Carol Midgley

Columnist and Features Writer at The Times

Columnist, TV reviewer and feature writer at The Times. All views are my own etc. RTs not necessarily endorsements

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Bafta TV Awards 2025: Baffling snub for Wolf Hall

3 days ago | thetimes.com | Carol Midgley
Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire

5 days ago | thetimes.com | Carol Midgley
The Trial review - could this parental nightmare revive the one-off drama?

6 days ago | thetimes.com | Carol Midgley

What is this strange thing? A single, self-contained drama that is all neatly done and dusted in less than an hour? No flabbed-out eight-episode box set and then a blatant tee-up for a sequel? Let’s hope it catches on, not least because the constant flood of multi-episode series makes heavy work for the poor, square-eyed TV critic.
Are you watching Popecam? Or, as I like to call it, Flue-Tube

6 days ago | thetimes.com | Carol Midgley

So, how is Chimney Watch going for you? Or as you may prefer to call it, “Flue-Tube”? Many thousands of pairs of eyes are trained not on the US/UK trade deal or the latest news from India and Pakistan but a livestream — of a chimney. And not just one livestream. No! There are dozens of feeds from the BBC to YouTube — and even The Times — providing uninterrupted coverage of a skinny funnel doing absolutely nothing.
Dead Man Walking: Dan Walker on Death Row review - flaws laid bare

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Carol Midgley

Dan Walker on death row? Blimey. Even if you aren’t the biggest fan of his work on BBC Breakfast, 5 News and Football Focus, that seems a bit harsh. Walker was in America to examine the deadly serious matter of capital punishment. “Without wanting to sound too morbid, do you think about your death?” he asked Charles Thompson through a prison telephone. Well, let’s see now. The man has been on death row for 26 years, awaiting execution by lethal injection. I think we can safely assume the answer is yes.
Whatever you think of Prince Harry, he hasn’t forgotten his status

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Carol Midgley

We need to talk about Prince Harry, aged 40 and a half. No, wait — come back! I know you’re sick of hearing about him, especially after his recent 30-minute TV tantrum in which he emerged as a professional victim and indeed a bit of a tit. But do you think I am here to stick the boot in? To kick an assistant jam maker when he’s down? Not so, reader. I am here with good news. I come to say that all is not lost for the King’s second son.
Wandsworth Prison: Out of Control review - squalid, rat-infested … shocking, in fact

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Carol Midgley

Wandsworth Prison: Out of Control (5) was an odd bit of TV scheduling. Who wants to sit down at 9pm on bank holiday Monday and watch a bleak documentary about a squalid, smelly jail that seems to be so lawless a female prison officer was filmed having sex with an inmate and was duly sent to prison herself? Not exactly The Sound of Music, is it?
The Nation Pays Tribute review: BBC rises to the occasion

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Carol Midgley

VE Day 80: The Nation Pays Tribute BBC1 ★★★★✰Covid put the kibosh on the 75th VE Day commemorations in 2020, many events having to be cancelled, so the 80th anniversary spectacular felt super-charged and infused with even more emotion than usual.
VE Day 80: We Were There review

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Carol Midgley
The Essex Millionaire Murders review

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Carol Midgley