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  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Reality TV is a dangerous business — and I helped create it

    From aiding Trump’s rise to destroying contestants’ lives, the genre has had a far bigger real-world impact than anyone predicted

  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    TV in 2021: escape into breeches-busters and fantasy

    Adaptations of novels have provided distraction from the pandemic — and there are plenty more to come

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Silenced: The Hidden History of Disabled Britain explores the roots of ableism

    A powerful BBC2 documentary traces disability discrimination from the Industrial Revolution to the present day

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    ITV’s Finding Alice sets family drama in a hazardous smart house

    Keeley Hawes stars alongside Joanna Lumley and Nigel Havers as a widow whose move to a dream home becomes a nightmare

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Interview
    Russell T Davies on It’s a Sin: ‘Life doesn’t stop when terrible things happen’

    The writer and cast including Olly Alexander and Stephen Fry discuss why their Aids-era series is joyful as well as poignant

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    It’s a Sin — a hedonistic, touching portrait of 1980s gay London

    Russell T Davies’ Channel 4 series about a group of flatmates is full of good times, but the looming Aids crisis has a sombre resonance

  • Saturday, 9 January, 2021
    Interview
    Saif Ali Khan — India’s screen prince on getting gritty

    The movie star talks about his role in Amazon Prime’s new political drama Tandav and why Indian audiences are embracing tough streaming series

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Review
    The best of TV and streaming this week

    Our critic’s selection of the latest in home viewing

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Truth About Getting Fit at Home and Are Women the Fitter Sex?

    Two programmes investigate different aspects of our health, with shocking findings about gender bias

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  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    A Discovery of Witches, Sky One — hey-nonny-nonsense from start to finish

    A time-travelling vampire comes to London in a gorgeously executed second series

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    ITV’s The Pembrokeshire Murders paints a sinister portrait of a serial killer

    Three-part series dramatises the cat-and-mouse game between the Welsh police and suspect John William Cooper

  • Saturday, 2 January, 2021
    Janan Ganesh
    The new Asians on screen

    A character in HBO’s ‘Industry’ breaks with the ‘neurotic misfit’ trope

  • Thursday, 31 December, 2020
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The body fights back on The Truth About Boosting Your Immune System

    This BBC1 documentary offers a lively look at the human defence system

  • Thursday, 31 December, 2020
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Virus horror series The Stand comes to Starzplay

    This grisly adaptation of Stephen King’s 1978 novel follows the few survivors of a deadly plague

  • Thursday, 31 December, 2020
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Man Who Fell From the Sky investigates a tragic stowaway story

    This gripping documentary attempts to find out more about the ill-fated Carlito Vale

  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    Review
    Netflix’s Bridgerton swims in cod-Austen dialogue but is ultimately fun

    Scheming mothers and tulle-clad debutantes abound in this costume drama set in Georgian London

  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    Review
    Roald and Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse — a Christmas classic is born

    Dawn French plays Beatrix Potter in Sky One’s delightful film inspired by the author’s meeting with a young Roald Dahl

  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    Review
    BBC’s Black Narcissus is a gentler, more psychological twist on a classic

    Gemma Arterton leads the cast in a well-acted update of the 1947 movie about nuns facing a steep task in the Himalayas

  • Tuesday, 22 December, 2020
    What to look out for in the new TV adaptation of Black Narcissus

    Starring Gemma Arterton and the late Diana Rigg, can the version both honour and ‘update’ the 1947 classic?

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Helen Fielding opens up about Being Bridget Jones on BBC2

    The creator of the fictional singleton reflects on how the character grew from newspaper column to hit film

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    John C Reilly leads a motley crew of would-be astronauts in Moonbase 8

    The four-man team prepare for a lunar mission in the Arizona desert in a new series on Sky Comedy

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Goes Wrong Show’s Nativity and Ghosts Christmas special — boisterous festive fare

    A busy manger and a mansion full of spirits make for calamitous Christmas viewing in two BBC1 shows

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Jon Meacham uses the past to illuminate the present in The Soul of America

    The historian examines the American character through its chequered history on HBO/Sky Documentaries

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Year That Changed Love, Channel 4 — the reality of being alone

    Deeper dimensions reveal themselves in a TV series that pokes into people’s homes during the pandemic

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Simon Armitage shares memories of Marsden on the South Bank Show

    The Poet Laureate reflects on career high points and his West Yorkshire hometown

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