Doctor Who goes back in time
David Tennant’s return as the Doctor in the first of three specials restores relish to the series.
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ITV’s Cary Grant drama: chutzpah, desperation or total insanity?
This cheesy series starring Jason Isaacs fails to capture the glamour of Grant and 1960s Hollywood.
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Netflix’s The Crown turns tawdry
Peter Morgan’s royal epic concludes with ghosts and banalities in a touchy-feely sixth series.
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Why did Brian Cox agree to this terrible James Bond reality show?
If Anthony Hopkins had been announced as the new face of Eggheads, I could hardly be more appalled.
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The second series of BBC’s Time is an intimate horror show
The return of this drama series is breathtaking: fierce, and utterly plausible. Awards will be won.
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Where are all the family dramas?
Breeders isn’t perfect – but it is a rare example of a mainstream show that doesn’t centre around a dead…
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Three Little Birds is a clichéd take on Generation Windrush
The relentless racism in Lenny Henry’s incident-filled drama is all too believable; its saintly female characters less so.
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Fear and glitter at the Labour Party conference
After a TV grilling, Sir Keir delivered his speech in the guise of an accountant lost in Glasto.
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The BBC’s Jimmy Savile drama is entirely gratuitous
The Reckoning exposes a rotten culture that serves up stories about abused women for entertainment.
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Partygate on Channel 4 should inspire a revolution
For those of us who didn’t read every word of the Sue Gray report, this pandemic drama reveals the extent…
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BBC’s Boiling Point knows the terror of the kitchen
This sequel to the Stephen Graham movie, a cooking ur-text, is tense and highly theatrical.
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ITV’s The Long Shadow trivialises the crimes of Peter Sutcliffe
For all its professed sensitivity, this drama turns the most terrible crimes committed against women into mere entertainment. I’m sad…
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Russell Brand: In Plain Sight made me sick with horror
This Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, which accused the comedian of rape, sexual assault and abuse, was nauseating and terrifying to…
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Laura Kuenssberg’s State of Chaos: a parade of strange and idiotic people
Watching this series about British politicians , you wonder how they made it to the cabinet – or out of…
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Please, Davina McCall: leave middle-aged people alone!
Her new dating show My Mum Your Dad left me in a state of almost pure trauma. Will this be…
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The delightful farce of The Lovers
Johnny Flynn is a joy to watch in this newsroom comedy from Sky Atlantic.
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The Woman in the Wall turns the Magdalene laundries into offensive melodrama
Ireland’s unfathomably cruel “mother and baby homes” are here just as set-dressing for a shlocky horror – as if the…
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The Price of Truth: meet the journalists taking on Putin
Watching this documentary while drinking tea at my desk, I feel admiration and something close to shame.
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Henpocalypse! How did this painful dildo-wielding comedy make it to air?
I can’t remember the last time I endured a show as relentlessly laboured as this steaming dollop of faux-feminist puerility.…
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Terry Pratchett would love the queer politics of Good Omens 2
David Tennant’s devil and Michael Sheen’s angel are one of television’s great odd couple romances.
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