Another excellent episode . . . The Hospital, Channel 4. Photograph: Channel 4 I have always agreed with Victoria Wood that I wouldn’t be an adolescent again if you bumped my pocket money up to three and six. After viewing the first episode of The Hospital (Channel 4) last night, which... 

(L-r): Yasmin Paige, Rosie Day, Shannon Tarbet and Jordan Loughran in Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Anya Reiss is 18. She’s waiting for her A-level results. And her first play has just opened at the Royal Court. It’s vivid and spiky and brought into... 

Cake Boss. I am currently on a diet and being drawn to Cake Boss (Discovery Real Time) like a moth to a flame. A plump, unaerodynamic moth skidding and bumping between increasingly brief airborne periods towards a flame rendered in vanilla sponge and a marmalade glaze, yes, but the simile... 

Up-and-down relationship … Sarah Polley as Elsa in Splice. As the late Kenny Everett would have said, “It’s all in the best possible taste.” Vincenzo Natali, director of the cult 1997 mystery Cube, has confected a bizarre black-comic horror, a cross-breed mutant Frankenfilm... 

© Judy Eddy/WENN Rapper Too Short has spoken out to clear up speculation surrounding his arrest last week – insisting accusations he was escorting underage girls backstage before his alleged fight are “untrue and exaggerated”. The hip-hop star,...