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Everyone you meet in this lovely documentary, from the goat herders to the osprey nest makers, is making the world better and is also that rarest of things: truly content. Start Googling career changes nowI must say, I was expecting Inside Britain's National Parks to feel a bit less like school. The new documentary series looks at four of our 15...
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A police raid in Dublin triggers unrest in Belgium as the Hidden Assets cops begin another gripping case. Plus, the feverishly awaited grand final of Gladiators. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Four The third series of this hit criminal assets thriller is set between Dublin and the Basque Country , and it starts with one hell of a...
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Will the great TV writer ever top his mega hit? He talks us through his new series about the CIA's attempts to weaponise LSD – and reveals why James Gandolfini called him 'Satan'Last week, a plush London hotel became a temple to HBO Max. Pictures of Carrie Bradshaw lined the corridors, HBO Max cushions dotted every chair in sight, and a heaving...
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Before he was Paddington's dignified dad, the star nailed British awkwardness in Bafta-winning satire Twenty Twelve. Now he's back as long-suffering manager Ian Fletcher, taking on Trump, the World Cup – and his foolish old internWhen Hugh Bonneville was first asked to reprise the role of Ian Fletcher – protagonist of John Morton's...
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Westminster insiders try to get to the bottom of Starmer's awful unpopularity and frequent blunders – but fail to consider less palatable possibilitiesWhy is Keir Starmer so unpopular? The basic question is easily answered by political broadcaster Lewis Goodall in his investigation of our prime minister's historically awful approval ratings. In...
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Jon Hamm is back as the charismatic banker-cum-cat burglar, plus an irresistibly strange show about the TV host accused of being a mafiosoNo one does problematic but sneakily likable middle-aged man like Jon Hamm and his charisma carries this black comedy about financier-turned-burglar Andrew "Coop” Cooper. Despite being offered his old job back,...
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Dispatches dissects the woes of Keir Starmer's government. Plus: Lisa Kudrow, Chase Infiniti and Jimmy Carr join Claudia Winkleman. Here's what to watch this evening8pm, Channel 4It's hard to believe that less than two years ago, the Labour party under Keir Starmer won one of the largest electoral majorities in UK history. The party and the prime...
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Leonardo DiCaprio lights up Martin Scorsese's Wall Street drama, which has the most swears of any Hollywood movie. Plus: Oscar-winner Michael B Jordan stars in and directs the ever entertaining Rocky spin-offPerhaps the greatest of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's six (and counting) collaborations, this financial crime caper is based on the...
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Try not to Google this true story of a London record shop used by undercover police to ensnare teens. As the astonishing details of what really happened unfold, you will pray for more fantastic telly like this to be madeThe UK launch of HBO Max has brought with it some major US series (no more waiting for The Pitt!). More unexpectedly, perhaps, its...
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Abandoned babies, pink Barbie shoes and throat-slitting serial killers? This wedding horror from the makers of Stranger Things is so hellish I may never sleep againPersonally, I have always broken off my engagements no more than halfway through a portent-filled night drive to meet my fiance's parents for the first time in their sprawling,...
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The money-saving expert unpicks the upcoming financial changes. Plus: a grim look inside Britain's steroid boom. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, ITV1Martin Lewis has been dishing up savings tips for more than two decades, from energy prices to mortgages and student bank accounts. Tonight, with the new tax year just 10 days away, he walks us...
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Noah Wyle is back on our screens as a lovable doctor in the punchy, gory and totally addictive series that has taken the US by storm. Believe the hype!It's here at last. The medical drama that took its native US by storm last year has finally crossed the pond. All 15 episodes of The Pitt's first season, set in almost real time over a single shift...
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This gasp-inducing documentary shows a man buzzing over the remarkable insects that bumble around his garden … and ended up changing his lifeMartin Dohrn likes bees. Big bees, small bees, angry bees, randy bees, bees with voluminous ruffs and calves like tiny Henry VIIIs – rare is the bee that Dohrn doesn't deem worthy of … what, exactly?...
