Lucy Mangan on last night's TV
The Shield (Five)Lem is dead. Shane is racked with guilt. Kavanaugh is obsessed. Vic is consumed with rage and lust for vengeance. The Shield is back.Continue reading...
View ArticleWrong arm of the law: The Shield
Season six of The Shield has just finished in America, and I've already got withdrawal symptoms. Here's why - no spoilers, but some teasers.Playing dirty: Forest Whitaker as Lieutenant Kavanaugh...
View ArticleThe Shield: a quality TV cop show without the hype
After seven series, the critically acclaimed drama is set to climax around a storyline relating back to its very first episode – that's classy serial televisionPop quiz: which sprawling, ensemble cop...
View ArticleTV drama: The Shield versus The Wire
We're all, still, talking about The Wire, the HBO series that started life with David Simon's book Homicide. Along with The Sopranos, it has transformed TV drama. But, argues Chris Petit, The Shield is...
View ArticleBen Marshall talks to the star and creator of The Shield
As The Shield gets set for a long bloody goodbye, Ben Marshall talks to its star Michael Chiklis and creator Shawn Ryan. Over and outWhatever else you might want to say about the Bush administration...
View ArticleLucy Mangan: Cable girl
I have tried. I know I should try harder. Be the best viewer I can be. And it's not even as if it will have to be for very much longer - we're so close to the finish line now, it's just a matter of...
View ArticleWatch this: Property Watch | A Poet's Guide to Britain | Find Me a Family |...
Property Watch8pm, BBC2Despite the downturn and the reduction in the circumstances of Channel 4's Kirstie'n'Phil, we're still as obsessed with property as ever. (By "we", I mean TV - see new series of...
View ArticleWhy were there two versions of The Shield's finale?
The UK and US versions of The Shield's gripping denouement were markedly different. Do the makers know?I am not by nature a TV obsessive. However, a select few programmes inspire a devotion that brings...
View ArticleYour next box set: The Shield
Jeez, you'll doubtless be saying, I really haven't got any space left in my cranial database for another freaking US cop series. Choke on your scepticism. The Shield is what The Wire didn't dare...
View ArticleThe top 50 TV dramas of all time: 31-40
The best TV drama series ever made, from This Life to The Twilight Zone, as nominated by Guardian criticsThis Life was about five twentysomethings– middle-class, working, with a bit of money in their...
View ArticleBox Set Club: The Shield
Based on a notorious real-life case of LA police corruption, The Shield ranks among the best television ever madeThe Shield has never enjoyed the universal popularity of The Sopranos nor the critical...
View ArticleThe Silence: quietly rehabilitating America's crime thriller genre
Can Baran Bo Odar's moody and menacing debut breathe new life into the weary world of Hollywood cop films?Of all the genres Hollywood has visited and revisited over the years, perhaps it’s the police...
View ArticleBeverly Hills Cop TV series shot down
New show based on 80s Eddie Murphy movie has been canned due to insufficient interest from US TV networksA TV show based on the iconic 80s Eddie Murphy action comedy Beverly Hills Cop has been canned...
View ArticleTV's most traumatic scenes: from Breaking Bad to Game of Thrones
Many of us are still reeling from the latest episode of the drug drama, but TV has been giving us shocks for years. Here are the best, or maybe worst, examples of small-screen traumaWARNING: This post...
View ArticleThe Shield actor Michael Jace arrested in wife's shooting death
Jace expected to be charged with murder Tuesday, after police found the body of April Jace in the couple's home in Los AngelesThe actor Michael Jace, who is best known for a role in TV series The...
View ArticleThe Shield actor Michael Jace charged with wife's murder
Jace, 51, could face 50 years to life in state prison if convicted of wife April's fatal shooting at the family homeProsecutors charged actor Michael Jace, who played a police officer in the hit TV...
View ArticleShield actor Michael Jace told father-in-law of wife's death, 911 call shows
• Actor charged with killing April Jace• Call contains request to come for childrenThe actor Michael Jace, who is charged with killing his wife, called and told his father-in-law about the shooting and...
View ArticleScreen savers: the untold story of US TV’s showrunners
They are the new masters of TV, a bunch of jelly-bean-eating hotshots who have ushered in a golden age. But what do showrunners actually do? Andrew Collins on a film that goes behind the scenes at...
View ArticleAll hail The Shield - the scuzzy forgotten classic of TV’s golden age
Often unfairly overlooked in best-of lists, this drama about corrupt cops hurls you into the thick of the action for seven pulsating seasons – and now, finally, you can stream the lotYou would never...
View ArticleThe 100 best TV shows of the 21st century
Where’s Mad Men? How did The Sopranos do? Does The Crown triumph? Can anyone remember Lost? And will Downton Abbey even figure? Find out here – and have your sayWe interview the No 1 show’s...
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