The GuardianMoney Spiral recap: season seven, episodes three and four – not tonight, JoséphineThe Guardian - James DonaghySpoiler alert: this recap is for people watching Spiral on the BBC. Do not read on unless you have watched season seven, episodes three and four. If you’re counting, €329,510 fell out of that loft last
The GuardianAustralia The Masked Singer is a hit because it gives us what we want: early 2000s nostalgiaThe Guardian - Wendy SyfretWhen a friend invited me over to watch the first episode of Channel 10’s brain-boiling hit The Masked Singer, I approached it with the mix of irony and fascination I bring to most reality TV events. The
The GuardianGeorge Clooney Reggie Yates: ‘I could get George Clooney to say stuff he’d never said before’The Guardian - Sam WolfsonFrom Leonardo da Vinci to Iron Man’s Tony Stark, the ultimate ambition of madcap inventors has always been the personal flying machine. Last year, filming in China, TV presenter Reggie Yates saw that finally
The GuardianReplicas Scarlett Moffatt’s The British Tribe Next Door: what were the TV execs thinking?The Guardian - Joel GolbyWhere on the Scarlett-Moffatt-Is-England’s-Rose-O-Meter™ are we at the moment? I always forget. There was that ascent to fame when she sat horizontal on a sofa and said arch things on Gogglebox: we quite
The Guardian Looking for Alaska review – is this Dawson's Creek throwback too wholesome for Gen Z?The Guardian - Rebecca NicholsonLooking for Alaska is an eight-part adaptation of the much-loved first novel by John Green, the young adult fiction king, author of The Fault in our Stars. For various reasons, it has taken 14 years to
The GuardianLimetown Bored of true crime and George Ezra? Why fiction is saving podcastsThe Guardian - Jack SealeNon-fiction is still king in the rapidly expanding podcast universe: the bulk of on-demand audio remains dedicated to interviews, debates about sport or pop culture, and the genre that pushed podcasting
The GuardianChuck Berry TV tonight: the father of rock'n'roll Chuck BerryThe Guardian - Ammar Kalia, Ellen E Jones, Graeme Virtue, Hannah Verdier and Paul HowlettChuck Berry, who died in 2017, is often hailed as one of the founders of rock’n’roll, and he was still playing up to 100 shows per year well into his 70s. This documentary focuses on his musical legacy
The GuardianDavid Attenborough 'Just don't waste': David Attenborough's heartfelt message to next generationThe Guardian - Kate Abbott TV editorDavid Attenborough has delivered a heartfelt message to children around the world on how they can help save the planet: “Live the way you want to live but just don’t waste.” At the first screening of BBC’s
The GuardianDolly Parton Dolly Parton's America: how the country star inspired a hit podcastThe Guardian - Hannah J Davies‘Let’s just call it what it is – weird. It’s weird to be a man asking Dolly Parton if she considers herself a feminist.” But Jad Abumrad, US radio host and creator of the long-running series Radiolab,
The GuardianEd Sheeran Modern Love review – vapid, nauseating ... and that's before Ed Sheeran shows upThe Guardian - Rebecca NicholsonThe New York Times’ Modern Love column, a weekly first-person essay about love and relationships, is such an institution that it is a wonder it has taken so long to make a series out of it. It has already
The GuardianComedy TV tonight: David Jason in a warm-hearted comedy rebootThe Guardian - Paul Howlett, Ellen E Jones, Ammar Kalia, Hannah Verdier, Graeme VirtueDavid Jason is back as smart-talking grocer Granville in the sixth series of this nostalgic reboot. The family cornershop might be a rarity now – especially with the looming logistical chaos of Brexit
The GuardianWatchmen This week’s best home entertainment: from Watchmen to The AccidentThe Guardian - The GuideRorschach mask-wearing white supremacists are terrorising the Oklahoma town of Tulsa in this new take on Alan Moore’s cult graphic novel. Regina King plays the unflappable detective tasked with rooting
The GuardianParenting Is there a more Emmy-worthy children's show than Bluey?The Guardian - Stephanie ConveryAustralia’s most beloved animated blue heeler, Bluey, was nominated for an Emmy this week. It’s now a year since the cartoon about the six-year-old puppy, her younger sister Bingo and her mum and dad aired
The GuardianShonda Rhimes Shonda Rhimes: TV titan to podcaster in chief? – podcasts of the weekThe Guardian - Hannah J Davies, Hannah Verdier and Max SandersonPodcast newsletter Hot Pod asks whether microcasting could be the next big podcast trend, with Spotify now adding a mix of bitesize pod episodes and music to algorithm-powered playlists. But will it catch
