Katherine Parkinson on vintage frocks, hating honeycomb and rebooting herself
The IT Crowd star, currently on stage in Home, I’m Darling, talks about Chekovian Maltesers adverts and aspiring to play Peppa Pig
May 2018
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Carry on Brussels; A Very English Scandal; 24 Hours in Police Custody; Humans
TV review
Humans: season three review – injustice, racism and prejudice. Sound familiar?
December 2016
TV review
Humans review – simultaneously daft and affecting
2016 in TV
Rise of the robots: how tech took over TV in 2016
November 2016
TV and radio blog
What Black Mirror, Her and the near-future genre tell us about tomorrow
Taking after George Orwell and JG Ballard, some of the most prophetic and disturbing fiction about the near future continues to be made on TV and film
October 2016
TV review
Humans review – this march of machines is still pulse-quickening
The other side
Humans: Hollyoaks with hard drives or smart political sci-fi?
Katherine Parkinson: 'I'm scared of the brutality of Hollywood'
Revenge of the synth: watch the exclusive trailer for Humans series two
December 2015
Best TV of 2015
Cookie or the Countess? The 20 best quotes from 2015’s TV shows
Best culture 2015
The best TV shows of 2015
September 2015
Your next box set
Humans box set review: sci-fi invades a domestic setting – and grows increasingly terrifying
In the near future Gemma Chan’s robot servant, Anita, arrives at the Hawkins family home – and tensions soon arise in this absorbing, unsettling drama
August 2015
Mark Lawson on television
Four hundred shows and no time to watch them: is there too much TV on television?
The head of US channel FX says there are simply too many dramas for the discerning viewer to get through – and he has a point
Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV
Humans: new ABC show's synths aren't as scary as technology running our lives
Jazz Twemlow
You don’t need a killing machine with lasers to eradicate a species that divides its time between taking selfies and following a pizza on GPS
Humans: episode by episode
Humans recap: season one, episode eight – the big finale
It would be an understatement to say that Humans doesn’t end neatly. There are more questions than answers as the super-synths make their bid for freedom
July 2015
Channel 4 renews Humans for second series ahead of season finale
Humans: episode by episode
Humans recap: season one, episode seven – outstanding and unnerving
Humans: episode by episode
Humans recap: season one, episode six – sex, death and freedom
TV and radio blog
All too human: in pop culture's robot revolution, familiarity breeds revulsion
