Television

East Germany’s first black policeman started the 1990s as a media phenomenon, but ended it in jail. A new series tells his story

How did an obscure British comedy sketch become a New Year tradition for Germans?

A Storm for Christmas fails to deliver more than the usual festive tropes… but perhaps it doesn’t need to

With its charming campery, the plot of this 1940s Spanish crime drama is a breath of fresh air

Empires rise and fall, and yet Bake Off remains on our screens. Yet, across the pond commentators recently took aim at Mexico week

The divisive filmmaker's latest shows how modern-day Russia was formed out of the ashes of empire

Netflix's retelling of a French tragedy depicts the humanity of events with a beautiful rawness

A new historical drama brings to life the story of a German duchess turned Austrian empress

A new Spanish Netflix dramedy reimagines cancer storytelling with style, wit and grace

Michael Winterbottom's telling of Boris Johnson's pandemic begs the question: when is the general public ready to consume recent real-life events on screen?

At the centre of Samantha Morton’s new series about the Medicis is a maligned queen whose character remains a mystery

Witty, cathartic and darkly funny, Sharon Horgan’s Irish revenge comedy proves hell hath no fury like a sister scorned

This new French Netflix sitcom sets out to make profound and amusing statements about younger generations’ relationship with technology. It fails on both accounts

German public broadcasting has gone beyond a public service and has become excessive and expensive

A Spanish drama about the aftermath of a brutal gang rape is a little hard to take seriously

A new Polish crime thriller is riveting - but also stressful, banal and not a great deal of fun to watch

Its creators may plead otherwise, but the world's biggest TV show rendered sex as grotesque and alienating as any puritanical religiosity

Tight, exciting and nuanced, new six-part Croatian drama thriller Four Strangers is a proper treat

A new Spanish Netflix series portrays celebrity as inherently toxic and destructive, and yet a natural ambition for the aimless disenfranchised young people to whom it is sold

Flee is the best representation yet of what it really means to be a refugee

A new Netflix show about tech-bro chaos and indulgence is topical and current. It's also completely played out

The new Netflix drama sets aside political quibbles and moments of cultural discord, settling instead for lighter watching

The presenter managed to stay at the top for six decades, winning hearts whether baring her monochrome midriff to a startled nation or holding that same nation’s politicians to account in full colour

A Danish drama set in the world of social work paints an unbearable balancing act of competing harms

Despite some great performances, narratively there is not much at the heart of this Danish comic drama

A new Spanish Netflix series asks what privacy in the modern age looks like, especially when all too often the little we have gets betrayed

For a Gen-Zer, Nick Hornby's marital vignettes are reminiscent of late-night and wine-filled debates with family members

Megan Nolan loves a bad rom-com, but this latest Netflix effort is stupid and hateful

This Netflix film about a Danish restaurateur could have done with being much worse or much, much better

The story of Sweden's first celebrity gangster is a sub-Tarantino gushing glorification

Comedian MITCH BENN on the inevitable reaction to Ncuti Gatwa being cast as the next Doctor from the inevitable quarters

BritBox's latest is a perfectly pitched and painfully funny new addition to the canon of works about Irish alcoholism