[ad_1] Pick of the day: Tell Me Lies 10.40pm, BBC One Less sudsy than it sounds, this US drama series (already available on Disney+) follows the toxic relationship between Lucy (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen (Jackson White) as it unfolds over the course of eight years. It begins in 2015 as Lucy attends a friend’s…
[ad_1] Crime dramas come and go in ever greater numbers, but one constant over the past three decades has been BBC One’s Silent Witness. The long-in-the-tooth forensic drama returned for its 27th series in sprightly form with a knottily scripted double episode written by old hands of the show Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble. It…
[ad_1] It’s that time of year again – when everyone gets into arguments about the superiority of their favourite films, TV shows and red carpet slays. The first awards ceremony of the season, the Golden Globes, was held last night in Los Angeles. It was the 80th anniversary of the ceremony, generally considered second only…
[ad_1] All the great British cosy crime clichés were checked off enthusiastically as hit whodunnit Vera returned for a new series. There was a suspicious death in a quaint location, a rogue’s gallery of suspects, and the reliably incorrigible Brenda Blethyn back in her 13th stint as DCI Vera Stanhope – the classic busy-body detective…
[ad_1] Controversial British-American influencer Andrew Tate has risen to prominence through a career in kickboxing, an appearance on Big Brother and a social media presence which has been divisive. The 37-year-old millionaire and his brother, Tristan, are currently facing rape and human trafficking charges in Romania which they both deny. Although no longer under house…
[ad_1] A BFI season has given James Bond films trigger warnings – but wouldn’t it be more appropriate to warn about their sheer awfulness in general? January 5, 2024 4:48 pm(Updated 7:54 pm) Ian Fleming, Sean Connery and Shirley Eaton on the set of ‘Goldfinger’ in 1964 (Photo: Popperfoto via Getty) A new season of…
[ad_1] A new year normally brings a new batch of entrepreneurs hungry for their big moment in the boardroom and a chance to become Lord Sugar’s next apprentice. Long-running BBC show The Apprentice has been a staple of the start of the televisual year, kicking off in January for the past few years. But this…
[ad_1] Fiction pick Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon The year is 412 BC, and Sicilian potters Lampo and Gelon are planning to put on a play – of Euripides’ Medea no less. Who better to cast in it than the thousands of Athenian men who lie about starving and practically boiling in the Syracuse quarry…
[ad_1] We should probably be getting a bit weary of Christmas Julia Donaldson/Axel Scheffler adaptations. With 10 under our belts, and The Gruffalo watched, in our household at least, so many times that it is surely burning holes in the plasma, is the BBC going to have to scrape the barrel? Well, with Tabby McTat…
[ad_1] “How can someone murder three people in an English village without it being noticed?” asked Luke Fitzwilliam in Murder Is Easy. But of course, somebody had noticed – it’s just that the word of a kindly old lady does not carry much weight. The BBC’s first Agatha Christie adaptation since writer Sarah Phelps departed…
