I love the Traitors – but hate its cliffhanger endings
The show’s teasing, abrupt credit rolls just make me feel cheated. In the age of streaming, the TV cliffhanger should…
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The comforts and joys of Gavin & Stacey
This final (or is it?) Christmas special episode of the sitcom suggests that our world may not be as awful…
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The 10 best TV shows of 2024
Our choice of the year’s essential small-screen entertainment.
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Netflix’s Black Doves is as irresistible as it is annoying
This festive spy thriller is farcical and freewheeling –and like a decent cracker it packs a certain bang.
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The torture of Meet the Rees-Moggs
The last thing Jacob Rees-Mogg needs is to be coddled by reality TV.
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Forty years ago, Band Aid brought mad excitement to my generation
Watching the BBC’s The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?, what was once such a big deal dematerialised in…
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Anthony Horowitz’s Moonflower Murders is a delicious buffet of detective-story Englishness
Blood stains, Battenberg cakes and a brilliant older woman – what a treat this series is.
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How true crime became “victim-centred”
The genre can no longer justify itself in terms of entertainment value alone. Enter the ubiquitous invocation of the victim.
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