Sarah Carson

Slagging off Avatar is a lazy pursuit. Unfortunately, given James Cameron’s $400m, 195-minute third instalment is being hailed once again as the saviour of cinema, it is impossible to avoid. Avatar: Fire and Ash, comes 16 years after the “groundbreaking” ... See more

It’s been a marvellous year to be a couch potato. The Celebrity Traitors, The Studio, Adolescence, Severance, The White Lotus, Last One Laughing, Leonard and Hungry Paul, the final series of Big Boys – 2025’s TV at its best has been thrilling, agenda-sett... See more

Poor Ken Bruce. It’s been two and a half years since he left Radio 2 for Greatest Hits Radio and yet his scandalous departure is still cited as the tipping point of the BBC brain drain and the harbinger of the corporation’s demise altogether. It is, it se... See more

I have never paid much attention to the American version of Strictly Come Dancing. I haven’t missed an episode of Strictly in about a decade, but despite their overwhelming similarities, Dancing with the Stars, as it is rather inelegantly titled over ther... See more

In the five years since Caroline Flack’s suicide, she has been immortalised as the poster victim of modern celebrity. Her death has become a tragic parable about cancel culture, responsible use of social media, the intrusion of the tabloid press, the sens... See more