“Who the bard? Me the bard!” (recent writings on TV shows of joy)

One of my current great TV loves is Upstart Crow, a BBC series written by Ben Elton and featuring David Mitchell as an early-career Shakespeare, trying to get his plays written amidst domestic life and the frustrations of public transport. I wrote a review of season 3 for HeadStuff, with a lot of feelings.

And here’s a piece I wrote marking the 25th anniversary of Frasier, which is mostly about how much I love Niles Crane.