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Barbara Ellen

Barbara Ellen is a columnist for the Observer. She has also written for NME, the Times, Mail on Sunday, Elle, Marie Claire, Grazia, Loaded, GQ and Mojo

October 2024

  • A woman wearing a large white fur coat stands in the street.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Joan; Industry; Nobody Wants This; Heartstopper – review

  • Amanda Abbington on Newsnight.

    Amanda Abbington was brave enough to complain. She shouldn’t shrink from admitting it

    Barbara Ellen

September 2024

  • David Mitchell's character in a police station in Ludwig.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Ludwig; Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins; Apples Never Fall; Surviving October 7; Small Town, Big Riot – review

  • Friends TV series cast: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer.

    Friends at 30: the one where a cultural phenomenon just refuses to die

  • A woman and a man sit opposite one another in chairs in a large, grand room.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: A Very Royal Scandal; The Penguin; M&S: Dress the Nation; Nightsleeper – review

  • On and off-screen couple Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer in Colin from Accounts.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Colin from Accounts; In Vogue: The 90s; Trump: Should We Be Scared?; Grand Designs – review

  • Cha-cha with chaperones: Strictly Come Dancing is back after the turmoil

  • Kate’s ‘Eat, Pray, Picnic’ video vibe was corny but the subtext was clear: I’ve changed

    Barbara Ellen

  • Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: America’s New Female Right; Slow Horses; The Perfect Couple; Funny Woman – review

  • The week in TV: Sherwood; Kaos; The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power; Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me – review

August 2024

  • Liam (left) and Noel Gallagher.

    Oasis are back. So why all the hatred?

  • Kyla Harris seated in a wheelchair as Freya and Elena Saurel as Jo, kneeling beside the wheelchair, her head on Harris's lap in We Might Regret This.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: We Might Regret This; Michael Mosley: Wonders of the Human Body; The Frog; Pachinko; Made in Korea – review

  • Crowds of young people loaded up with camping gear queue to enter the Reading festival site

    Setting limits for your child’s teenage kicks doesn’t make you a terrible killjoy

    Barbara Ellen
  • Freddie Flintoff standing in front of a brightly painted lorry on Kolkata.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams on Tour: Daddy Issues: Bad Monkey; Emily in Paris – review

  • Behold the new sexy Pirelli calendar, a perfect example of Post#MeToo creep

    Barbara Ellen

  • Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?; A Storm Foretold; Paris Olympics; Slip – review

  • Women – don’t get larger, don’t get older, don’t have fun, don’t dare to wear a bikini

    Barbara Ellen

  • Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Paris Olympics 2024; Atomic People; Saucy! Secrets of the British Sex Comedy; House of the Dragon – review

July 2024

  • Melvyn Bragg sitting at a table opposite Tracey Emin in her studio with her paintings in the background.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Art Matters; Surviving the Post Office; The Decameron; Time Bandits – review

  • The BBC Olympics presenters Fred Sirieix, Isa Guha, Hazel Irvine, Clare Balding, Gabby Logan, Jeanette Kwakye, JJ Chalmers and Laura Kenny.

    Observer TV reviews
    Paris Games TV coverage review – just navigating the channels feels like an Olympic sport

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