Emily Baker

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Baker

I can’t remember when I started watching television with subtitles. I couldn’t even really tell you why I do it – I don’t have impaired hearing or any other accessibility needs. But what I do know is that subtitles have made my TV watching richer – I concentrate more, I am rarely distracted by my phone, I understand (almost) every plot point. I am, as the youth say, “locked in”. Which is why I was worried when my colleagues suggested I attempt to spend a whole weekend without them.

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Baker

Louis Theroux is undeniably one of the most popular documentarians of our time. Over the past three decades, he has informed and entertained millions with his curious investigations into various taboos and subcultures, from the porn industry to the Ku Klux Klan to Scientology. Theroux’s signature faux-naivety makes him a skilled interviewer, lulling his subjects into a false sense of security – until, inevitably, they realise they have dug their own grave.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Baker

I’ve spent the past seven years defending Netflix’s You and its serial killer protagonist, Joe Goldberg (though not, of course, his increasingly grisly murders). I’ve argued in its favour from every angle possible: that it’s a clever commentary on our obsession with true crime; that it’s a glaring example of our willingness to forgive murderous men if we fancy them; that, yes, it is trashy, but it’s also wildly entertaining, mindless fun.  But the fifth and final season tests even my patience.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Baker

How do you decide which hospital patient is the most ill? How do you choose which person will get treatment first? Or, as theatre co-ordinator Nikki Tingle – whose job it is to decide who gets surgery first – puts it in the opening episode of 999: The Critical List, “Why is she taking priority over him?” These are the impossible questions the doctors of the Royal Blackburn Hospital must answer not every day, but every hour.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Baker

This year, The Apprentice is celebrating 20 years since it first premiered. It’s an impressive milestone – or at least it would be if the show was still anywhere near its former glory. At its height in 2011, Lord Alan Sugar’s business competition would pull in an average of almost nine million viewers a week. But this year’s 19th series, which will broadcast its finale tonight, is being watched by just over five million.