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It’s Agatha Christie meets Nordic noir ... claustrophobic, horrifically intense and set in a landscape that humans cannot possibly take on and win
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Logo’s hit returns for its eighth season, and here are the shadiest and fiercest scenes from previous seasons where drag queens battle for the throne
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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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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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The young actors were there as part of the first lady’s anti-drugs campaign – but one later claimed to have smoked a joint in the garden. Thirty years on, Roland and Zammo reveal all
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We can believe in lizard people, but considering that American Muslims might not be even less sympathetic monsters seems to be beyond the show’s scope
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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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A deadly excursion to secure Alexandria’s future has disastrous consequences for everyone involved – especially the Saviors
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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?
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Serial: episode by episodeSerial: episode by episodeSerial recap – season two, episode nine: Trade SecretsThe overarching sentiment about the trade for Bowe Bergdahl’s freedom was that the US had traded five terrorists for the life of a deserter, but was it true?
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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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Searching for new podcasts? Two oddball funny shows and a Louis Theroux-style look at mad Americans come highly recommended
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news
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Roger Mosey laments cutting of sport and youth programming while arts and ‘affluent heartland audiences’ are indulged
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Some 48% of the corporation’s current workforce are female, compared with 40% of the armed forces and 28% of police officers, analysis reveals
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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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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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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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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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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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The People v OJ Simpson: episode four Enter Connie Britton as Faye Resnick