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  • You Bet!, review: Holly’s megawatt smile can’t save this needless revival

    2/5

    ITV hope this creaky reboot will spawn a full series – but do you wanna bet on it?

    Anita Singh 7 Dec 2024, 9:30pm
    Stunt driver Will Power with Stephen Mulhern and Holly Willoughby on You Bet!
  • Mariah Meets Rylan, review: an uninspired trot through the singer’s career

    2/5

    With a nervous host, and questions that felt pre-approved by a team of publicists, this BBC Two encounter was badly lacking in bite

    Anita Singh 7 Dec 2024, 9:10pm
    Mariah Carey and Rylan Clark
  • Strictly Come Dancing semi-finals: Tasha Ghouri and JB Gill score perfect 40s

    Kat Brown 7 Dec 2024, 8:38pm
    Aljaž Škorjanec and Tasha Ghouri
  • Does it really matter if someone on television is a nice guy or not?

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  • Why Coleen Rooney’s jungle stint could be the start of a huge new career move

    The ‘canny’ WAG is a favourite to win this year’s I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! – but what will the 38-year-old do next?

    Kate Wills 6 Dec 2024, 7:40pm
    In the jungle, Rooney has come across as funny, focused and extremely likeable
  • How Gen Z reclaimed the IRA – from Kneecap to Say Nothing

    Republican rappers selling balaclavas to fans, Gerry Adams as TV anti-hero and TikTok meme… Why a new generation is toying with the Troubles

    Liam Kelly 6 Dec 2024, 6:20pm
    Irish republicanism is making its mark on popular culture
  • The Sticky, review: who knew a crime caper about maple syrup could be this fun?

    4/5

    The wild story of how thieves stole Canada’s syrup reserve becomes a bingeable Amazon Prime Video series starring Jamie Lee Curtis

    Anita Singh 6 Dec 2024, 10:37am
    Chris Diamantopoulos and Jamie Lee Curtis in The Sticky
  • Rosamund Pike: ‘The older you are the more complex the lives you’re playing get – and it has a cost’

    From intense psychological dramas to fantasy blockbusters, the actress throws herself into any role – and she’s adventurous off-screen too

    Jessamy Calkin 6 Dec 2024, 7:00am
    'I love it when the character I'm playing has more adventurous clothes,' says Rosamund Pike
  • Chris McCausland’s Strictly diary: ‘There’s no point thinking this is a dancing competition’

    In his exclusive weekly column, and with the final just around the corner, the comedian talks costumes, Charlestons and his main competitor

    Chris McCausland 6 Dec 2024, 6:00am
    'People love Strictly. You want to do your best, for yourself and your pro partner'
  • Dynamo interview: ‘I consider myself a working-class hero’

    Steven Frayne’s magic tricks turned him into a global sensation – then mental illness (and Crohn’s) threatened to ruin it all. What’s next?

    Liam Kelly 6 Dec 2024, 6:00am
    Steven Frayne, formerly known as Dynamo: 'Fame's got a horr­ible side to it'
  • Dalgliesh, series 3, review: Bertie Carvel’s whodunit is crying out for meatier plots

    3/5

    Channel 5’s adaptation of P D James’s crime novels should fill the gap left by Endeavour – but Carvel is let down by weak characterisation

    Keith Watson 5 Dec 2024, 10:00pm
    Bertie Carvel in Dalgliesh
  • Sarah Hadland: ‘On Strictly, I’ve done things I didn’t know were possible’

    The Strictly semi-finalist on the BBC ‘favouritism’ row, why she loves being flung around by Vito and being ‘too small’ for drama school

    Helen Brown 5 Dec 2024, 6:00pm
    Actress Sarah Hadland will dance in the Strictly semi-finals this Saturday
  • Black Doves, review: it won’t be sending Slow Horses to the glue factory

    3/5

    Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw and Sarah Lancashire bring star power to a stocking-filler from Netflix

    Chris Bennion 5 Dec 2024, 10:19am
    Keira Knightley in Black Doves
  • Reuben Owen: Christmas in the Dales, review: the Yorkshire Farm scion takes on snowy Sweden

    2/5

    Despite the title, God’s Own Country was nowhere to be seen in Channel 5’s festive special, which packs Reuben off to the Arctic Circle

    Anita Singh 4 Dec 2024, 10:00pm
    Tommy McWhirter and Reuben Owen in Sweden
  • The MasterChef mastermind behind Gregg Wallace’s rise – and Quadrophenia

    Pioneering producer Franc Roddam has built a TV empire with his populist touch. Can he weather the storm engulfing his biggest hit?

    Liam Kelly 4 Dec 2024, 5:17pm
    Franc Roddam, creator of MasterChef, in 1978
  • The 30 funniest Christmas TV specials – ranked

    From The Office to Only Fools and Horses – are these the finest festive specials ever made?

