tv & radio
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Late night TV roundup: John Oliver jokingly blames Trump on OprahComics, including Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert, criticize Stephen Miller and the president’s repeated accusations of voter fraud
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'I too have a dream': the podcast showing Trump the truth about US immigrantsThey came to America to seek refuge or freedom, and even in the face of the travel ban, they love their home. A new podcast shares immigrants’ staggering stories to sort the truth from the alternative facts -
Michael Bolton's move from power balladeer to comedy geniusThe unstoppably sexy singer’s Netflix special is a faux telethon in which he must use his erotic powers to make 75,000 new pregnancies in an hour -
Girls review – the final date is La La Land with sand instead of jazzHannah’s hopes of having a horrible time are dashed by a dashing surf instructor, but privileged ennui and anxiety endure. Plus, First Dates: Valentine’s Special
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season three: Titus parodies Beyoncé in teaserThe first footage from the third season of Tina Fey’s award-winning Netflix comedy centers around a spoof of the singer’s Hold Up video
what to watch
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Legion review – Marvel takes on mental illness in dazzling new showEven for those with superhero fatigue, there’s something fascinatingly unconventional about Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley’s ambitious drama
episode recaps
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The Walking DeadThe Walking DeadThe Walking Dead: season seven, episode nine – Rock in the RoadThe midseason premiere had far too much chatting, far too few zombies and no evil Negan. The silver lining? King Ezekiel’s superb tiger Shiva is back
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HomelandHomelandHomeland recap: season six, episode four – A Flash of LightFinally, some action! Homeland has been low-key so far, but this week gave us a terrorist plot and the shock return of the show’s most dangerous villain
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John Oliver on Trump and the truth: 'a pathological liar'In his return to HBO, the host of Last Week Tonight dissected the troubling falsehoods in the president’s statements and exactly where they originate
videos
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John Oliver dissects Donald Trump's problem with the truth – videoJohn Oliver returns to host HBO’s Last Week Tonight on Sunday to dissect the troubling falsehoods in President Trump’s statements and exactly where they originate
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South Park creators on difficulty of writing Trump jokes: 'Satire has become reality' – videoTrey Parker and Matt Stone said writing for the show had become ‘really tricky’ as ‘what was actually happening was way funnier than anything we could come up with’
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Late night hosts on the inauguration – videoUS late night hosts didn’t pull any punches on Thursday night, on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States
talking points
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South Park to Sesame Street: the TV censorship hall of fameFrom black Klansmen to giant ceramic vaginas, some deeply strange TV moments have been vetoed. Even Mr Snuffleupagus belongs in the club
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'Is it like Girls?' How I found recognition and relief in Brooklyn's TV daughtersThe polarizing show, which premieres its final season on Sunday, traced the contours of Jean Hannah Edelstein’s life as a messy post-college millennial
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Is change as good as a rest to keep classic British TV characters fresh?Doctor Who, Bond, Sherlock: reboots are changing audience views of heroes
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Lena Dunham’s Girls: the show that turned TV upside downGirls helped reinvent the female ensemble show, but it hasn’t been an easy ride. As it approaches its final season before hitting the big screen, we assess its legacy
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South Park creators to back off Trump jokes: 'Satire has become reality'Trey Parker and Matt Stone say it will ‘be more difficult’ to mock the new administration: ‘They’re already going out and doing the comedy’
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Doctor Who: why the new Time Lord can and must be a womanWithout a massive shakeup, the time-travel fantasy will die. Casting the 13th Doctor is a key decision for the BBC – and it needs to think outside the Tardis
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Small screen queens: how teen angst took over the TV sceneFilms like 16 Candles used to showcase high school drama, but shows like Pretty Little Liars and Riverdale have relocated the jocks and geeks to the small screen
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Desus and Mero: 'The more ridiculous the story is, the faker it is'Viceland’s late-night TV hosts turned their raw and unfiltered social media personalities into a bankable brand. They explain how telling it like it is pays
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Stranger Things 2 – everything we learned from the trailerThe boys are now Ghostbusters – and the monsters are mega! But where’s Winona? And can we wait till Halloween for our fix?
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Lena Dunham: ‘I find trolls hard to handle – it must be even worse for teenagers’As the final series of Girls begins, its creator explains why she has to speak out about online abuse
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Prankster in chief: why I threw swastika golfballs at Donald TrumpHe stage-invaded Kanye, gave Blatter a cash shower, and got cuffed for riling Trump. As Simon Brodkin gets his own TV show, he reveals why Scottish police are the best – and Swiss officers the worst
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First look at Rihanna as Marion Crane in new Bates Motel trailerThe star plays the character made famous by Janet Leigh in Psycho in the latest season of the small-screen expansion
Rachel Lindsay becomes first-ever black Bachelorette