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Robin Bell Feb 6, 2017

A salute to some of the brilliant and hard-hitting episodes in Steven Moffat's first TV series, the evergreen Press Gang...

Before River Song, Trenzalore and his take on The Doctor, before Sherlock fell off a building and provided multiple explanations, before James Nesbitt flipped out in a zoo in Jekyll, before Coupling, Joking Apart and Chalk, maybe even before he was known as The Moff, before all that came the quite brilliant Press Gang. Steven Moffat's first TV series, which he wrote all 42 episodes of, was based on an idea by his father, Bill Moffat. At its centre it had a brilliant will they/won't they relationship, and the epitome of a strong female character in Lynda Day. After 5 series it ended, but left behind so many quality episodes, which in trying to choose the stand out mind-blowers has been nigh on impossible. But for jolting,...

There can be far worse situations for a woman than a man committing to their child but not (conventionally) to her

Would Hugh Grant be hacked off if I called him a tart? Oh, I'd better not then. Joking apart, it's been interesting watching the reaction in some quarters to Grant fathering three children, two by the same woman, and the two youngest within months of each other. Some have been shocked by what could be termed Grant's procreative ubiquity, damning him as a kind of A-list baby-papa, who needs to grow up.

Despite the homes and generous financial provision that Grant is said to have supplied, the children and their mothers have been duly fretted over. Arguably, the real worry is how easy it is to fall into the traps of judgment, envy and presumption.

Far from this being an example of double standards, men getting away with behaviour women wouldn't,...

Way way back in August, James Arthur seemed like a pretty nice bloke, Busted and McFly were two separate entities and mugs weren't terrified of Huey Morgan.

A lot can change in four months. Who'd have thought that the two final acts standing on The X Factor 2013 would be a 36-year-old mum-of-two and a wee Scottish lad with as much charisma as Shane Filan?

But heck, you voted for 'em! So join Digital Spy for the final time from 7.30pm, as we kill time before Sam Bailey wins watch nervously to see whether Sam or Nicholas McDonald will be crowned your champion...

21:29Anyway, that's all, folks! Hope you enjoyed this series, and we'll be back at the same time, same place next year. Goodnight!

21:29Come 2014, we should try and remember that Bailey's isn't just for Christmas. Sam is talented and lovely enough to get a proper career outta this,...

Don Johnson will be following his father’s footsteps and become a wealthy southern plantation owner. So, Don’s dad, who was a Missourian farmer, would have been proud of his son. Joking apart, his father Wayne would be anyway proud of him. And Don would follow in the steps of John Travolta and the late David [...]

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Christopher Cazenove, who has died of septicaemia aged 64, always dreamed of being a film star, although his father – a brigadier in the Coldstream Guards – wanted him to follow in his military footsteps. Ironically, when Cazenove fulfilled his acting ambitions, he made his name as the blue-eyed, clean-cut hero Lieutenant Richard Gaunt in The Regiment (1972-73). The drama series, following a 1970 pilot, traced the fortunes of the Cotswolds Regiment at the turn of the 19th century – from the Boer War to service in India – through the lives of two families, the Gaunts and the Brights. Cazenove's fame was confirmed when he was featured on the cover of Radio Times.

The old Etonian seemed happy to become typecast playing aristocrats. On television, he was also seen in Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill (1974) as George Cornwallis-West, a...

It's crucial to make the distinction between women who willingly work as prostitutes and those who are forced

Surely it is good news that three men have been arrested in an alleged brothel in east London for paying for sex with a woman working as a prostitute against her will? This is due to new legislation, stipulating that men can now be charged even if they claim they were unaware their sex worker was forced or trafficked. Pretty much everyone would agree that this is a good thing, except, perhaps, sex workers.

A while ago, I tried to write a piece where I would man the phones in a brothel, linked to legislation saying that women would not be allowed to work together in "mini-brothels", despite the sex workers' argument that this was safer. In the end, the piece didn't happen, because no brothel wanted people like me hanging around,...