What’s on TV tonight: Rock Family Trees, Killing Eve, and more
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 Charles Leclerc and…
Pilgrimage, review: this batch of faith-finding celebs were nice – but where was the interrogation?
So far, Pilgrimage (BBC Two) has sent mismatched bands of celebrities on the long road to religious enlightenment in Santiago, Rome and Istanbul. Now it’s back, and this…
Soprano Danielle de Niese: if sex is present in the music, I can’t ignore it
“Even when I made my Met debut when I was 19,” she explains, “there was an understanding that there was a tendency towards roles that require acting…
What’s on TV tonight: Pilgrimage: The Road to the Scottish Isles, Grayson’s Art Club, and more
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 Charles Leclerc and…
Richard Osman quits BBC’s Pointless to focus on Thursday Murder Club novels
Richard Osman has decided to quit the show that made him famous so he can write full-time, after the huge success of his first two novels. The…
Art That Made Us, review: a great idea but the talking heads talk too much about themselves
But it turns out that some people – artists, mostly – want to insert themselves into the picture. We start with Antony Gormley admiring a beautiful little…
How the BBC let Jimmy Savile get away with it – even in death
There was one shot in Netflix’s disturbing new documentary Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story which offered an irresistible visual metaphor; it showed Savile, dressed in one of…
What’s on TV tonight: Art That Made Us, Return to Space, and more
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 Charles Leclerc and…
Comrade Dad, the chilling BBC sitcom that gave us ‘Londongrad’ – and enraged the Soviets
Watched with almost 40 years’ hindsight, Comrade Dad sometimes feels like serious-minded satire. There were other WW3-themed sitcoms from the time: Only Fools and Horses building a…
What’s on TV tonight: Raised by Wolves returns and Channel 4 begins The Great Home Transformation
Art That Made UsBBC Two, 9pmThe BBC’s new landmark series presenting an “alternative history of the British Isles, told through art” gets off to a bloated and…
British Gas boss is a smooth operator but his excuses don’t wash
Lewis was in the news because of his very public exasperation at being unable to help people much in the face of a perfect storm of price…
Should we try to cure dwarfism? Ellie Simmonds’s documentary asked a vital question with no easy answer
“Do you want to be taller?” That’s the loaded question that 27-year-old Ellie Simmonds asks an eight-year-old boy receiving growth hormones on the NHS. The triple gold…
What’s on TV tonight: Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism?, and more
Tuesday 5 April Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism?BBC One, 9pm As one the most revered British swimmers of all time, with a clutch of Paralympic gold…
Gentleman Jack, series 2 episode 1 review: Suranne Jones returns in style in this rip-roaring romp
In the season one finale of Gentleman Jack, Sally Wainwright gave Anne Lister, aka “Britain’s first modern lesbian”, a sublime happy ending. Backdropped by rolling hills, Lister…
The Split, series 3 review: glossy, implausible, ridiculous… but totally addictive
A lot has happened to the characters in The Split (BBC One) since we first met them four years ago, but some things never change. Nicola Walker…
House of Maxwell, review: yet another Maxwell and Epstein documentary – and the revelations are few
Truly, the world does not need another documentary about Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Who knows why the BBC waited this long to deliver one, when Sky…
June Brown gave EastEnders the power and pathos of an Alan Bennett play
“Give us a tea, Lofty. And a glass of water so I can take a paracetamol.” On 4 July 1985, these were the first words uttered by…
What’s on TV tonight: House of Maxwell, Travel Man, The Split and more
As one the most revered British swimmers of all time, with a clutch of Paralympic gold medals and a habit for smashing world records, Ellie Simmonds has…
Peaky Blinders finale, review: a dreary slog then – boom! – a twist that saved the series
We knew things were about to get weird because the musical director had just treated us to the strains of a Radiohead side-project. And then Ruby dropped…
Thatcher & Reagan: A Very Special Relationship, review: a touching insight into a unique bond
What was it about the handsome Hollywood film star Ronald Reagan that Margaret Thatcher liked so much? Of course, they were close political allies with an ideological…
What’s on TV tonight: Thatcher & Reagan, Peaky Blinders finale, and more
As one the most revered British swimmers of all time, with a clutch of Paralympic gold medals and a habit for smashing world records, Ellie Simmonds has…
Much fuss has always been made of the Mastermind black chair – now I know why
Covid restrictions also make it substantially scarier, with no audience to counterbalance the effect of that one stark piece of furniture, bathed in a bright white spotlight….
What’s on TV tonight: Starstruck: the Final, Rugby Union: Wales v Scotland, and more
Saturday 2 April Starstruck: the FinalITV, 8.30pmStarstruck has been brimming with positivity and enthusiasm over the course of its seven-week run. Ratings have no doubt been boosted by…
Floella Benjamin interview: ‘I wanted to give unconditional love to every child watching Play School’
Though some of her co-presenters – among them Brian Cant and Derek Griffiths – were adored too, her gift was to make every child feel they were…
What’s on TV tonight: Slow Horses, Have I Got News For You, and more
Friday 1 April Slow HorsesApple TV+Based on Mick Herron’s bestselling spy yarns, this six-part adaptation from The Thick of It actor Will Smith has attracted quite the…