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It's been 21 years since we met the self-absorbed TV star in this industry satire. But as she comes out of retirement, the results are woeful – and it's not just the AI scriptValerie Cherish may just be the closest thing America has to its own Alan Partridge. Both narcissists clinging desperately to 1990s showbiz successes (starring in a popular...
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The US staple was doomed to fail in cynical Britain. But after grabbing the attention of the most powerful man in the world, we should root for it to ruffle some more feathersKeir Starmer and Donald Trump's "special” relationship? It's complicated. This week, hours before a scheduled phone call between the two leaders, Trump shared a clip of...
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Part autobiography, part industry satire, this hilarious show boasts dazzling dialogue and ace cameos. But surely Ahmed has better things to do than play James Bond?If I were Riz Ahmed, I would be very up myself too. In the two decades since his screen career began, the actor has won Oscars and Baftas; been cast in a Star Wars film and a Charli xcx...
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The actor is horribly convincing in this ripped-from-the-headlines drama about the newsreader's grooming scandal. You might not even be able to stomach itWhen future generations look back at all the trends and micro-trends that shaped television over the years, you have to assume they'll be quite surprised when they arrive at the glut of...
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It's the end of an era, as stars who have dominated the whole millennium lose out to new TV royalty like Claudia Winkleman. Plus: rare double nods for two of the UK's best actors!• Adolescence dominates Bafta TV award nominations 2026The Bafta TV awards have recently been dominated by shows that feel so last year. In 2025, the statuettes for Mr...
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Sure, this might well be a PR exercise for the rapper after being jailed in 2022 for his part in a mass brawl. But it's also a vital indictment of the appalling probation systemIn December 2022 – just as his music career was on the up – things came crashing down for the British-Gambian rapper Pa Salieu. Four years earlier, Salieu had been...
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The abduction of Steven Stayner sparked a media frenzy, and the story did not end with his return. Plus: Lisa Kudrow returns in The Comeback. What to watch this evening9.45pm, BBC TwoA grimly remarkable story in which true crime begat content which, in turn, begat more, even more serious true crime. When seven-year-old Steven Stayner went missing...
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The revered documentarian wades into unexplored territory with the US president and Xi Jinping's relationship – and there is a moment so startling that it feels like pure comedy goldIt's not normal to view documentaries about international trade negotiations as light relief, but we are where we are. Clash of the Superpowers: America vs China is a...
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'In series one, it was bullying, drugs and alcohol. Twenty years on, it's vapes, cyber-bullying and bloody energy drinks'I was working on women's prison drama Bad Girls when the idea for Waterloo Road came up. Bad Girls creators Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus had a fiery belief in social justice and did rigorous research. Those are often the...
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Pop culture icons and music legends are explored in a new show that has access to the BBC's vast archive. Plus, the Guardian delivers a propulsive crime story that asks big questions of the US criminal justice systemEmmanuel Dzotsi had an all-too-brief run on internet culture podcast Reply All, so it's great to hear him back on a smart and chatty...
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A two-part documentary looks at the clash between two of our biggest superpowers. Plus: what to do when you're too busy to cook. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC TwoNorma Percy's documentaries are always immaculately sourced and meticulous reflections on recent geopolitical events, and this two-parter is no exception. It deals with the...
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This upsetting documentary goes to the town with the most terrifyingly high levels of Pfas in the UK, tests the locals and finds that nothing has been done to help them – and now it's simply too lateForever chemicals are not a fresh scandal that the world is only learning about now: in 2019 there was a Hollywood movie about them, based on a true...
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A group of contestants dropped in a forest must hunt or hide – or both – to try to get their hands on £100,000. Expect heroes, villains, fragile alliances and big charactersI can only assume that the brilliant minds who were locked in a vault at Channel 4 and commanded to come up with a rival to The Traitors came of age during peak Suzanne...
