We got Obama elected! West Wing stars relive the parties, pranks and power games
Racist hate mail, late-night booze-ups, 9/11 hysteria and a visit from Prince Andrew … 20 years after its launch, Aaron Sorkin and the team recall the epic TV drama that changed US politics
July 2019
'Things could get so much worse': inside the Handmaid’s Tale’s darkest season yet
Its latest episode featured one of its most sickening images to date – but, argue the show’s stars and creators, the drama only reflects an increasingly disturbing America
January 2019
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Destroyer review – Nicole Kidman's cop on the skids is a raw, riveting revelation
In a smart and utterly absorbing performance, Kidman transforms her appearance to play an LA detective brutalised by her work undercover
June 2018
Child separations: TV makers threaten to boycott 'evil' Fox over coverage
Steve Levitan, Seth MacFarlane, Paul Feig and Judd Apatow voice anger over coverage of controversial US immigration policy
February 2018
Best picture Oscar hustings
Why Get Out should win the 2018 best picture Oscar
In the first of a series ahead of the Oscars, Peter Bradshaw champions Jordan Peele’s brilliant and comic scary movie
July 2017
Jump the shark
When good TV goes bad: how The West Wing went south
After three sublime seasons, writer Aaron Sorkin responded to 9/11 with an unusually clumsy standalone episode that knocked the whole show off balance
March 2017
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Get Out review – tea, bingo… and racial terror
Get Out review – fantastically twisted horror-satire on race in America
February 2017
Get Out review – white liberal racism is terrifying bogeyman in sharp horror
Writer-director Jordan Peele masterfully combines incisive social commentary with genuine, seat-edge suspense in film exploring evils of American suburbia
November 2016
Aaron Sorkin publishes letter urging daughter to fight after Trump win
West Wing and Social Network writer attacks president-elect as ‘thoroughly incompetent pig with dangerous ideas’
March 2016
Bartlet for president! The new West Wing podcast is a tonic to Trumpmania
The West Wing Weekly, which revisits every episode of the show, is the perfect antidote to real-life presidential-race madness. Co-host Joshua Malina talks Aaron Sorkin, Donald Trump and the podcast’s very special guests
April 2012
The Cabin in the Woods – review
This clever meta-horror asks what human need is fed by seeing hot youths get slaughtered, but forgets to be properly scary, writes Peter Bradshaw
July 2009
Your next box set
Your next box set: Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip
Esther Addley: Studio 60, set behind the scenes at a late-night comedy show, has all the sentimental ambition of its predecessor
October 2007
West Wing star burns up BBC
The BBC have pulled off a casting coup by securing West Wing actor Bradley Whitford to star in a new political thriller. By Stephen Brook.
July 2007
Kathryn Flett on television
So smart, yet so very smug
TV and radio blog
Studio 60, you're no West Wing
Witty, bold ... and axed
TV and radio blog
Is anyone going to bother with Studio 60?
November 2001
West Wing pips Sopranos at Emmys
10.45am:White House drama The West Wing won the coveted best drama award at last night's Emmys, defeating The Sopranos, writes Jason Deans.