Benji Wilson

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Benji Wilson

Both Louis and Daisy's lives back home needed fixing - he is an overworked lawyer who was about to split up with his wife and lose his child if he didn't get his act together. She was a Sydney socialite reliant on handouts from the now dead stepfather to sustain her Jimmy Choo habit. Wine and grapes and careful husbandry are used as an overarching metaphor for them both slowing down and paying attention to the things that matter.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Benji Wilson

The title to Channel 4's wartime documentary is Britain Under the Nazis: The Forgotten Occupation but it could just have well have been, Britain Under the Nazis: What Would You Have Done? When the Nazis occupied the Channel Islands during the Second World War, the 94,000 islanders who remained were left with some stark options: resist, collaborate or plough some middle furrow. In the round, these two, excellent hour-long films showed how the ramifications of those choices echo to this day.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Benji Wilson

In all of the above, therefore, Dept. Q offers little that's new, but it has two things in its favour. Firstly, I'm still not sure how many people have seen Slow Horses, because it's on Apple TV+ and no one knows how many people watch that. There's every chance that Carl Morck and his team of ne'er-do-wells fighting evil, as well as a system that has cast them aside, will seem like the best idea ever committed to telly. Secondly, and more importantly, Dept. Q is very well done.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Benji Wilson

The warning signs are all there - jaunty pizzicato strings, delightful rural setting, a quirky, cranky detective paired off with a chalk-and-cheese youthful sidekick. There is even a Death in the title, suggesting that Death Valley (BBC One) not only looks a bit like all the other cheerful come-for-the-location, stay-for-the-murders crime dramas on TV (ie. Death in Paradise, Midsomer Murders) but that it is merely the same formula set in Wales.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Benji Wilson

There are two ways to watch Fred and Rose West: a British Horror Story (Netflix). It works as a fairly standard true crime documentary series (although only in the way once-startling depravity is now fairly standard fare in true crime). But it also functions as an inadvertent enquiry into how true crime is made and sold. For British viewers over the age of 40 or so, the second part will be the most interesting.