The TelegraphBrunei Top Gear sprays cars used in Brunei filming with LGBT Pride flagThe Telegraph - By Biba KangAfter filming in Brunei for its latest series, Top Gear is protesting against the country’s threat to make homosexuality punishable by stoning to death. In an effort to show solidarity with the LGBTQ the
The Telegraph What’s on TV tonight: Thatcher: A Very British Revolution, Big Little Lies, tennis at Queen’s and moreThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ReportersThe BBC’s in-depth look at the life and times of Margaret Thatcher has enthralled throughout. The final episode, which looks at the period after the 1987 election to her resignation in 1990, has a naturally
The TelegraphAnne Lister Gentleman Jack, episode 5, review: Suranne Jones shines as things get serious for Anne ListerThe Telegraph - By Michael HoganThere was mid-series misery for Gentleman Jack, as Anne Lister (Suranne Jones) was left broken-hearted and bloody-nosed. Recently widowed Reverend Thomas Ainsworth (Brendan Patricks) set his sights on
The TelegraphTelevision (UK) Top Gear, episode 1, review: Men behaving nicely - this is Top Gear for millennialsThe Telegraph - By Michael HoganThere were worrying whispers that the new-look Top Gear would be more touchy-feely than its pub-boorish previous incarnations. Judging by the launch episode, any petrolheads allergic to cuddles and scented
The TelegraphKilling Eve Killing Eve, series 2 review: a gorgeous bauble of a thriller that needs to be appreciated on its own termsThe Telegraph - By Ed PowerKilling Eve (BBC One) is a soufflé that seemed, on paper, as though that it should have arrived flat and stayed that way. Twirling onto our screens last year, here was a BBC thriller tweaked and heightened
The TelegraphRachel Riley Celebrity Gogglebox, episode 1, review: Rachel Riley, Little Mix, Chris Eubank and a hefty glass of roséThe Telegraph - By Michael HoganWell, that's Michael Gove’s leadership bid done for. As the couch potato pundits on Celebrity Gogglebox (Channel 4) gleefully ridiculed his cocaine confession, Rylan Clark-Neal’s mother Linda declared:
The TelegraphTelevision (UK) Who Should Get to Stay in the UK? review: moving dispatches from the immigration front lineThe Telegraph - By Michael HoganOur immigration system is enough to reduce decent people to tears – and that’s just the lawyers who have to deal with this Kafka-esque labyrinth. Imagine how the applicants feel. Who Should Get to Stay
The TelegraphDeath Row Death Row, Countdown to Execution, review: a thoughtful and less salacious look at life on Death RowThe Telegraph - By Michael HoganPoor Susanna Reid. She gets a week’s break from sitting with Piers Morgan each morning, only to go and sit with a reviled monster. For Death Row: Countdown to Execution (ITV), Reid travelled to Texas meet
The TelegraphHBO Why Zendaya's sex-fuelled teen drama Euphoria is HBO's most shocking drama yetThe Telegraph - By Biba KangAs the Game of Thrones hype fades into wistful nostalgia, HBO has found a new way to get everyone’s attention. Euphoria, its first ever teen drama, takes the trend for edgy content to a new extreme, making
The TelegraphRob Lowe Wild Bill, episode 1 review: Rob Lowe's fish-out-of-water drama is a strange beastThe Telegraph - By Benji WilsonRob Lowe has cropped up in a few strange roles in recent years, from a chain-smoking priest in Sky’s You, Me and the Apocalypse to an egomaniac actor in Fox’s The Grinder (where he played an actor who
The TelegraphTelevision (UK) The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes, review: despite a risky premise, this experiment treated dementia sufferers with respectThe Telegraph - By Benji WilsonFour out of five people diagnosed with dementia lose their jobs. That’s a second trauma for lives that have already taken a hammer blow. The point of Channel 4’s The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes was
The TelegraphTelevision (UK) Years and Years, episode 5 recap: we've truly entered a dystopian world nowThe Telegraph - By Michael HoganApocalyptic rain signalled some truly dystopian developments in the penultimate episode of Russell T Davies's epic family saga. Welcome to Rook’s Britain. A new country began to take shape under populist
The TelegraphTelevision (UK) Year of the Rabbit, episode 1 review: if you can stand the potty mouth, Matt Berry's ribald comedy is great funThe Telegraph - By Jasper ReesAnyone with a low tolerance for the bluer bits of the Anglo-Saxon lexicon should probably offer a wide berth to Year of the Rabbit (Channel 4). Detective Inspector Rabbit, who patrols the seamier bits
The TelegraphMargaret Thatcher Thatcher: a Very British Revolution, episode 4 review: ‘that bloody woman’ had a softer side we rarely sawThe Telegraph - By Asa BennettWe may not have found the new “Iron Lady” in Theresa May, but it’s clear where Ken Clarke got the idea to call her a “bloody difficult woman” from. As the penultimate episode of Thatcher: a Very British
The TelegraphPlastic War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita review: good campaigning programme shows how it is made hard for us to say noThe Telegraph - By Helen BrownThey can’t DO that!” gasped my seven-year-old daughter as we watched a refuse truck full of plastic waste disgorging its load off the top of a cliff. She breathed a sigh of relief when the camera pulled
