tv & radio
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Doctor Xand van Tulleken travelled with his twin brother along the migrant trail from Greece to France for a new documentary. The suffering he witnessed brought him to tears
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Stick him in any show – Doctor Thorne, Deadwood, Game of Thrones – and you’re standing behind a jet engine. But there’s a part of me that will never stop seeing him as Lovejoy, the antiques-loving scamp from the 90s
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Scary wildlife, wasps that made Darwin doubt God, and a mountain from hell in a Venezuelan national park. Plus: Julian Fellowes does Trollope in Doctor Thorne, and The Story of Cats
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Richard Roper, the worst man in the world, seemed like nothing more than your average member of the Bullingdon club – until that interrogation scene
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Uncle Julian is back! And, just like Downton Abbey, his new period drama is awash with heaving-bosom action and cut-glass accents
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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 three – 'becoming a man is realising it's all rotten'Richard Roper, the worst man in the world, seemed like nothing more than your average member of the Bullingdon club – until that interrogation scene
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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 four – finally, there's something hilarious about rock'n'rollThe jokes come thick and fast, the sprinklers rain down and Richie Finestra goes full Basil Fawlty as the show hits its stride – but will it last?
reviews
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Searching for new podcasts? Two oddball funny shows and a Louis Theroux-style look at mad Americans come highly recommended
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Churchill’s children were sidelined in a slight but well-acted drama. But House of Cards returned and worked like a dream
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news
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Victorian detective drama that was rescued by the streaming service after being dropped by the BBC to end after its fifth season
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Seven celebrities were injured in ski contest but code does not require broadcasters to ensure welfare of adults
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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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Trapped – the Icelandic thriller that's the unexpected TV hit of the year so far