Television

Mad Men is the latest in the mercurial and relentless production line of big budget US super-dramas. The title, a self-satisfied play on words, sets the tone. The action is set amongst the advertising executives (ad men) inhabiting 1960 New York’s Saville Row of marketing, Madison Avenue (Mad Ave). See what they’ve done? You can almost hear the smugness.

The life and times of Corries much loved Vera Duckworth.

Heroes is an action packed US drama series in which it tells the lives of ordinary people who realise they have special abilities.