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How Wonder Man made Marvel feel human again
The hit mismatched buddy show with Sir Ben Kingsley swaps spectacle for messy, fragile lives
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Welcome back to Gilead: The Testaments is a triumph
Violence and cruelty lurk at the lavishly appointed finishing school for daughters of the patriarchal regime
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The Pitt: One hospital, one hour, one hell of a show
Noah Wyle is exceptional in the best medical drama for years
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The UK Saturday Night Live is an unexpected hit – and this is why
The original show might be American, but nonsensical sketch comedy is very British. Our version understands that brilliantly
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Matthew d’Ancona’s culture: Tommy Shelby returns to wage a holy war
Cillian Murphy rides again in an Arthurian finale to the Peaky Blinders saga
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Why Marian Keyes is underrated
The successes and flaws of The Walsh Sisters adaptation reveals a writer who truly understands women
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The real Lord of the Flies will restore your faith in humanity
Every child who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life
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The Secret Agent's carnival of death
Wagner Moura is magnificent in a Brazilian thriller that’s a stone-cold masterpiece
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Tony Blair’s never-ending legacy tour
A new documentary reminds us of what a consummate politician he was - and how much his achievements are tarnished by Iraq
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Lover, Liar, Predator: How four women took down a monster
The BBC documentary series shows that when the police fail, survivors become the last line of defence
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The lesson of the new Lord of the Flies: Don’t leave the boys alone
Jack Thorne has followed Adolescence with another triumphant and troubling piece of work
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The terrible power of Industry
The high finance drama used to tease and torment by making us care about scumbags. Now it’s genuinely thrilling and terrifying too
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The philosophy behind the BBC’s Waiting for the Out
Andy West, the man who inspired the hit new drama, on nature, change and the ‘terrible, dehumanising’ life behind bars
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Death to the celebrity documentary
From the Beckhams to Eddie Murphy and Charlie Sheen, they promise truth but deliver reputation-laundering dressed up as intimacy
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The Night Manager returns - and it's what John le Carré would've wanted
Lifelong devotees of John le Carré need not worry, the saga of Jonathan Pine is in safe hands with screenwriter David Farr
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Hogwarts and law courts: the best TV of 2026
A new take on Harry Potter, a Legally Blonde prequel and the latest iteration of the Blade Runner franchise are among excuses not to go out in 2026
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Forget plot, Emily in Paris has surrendered to Instagram
Not even Minnie Driver can save a misfiring move to Rome for a series optimised for social media
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Christmas would not be Christmas without a Mark Gatiss ghost tale
The Room in the Tower is his eighth festive special for the BBC: long may he continue
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Could Britain handle its own Black Swan documentary?
The shocking Danish show that revealed a criminal network’s white collar connections was watched by half a nation and brought change
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The beatification of Martin Scorsese
A new documentary series turns the director into a Hollywood saint – and dulls some of his brilliance
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Anemone is a seriously accomplished debut
This film is a fine addition to Daniel Day-Lewis’s body of work, one of the greatest in cinema
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Riot Women is the most important show of the year
Sally Wainwright’s punk requiem for the invisible offers a loud argument that rage can bring change
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Kill, stream, repeat: has our obsession with true crime gone too far?
The mysterious serial killer who terrorised Florence is the subject of yet another true crime Netflix show
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Can we get Jack Kerouac’s America back?
Ebs Burnough’s new documentary, Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation, wants you to believe that we have more desire to communicate than social media will lead you to believe
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Slow Horses, a metaphor for post-Brexit Britain
Mick Herron’s spy thriller series and Will Smith’s magnificent adaptation have become pitch-perfect accompaniments to the shabbiness and disillusionment of Britain today
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Outrageous is Downton Abbey, with added Nazis
A new series about the Mitford sisters gains extra poignancy in an era when extremist politics again divides families