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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Review
      Fargo series 5 — offbeat crime anthology returns with Jon Hamm and Juno Temple

      The pair are excellent as a libertarian sheriff and a suburban mother with a mysterious past

      A man wearing a cowboy hat sits on a horse standing stationary at a roadside next to a large sign that says “Re-elect sheriff Roy Tillman. A hard man for hard times”.
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
      The real question over The Crown and the Ghostly Di

      The ham-fisted haunting in the new series of ‘The Crown’ is too little too late

    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      FT Magazine
      The BBC’s ‘Planet Earth’ used to be supremely soothing. Now it gives me nightmares

      The tone of nature documentaries has shifted from one of celebration to bleakest warning, where the only appropriate response seems to be pure dread

      Camera operator John Shier watches as an Arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos) approaches him on Ellesmere Island, Canada
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Squid Game: The Challenge — Netflix megahit becomes an irresistible reality show

      Spin-off of the Korean drama gathers real contestants from a variety of backgrounds to compete for a $4.56mn cash prize

      A giant doll stands in front of a wheat field flanked by two masked figures in red jumpsuits
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Review
      The best of TV and streaming this week

      In season 6 of ‘The Crown’, Elizabeth Debicki shines as the doomed Princess Diana; ‘The Boy Who Lived’ tells the story of a now paralysed Harry Potter stunt double; Daisy Haggard and Paterson Joseph star in ‘Boat Story’, from the producers of ‘Fleabag’; Emma Stone skewers gentrification and reality TV in ‘The Curse’; Robbie Williams sorts out the ‘wreckage of the past’; Emma Corrin plays amateur sleuth in ‘A Murder at the End of the World’ — reviews by Dan Einav

      Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in ‘The Crown’
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      Boat Story, BBC1 — thriller awash in gimmicks and graphic violence

      The show from the producers of ‘Fleabag’ stars Paterson Joseph and Daisy Haggard stumbling on a stash of cocaine

      A woman with hair blowing in the wind and her mouth open as if yelling stands behind a man who looks out in the distance with an expression of dread or concern
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Leonard Blavatnik
      Leonard Blavatnik’s entertainment empire plans media acquisition spree

      Access Entertainment boss says Ukraine-born billionaire to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in TV, film and theatre

      Danny Cohen
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Robbie Williams, David Beckham and the rise of the celebrity streaming confessional

      Williams’s new Netflix docu-showcase joins the cast of stars stage-managing their stories

      Robbie Williams, in black underpants and vest, sits on a bed, looking at a laptop while surrounded by camera crew
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived TV review — touching story of Harry Potter stunt double

      Daniel Radcliffe-produced documentary spotlights a man who was paralysed after being injured on set

      Two teenage boys with their arms around each other’s shoulders smile with wide grins
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: November
      Jewellers not out of the frame during Hollywood strikes

      Despite a lack of exposure on screen or on red carpets, designers have found fruitful ways to promote themselves

      Actress Lili Reinhart in a cream dress wearing Chopard jewellery to an evening event
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      The Crown series 6 review — Elizabeth Debicki is transcendent in sumptuous Netflix drama

      She plays the doomed princess in the first half of the show’s final season

      A woman with shortish blond hair in a red dress hugs her two children
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      A Murder at the End of the World yields stylishly frosty thriller

      Emma Corrin’s amateur sleuth visits a summit held by Clive Owen’s icy technocrat in Hulu/Disney’s whodunnit

      A young woman in a bubble-gum pink bob wig and a hoodie stares at something with a fearful, intense expression
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder play cringy influencers in tricksy satire The Curse

      New Paramount+ series turns authenticity on its head in a grimly plausible send-up of gentrification and reality TV

    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      Robbie Williams, Netflix — the polished inside story of the megastar

      The latest biographical documentary to land on the streaming service has the usual carefully managed narrative

      A photo of a younger Robbie Williams smiling and holding a framed platinum album
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Channel Four Television Corp
      Channel 4’s independent production quota to rise in TV reforms

      Move designed to maintain media plurality as broadcaster seeks to boost finances by producing its own programmes

    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Pandora’s Box by Peter Biskind — is the golden age of TV at an end?

      A return to advertiser-led programming may signal the collapse of the risk-taking attitude that led to two decades of edgy, adventurous drama shows

    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Review
      Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius — star-studded BBC documentary traces the life of the Bard

      Helen Mirren, Judi Dench and Brian Cox are among the illustrious contributors in this three-part series

      A man with a dark beard and mustache and wearing brown Renaissance costume strides through a street with a large bag slung around him. A group of people hang around in an alley behind him.
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Review
      Sly — Netflix’s Sylvester Stallone documentary is punchy and unexpectedly poignant

      The action star’s largely first-person retrospective reveals moments of self-analysis

      Sylvester Stallone with dark hair flopping over a red headband, standing in a crowd with an amazed look
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Review
      Lawmen: Bass Reeves — stand-offs, shoot-outs and a God-fearing officer of the Wild West

      David Oyelowo commands as one of the first black deputy US marshals in a new Paramount+ series

      A man in a wide-brimmed hat wearing a grey jacket, waistcoat and Sherriff’s badge stands in front of a white tent
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      Paramount
      Paramount to revamp its free online television services in the UK

      US media giant will combine Channel 5 platform with Pluto TV

      Paramount’s Maria Kyriacou
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Emma Jacobs
      The one where Chandler Bing’s impenetrable job defined a generation

      His professional travails on ‘Friends’ were an acute reflection of a different office age

    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Review
      All the Light We Cannot See — trite second-world-war saga on Netflix

      Director Shawn Levy’s adaptation of the Pulitzer prize-winning novel leaves little room for nuance or ambiguity

      A young girl holds on to a man wearing a hat in a crowd; they are all looking up at something with anxious  expressions
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      GB News
      Boris Johnson to host TV shows on GB News

      Broadcaster says former PM will join in new year and play key role in its election coverage

      Boris Johnson
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Review
      The Gilded Age series 2 — lavish costume drama returns with light entertainment

      Julian Fellowes’ study of elite Manhattanites touches on social matters but is more concerned with petty scandals

      Men and women dressed in old formal clothes happily conversing while walking along a concrete path
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Review
      Time series 2 — Jimmy McGovern’s gruelling prison drama returns to BBC1

      Jodie Whittaker, Tamara Lawrance and Bella Ramsey star in the three-parter set in a women’s correctional facility

      One woman gestures to another as a third closes her eyes in despair or sleeplessness
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