The TelegraphBig Little Lies Big Little Lies, season 2 episode 1 review: Meryl Streep is a casting masterstrokeThe Telegraph - By Serena DaviesThe thing about Big Little Lies is that the characters are all so good at being horrible to one another. I don’t mean the big, obvious horribleness that provided the driving narrative of the opening innings
The TelegraphThe Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale, season 3 episode 1 review: this return to Gilead is gruelling but even more relevant in 2019The Telegraph - By Jasper ReesThe surfeit of high-grade television drama at the moment means intense competition for audiences’ attention. With Big Little Lies and Killing Eve back telling stories of women, how many viewers are ready
The TelegraphTelevision (UK) Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, review: Michael Barrymore – ‘I couldn’t be more sorry’The Telegraph - By Michael HoganDiana, Princess of Wales, once told Michael Barrymore: “Only three people matter in this world: you, me and Gazza. If one of us is on the tabloid front pages, the other two get a week off.” That’s a measure
The TelegraphKilling Eve Killing Eve, season 2 episode 1 review: Villanelle is back and can even make a pair of comic book pyjamas look stylishThe Telegraph - By Jasper ReesKilling Eve (BBC One) carried all before it at the recent Baftas. Oddly, no one making acceptance speeches from the stage saw fit to mention, in her absence, Sandra Oh. Yes, Jodie Comer pipped her to actress
The TelegraphTelevision (UK) The Voice Kids, episode 1 review: there's no respite from reality contests – but at least the kids were impressiveThe Telegraph - By Michael HoganWhen it comes to TV talent contests, there’s no respite. Just as we’ve seen off Britain’s Got Talent for another year, along came The Voice Kids (ITV) to fill its slot in the Saturday evening schedules.
The TelegraphTelevision (UK) 63 Up, final episode, review: an extraordinary study of life’s unpredictabilityThe Telegraph - By Chris HarveyThe final episode of 63 Up (ITV) went travelling, jetting off first to Australia, where the boys who had been together in a children’s home in the Sixties, Symon and Paul, were reunited, and then to Bulgaria,
The TelegraphEastEnders EastEnders, the return of Zammo, review: a cheeky, cheery but all-too-brief Grange Hill cameoThe Telegraph - By Michael HoganFlipping heck, Zammo was back. And he’d swapped his Grange Hill school tie for a bus driver’s uniform. EastEnders (BBC One) saw the welcome screen return of actor Lee MacDonald, now 50. For a generation
The TelegraphTelevision (UK) From Fleabag to 63 Up: the best TV of 2019 (so far)The Telegraph We're now halfway through the year and so far 2019 has shaped up to be an excellent year for television. This is the The Telegraph's guide to the best of the year so far.
The TelegraphPlay buttonKilling Eve Killing Eve accused of ‘queerbaiting’ after Sandra Oh denies on-screen lesbian relationshipThe Telegraph - By Telegraph ReportersEver since its arrival on British screens last year, Killing Eve has won acclaim for its presentation of two women forming a dangerous obsession with one another. However, recent comments by one of its
The TelegraphBig Little Lies Big Little Lies, season 2, first look review: Meryl Streep is a casting masterstrokeThe Telegraph - By Serena DaviesThe thing about Big Little Lies is that the characters are all so good at being horrible to one another. I don’t mean the big, obvious horribleness that provided the driving narrative of the opening innings
The TelegraphPlay buttonMeryl Streep Meryl Streep on Big Little Lies: 'Toxic masculinity? Women can be pretty toxic too'The Telegraph - By Jane MulkerrinsHow do you follow up a television show that became an instant and enormous success, scored a raft of Emmys and Golden Globes, dominated water-cooler chat for the entirety of its seven-week run, pre-empted
The TelegraphTelevision (UK) The Virtues, final episode, review: this dramatic masterpiece ended with at least one flicker of hopeThe Telegraph - By Benji WilsonAnyone who’d seen the first three parts of The Virtues (Channel 4), Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne’s story of child abuse and its consequences, might have predicted that the finale would not be candyfloss
The TelegraphITV 63 Up, episode 2 review: for the first time, the Up series had to say goodbye to one of its childrenThe Telegraph - By Chris HarveyMillions tuned in again last night to watch a group of individuals brought together for a social experiment saying ridiculous things as they navigated some of life’s fundamental issues. But away from Island,
The TelegraphJonas Brothers Chasing Happiness, review: the Jonas Brothers reunite to contemplate life, regrets and being very richThe Telegraph - By Eleanor HallsAt times, Chasing Happiness feels more like a therapy reel for the Jonas Brothers than a documentary for their fans. Nick, Joe and Kevin, three siblings from New Jersey, began making indie rock together
