Ammar Kalia

Daytime television is a diverse offering. Any given weekday morning could see you veer from the low-stakes thrills of property-profits show Homes Under the H...

The Sopranos If the past is a foreign country, rewatching The Sopranos is like stepping into another universe entirely. The silken polo shirts and rattling g...

I can’t sit through a horror film. Or, I can sit, I just watch through clammy fingers, anticipating each jump scare while trying not to squeal and wondering w...

“There’s four things in life I hate: scroungers, foreigners, doctors and posh people.” These aren’t the words of 1970s National Front supporters; this is Kat...

It is three hours after the end of school on a Friday evening and deep in the bowels of Harris Academy Peckham, south-east London, 20 year 10 students are si...

Pete Price has watched every episode of Coronation Street, having caught the very first one back in 1960. “It was a dull, black and white street and, to this...

When he was widowed after almost 35 years of marriage, it seemed as if my dad might not find anyone else to love again. My mum was his first relationship, he...

In the beginning, there was the green pepper and the red tomato. Contestants had a mere £5 to fill a carrier bag with ingredients, then 30 minutes to turn th...

The song that became problematic … Michael Jackson – Billie Jean The helter-skelter, rigidly propulsive foundation of Michael Jackson’s 1983 hit is one of th...

The year is 1988: Margaret Thatcher has become the UK’s longest-serving 20th-century prime minister; Prince Charles has narrowly avoided death-by-avalanche w...

It is a true feat to make it through an episode of The Repair Shop without shedding a tear. While the premise of the BBC show is straightforward (members of ...

When it was announced in April that Britain’s longest-running soap, Coronation Street, would be introducing its first black family, the response was one of s...

The year 2012 had been a long and difficult one. One of three, in fact. It had been three years since my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer and, ever sin...

Swiping singles are big money – it is estimated that the dating market is worth $12bn (£9.3bn) globally. But how do we navigate the glut of options available...

Back in the early days of reality TV, it was enough to merely tune in and watch people exist. Take the first season of Big Brother: launched at the optimisti...

Leimert Park in the early 90s was a unique place to be. South Central LA: the birthplace of west-coast hip-hop, jam centre for the now middle-aged instrument...

This season of The Apprentice has already cemented itself in the show’s canon with the usual mix of deluded candidates – see 19-year-old “luxury womenswear c...

Bristol has long held a reputation as one of the UK’s more formidable musical cities – from 1970s post-punk pioneers the Pop Group to the 90s trip-hop of Mas...

Great art can emerge from any residency. A staple of jazz through the decades—from Ornette Coleman’s 1959 series at New York’s Five Spot to Steam Down’s rauc...

Modern fandom can seem an alien concept. Gone are the teens penning heartfelt letters to their favourite pinups. Today’s fans – or “stans”, named after the E...