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Impressions of Keir Starmer, sketches about dodgy skincare products, and some 'god-awful performances' aside, the inaugural episode's ambition was refreshing to seeIn the end, it's a feeling, isn't it? You can tally up the laughs, work out the ratio of good lines to bad, sketches that fly, sketches that plummet straight into the mire – but in the...
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It gave us Game of Thrones, The Sopranos and The Wire. But as HBO Max comes to the UK and with new ownership imminent, the network that reinvented television is fighting to stay itselfIt's not TV. It's HBO.” It might have seemed like a hollow brag at the time, but this aggressively assertive tagline marked the beginning of a new era in...
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The creators of Stranger Things's new dread-suffused drama sees a happy couple head off for an idyllic wedding – a poorly-lit cabin in the woods. The results are chillingWhen I heard the Duffer brothers, creators of Stranger Things, had a new series on Netflix, I knew I had to watch – but I was not eager. I believe identical twins who make...
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A powerful new fact-based drama depicts Huw Edwards's fall from being the BBC's top news anchor to a conviction for making indecent images of children. The Doc Martin star talks about secrecy, off-the-record research – and why his ears needed to be stuck downHuw Edwards has not sat at a newsreader's desk since July 2023, when he was suspended by...
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A corporate getaway is the new setting for this hoax reality show in which all but one person is an actor. Luckily, that person has a real 'captain fun' attitude – even when faced with icky situationsIn 2023, Freevee (owned by Amazon) aired Jury Duty, a hoax reality show starring an unsuspecting member of the American public who was unaware that...
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Jury Duty's first season convinced a member of the public he was taking part in a documentary about how courts work – but it was really a reality show where everyone else was actors. Its company retreat-based sequel ups the stakes brilliantlyIf ever there was a TV show that you'd think should be left at a single season, it would be Jury Duty.The...
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British viewers can at last dive into the smash-hit US medical drama led by ER's Noah Wyle, while Riz Ahmed is a struggling actor on the cusp of landing the role of a lifetime – becoming the next James BondThe anticipation around The Pitt has been feverish. And finally, as HBO Max launches, British viewers can dive in, with season one available...
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The BBC's annual comedy money raiser returns. Plus: ClaudiaWinkleman takes a second shot on her chat show sofa. Here's what to watch this evening7pm, BBC OneThe fundraiser bonanza is back, with hosts including Davina McCall, Nick Mohammed, Katherine Ryan and Catherine Tate – as Nan! Highlights include a world exclusive of Traitors: The Movie: The...
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Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-winning counterculture caper with Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn is breathless fun, while Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones star in a 50s-set drama about passion and identityPaul Thomas Anderson finally gets his Oscar – and with one of his most riotously enjoyable films. His take on Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland...
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Season two of this competition isn't just enjoyably easy-going TV that leaves you helpless with laughter. It's also a fascinating insight into comedy as an artformIt could easily have been a fluke. That such a simple, even lame-sounding format was responsible for three hours of the most transcendentally funny television of 2025 might well have been...
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A new documentary delves into the phenomenon of men who pay women to role-play their romantic partners. The masked 27-year-old at its heart, and director Ben Zand, tell all'From the get go, T was incredibly transparent about the fact that he wants a completely subservient woman he can control. He didn't even necessarily know that what he was saying...
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This three-part documentary about women who were exploited and duped into sex work is filled with astonishing detail – while being sensitive to its intervieweesYou are invited to an exclusive yoga retreat at "the villa”. When you arrive, it's a grim building in Romania in which women cavort in micro-bikinis and drink each other's urine after a...
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The stars of the smash hit Birmingham-set series tell all to Edith Bowman. Plus, the shocking 1969 Israeli plan to secretly transfer 60,000 Palestinians to ParaguayAhead of the release of the Peaky Blinders film, Edith Bowman and Packy Lee (who played Johnny Dogs) present an in-depth look at the series. Astonishingly, given it's made by – and...
