Alison Rowat
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United Kingdom
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Past articles by Alison:
SNP leadership debates should come with a trigger warning
WHILE watching one of the SNP leadership debates on television it struck me that something was missing: a trigger warning. → Read More
Succession star Brian Cox: My pick for new SNP leader
SNP supporter and Emmy-winning actor Brian Cox would rather Angus Robertson was standing in the party’s leadership election, it has emerged. → Read More
TV review: STV Debate; George Michael, Outed; The Bay
EXCEPT for viewers in Scotland. It was a phrase to chill the marrow, often for good reason. Bolted on after some juicy tease, it confirmed that… → Read More
TV review: Endeavour; Unforgotten; Cheat; The Mormons are Coming
There is a new test in town for women coppers: are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the F-club? Its origins are undefined, its leading… → Read More
The Piano, series one, episode three: Pure dead brilliance in Glasgow
PURE dead mortified. Any Glaswegian would feel the same. Here was The Piano, the hit Channel 4 show that’s Bake Off with pedals (the two share the… → Read More
Amanda & Alan's Italian Job; Supervet; Beyond Paradise; You & Me
WE shall miss Amanda & Alan’s Italian Job (BBC1, Friday). The series, featuring Amanda Holden and Alan Carr buying a derelict house on Sicily… → Read More
TV preview: Women Who Rock; Women Who Changed Scotland; Maternal
THEY said it could never be done. That it was the wrong place at the wrong time. So much for the welcome given to medical drama Maternal (STV,… → Read More
TV review: The Gold; Better; Prue and Danny's Death Road Trip; Piano
NEIL Forsyth, creator-writer of the superb Guilt, has only bleedin’ gawn and dun it again. Apologies for the outbreak of Cockney, but such is the… → Read More
Feel sorry for Nicola Sturgeon? Oh do gie's peace
WATCHING Nicola Sturgeon take a dive from her podium in Bute House yesterday brought to mind that line from Macbeth: “Nothing in his life became… → Read More
TV: 24/7 Pet Hospital; The Shamima Begum Story; You; 1923
BEING a veteran of Casualty I had high hopes for 24/7 Pet Hospital (BBC1, Monday-Friday). The new reality series is filmed at Wear Referrals, a… → Read More
Happy Valley, BBC1: Agony and ecstasy as curtain falls
FROM first breath to last it has taken nine years for Sally Wainwright’s tale of love and bitter loss to reach its end. Would the finale live up… → Read More
BBC1 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg; Sky News' Ridge on Sunday
IT was the perfect way to start a Sunday. Up with the wintry but welcome sun, a pot of tea, hot toast slathered in butter, and a 4000-word essay… → Read More
Cruise; North Sea Connection; Pamela Anderson's Home Renovation
IT has been a while since BBC4’s Saturday night dramas have reached the standard of the channel’s initial offerings, among them Borgen and… → Read More
Putin v West; Nolly; Hotel Portofino; Building Britain's Superhomes
There was much to note in Putin v The West (BBC2, Monday), a three-part documentary about the Russian president and his bloody adventures abroad.… → Read More
Nolly, ITVX/STV Player, with Helena Bonham Carter as Noele Gordon
We see Gordon taking part in a television test directed by a genial Scotsman. After introducing himself – “I’m John Logie Baird” – he tells the young Noele that she is the first woman in the world to appear on colour TV. Later she becomes the first woman to interview a Prime Minister on television. Surely an overactive imagination is at work here, the viewer thinks. Noele Gordon, star of a soap… → Read More
Happy Valley, BBC1, produces heroine for the times
ONCE in a while a character on television catches the mood of the times. Yosser Hughes, Boys from the Blackstuff, crushed by Thatcherism.… → Read More
A job too big for him and a past he cannot leave behind
AFTER the collapse of the Soviet empire some enterprising local authorities opened sculpture parks to house the unwanted statues of Lenin, Stalin,… → Read More
BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg; The Sunday Show; Ridge on Sunday
SOME scores on the doors after this week’s Sunday politics shows. → Read More
Maternal; Love Island; The Family Pile; The Traitors (US)
WITH both shows featuring chummy mummies it was inevitable that Maternal (STV, Monday) would be compared to Motherland, but there the similarities… → Read More
Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World; Bank of Dave
IT should surprise no one that Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and other politicians have walk-on parts in the documentary Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop… → Read More