    Tom Fordy 4 Dec 2024, 2:00pm
    The Office: Christmas Special: Lucy Davis, Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman and Mackenzie Crook
  • The Gregg Wallace scandal exposes the BBC’s neurosis about class

    Working-class men are few and far between at the Corporation. No wonder its middle-class middle managers had no clue how to rein Wallace in

    Robin Aitken
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    Gregg Wallace on MasterChef
  • Churchill at War, review: superficial primer is tailor-made for US audiences

    3/5

    Netflix’s new documentary rafts in big-name politicians – Boris Johnson, George W Bush – and AI tech to revisit the Second World War

    Chris Bennion 4 Dec 2024, 6:00am
    Churchill at War uses AI technology to recreate the Prime Minister's voice
  • The 10 best TV shows to watch this Christmas

    From family fun with Wallace & Gromit, to the Gavin & Stacey finale and the return of Squid Game… We pick out the best festive TV of 2024

    Michael Hogan 3 Dec 2024, 4:02pm
    They're back: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl airs on BBC One on Christmas Day
  • Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, review: kids will love this rip-roaring Spielbergian romp

    4/5

    The latest Star Wars TV series channels ET and The Goonies in a fun family friendly adventure

    Ed Power 3 Dec 2024, 2:01am
    Jude Law stars as Jod Na Nawood
  • Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty, review: why did the BBC blow the whole budget on one actor?

    2/5

    Billed as the story of ‘three men who will change Western art forever’, only one of them gets a look in

    Anita Singh 2 Dec 2024, 7:00pm
    Charles Dance as Michelangelo
  • Person of Interest, review: a big story in too small a space

    3/5

    This short one-off Channel 4 drama is a jittery exercise in late-night paranoia

    Keith Watson 2 Dec 2024, 7:00pm
    Asim Chaudhry in Person of Interest
  • ‘In the end she just withered away’: The sad life of child star Lena Zavaroni

    The Scottish vocal powerhouse was a global sensation by her teens – then her problems began. Her family tell her heartbreaking story

    Helen Brown 2 Dec 2024, 4:41pm
    Lena Zavaroni, who died in 1999 aged 35, in 1975
  • Who could replace Gregg Wallace on MasterChef?

    With the MasterChef court jester’s career in freefall, the search is on for John Torode’s new sparring partner. But who’s on the menu?

    Poppie Platt 2 Dec 2024, 4:07pm
    Gregg Wallace on the set of MasterChef: The Professionals
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude, review: a spellbinding adaptation of an ‘unfilmable’ novel

    5/5

    This Netflix series based on Gabriel García Márquez’s book demands a considerable commitment from the viewer, but it’s one well worth making

    Keith Watson 2 Dec 2024, 6:00am
     Claudio Cataño as Aureliano Buendía
  • Strictly Come Dancing, week 11 results review: The public vote is ridiculously off the mark

    3/5

    Pete Wicks survives yet another week despite finishing bottom of the leaderboard for the third time in a row

    Ed Power 1 Dec 2024, 10:55pm
    Montell Douglas and Johannes Radebe, with host Tess Daly, after she became the latest celebrity to be eliminated
  • Why break-up could be Dame Carolyn McCall’s final act at ITV

    Splitting divisions may deliver a much-needed boost to the struggling broadcaster

    James Warrington 1 Dec 2024, 12:00pm
    Illustration: a broken-up ITV logo
  • Game of Throws: Inside Darts, review: high-class chefs and instant fame - darts is having a moment

    3/5

    This solid documentary about the colourful world of darts is straight to the point and gives a wider view of the sport

    Anita Singh 30 Nov 2024, 10:00pm
    Game of Throws: Inside Darts
  • Strictly Come Dancing, week 11: Musicals Week sees JB Gill stake his claim for the trophy

    Kat Brown 30 Nov 2024, 8:37pm
    Lauren Oakley and JB Gill
  • Angela Rippon: ‘The Strictly scandal was blown out of proportion in some aspects’

    While the BBC’s first female newsreader is razor sharp, eloquent and glowing with youthful energy - she’s got death on her mind

    Nick Harding 30 Nov 2024, 5:00pm
    Angela Rippon CBE and Kai Widdrington on Strictly Come Dancing
  • The Agency, review: it’s all cloak and swagger for Fassbender in this diverting spy drama

    3/5

    There’s no glamour, no money, and no exploding watch in Paramount+’s star-studded thriller

    Anita Singh 30 Nov 2024, 8:45am
    Michael Fassbender as "Martian"
  • Phoebe Nicholls interview: ‘I don’t think older women should wear make-up’

    The Brideshead actress on her struggles with dyslexia and starring in Channel 5’s hit sleuth series Dalgliesh alongside Bertie Carvel

    Helen Brown 30 Nov 2024, 8:00am
    Phoebe Nicholls: 'Nowadays everybody knows too much about everybody else.'

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