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The Traitors and Will You Get Dementia?
UNTIL now, I’ve determinedly avoided reviewing series four of The Traitors, but, since the final episode (BBC 1, Friday) attracted more than nine million viewers, I felt that I could ignore it no longer. I myself have been…
TV review: Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith and David Baddiel: Cat man
OUR car welcomed in the new year by breaking down yet again. It is older than all of my children (the eldest is 21); so getting it fixed cheaply and in a timely fashion is nigh-on impossible. With this stress hanging over us,…
Lucy Worsley’s Victorian Murder Club and Grantchester
LUCY WORSLEY’s Victorian Murder Club (BBC1, 5 January) is a new three-part series, presented by the ever popular historian. The title hints that this might belong to the genre of cosy crime, but there is nothing homely about…
TV review: Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2025 and 2025: The year from space
FOR New Year, I decided to forgo my annual hate-watch of Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny, and, on the advice of a Church Times reader, I tuned into BBC Alba’s Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2025 (31 December, iPlayer). This…
TV review: Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2025 and 2025: The year from space
FOR New Year, I decided to forgo my annual hate-watch of Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny, and, on the advice of a Church Times reader, I tuned into BBC Alba’s Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2025 (31 December, iPlayer). This…
TV review: See No Evil
SEE NO EVIL (C4, Wednesday and Thursday) tells the harrowing story of the biggest scandal in Church of England history: the awful crimes committed by the serial abuser John Smyth (News, 12 December). After reading Bleeding…
What’s the Monarchy For? and Jamie Cooks Christmas
WHILE the debate about the purpose and value of the BBC continues, the transmission of a three-part exploration of the Royal Family, an institution intimately entwined over the decades with our national broadcasting network,…
A road trip to remember and Prisoner 951
TWO men motorcycling through the outback of Australia would not usually be the sort of television I’d enjoy, but when it features my favourite Avenger (of the Marvel variety) I make an exception. When he’s not being Thor,…
Men of the Manosphere and Wild Cherry
AFTER reviewing Adolescence earlier this year (Media, 28 March) and observing the subsequent — and at times, overblown — discourse, I was fascinated to watch Men of the Manosphere (BBC3, 12 November, available on iPlayer). In…
TV review: Kingdom and Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth
IN A week of bad press for the BBC, the latest Sir David Attenborough nature documentary was a timely reminder of what our national broadcasting network still consistently gets right. Kingdom (BBC 1, Sundays, first episode 9…
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