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Michael Fabricant heads for the Big Brother house
The ludicrous former Tory MP is reported to have signed up for ITV's reality show
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Daniel Hannan, the world’s worst television reviewer
The Tory peer has rubbished the Netflix hit Adolescence for not being about something completely different
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Is The Studio the best show of 2025 so far?
The comic dilemmas in The Studio are a joy to watch and class of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's writing style
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The Alto Knights is Robert De Niro's victory lap
Barry Levinson’s true-crime gangster story is a pleasing encapsulation of five decades of cinematic culture
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The secret at the heart of Severance
The high-concept streaming hit is really asking one question: who would we be without our trauma?
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GB News, Adolescence and the Andrew Tate fanboys
The right wing channel highlighted a backlash to the Netflix show from supporters of the misogynist - but neglected to mention toxic comments on its own social media
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Black Bag will keep you guessing until the very end
Forty years since his first feature film, Steven Soderbergh has rarely been better
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The media’s peculiar silence over Alexander Armstrong
The right wing press doesn’t seem to have a problem with a BBC presenter voicing political views when he’s attacking Labour
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The Seagull is an evening of convention-busting Chekhov
The imaginative liberties on show here are the trademark of director Thomas Ostermeier
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Toxic Town and the conscience of the nation
When it comes to delivering uncomfortable truths, incisive docudramas can trump conventional politics and Jack Thorne's Toxic Town is no exception
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Henry Kelly’s gold war
Going For Gold was a European quiz show hopelessly biased in favour of Brits. But that didn’t stop foreigners winning
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Zero Day, a loving homage to 1970s espionage classics
Robert De Niro, in his first regular television role, is extremely entertaining in Netflix's pacey riff on hypermodern cyberwarfare
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Why The White Lotus is murderously good
The third instalment of Mike White's acclaimed series is back with its usual love of mystery, lurking lust and dark humour
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Why Unforgotten is unforgiven by Brexiteers
The programme’s swipes at the far right, GB News and toxic men have outraged some viewers
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Camilla Tominey’s unsisterly farewell to Kay Burley
The GB News presenter has launched an astonishingly catty attack on her retiring Sky rival
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Italy’s national obsession
Cherished and controversial, Sanremo is Eurovision... but turned up to eleven
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Lord Sugar: Brexit is a disaster
As the Apprentice star calls for Britain to rejoin the EU, will the Brexiteers now demand he is banished from the Beeb?
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Streaming shows to look forward to in 2025
These are the shows to hunker down with over the coming year
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Meet the Johnsons? Only if he turns up
Reality TV makers sniffing around the former prime minister should beware the lesson of GB News
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The best streaming shows of 2024
From deeply unsettling drama to a superior superhero spin-off, here are the shows to stream over Christmas
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Careful now: anti-woke Linehan and Doyle head for America
The Father Ted creator and GB News commentator are off to America in search of "artistic freedom"
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Black Doves is festive fun at its most lethal
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books
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How to reboot MasterChef
Even before Gregg Wallace ended his own career, the time was ripe for a change. Here are four names who could shake things up
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The one big problem with Meet The Rees-Moggs
If the reality show is intended to revive his career, Jacob may end up being disappointed
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Coming to a screen near you: Jacob Rees-Mogg’s boxer shorts
The trailer for the former cabinet minister's TV series is here and it's not good
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Inganno and the rebirth of the free Italian woman
In the Italian version of Gold Digger, Monica Guerritore rewrites the rules for women
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A Very Royal Scandal is not to be missed
Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books
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The Perfect Couple is criminally good fun
Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, books and cinema
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Slow Horses is the perfect spy thriller for Brexit Britain
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema and books
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Prequel's not-very-coded message about Trump is terrifying
Our writers’ rundown of the pick of the week’s books, theatre and streaming
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Joe Rogan simply cannot be ignored
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema and books
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Disinformation station
GB News, the populists’ TV channel, has long tiptoed on the edge. Will making excuses for thugs finally send it over?