Dr Seuss’s character has taken over a demanding role — but it’s yet another usurpation that points towards our culture’s increasing Americanisation