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  • Richard Gadd looking intent in a dark jacket with a farmhouse behind him

    Half Man review – more brave, brutal, blazing TV from the maker of Baby Reindeer

  • Unchosen

    Unchosen review – Asa Butterfield’s creepy cult show is a total waste of all this talent

  • Screenshot of the two University Challenge teams on the show

    ‘Full of agonising near-misses’ – the University Challenge final, reviewed by last year’s winner

    Amol Rajan was harsh, Miriam Margolyes was thoroughly charming – and the teens watching will have been screaming at the screen. Last year’s Christ’s College captain lets rip on this year’s tense set-to
  • Emma Laird and Ben Loyle Carner in Mint.

    Mint review – the most outrageously beautiful TV show since Twin Peaks

    Like Romeo and Juliet meets a gangster thriller, Charlotte Regan’s series is sumptuously shot with an incredible payoff – plus the most visually stunning scene of self-pleasure you will ever see
  • Screen grab from Kevin showing a person photographing animated animals in front of store

    Kevin review – Aubrey Plaza’s new cat comedy is so irretrievably bad it must never be allowed to happen again

    The team behind this adult animation is unbelievably stellar – Jason Schwartzman, John Waters, Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Sedaris … Sadly, it’s so awful it’s hard to even express its direness
  • Minnie Driver in The Murder Line.

    The Murder Line review – Minnie Driver’s mischievous crime caper is on the edge of excellence

  • Queen Elizabeth II in a blue hat, smiling at something in the distance

    Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century review – apparently she was very good at shaking hands

  • Sam Ryder and Chris Evans hold TFI coffee mugs on the chaotic set of Evans' revived chatshow

    TFI Friday Unplugged review – Chris Evans struggles to recapture the spirit of his 90s chatshow juggernaut

    Transplanted from YouTube, this nostalgic, low-budget revival offers some welcome musical performances – but the chat is superficial
  • Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder standing together, one holding coffee

    Hacks finale review – this venomous satire used to be the height of comedy. But now … it isn’t

    The last season of this once hugely funny comedy absolutely tears out of the blocks in its best outing in years. But it’s still not the show it once was – despite the brilliant performances
  • David Attenborough reading a book in an armchair for A Gorilla Story.

    A Gorilla Story: Told By David Attenborough review – like one of our last meetings with an adored relative

    The naturalist revisits the family of apes he had a goosebump-inducingly famous encounter with 50 years ago. You’ll find yourself overcome with awe for the man
  • Nicola Coughlan as Maggie speaking into her phone in Big Mood

    Big Mood season two review – Nicola Coughlan’s hugely ambitious comedy has become a farce

  • Carey Mulligan as Lindsay in Beef.

    Beef season two review – the best show on TV becomes an unlovable White Lotus rip-off

  • Grayson Perry standing near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

    Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future review – some of these insights into AI are just mindblowing

  • Margos Got Money Troubles Photo 010102

    Margo’s Got Money Troubles review – Michelle Pfeiffer’s career renaissance starts here

  • GORDON RAMSAY'S SECRET SERVICE: Gordon Ramsay in the "Cafe Boa" episode of GORDON RAMSAY'S SECRET SERVICE airing Wednesday, May 28 (9:02-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Cr: Greg Gayne / FOX. © 2025 FOXMEDIA LLC.

    Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service review – one restaurant’s kitchen looks like the scene of a murder

    The chef spies on failing eateries then visits them at night to unearth their secrets – with results that are quite often nauseating … and yet surprisingly emotional
  • Zendaya as Rue in Euphoria season three, driving a car.

    Euphoria season three review – grubby, desperate and absolutely not worth the wait

    What a relief that this is the end for Sam Levinson’s grim drama. A show which was once blackly funny is now humourless torture porn
  • Man in a suit with long hair, woman with long hair and wearing a flamboyantly flowered long dress and a woman with blond hair wearing a black hairband and wearing a big black dress - all stand in a a spotlight  in front of a pink backdrop smiling cheesily

    Your Song review – a nightmarish karaoke show

    Only the rain remains a constant in this weirdly random contest, presided over by Alison Hammond, Paloma Faith and Sam Ryder, where people express their feelings for loved ones in a song
  • The pair standing on a hotel balcony with high-rise buildings in the background and a pool below

    Zero Stars review – Sara Pascoe and Roisin Conaty are brilliant in this travel show about awful tourist traps

    The two comedians tour the world in search of overpriced attractions, dodgy food – and trips you really wouldn’t want to go on
  • American Classic - Episode 108Elise Kibler as Nadia Romanova, Laura Linney as Kristen Forrest-Bean, Johnny McKeown as Hugo Spowers, Kevin Kline as Richard Bean, Billy Carter as Connor Boyle, Joseph Morales as Jeff, Terry Walters as Tina

    American Classic review – I defy you not to fall in love with Kevin Kline and Laura Linney’s tender comedy

    There are hints of Ted Lasso and Schitt’s Creek in this delightful series in which an unexpected death triggers all manner of fun and games. It’s lovely comfort TV
  • Bryan Cranston in Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair.

    Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair review – the TV magic they’ve created here is absolutely miraculous

    This revival does the impossible: it’s effortlessly funny and refreshing, and Bryan Cranston’s performance is unmissable. They have to make more
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