tv & radio
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A star cast of comics impersonate our first family in this Channel 4 sitcom. But is it satire or something more affectionate?
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Shakespeare’s historical plays have a reputation for being dull … but star-led miniseries The Wars Of The Roses opts for sex and scandal instead
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On Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary, who better to cut the bard’s best-known works down to size than Weekly Wipe’s noted cultural commentator?
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The artist and ‘lifelong sissy’ goes north to hear how the old model of masculinity can malfunction in the modern world – then distils his experiences into tapestries and pots. Plus: please never let The Good Wife end
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Damian Lewis plays a rogue financier, Winona Ryder hunts down her son, the Dutch go swinging in the suburbs – and Baz Luhrmann charts a ghetto explosion
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What's on tonightWhat's on tonightSaturday's best TV: The Hollow Crown; Attenborough's Passion Project; MirandaShakespeare’s history plays get a star-studded adaptation, the naturalist’s most personal films get another airing and there’s a weekend binge of the slapstick-filled sitcom
episode recaps
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Peaky BlindersPeaky BlindersPeaky Blinders recap: series three, episode one – welcome back boys!The Shelby gang return – and their lives are as garish, glorious and overflowing with swagger as ever
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Game of ThronesGame of ThronesGame of Thrones recap: season six, episode two – HomeWho’s dead? Who’s alive? Tallying up the body count in a particularly violent episode as new game comes into play
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Indian SummersIndian SummersIndian Summers recap: series two, episode eight – damn you Channel 4!Just as the adventures of Simla gets axed, they pull it out of the bag. What an unbearably gripping heart-stopper
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Blue EyesBlue EyesBlue Eyes recap: episode seven – is there a bomb on that bus?It’s a week before the election in Sweden, bearded Nazis are everywhere – then a catastrophe hits the centre of Stockholm. Has poor Simon blown people to smithereens?
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UndercoverUndercoverUndercover recap: episode five – Maya, some decorum, pleaseThanks to a raving racist and a retired police officer armed with a VHS player, we established a fair bit of intel in the penultimate episode. But is it enough?
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MarcellaMarcellaMarcella recap: episode five – hang high the guilt-free bunting!This week saw butchered babysitters, child abductions, mammoth confessions – and Marcella absolving herself. You have to admire a show that chucks this much at the wall to see what sticks
reviews
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Prince Charles is a deluded dolt and the Middletons swig Diamond White in a Morrisons car park in this hilarious new royal satire
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Grace Dent tells the story of Rob Lawrie, who brought four-year-old Bahar to Britain in his old van
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news
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Commisioning teams experiment with using data from Twitter and Facebook as well as from 6 million-plus people who have signed up for BBC iD
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Director general hits back after reports John Whittingdale is planning to scale back the BBC, adding that rivals should not determine its future
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Andrew Collins: Telly addictAndrew Collins: Telly addictTelly addict: the best TV of the last five years – videoIn his final TV review, telly addict Andrew Collins signs off with his favourite shows of the last five years, from Game Of Thrones to Gogglebox, The Leftovers to Last Week Tonight, Peaky Blinders to Bake Off, The Good Wife and Mad Men of course
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Trailer watchTrailer watch'You don't shoot family!': watch the first trailer for dysfunctional comedy Flowers – videoStarring Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt, Flowers is about an eccentric family struggling to hold their lives together. The six-episode series will run Monday-Friday for one week from 25 April
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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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The Family Guy creator is a talented voice artist, but his acting is continually creepy and facile. There’s little to no hope for his new show about space explorers, then
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The proliferation of television has brought more extreme sex, the invention of ‘sexposition’ and portrayals of sexuality that haven’t been seen before
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Since being whisked to New York for a role as Trevor Noah’s correspondent, the Australian comedian has been keeping busy with his own show, International Student
you may have missed
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As the wildlife presenter approaches his 90th birthday, we take a look at some of his most awe-inspiring work – from meeting a cannibal tribe to cuddling gorillas
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Sunday’s House of Fraser Bafta TV awards rounds off another fantastic year for British talent. Here we celebrate the brightest stars with a portfolio of portraits by Jonathan Birch
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The Netflix series, starring Depardieu as a washed-up, drugged-up mayor, has been labelled ‘cowshit’ by French critics – but that’s just Paris being snooty, say its creators
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