My life has changed quite a bit in the last couple of months. I went from working in a respectable career, earning this remarkable thing called “money”, to being an impoverished student whose...

I hate British soaps. Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, the late, lamented Brookside, even that young upstart soap, Hollyoaks. I hate them all. And what is more, I cannot for the life of me fathom why everybody else doesn't hate them as well....

Dan kicked things off yesterday with a look at how television is a more social experience than film. Today, it's my turn to consider why television is so much better at creating characters — particularly if you have XX chromosomes.