Game of Thrones: season two, episode nine – Blackwater
A heart-stopping hour of near-perfect television, this episode ultimately belonged to Tyrion and Cersei

There's no soft soap from this new avenger
Thirty years ago watching television was easy. You sat down with your family and gasped at a parade of glamorous women as they fought and schemed and threatened their way across your screen.

James Van Der Beek: New doors open for Dawson
The problem with interviewing former teen idols is that you have a fixed view in your head about how they'll be. Thus, before I talk to James Van Der Beek, I imagine that he'll be something like his character on infamously angst-ridden teen drama Dawson's Creek: verbose, serious, prone to...

Can a show recover from the loss of its creator?
Community fans have been left reeling by the firing of the show's creator Dan Harmon. But is there any hope for the cult sitcom, or do shows inevitably decline when their creators depart?

Game of Thrones: season two, episode eight – The Prince of Winterfell
Betrayal, intrigue and despair feature in an occasionally slow-moving but fascinating episode