What’s on TV tonight: Life After Life, Better Call Saul, The Lost Leonardo and more
The RisingSky Max, 9pmGhost. DOA. Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). The high-concept idea of investigating one’s own death has been around a while, and this adaptation of the…
The TV show that busts the myth that home births are for hippies
Allerton in Bradford is pronounced ‘Ollerton’. Except in Yorkshire Midwives on Call (BBC Two), where the narrator keeps saying it wrong. Look, I know it’s a little…
What’s on TV tonight: Yorkshire Midwives on Call, House of Maxwell, and more
The RisingSky Max, 9pmGhost. DOA. Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). The high-concept idea of investigating one’s own death has been around a while, and this adaptation of the…
Jodie Whittaker’s penultimate Doctor Who left us with one question: will she get the girl?
I watched the Doctor Who Easter special (BBC One) with my children, nine and 11, and their response to the Sea Devils, the scary monsters du jour,…
What’s on TV tonight: The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, Michael Ball: Showtime, Doctor Who and more
The RisingSky Max, 9pmGhost. DOA. Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). The high-concept idea of investigating one’s own death has been around a while, and this adaptation of the…
‘There’s a lot of bad behaviour’: on the set of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends
Under a covered terrace in the heat-blasted garden of a seaside Croatian villa, a tense conversation is taking place between a husband and a wife over a…
‘There’s a lot of bad behaviour’: on the set of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends
Under a covered terrace in the heat-blasted garden of a seaside Croatian villa, a tense conversation is taking place between a husband and a wife over a…
What’s on TV tonight: Football: FA Cup semi-finals, Britain’s Got Talent, and more
Easter Saturday (16 April) Football: FA Cup semi-finalsSat/Sun, BBC One/ITVThe two best football teams on the planet meet for the second weekend in a row after last…
Dinosaurs: The Final Day, review: David Attenborough tried his best, but this was no Jurassic Park
I can’t have been the only one who watched a grey-haired Attenborough superimposed in front of a jungle full of meandering dinosaurs and thought, “Jurassic Park”. I’m…
Jealousy, anger, tears – the BBC’s La voix humaine is a searing portrait of a woman spurned
Gone are the days when the Easter and Christmas periods would present a feast of opera and ballet on the BBC. It is symbolic of squeezed budgets…
The Telegraph weekly news quiz: Which tech billionaire offered to buy Twitter for $43bn?
In the week that saw Boris Johnson face increasing pressure to resign after he and Rishi Sunak were issued fines by the Metropolitan Police over Downing Street…
What makes a great Agatha Christie adaptation
What could be more of an Easter treat than a new Agatha Christie? This week, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, an adaptation of Christie’s 1934 novel, launched…
What’s on TV tonight: Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough, Anatomy of a Scandal & more
Football: FA Cup semi-finalsSat/Sun, BBC One/ITVThe two best football teams on the planet meet for the second weekend in a row after last Sunday’s epic Premier League…
History tells us the BBC political editor has always had an impossible job
Close scrutiny of the post-holder is inevitable – it has been said that one of the attractions of Mason for those appointing him is that the most…
What’s on TV tonight: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, and more
Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David AttenboroughBBC One, 6.30pmIt’s a red-letter day when David Attenborough wants to tell us something new about the natural world. This 90-minute…
What’s on TV tonight: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, and more
Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David AttenboroughBBC One, 6.30pmIt’s a red-letter day when David Attenborough wants to tell us something new about the natural world. This 90-minute…
Gazza, review: how England’s most gifted footballer was destroyed by fame and by himself
I met Paul Gascoigne once. He won a prize at the British Book Awards for his autobiography, Gazza: My Story. Afterwards, he spotted me in a corner,…
What’s on TV tonight: Gazza, Our Great National Parks and more
Wednesday 13 April GazzaBBC Two, 9pmEngland manager Bobby Robson described him as “daft as a brush”, but Paul Gascoigne’s footballing brain was magnificent, conjuring goals out of…
The thorny issue of Margaret Thatcher’s rose rage
Most surprising of all was Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen (Radio 4, Friday) a new sitcom by the comedy writer David Quantick and starring, rather wonderfully,…
BBC snubs all-female shortlist to appoint Chris Mason as new political editor
Mason will take over after the local elections next month. The job will come with a significant pay rise, although it is thought that the BBC will…
The BBC must end its addiction to divisive racial politics
The BBC is at it again, exposing a bias rooted in Left-wing politics imported from the United States. This time it has told parents to “check their…
What’s on TV tonight: Julia, Hard Cell, Compulsion and more
GazzaBBC Two, 9pmEngland manager Bobby Robson described him as “daft as a brush”, but Paul Gascoigne’s footballing brain was magnificent, conjuring goals out of nowhere with a…
Mastermind fan becomes show’s oldest female winner
The first three Mastermind winners were women, with a woman last triumphing in 2018, but the majority of winners have been men. Last year’s champion, 24-year-old Jonathan…
What’s on TV tonight: Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing, House of Maxwell, and more
GazzaBBC Two, 9pmEngland manager Bobby Robson described him as “daft as a brush”, but Paul Gascoigne’s footballing brain was magnificent, conjuring goals out of nowhere with a…
What’s on TV tonight: the Australian Grand Prix, Gentleman Jack, SAS: Who Dares Wins, and more
Sunday 10 April Formula 1: Australian Grand Prix Sunday, Sky F1, 4.30am (start 6am)This early morning race in Melbourne always separates the die-hard fans from the casuals. Ferrari’s…