What’s on TV tonight: Ghislaine, Prince Andrew & the Paedophile, Winterwatch and more
Stacey Dooley: StalkersBBC One/Three, 10.35pm; NI/Scot, 11.05pmShe’s probably more widely known now for being a Strictly Come Dancing champion, but Stacey Dooley has always been a gifted…
‘If the kid lives, so do I’: what Ricky Gervais’s After Life gets right about children with cancer
Similarly, After Life has always gone for the emotional jugular. The pathos finally hits hard in the last episode, when Gervais/Tony finds some much needed humility. Meeting the kids…
What’s on TV tonight: Keeping Up with the Aristocrats, Geordie Hospital, and more
Monday January 17 Keeping Up with the AristocratsITV, 9pmOh what a jolly lot they are, these aristocrats. Just like the rest of us, really, apart from the…
The con is on – get ready for TV’s latest obsession
“This is quite rare, to have men listen,” says Swedish woman Pernilla Sjoholm, recalling her first date with Hayut. Hayut played on the difficulty so many women…
What’s on TV tonight: Dancing on Ice, The Green Planet, The Greatest Showman and more
Keeping Up with the AristocratsITV, 9pmOh what a jolly lot they are, these aristocrats. Just like the rest of us, really, apart from the titles, historic homes…
What’s on TV tonight: Hidden Assets, The Masked Singer, The World’s Most Expensive Hotels and more
Saturday January 15 Hidden AssetsBBC Four, 9pm and 9.50pmOne of the Irish republic’s more imaginative laws allows the state, via the police force’s Criminal Assets Bureau, to…
After Life, series 3, review: Ricky Gervais’s grief-com has the emotional depth of a Post-It note
The third and final series of Ricky Gervais’s wildly popular grief-com After Life (Netflix) begins superbly. As ever, the episode starts with an old home video of…
The House, Netflix, review: Roald Dahl meets Stephen King in eerie animated adventures
Wes Anderson’s 2009 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox invented the new genre of stop-motion animation starring cutesy animals weighed down with existential angst (a case…
What’s on TV tonight: After Life, Ronnie Spector at the BBC and more
Hidden AssetsBBC Four, 9pm and 9.50pmOne of the Irish republic’s more imaginative laws allows the state, via the police force’s Criminal Assets Bureau, to seize property (everything…
Teen utopia or capitalist commune? Netflix’s Hype House is the most depressing show on TV
Jake Paul, one of the internet’s most famous social media stars, has inspired plenty of controversy, and no less for Team 10, his own collaborator house. Last…
Why comedians love to hate Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais is getting cancelled again. Albeit, as usual, he’s cancelling himself. The third series of After Life – his Netflix comedy about a grieving husband taking…
What’s on TV tonight: Martin Clunes: Islands of the Pacific, Andy Warhol’s America and more
Hidden AssetsBBC Four, 9pm and 9.50pmOne of the Irish republic’s more imaginative laws allows the state, via the police force’s Criminal Assets Bureau, to seize property (everything…
What’s on TV tonight: The Bay, The Repair Shop, and more
Martin Clunes: Islands of the PacificITV, 9pmWhat exactly has Martin Clunes got on senior management at ITV? For over a decade he has been wangling documentary gigs,…
7 reasons why Emily in Paris’s Sylvie should be your midlife style muse
There is a scene in the new season of Emily in Paris in which our protagonist, on holiday in St Tropez, glimpses her boss Sylvie emerging from…
What’s on TV tonight: Rules of the Game, Raphael: Revealed, and more
Tuesday January 11 Rules of the GameBBC One, 9pmLooking for something a bit different? Some HR-noir, perhaps? This four-part “thriller about sexual politics in the modern workplace”…
‘Boring’ or a masterpiece? The great Power of The Dog divide
If being watched by precisely no one was any kind of excuse for the Golden Globes to go rogue, you’d never know it from the winners they…
The double life of Munich’s ‘good German’ – and would-be Hitler killer – Adam von Trott zu Solz
In 1939, Trott made several trips back to England to lobby British officials and his friends – which included his meeting with the Astors and Chamberlain while…
What’s on TV tonight: Couples Therapy, Junior Bake Off, and more
Monday January 10 Couples TherapyBBC Two, 10pm; NI, 11.15pmBought in from American cable network Showtime, this docuseries trains hidden cameras on four New York couples (aware,…
What’s on TV tonight: The Green Planet, The Killer Nanny, The Tourist and more
Sunday January 9 The Green PlanetBBC One, 7pmBack in 1995, David Attenborough’s series The Private Life of Plants broke new ground in nature documentaries, using time-lapse photography…
What’s on TV tonight: Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win, The Masked Singer, and more
The Green PlanetBBC One, 7pmBack in 1995, David Attenborough’s series The Private Life of Plants broke new ground in nature documentaries, using time-lapse photography to reveal in…
What’s on TV tonight: Death in Paradise, Monty Don’s Adriatic Gardens, and more
The Green PlanetBBC One, 7pmBack in 1995, David Attenborough’s series The Private Life of Plants broke new ground in nature documentaries, using time-lapse photography to reveal in…
The secrets to French-girl skin, according to this Parisian make-up artist
French women, I’m told, are queens of the standing appointment, never missing a manicure, facial, massage or steam. Even if their colour isn’t overly dyed or their…
What’s on TV tonight: Screw, Dragons’ Den, The Apprentice, and more
Thursday January 6 ScrewChannel 4, 9pmSitting somewhere between Porridge and Jimmy McGovern’s Time, Rob Williams’s (The Victim) deft, incisive and often very funny new prison drama does…
Why ‘Jewface’ is the only ‘erasure’ Hollywood doesn’t care about
Set aside the fact that Oldman made his feelings about Jewish people clear when he defended Mel Gibson’s notorious anti-Semitic tirade of 2002 to a police officer….
What’s on TV tonight: Mandy, The Repair Shop, and more
Channel 4, 9pmSitting somewhere between Porridge and Jimmy McGovern’s Time, Rob Williams’s (The Victim) deft, incisive and often very funny new prison drama does for prison officers…