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From aiding Trump’s rise to destroying contestants’ lives, the genre has had a far bigger real-world impact than anyone predicted
Adaptations of novels have provided distraction from the pandemic — and there are plenty more to come
A powerful BBC2 documentary traces disability discrimination from the Industrial Revolution to the present day
Keeley Hawes stars alongside Joanna Lumley and Nigel Havers as a widow whose move to a dream home becomes a nightmare
The writer and cast including Olly Alexander and Stephen Fry discuss why their Aids-era series is joyful as well as poignant
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
The movie star talks about his role in Amazon Prime’s new political drama Tandav and why Indian audiences are embracing tough streaming series
Our critic’s selection of the latest in home viewing
Two programmes investigate different aspects of our health, with shocking findings about gender bias
A time-travelling vampire comes to London in a gorgeously executed second series
Three-part series dramatises the cat-and-mouse game between the Welsh police and suspect John William Cooper
A character in HBO’s ‘Industry’ breaks with the ‘neurotic misfit’ trope
This BBC1 documentary offers a lively look at the human defence system
This grisly adaptation of Stephen King’s 1978 novel follows the few survivors of a deadly plague
This gripping documentary attempts to find out more about the ill-fated Carlito Vale
Scheming mothers and tulle-clad debutantes abound in this costume drama set in Georgian London
Dawn French plays Beatrix Potter in Sky One’s delightful film inspired by the author’s meeting with a young Roald Dahl
Gemma Arterton leads the cast in a well-acted update of the 1947 movie about nuns facing a steep task in the Himalayas
Starring Gemma Arterton and the late Diana Rigg, can the version both honour and ‘update’ the 1947 classic?
The creator of the fictional singleton reflects on how the character grew from newspaper column to hit film
The four-man team prepare for a lunar mission in the Arizona desert in a new series on Sky Comedy
A busy manger and a mansion full of spirits make for calamitous Christmas viewing in two BBC1 shows
The historian examines the American character through its chequered history on HBO/Sky Documentaries
Deeper dimensions reveal themselves in a TV series that pokes into people’s homes during the pandemic
The Poet Laureate reflects on career high points and his West Yorkshire hometown
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