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Former features editor of Melody Maker, Adam has written on rock, classical music and television for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Uncut, Classic FM and Gramophone, and on motor-racing for Motorsport. He co-founded The Virtual Television Company, which made Mr Rock'n'Roll (Channel 4), Pavarotti: The Last Tenor (BBC2 Arena) and Imagine - Nigel Kennedy (BBC One)

Articles By Adam Sweeting

Dalgliesh, Channel 5 review - doleful detective fails to fire on all cylinders

Saturday, 13 November 2021 Read more...

Temple, Series 2, Sky Max review - more calamitous adventures of rogue surgeon Daniel Milton

Friday, 05 November 2021 Read more...

Shetland, Series 6, BBC One review - too many cooks and too many crooks

Thursday, 04 November 2021 Read more...

Invasion, Apple TV+ review - sci-fi epic or a pile of space junk?

Tuesday, 26 October 2021 Read more...

All Creatures Great and Small, Series 2, Channel 5 review - familiar formula continues to satisfy

Monday, 25 October 2021 Read more...

Squid Game, Netflix review - murderous game show hits the ratings jackpot

Saturday, 23 October 2021 Read more...

The Starling, Netflix review - a slender idea unsatisfyingly executed

Friday, 17 September 2021 Read more...

Schumacher, Netflix review - authorised version of the life of an F1 legend

Monday, 13 September 2021 Read more...

The North Water, BBC Two review - a terrible voyage into the great beyond

Saturday, 11 September 2021 Read more...

The Collini Case review - it might be legal, but that doesn't mean it's justice

Thursday, 09 September 2021 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Marco Kreuzpaintner

Monday, 06 September 2021 Read more...

Clickbait, Netflix review - fiendishly cunning thriller keeps everybody guessing

Saturday, 04 September 2021 Read more...

Vigil, BBC One review - murder most watery

Monday, 30 August 2021 Read more...

The White Lotus, Sky Atlantic review - dark side of a tropical paradise

Sunday, 29 August 2021 Read more...

Britannia, Series 3, Sky Atlantic review - murder, mysticism and anaemic slapstick

Wednesday, 25 August 2021 Read more...

The Beach Boys: Feel Flows - the Sunflower and Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971

Monday, 23 August 2021 Read more...

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