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  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
    Review
    The best of TV and streaming this week

    Helena Bonham Carter plays ‘Crossroads’ soap star Noele Gordon in ‘Nolly’, a Russell T Davies creation; Amol Rajan interviews Bill Gates about work, philanthropy and more; Gemma Arterton stars in 1960s-set comedy ‘Funny Woman’; BBC2’s ‘Putin vs the West’ pores over Europe’s diplomatic miscalculations — reviews by Dan Einav

  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
    ReviewUpstream
    Happy Valley’s classy finale — and the legacy it leaves

    The series is over but it will be remembered for subverting crime drama clichés and creating a new kind of TV cop

  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Funny Woman — Gemma Arterton stars in uneven comedy

    Sky’s 1960s-set series swings too wildly between old-fashioned farce and serious social issues

  • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
    Person in the News
    Sally Wainwright, ‘Happy Valley’ creator takes centre stage

    The writer, known for her strong female characters, is keeping fans guessing to the end

  • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
    Cordelia Jenkins
    Marie Kondo’s epiphany proves there is no magic in clinical tidiness

    There is wonder in a dusky corner — no one would believe a door to Narnia existed in the back of a colour-coded wardrobe

  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Bill Gates is probed and baited in BBC interview with Amol Rajan

    The billionaire ‘face of American computing’ discusses work, philanthropy, God and romance

  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Helena Bonham Carter stars as a doyenne of daytime drama in Nolly

    A new ITVX series from ‘It’s A Sin’ creator Russell T Davies focuses on the life of soap icon Noele Gordon

  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    Upstream
    That shrinking feeling: TV’s uneasy relationship with therapy

    From ‘The Sopranos’ to ‘Frasier’ to ‘Shrinking’, shows have made comedy and serious drama out of the talking cure

  • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
    ReviewArts
    Episode 3 of ‘The Last of Us’ shows TV at its best

    WARNING: SPOILERS | ‘Long Long Time’ offered a moment to breathe after the post-apocalyptic drama’s frenetic start

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Putin vs the West — world leaders face up to failures to stop Russian aggression

    Norma Percy’s documentary takes a high-level look at European diplomacy with Russia’s president

  • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
    When the BBC put cameras into viewers’ hands

    The 1970s ‘Open Door’ project gave members of the public free rein. Now the results can be seen in a London exhibition

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Shrinking — makers of Ted Lasso return with feel-good comedy

    Jason Segel plays a fortysomething in new sentimental tale of emotional enlightenment

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Pamela, a Love Story review — an intimate and touching Netflix documentary

    Pamela Anderson shares her traumatic life story with good humour in a film highlighting exploitation and sexism

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    Upstream
    The Traitors is reality TV at its most immersive, dramatic and addictive

    Steeped in duplicity, hubris and the power of the herd mentality, this is very much a murder mystery for our times

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Extraordinary — quarter-life-crisis sitcom with added magic

    Disney’s new quarter-life-crisis sitcom is an unexceptional show with a magnetic performance from Máiréad Tyers

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World — from Bronx streets to Oval Office

    Public Enemy’s Chuck D hosts a series focusing on rap’s rise and role as social commentary

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Review
    The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House — gentle drama of trainee geisha

    Palme d’Or-winner Hirokazu Kore-eda luxuriates in detail and avoids fetishising the career

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Upstream
    Why 18th-century Versailles outstrips 1970s LA for sexual frankness

    ‘Marie Antoinette’ says more about gender and power than the violent tale of the crazily successful Chippendales club

  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    Review
    The US and the Holocaust, BBC4 — outstanding, harrowing account of national shame

    The documentary mini-series asks us not just to remember the past but to consider how to do things differently

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    Review
    The Last of Us, Sky Atlantic — beautiful and brutal adaptation of a much-loved video game

    Post-apocalyptic series co-created by the maker of ‘Chernobyl’ somehow manages to feel hopeful

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    The Weekend Essay
    Can Netflix’s Break Point revitalise tennis?

    As the sport’s most decorated players bow out, a behind-the-scenes docuseries aims to bring the game to a new generation

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    Review
    Welcome to Chippendales: a tale of sex, striptease and murder

    This 1980s-set drama follows the real-life downfall of the founder of the world’s first male strip club for women

  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    Upstream
    Unhappy endings — Netflix’s abrupt cancellations

    Subscribers are angry at the opaque reasons for abandoning programmes such as ‘1899’ and ‘Tuca & Bertie’

  • Friday, 6 January, 2023
    Review
    Our Flag Means Death, BBC2 — swashbuckling story of wit, whimsy and romance

    HBO Max period comedy centres on an aristocrat who swaps high society for the high seas

  • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
    Review
    Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street, Netflix — the story of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history

    New docuseries draws on interviews to explore the psychology of the ‘financial sociopath’

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