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Rhik Samadder

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
16
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Sep 26, 2026
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Top 1K sites
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Jul 11, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Rhik Samadder

    Break Clause: two lovers flatshare during a breakup – and it makes for totally refreshing TV - AOL (opens the original)

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    I’ve been at more than one party where a stranger has told me they are still living with their ex, even sharing a bed. I don’t judge. I’ve experienced this myself. I remember a sad, uncanny time at the end of a relationship. Untangling our lives but not our bodies, supporting the other through their worst pain while trying to ignore the fact that the worst pain is you. But sometimes these strangers tell me they have been living this way for months, perhaps years, and my empathy flips to horror.

  2. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Rhik Samadder

    Apocalypse: this end-of-days survival show is an absolute slam dunk - AOL (opens the original)

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    Have you ever wondered how Cormac McCarthy’s wasteland novel The Road could be made into a reality show? No? Well someone who works in TV has, so here we are. Who knows if they experienced a follow-up thought: that the instinct to package the end of the world as entertainment might be the most dystopian aspect of the whole enterprise, but hey. Apocalypse (Sunday 13 September, 9pm, Channel 4) launches this week, and people are buzzing! It’s a slam dunk for a show, because we’ve all run the though

  3. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Rhik Samadder

    Apocalypse: this end-of-days survival show is an absolute slam dunk (opens the original)

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    Geeks, toffs and biceps go to war in a wild survival experiment that answers that eternal question: if society collapsed, could you cope? This is going to be huge! Have you ever wondered how Cormac McCarthy’s wasteland novel The Road could be made into a reality show? No? Well someone who works in TV has, so here we are. Who knows if they experienced a follow-up thought: that the instinct to package the end of the world as entertainment might be the most dystopian aspect of the whole enterprise,

  4. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Rhik Samadder

    Colin from Accounts: a show so fearless and hilarious that I want to get a tattoo of it (opens the original)

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    It’s deliciously satirical, fizzes with electric chemistry – and it’s snortingly funny too. If you haven’t watched the worst named show on TV yet, do so. Right now! Sometimes the best things in life have the worst names. The Beatles. Smeg fridges. Nintendo Wii. But top of the tree is Colin from Accounts (Monday 7 September, 10pm, BBC Two), a name so bland I almost slipped into medical unconsciousness upon hearing it. It’s worse than bland. There’s an aspect of comedy-tie zaniness to it, a “Look,

  5. Article · Aug 22, 2026 · Rhik Samadder

    Dog Park: a delightful sitcom that will fill the Colin from Accounts shaped hole in your life - AOL (opens the original)

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    Whenever I’m watching a programme that features an animal and I realise I’m expected to have a specific reaction to that animal, I run into a problem. I call it the Cuteness Assumptive Theory: Subjectivity in Television issue (CATSIT for short). It boils down to this: if the success of your show relies on my finding your lead actor scrumptious-wumptious, you’ve already failed. We all like different things. The theory applies equally to humans. We all know that moment when some interchangeable he

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