What’s on TV tonight: No Return, The Nilsen Files, Starstruck and more
Monday 7 February No ReturnITV, 9pmSheridan Smith has cornered the market on primetime TV for playing everywoman characters overcoming spirit-shattering crises. So she is perfect casting for…
Trigger Point, episode 3, recap: snipers, love triangles and more suspects than you can shake a pigstick at
A far-right group calling themselves “The Crusaders” claimed responsibility, declaring it revenge for Westhaven Estate. Worryingly, MI5 had no intel on them. One theory was they were…
What’s on TV tonight: Chloe, The Curse, The Queen: 70 Glorious Years, and more
No ReturnITV, 9pmSheridan Smith has cornered the market on primetime TV for playing everywoman characters overcoming spirit-shattering crises. So she is perfect casting for this four-part drama…
What’s on TV tonight: Celebrity Mastermind, Winter Olympics and Six Nations
Saturday 5 February Celebrity MastermindBBC One, 7.10pmThe original high-pressure television quiz celebrates 50 years on air this year. Which makes its celebrity version seem a stripling by…
What’s on TV tonight: Winter Olympics, Reacher, Suspicion, and more
Celebrity MastermindBBC One, 7.10pmThe original high-pressure television quiz celebrates 50 years on air this year. Which makes its celebrity version seem a stripling by comparison, returning for…
What’s on TV tonight: Winter Olympics, Reacher, Suspicion, and more
Celebrity MastermindBBC One, 7.10pmThe original high-pressure television quiz celebrates 50 years on air this year. Which makes its celebrity version seem a stripling by comparison, returning for…
Kate Garraway was a cheery new host on Life Stories, but won’t make celebs squirm like Piers Morgan
Part of the fun of Piers Morgan’s Life Stories was watching some of the biggest names in showbiz bump up against one of the biggest egos on…
What’s on TV tonight: Mary Beard’s Forbidden Art, Kate Garraway’s Life Stories and more
Celebrity MastermindBBC One, 7.10pmThe original high-pressure television quiz celebrates 50 years on air this year. Which makes its celebrity version seem a stripling by comparison, returning for…
What’s on TV tonight: Mary Beard’s Forbidden Art, Kate Garraway’s Life Stories and more
Celebrity MastermindBBC One, 7.10pmThe original high-pressure television quiz celebrates 50 years on air this year. Which makes its celebrity version seem a stripling by comparison, returning for…
Rehab, naked wrestling and arrests: what happened to the 1990s Baywatch stars?
Then The Canadian-born bombshell wasn’t part of the original cast, joining as lifeguard Casey Jean “CJ” Parker in season three, but swiftly became the show’s tentpole star….
What’s on TV tonight: Pam & Tommy, The Tinder Swindler and more
Winter Olympics BBC One & BBC Two, from 11.30amThe Beijing Games finally arrive, following a trail of controversy over reported atrocities against the Uyghur Muslim population, events in…
‘I was a goner’: Raymond Blanc on how meditating saved him from Covid
Raymond Blanc is the chef-patron at the two-Michelin-starred Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons hotel in Oxfordshire. He is self-taught, and has himself taught or employed other chefs including…
What’s on TV tonight: BBC Three Launch, Gilded Age, and more
Winter Olympics BBC One & BBC Two, from 11.30amThe Beijing Games finally arrive, following a trail of controversy over reported atrocities against the Uyghur Muslim population, events in…
What’s on TV tonight: The Teacher, The Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver and more
BBC Three LaunchBBC Three, from 7pmAfter a six-year interval in which it moved to an internet-only platform, the BBC’s dedicated channel for 16-to-34-year-olds returns to television with…
Trigger Point, episode 2 review: after that explosive start, is ITV already out of ideas?
Oh, dear. Two episodes into Trigger Point and the momentum is as dead as Joel Nutkins. Last week’s opener might have played fast and loose with some…
Trigger Point, recap: who planted the bombs and what’s a pigstick? We decode episode 2
Was Islamist terror cell theory a set-up? Last week’s sweaty-palmed series opener was almost a two-hander between Afghan war veterans “Wash” and “Nut”. We now met the…
What’s on TV tonight: The Green Planet, Trigger Point, Station Eleven and more
BBC Three LaunchBBC Three, from 7pmAfter a six-year interval in which it moved to an internet-only platform, the BBC’s dedicated channel for 16-to-34-year-olds returns to television with…
Barbara Blake-Hannah, Britain’s first black TV reporter: ‘Why did the English make themselves so difficult to be loved?’
Among the middle-classes in Jamaica in which Blake-Hannah was raised, Rastafarianism was associated with outcasts and criminals. “People saw it as this strange religion of crazy people…
‘The English made themselves so difficult to love’: Britain’s first black TV presenter looks back in anger
“The carnival was passing right along the road where I was living in Ladbroke Grove,” Blake-Hannah remembers. “I got Thames to send a crew but he didn’t…
What’s on TV tonight: Big Night of Musicals, Secrets of the Royal Palaces, The John Bishop Show and more
BBC Three LaunchBBC Three, from 7pmAfter a six-year interval in which it moved to an internet-only platform, the BBC’s dedicated channel for 16-to-34-year-olds returns to television with…
‘Christopher Morris, does that ring a bell?’: when Brass Eye ambushed The Time, The Place
“He went into all this nonsense about ‘this is outrageous, how dare you, I’ve got a new book, it was one of the conditions of me coming…
What’s on TV tonight: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, and more
BBC Three LaunchBBC Three, from 7pmAfter a six-year interval in which it moved to an internet-only platform, the BBC’s dedicated channel for 16-to-34-year-olds returns to television with…
Graeme Garden on Barry Cryer: ‘I will miss his laugh hugely. Won’t we all?’
There again. when you had a voice as great as Barry’s, why not use the phone? He’d call up to ask how I was doing. Every call…
Barry Cryer had a gag for every occasion – even his death
It was that modesty – allied to his enormous talent – which meant he was a joy to work with. Never once, in five years at our…
What’s on TV tonight: Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust, Hotel Portofino and more
BBC Three LaunchBBC Three, from 7pmAfter a six-year interval in which it moved to an internet-only platform, the BBC’s dedicated channel for 16-to-34-year-olds returns to television with…