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  • Black Mirror season six – prepare to convulse in horror on the sofa

    Netflix’s perversely prescient dystopian drama will once again ruthlessly mine your existential angst. Expect incredible turns from Paapa Essiedu, Salma Hayek and Aaron Paul – even if this isn’t its best season

  • Nauseating, hateful TV: how The Idol has single-handedly resurrected torture porn

  • Mary-Louise Parker on fame, botox and rumors of a Weeds reboot

  • ‘Easily the funniest show out there’: your favourite TV of 2023 so far

  • Our Planet II – so much of David Attenborough’s new show is just astonishing

  • The Full Monty – boring and badly written

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What to watch

  • Based on a True Story – a couple makes a killer podcast in fun, flimsy series

    Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina add considerable charm to a watchable, if flimsy, comedy thriller about a dangerous pact

  • The Crowded Room – Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried’s new drama drags on and on (and on)

  • The Idol – light bondage and heavy sleaze make for the ultimate try-hard TV

    • White House Plumbers – you’ll give up on Woody Harrelson’s Watergate drama after one episode

    • Barry finale – farewell to the true best show on television

    • Succession finale – a perfect, terrible goodbye

    • Fubar – Arnie’s a natural comedian in this unstoppably daft crime drama

    • XO, Kitty – convoluted but charming Netflix teen series

    • High Desert – Patricia Arquette’s comedy is so jampacked it’s exhausting

Episode recaps

  • Succession: episode by episode
    Succession recap: the finale – probably the most feel-bad ending in TV history

  • Saturday Night Live
    Saturday Night Live: Ana de Armas struggles with a subpar episode

    The Oscar nominee isn’t given a great deal to work with in a ho-hum week including the return of a recently popular new character

  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: episode by episode
    John Oliver on Biden’s immigration record: ‘A different phase of an immigration dystopia’

    The Last Week Tonight host looks at Joe Biden’s record at the southern US border, from revised Trump policies to malfunctioning apps
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Videos

  • A look back at the career of TV host Jerry Springer – video obituary

     

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  • Must-see moments from the 2023 Golden Globe awards – video

     

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    Host Jerrod Carmichael took shots at the Golden Globes' troubled history as it returned live for 2023

  • Emmys 2022 key moments: from Lizzo's inspiring speech to Jennifer Coolidge's awkward dance – video

     

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    A few surprises and a few standout speeches for a telecast that handed out trophies mostly to repeat winners

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Opinion

  • High-octane adventures and that moustache: Magnum PI is the perfect antidote to a bad day

  • When did Love Island become more about fame than fun?

    Louis Staples
    Today the ITV show primarily attracts contestants seeking followers, not friendship – no wonder viewers are switching off, says culture writer Louis Staples

  • ‘Why is Bridgerton’s race twisting acceptable?’ The real problem with the show’s Black fantasy

    Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte and its imitators have been praised for bringing diversity to the very white world of historical drama. But could these Black fantasies actually be dangerous?

  • The best podcasts of 2023 so far

  • Stars on Mars: the celebs go to space show we didn’t know we needed

  • ‘Like a claymation Noel Edmonds’: the preposterous Prince Harry actor creating magnificent car-crash TV

  • Life without Logan Roy: was Brian Cox written out of Succession too soon?

You may have missed

  • ‘Maybe I’m a prude now!’: Graham Norton on drag, dreams, death and desire

  • Rosamund Pike: ‘We’re all being conned by the wellness industry’

    The actor on bringing one of Barack Obama’s favourite books to TV, going clubbing in Berlin and her fascination with espionage

  • Nick Offerman: ‘I was told I’d never not be Ron Swanson’

    Parks and Recreation gave the midwestern actor the role of a lifetime – one that he struggled to escape. But now, with a stunning standalone episode of The Last Of Us and a new standup tour, he’s found there’s life after Ron

  • Bums away: The Full Monty is back – but without the nudity

  • Succession withdrawal? Here are the shows to help scratch that itch

  • Too straight, too samey: How Love Island bored away millions of viewers

  • From fleeing the Tories to becoming a TV megastar: how Barry’s Sarah Goldberg made it big

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