tv & radio
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Following Daredevil and Jessica Jones, Luke Cage is the latest TV superhero in Marvel’s production line. Can he be more than just a corporate expansion strategy? Watch the trailer below
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Laura Kuenssberg anatomised the whole Eton mess of the past months. Plus, another worrying post-Brexit scenario: Who’ll Do Your Job Now?
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The series of books predates Game of Thrones by a decade and boasts a universe as populous as Westeros, with a huge tapestry of stories to be mined
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The BBC documentary series will put you off your dinner, but shows the amazing dedication of emergency medics
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Show, which is reportedly set in the 90s, will be directed by American Hustle’s David O Russell
what to watch
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What's on tonightWhat's on tonightWednesday’s best TV – Inside Cern: A Horizon Special; Britain’s Benefit TenantsAn accessible look at the progress of the operators of the Large Hadron Collider. Plus: rogue renters run amok
episode recaps
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VersaillesVersaillesVersailles recap: episode nine – off avec their têtes!Un bal masqué bizarre; mort by épée and plus par le poison. Véritablement, il y a des dark forces at work
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PreacherPreacherPreacher recap: season one, episode 10 – Call and ResponseAnnville looks like its heading toward oblivion and we finally find out about Jesse and Tulip’s complicated history. Oh, and there’s a divine appearance (kind of)
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Mr RobotMr RobotMr Robot recap: season two, episode five – big trouble in ChinaDom has assassins behind the breakfast bar, while Angela is dealing with her dumbass ex and Elliot is up against some goons
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Game of ThronesGame of ThronesGame of Thrones recap: season six finale – The Winds of WinterTalk about saving the best until last: it was a heart-stopping and spine-tingling conclusion heavy in blood, revenge and death
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ClevermanClevermanCleverman recap: season one, episode six – Terra NulliusThings come to a head for the residents of the zone as Mathew’s plans for property redevelopment clash with 50,000 years of history and culture
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Peaky BlindersPeaky BlindersPeaky Blinders series three finale recap – a brilliant, bittersweet nail-biterTommy goes full Corleone in a cracking conclusion of kidnappings, bombshell reveals and shock arrests. Is he tunnelling straight to hell?
reviews
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Jeremy Paxman helps an art historian find out why the artist cut off his ear one starry night in Arles. Plus, extreme aviation in Flying to the Ends of the Earth
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The week in TV: Borderline; Gogglebox: Brexit Special; A Granny’s Guide to the Modern World and more
Channel 5 comes up trumps with an airport-based take on The Office, while the Gogglebox crew head for the Brexit -
news
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The Partnership for a Drug-Free America, now renamed as the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, was responsible for the 1987 ad and has made a reboot
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The network behind The People v OJ Simpson and American Horror Story has made a major push to hire more women and people of color behind the lens
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Trailer watchTrailer watchWatch the trailer for Luke Cage, Marvel and Netflix's hip-hop superheroFollowing Daredevil and Jessica Jones, Luke Cage is the latest TV superhero in Marvel’s production line. Can he be more than just a corporate expansion strategy? Watch the trailer below
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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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David Bowie’s television interviews were as varied as his career, ranging from a 17-year-old ‘long hair’ advocate to a widely loved and celebrated recording artist
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From 80s monster hunting to brain-eating space ants, Amazon, Netflix and Walter Presents have a lot to offer this season
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The director’s first TV project walks the poverty-stricken streets of 1970s New York to capture the birth of hip-hop. We go behind the scenes to find Luhrmann and star Jaden Smith bringing the beat back
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The Scream films became tiresome and overly self-referential, but as season two of the TV spinoff reaches its climax, it’s proving to be deep psychological slow-burner
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From Ask the Family’s stereotypical 1950s unit to today’s nagging nannies, television has long used families to structure its programmes. But do these shows reflect ever-changing norms, or are they designed to shape society itself?
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Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, convinced that Seinfeld was an even greater comedy than critics suggested, wrote about it in the bestseller Seinfeldia
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Love Island was this year’s X-rated hit, but it cost Miss Great Britain her crown. Has the reality genre reinvented itself, or jumped the shark?
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The first season of Preacher is done and dusted, and its plethora of violent set pieces and morality tales made for a shocking, gleeful show
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s sitcom is full of people who are defeated and unlikable – including her own character who masturbates to Barack Obama speeches. But it’s utterly riveting
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Is Game of Thrones simply ‘Coronation Street with swords and nudity’? Our readers on the programmes that aren’t all they’re cracked up to be
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Mad Men? Pretentious time-suck soap. Friends? Six haircuts and no laughs. This Is England? Am-dram. Seinfeld? Thinner than bubblegum. Guardian writers debunk sacred cows of the small screen
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