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Married to the cult, The Celebrity Traitors, and Empire with David Olusoga
THE MOONIES: Married to the cult (Prime, released 2 November) is a feature-length documentary examining the influential religious movement that became the byword for cults. The Unification Church was founded in 1954 in South…
TV review: Once Upon a Time in Space and Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
TO DATE, fewer than 700 people have ventured into space, but all that is rapidly changing, at least for the seriously wealthy. Humans are poised on the frontier of a new era of space travel — one when the maxim “Whoever rules…
Will AI Take My Job? Dispatches, and How Are You?
WILL AI Take My Job? Dispatches (Channel 4, Monday of last week) was fascinating, albeit existentially terrifying, viewing. Besides surveying 1000 companies about the current impact of AI on their business models, Dispatches…
Will AI Take My Job? Dispatches, and How Are You?
WILL AI Take My Job? Dispatches (Channel 4, Monday of last week) was fascinating, albeit existentially terrifying, viewing. Besides surveying 1000 companies about the current impact of AI on their business models, Dispatches…
Murder Before Evensong and Riot Women
I RECEIVED a copy of the book Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles (Books, 24 June 2022) as an ordination gift, and was unsure whether I was supposed to find it inspiring or merely entertaining. Happily, the new TV…
Celebrity Traitors and Victoria Beckham
THE much hyped Celebrity Traitors (BBC1, Wednesdays and Thursdays) has begun, including a refreshingly broad range of participants. The BBC has followed the same principles for choosing celebrity contestants that it uses for…
TV review: Panorama: Undercover in the police and Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne: Coming home
IT IS more than two years since the review by Baroness Casey reported a culture of racism, homophobia, and misogyny in the Metropolitan Police Force (Comment, 24 March 2023) — failings that the Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley,…
Adidas v. Puma, and Ruth and Boaz
THE true story behind Sneaker Wars: Adidas v. Puma (released on Wednesday, streaming now on Disney+) sounds like a very obvious plot for a made-for-TV movie. Two brothers from a small German town own a successful shoe…
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