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Thirty years since the cult show about sweary lawyers swaggered on to our screens in a fug of cigarette smoke, creator Amy Jenkins talks F-bombs, fellatio … and giving Ricky Gervais his big breakOral sex in the kitchen. Weed-smoking and talk of temazepam. A full-frontal Andrew Lincoln shower scene. And that's just in the first episode. Welcome to...
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This glossy murder mystery, starring Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara, should be better than this. But if you brace yourself for a perfectly acceptable eight hours of entertainment, you'll have a good timeYou can't say Imperfect Women doesn't warn you. It is clear from the very first shots – three women dancing, drunkenly but...
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In this poignant documentary a director shares the footage he took of his son from birth until he was 20, and reflects on losing himThe Norwegian director Gunnar Hall Jensen had been a wild youth, damaged by his mentally troubled mother and indifferent, absent father. So when his own son Jonathan was born in 2002, he felt the mix of trepidation and...
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Alexander Armstrong, Lucy Beaumont, Bradley Walsh … when will commissioners stop sending standups to other nations? It's not like they have any insight or connection to these places – it has to end'You know what we need to inject some life into our dying medium?” says the TV commissioner. Her colleagues all wait for the moment of inspiration,...
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Whistleblowers who once worked at Meta and X (until the guilt got too much) reveal the truth about the companies that increasingly rule our free time – and it's even worse than you may have feared. Prep those bunkers nowSometimes it's a real problem not being able to swear unreservedly in a national newspaper. I mean, I understand social...
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It's a return for the hugely funny reality show that drops an unsuspecting member of public into a staged situation, while Taylor Sheridan sends Michelle Pfeiffer into the middle of the Montana wildernessThe first run of this series in which an unsuspecting (though carefully selected) member of the public is dropped into an entirely orchestrated...
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Emma Harte's head and heart are torn in A Woman of Substance. Plus: a hen do from hell. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 4The rags-to-riches period drama continues with young Emma Harte (Jessica Reynolds) choosing a secret relationship with her employer's son, Edwin Fairley (Ewan Horrocks), over taking the chance to move to Leeds. It...
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The smash-hit period drama gets the Hollywood treatment as Cillian Murphy's Tommy Shelby strides into 1940's wartime Birmingham, while Hugh Jackman and Zen McGrath try to repair their fractured relationshipWhether the Birmingham-set period crime drama needed another outing after six series is a moot point, but Tommy Shelby is back to brood...
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In this affecting documentary, an epidemiologist asks six couples struggling to conceive to reduce their exposure to plastics and see if it helps. The results are startling – and prove that we should all make changes nowGet up, after a restless sleep. Shower, using products that contain plastic and are in plastic containers. Fix your hair and...
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The final series of the BBC's sharp sendup of boarding school in the UK is a riot of sex, scandals and final exams. This is striking, charming TV that has been impressive from first to lastDaniel Lawrence Taylor's teen drama Boarders is a bit of a Trojan horse. From the aesthetic, you'd be forgiven for mistaking it for a shiny CBBC comedy. But the...
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Ella Bruccoleri's performance as Mary is absolutely lovely. It's a shame this overly slight drama labours the jokes about her marriage prospects, thoughLydia Bennet – the kickable youngest Bennet daughter from Jane Austen's famous family unit, with an endless penchant for drama – has been the subject of many retellings. Not to mention...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford's 1979 novel became a massive TV hit in the 1980s. Now, Brenda Blethyn has donned a fabulous wig to whisk us back to the age of excess and escapismBasically, there was trouble at 'mill. Or at least t'mill owner's house. This is the fons et origo of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance. The quintessential...
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This Netflix's documentary about Rupert's warring children blurs the lines with HBO drama Succession. But, ultimately, it's a depressing catalogue of nepotism that it's hard to be enthused about'To explain the Murdochs, you have to understand the television show Succession.” So quips New York Times writer Jim Rutenberg a few minutes into this...
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