The GuardianPaul Rudd Living With Yourself review – are two Paul Rudds better than one?The Guardian - Lucy ManganIt has long been understood that there is nothing Paul Rudd cannot do. Except age – but scientists are surely studying that phenomenon. He has effortless warmth, charm and comedy chops all melded into
The GuardianTokyo Giri/Haji review – Kelly Macdonald crime show is all killer and no thrillerThe Guardian - Lucy ManganYounger siblings, eh? They are either the attention-sucking baby of the family, leaving you out in the cold, or a thorn in your side causing trouble from cradle to grave. Detective Kenzo Mori feels your
The GuardianDiane von Furstenberg 'She belongs to everyone': Diane von Furstenberg's Statue of Liberty documentaryThe Guardian - Adrian HortonIn the fall of 2016, the task ahead of Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, co-directors of HBO’s Liberty: Mother of Exiles, seemed straightforward, if unclear in the details: delve into the history of the
The GuardianLeah Bracknell Leah Bracknell obituaryThe Guardian - Anthony HaywardThe actor Leah Bracknell, who has died of cancer aged 55, made her name on television playing the first lesbian character in a British soap. She joined Emmerdale as the aspiring vet Zoe Tate, whose family
The GuardianCaroline Flack 'You've won a boob job!' – is The Surjury the sickest reality TV yet?The Guardian - Stuart HeritageIt’s never particularly good when a television series is forced to defend its own existence before it has even aired, but that’s the situation The Surjury finds itself in. The series has already been the
The GuardianLeah Bracknell Emmerdale's Leah Bracknell dies aged 55The Guardian - PA MediaThe Emmerdale actor Leah Bracknell has died aged 55, three years after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Bracknell, who played Zoe Tate in the ITV soap for 16 years until 2005, died last month, her manager
The GuardianDrama TV tonight: a tale of two cities in riveting new crime drama Giri/HajiThe Guardian - Ammar Kalia, Phil Harrison, Ali Catterall, Hannah J Davies and Paul HowlettSet in Tokyo and London, this slick metropolitan drama sees detective Kenzo (Takehiro Hira) travel to the UK to search for his estranged younger brother Yuto (Yosuke Kubozuka) amid increasing yakuza violence.
The GuardianTechnology Unnatural Selection: the eye-opening Netflix docuseries on gene editingThe Guardian - Dream McClinton“Today, we are learning the language in which God created life,” said then-president Bill Clinton, alongside the British prime minister, Tony Blair, in 2000. In the grainy archival clip, scientists and
The GuardianLimetown Limetown review: a load of sub X-Files, podcast-to-TV tosh. Thanks Facebook!The Guardian - Lucy ManganThere is nothing I enjoy more – especially in metaphorically and literally dark times – than a high-concept, low-effort watch. Something that catches the attention and does not demand too much. Something
The GuardianHousing Kevin McCloud's property empire suffers liquidationsThe Guardian - Rupert JonesTwo companies in Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud’s property empire have gone into liquidation, weeks after the Guardian first revealed that investors in his projects faced huge losses. KPMG has appointed
The GuardianWatchmen Regina King on fighting white supremacists in Watchmen: 'My community is living this story'The Guardian - Emma BrockesTrump has just emboldened people. They were always there, feeling the way they’ve been feeling, but now, oh my gosh It’s hard to convince people there is an audience that wants quiet stories Regina King
The GuardianThe OA 'We put 20 tons of nuts in the post': meet TV's most extreme superfansThe Guardian - Ammar KaliaModern fandom can seem an alien concept. Gone are the teens penning heartfelt letters to their favourite pinups. Today’s fans – or “stans”, named after the Eminem song about an obsessive stalker – are
The Guardian Succession season two finale – battle of the backstabbers: discuss with spoilersThe Guardian - Adrian HortonIf Succession wasn’t the breakout HBO hit in 2018, then it’s achieved hit status in its second season, one of the best sophomore outings in recent TV memory. After nine episodes that brought us such landmark
The GuardianIdris Elba TV tonight: a trip down memory lane for Idris ElbaThe Guardian - Ammar Kalia, Ellen E Jones, Jack Seale, Graeme Virtue, Paul HowlettIdris Elba goes back to the 1980s for the second series of his semiautobiographical sitcom about an east London family living on the fictional Eastbridge estate. Elba’s patriarch, Walter, opens the series
The GuardianComedy Lenny Henry’s Race Through Comedy review – Britain's blackface shameThe Guardian - Chitra RamaswamyOh, the horrors a dig through our country’s black cultural archives can unearth. How’s this for vintage stomach-churning racism, punchlined by a national treasure in blackface? In 1969 – two years, indeed,
