tv & radio
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Playing on the success of true-crime shows like Making a Murderer and The Jinx, the BBC’s new drama has taken a huge gamble – and made its characters tell their gripping stories in straight-to-camera interviews
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Brash Americans? Tick. Shrill ladies? Tick. Over-active eyebrows? Tick. As Julian Fellowes aims to reclaim Sunday night TV, here’s your handy checklist of period drama cliches. First to tick them all off gets to bang the dressing gong
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He’s nearly been killed, arrested and started riots when in character. But if you want to bring out the man behind the mankini, let him loose on Marc Maron’s WTF
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Scriptwriter Paul Abbott remembers working – and boozing – with Tony Warren, creator of Coronation Street
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A frank portrayal of a previously secretive space for gay men. Plus! James Norton in his trunks in Grantchester.
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episode recaps
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Hearing that Johnnie Cochran is joining OJ’s defence squad, the lead prosecutor lets out an expletive-laden cry. Here’s someone who cares about OJ
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The Night Manager: episode by episodeThe Night Manager: episode by episodeThe Night Manager recap: episode two – welcome to Camp RoperOur hero Pine heads into the lion’s den to seduce the supervillain Roper. It’s a brilliantly menacing episode – but is it veering too close to parody?
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After last week’s epic third episode, Mulder and Scully come back down to earth with an entertaining pursuit of, er, The Band-Aid Nose Man
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In which we encounter the artisanal apocalypse, get to know Jesus’s Hilltop buddies and things get personal for Abraham
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Happy Valley: episode-by-episodeHappy Valley: episode-by-episodeHappy Valley recap: series 2, episode 4 – big smiles and a sordid Scalextric setThere’s a rape, a hammer attack and a creepy mystery gift left on the doorstep for Ryan. How does one series cram in so many acts of such believable horror?
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Vinyl: episode-by-episodeVinyl: episode-by-episodeVinyl recap: episode three – Alice Cooper in golf whites makes it all worthwhileThere is absolutely no one to root for in Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese’s frustrating prestige drama – but stick with it for the creepy cameos
reviews
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It is 13 years since the first series of this challenging documentary, and hitting adolescence doesn’t make living with a disability any easier. Plus: the puffins are thriving in The Last Seabird Summer
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Davina McCall may be no David Attenborough, but she’s always good fun
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news
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Streaming giant understood to be in talks with BBC for rights to revamped car show – after it passed on ex-Top Gear trio as ‘not worth the money’
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Requests for shows on the platform fell in January despite success of Victorian special and The Rack Pack, the BBC’s most popular iPlayer-only drama to date
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Andrew Collins: Telly addictAndrew Collins: Telly addictGirls, Togetherness and Fresh Meat: TV review – videoTelly addict Andrew Collins reviews the week’s TV, welcoming back Lena Dunham’s Girls and its middle-aged HBO cousin Togetherness to Sky Atlantic
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Trailer watchTrailer watchFlaked: Will Arnett plays an alcoholic in his most personal project yetHe insists it’s a comedy, but the Arrested Development star’s new show about a stool-maker in recovery looks set to be his most soul-searching performance
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Watch the trailer for Fox’s resurrection of The X-Files, the sci-fi series that first aired in 1993
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When he created Corrie, Tony Warren proved that anything can happen in an ordinary street. That includes murder, jail time and teen pregnancies …
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There’s a rape, a hammer attack and a creepy mystery gift left on the doorstep for Ryan. How does one series cram in so many acts of such believable horror?
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Ben probably thinks a traffic jam on the Triboro Bridge is a great place to fall in love
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The Hollywood Scream queen is back – as a hard-boiled fixer in TV series House of Cards. Neve Campbell talks about being lonely in LA, how political back-stabbing beats running around with a kitchen knife – and why she’s backing Hillary over Bernie
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HBO host presents 22-minute segment attacking ‘America’s back mole’ and announces website harkening back to candidate’s original family name
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As the police chief with a penchant for sniffing corpses in the hit drama Trapped, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson is melting Icelanders’ hearts
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Murder review A complex jigsaw of truth, guilt and grief