ITV’s Professor T is a lockdown nightmare gone wrong
Ben Miller stars as an unnervingly observant Cambridge don with OCD called Jasper Tempest. It’s all incredibly strange.
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Will this be the most feral Love Island yet?
For years, we have lamented Love Island as commercialised and insincere. But after the past 15 months, who actually cares?
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Robert Popper: How we made Friday Night Dinner
The writer of Friday Night Dinner reflects on the tenth anniversary of Channel 4’s longest-running sitcom.
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I thought I was over the naïve Nineties optimism of Friends. The reunion proved me wrong
Friends may appear an apolitical relic, but like many millenials I can’t be objective about a programme that raised me.
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BBC Four’s Delia Derbyshire doc is a triumphant portrait of a brilliant woman
How to bring to life such a woman, and how on earth to put her experiments in psychoacoustics on screen?
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Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death suggests fame is a slow-working poison
Public approbation cannot, unlike a lover, be snared or pinned down. It is unreliable, fickle. It is a chimera.
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BBC One’s Bloodlands is Line of Duty with added politics
This new series produced by Jed Mercurio is exciting, and its plot is intricately tangled.
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Elton John: Uncensored: a strange case of openness without candour
If Graham Norton’s questions were far from searching, John’s answers were accompanied by neither feeling nor reflection.
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Euphoria offers a much-needed, fresh perspective on mental health problems in teenage girls
For 22 hours Rue has been entombed in her duvet watching Love Island. Time slips into nothingness, but Ian Stirling’s…
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The Big Bang Theory is a plague on society
The sexism and misogyny can be seen from the writing through to the paychecks.
ByForget Love Island, How Clean is Your House was the ultimate feel-good reality TV
It wasn’t beauty, wealth or sex that enticed audiences – simply a bizarre fascination with other people’s filth.
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Amazon’s 9/11 series, The Looming Tower, has two fantastic performances at its heart
Plus, new Netflix documentary series Flint Town.
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Skam, interrupted: why is the phenomenally popular teen drama ending before its peak?
The show has been building towards high school graduation – but now it’s ending before its lead characters finish school.
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The disputed legacy of There’s Something About Miriam: how the “trans trick” lives on
Did the offensive TV dating show with a “twist” sow the seeds for how trans people are depicted today?
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If you haven’t seen Breaking Bad, you should still watch Better Call Saul
I am hardly alone in admiring contemporary television, whose steep rise in quality has noticeably reduced the amount I read…
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Who ends up with Adam? How Girls resists the idea of a romance as a happy ending
“I’m not sure what Hannah’s gonna even say but I know what I’m gonna say,” says Adam to Jessa in…
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Killer serials: Writers on their favourite box sets
The box set has elevated the television series into a work of art. Stephen King, Roddy Doyle, Rose Tremain, Clive…
By“She’s my person”: what are the best female friendships on TV?
From Buffy and Willow to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, relationships between women are no longer depicted only as bloodletting…
ByTop 10 political TV debate moments
Ahead of tonight’s clash, we take you through the greatest debate moments of the TV era.
ByGriffin receives hostile reception from Question Time audience
BNP leader ridiculed for views on the holocaust and defence of Ku Klux Klan head
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