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The Channel 4 tv programme 'Coppers' continues to provide fascinating 'fly-on-the-wall' viewing and last night's episode...

I can't help noticing that Inspector Gadget has now passed 8 million hits, but has recently been musing that despite this, nothing seem...

News reaches me that at least one Probation area has decided to use the recent BBC1 drama series 'Public Enemies' as the basis for s...

On this occasion I would tend to agree with Inspector Gadget that the pictures of Daniel Chrapkowski celebrating his avoidance of prison on ...

I'm sorry if it seems like this blog is turning into the electronic version of the tv or radio times, but there just seems to be so much...

It may not be widely known, but one of the fastest growing groups within our prison system is the elderly male. There are currently 8,000 su...

The blog counter tells me that I've passed 100,000 hits since starting in August 2010 which feels great, even though sadly in recent tim...

For me the test of a good tv drama is if it's believable or not. Sadly Paula, the probation officer in Public Enemies, the recent three-...

Well, after a false start caused by the Stephen Lawrence verdicts it's finally arrived - a serious attempt at a probation drama. As Harr...

How supremely ironic that the first episode of the long-anticipated BBC1 probation drama 'Public Enemies' was bounced off the tv sch...