[ad_1] Think we’re in a kinder, fairer era of reality television? Think again October 28, 2023 6:00 am(Updated 6:02 am) Survivors Pegleg, Lee, Doug and Sabrina (Photo: BBC/Remarkable) Tonight, Survivor comes back to television after more than two decades away. If you’re not familiar, the clue is in the name: 18 contestants, split into two…
[ad_1] From Horrible Histories to Hilary Mantel, fiction has long helped us to understand the past – and forces us to question how historical narratives are formed October 27, 2023 4:35 pm(Updated 7:16 pm) Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in series five of The Crown (Photo: Netflix) If I have ever found myself dropping historical…
[ad_1] Critics say star-casting ushers shoddy work in to theatres – but it’s snobbish to sneer at audiences for wanting to see celebrities in the flesh October 27, 2023 4:45 pm(Updated 7:06 pm) Lily James in Lyonesse at the Harold Pinter Theatre (Photo: Manuel Harlan) Is there really no such thing as bad publicity? The…
[ad_1] A new Apple TV documentary series is examining a creepy British haunting story from the 1970s – just in time for Halloween. The Enfield Poltergeist delves into claims of supernatural activity that occurred at a council house in London between 1977 and 1979. It has been the subject of numerous pop culture efforts in…
[ad_1] “Oh, she’s sopping wet! I best get her changed” says Pete Doherty as he momentarily takes leave of our interview to see to his four-month-old daughter, Billie-Mae. How improbable this once was. For many years, Doherty was a symbol of rock’n’roll excess, a charismatic cultural leader who built a community, first of indie kid…
[ad_1] The crimes of William Allen Jordan, a sex offender and serial bigamist, are being examined in a new ITV documentary series, The Other Mrs Jordan – Catching the Ultimate Conman. US-born Jordan pretended he was a CIA agent working in counter terrorism, conning women into fathering his children and scamming them out of large…
[ad_1] The Other Mrs Jordan – Catching the Ultimate Conman is a new three-part ITVX documentary series which tells the shocking story of bigamist, fraudster, father and conman, William Allen Jordan. It also follows the real-time manhunt, led by retired US marshal Tex Lindsey, for the man who left a trail of pain and confusion…
[ad_1] Was J M Coetzee always funny? I laughed so much while reading The Pole and Other Stories, which exhibits the artistic seriousness and philosophical depth that readers associate with his best fiction, that I wondered if I missed the humour in novels such as Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K that…
[ad_1] Pick of the day: My Super-Rich Holiday 10pm, Channel 4 Eddie Kadi has entered the nation’s living rooms via Strictly Come Dancing, and not the more usual route for Channel 4’s favoured comedians: by way of Taskmaster (the inconsistent Kadi scored a perfect 10 one week, and then faced a dance-off the next). He…
[ad_1] You could almost hear the collective groan at the announcement of a celebrity version of the best reality competition on television, Race Across the World, in late 2019. But when four famous faces and their relatives set off on a trek from Marrakech to Tromsø (one global pandemic, two excellent standard series and a…
