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The Shield

September 2019

  • The best TV of the century composite.

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century

    Where’s Mad Men? How did The Sopranos do? Does The Crown triumph? Can anyone remember Lost? And will Downton Abbey even figure? Find out here – and have your say

April 2019

  • Michael Chiklis as detective wrong ’un Vic Mackey.

    All hail The Shield - the scuzzy forgotten classic of TV’s golden age

    Often unfairly overlooked in best-of lists, this drama about corrupt cops hurls you into the thick of the action for seven pulsating seasons – and now, finally, you can stream the lot

October 2014

  • The writers’ room on Men of a Certain Age

    Screen savers: the untold story of US TV’s showrunners

    They are the new masters of TV, a bunch of jelly-bean-eating hotshots who have ushered in a golden age. But what do showrunners actually do? Andrew Collins on a film that goes behind the scenes at everything from Boardwalk Empire to The Good Wife

June 2014

  • Michael Jace

    Shield actor Michael Jace told father-in-law of wife's death, 911 call shows

    Call contains reference to request to come for children of actor charged with killing April Jace

May 2014

  • Michael Jace

    The Shield actor Michael Jace charged with wife's murder

  • Michael Jace

    The Shield actor Michael Jace arrested in wife's shooting death

September 2013

  • Spooks, Breaking and Dexter

    TV and radio blog
    TV's most traumatic scenes: from Breaking Bad to Game of Thrones

    Graeme Virtue: Many of us are still reeling from the latest episode of the drug drama, but TV has been giving us shocks for years. Here are the best, or maybe worst, examples of small-screen trauma

July 2013

  • Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop, 1984

    Beverly Hills Cop TV series shot down

    New show based on 80s Eddie Murphy movie has been canned due to insufficient interest from US TV networks

November 2011

  • The Silence (Das Letzte Schweigen), 2010, directed by Baran Bo Odar

    The Silence: quietly rehabilitating America's crime thriller genre

    Alex Hess: Can Baran Bo Odar's moody and menacing debut breathe new life into the weary world of Hollywood cop films?

August 2011

  • The Shield

    Box set club
    Box Set Club: The Shield

    Kathy Sweeney: Based on a notorious real-life case of LA police corruption, The Shield ranks among the best television ever made

January 2010

  • Top 50 TV: This Life

    The top 50 TV dramas of all time: 31-40

    The best TV drama series ever made, from This Life to The Twilight Zone, as nominated by Guardian critics

May 2009

  • The Shield

    Your next box set
    Your next box set: The Shield

    Stuart Jeffries: It's Dangerous Liaisons moved to an LA where power is wielded without rule of law and sex is, at best, consolation

  • Michael Chiklis The Shield

    TV and radio blog
    Why were there two versions of The Shield's finale?

    Keith Kahn-Harris: The UK and US versions of The Shield's gripping denouement were markedly different. Do the makers know?

  • TV tonight
    Watch this

    Gareth McLean on Property Watch | A Poet's Guide to Britain | Find Me a Family | The Shield

March 2009

  • Cable girl
    Cable girl

    Lucy Mangan on The Shield

February 2009

  • Michael Chiklis The Shield

    Out with a bang

    As The Shield gets set for a long bloody goodbye, Ben Marshall talks to its star Michael Chiklis and creator Shawn Ryan

December 2008

  • The Wire: McNulty and Bunk

    Non-fiction boy

    We're all, still, talking about The Wire, the HBO series that started life with David Simon's book Homicide. Along with The Sopranos, it has transformed TV drama. But, argues Chris Petit, The Shield is even better

November 2008

  • Michael Chiklis The Shield

    TV and radio blog
    The Shield: a quality TV cop show without the hype

    After seven series, the critically acclaimed drama is set to climax around a storyline relating back to its very first episode – that's classy serial television

July 2007

  • TV and radio blog
    Wrong arm of the law: The Shield

    Season six of The Shield has just finished in America, and I've already got withdrawal symptoms. Here's why - no spoilers, but some teasers.

June 2007

  • Lucy Mangan

    TV review
    Last night's TV

    Lucy Mangan

    Lucy Mangan on The Shield

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