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  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
    Review
    The best of TV and streaming this week

    ‘I Love LA’ follows a group of Gen-Z friends as they build a life and career; the BBC’s ‘Girlbands Forever’ honours the female pop pioneers of the 1990s onwards; Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson star in ‘Down Cemetery Road’ on Apple TV+; ‘Once Upon a Time in Space’ is a ★★★★★ documentary on BBC2; Seth Rogen and Leighton Meester join season 2 of sunny hit romcom ‘Nobody Wants This’; Tim Robinson’s ★★★★★ ‘The Chair Company’ is one of the shows of the year — reviews by Rebecca Nicholson

  • Thursday, 30 October, 2025
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    I Love LA — Rachel Sennott creates and stars in oddly humane satire of Gen-Z influencers

    Her waspish sitcom follows a group of friends navigating the hustle and grind of trying to build a life and career in the digital age

    Rachel Sennott as Maia kneels on the floor, looking up with a surprised expression while holding a piece of black lace clothing.
  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Down Cemetery Road — Emma Thompson plays a sharp-tongued detective in sprawling thriller

    The actor stars alongside Ruth Wilson in this stylish yet nonsensical Mick Herron adaptation on Apple TV+

    Two women stand on a beach, both looking intently ahead with concerned expressions.
  • Tuesday, 28 October, 2025
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Girlbands Forever — a nostalgic trip through the golden age of girl groups

    Spanning the 1990s to the 2010s, this BBC docu-series shines a light on pop’s pioneering women — and the sexism and industry ruthlessness they faced

    Melanie Blatt, Natalie Appleton, Shaznay Lewis, and Nicole Appleton of All Saints perform on stage with microphones at the 1997 MOBO Awards.
  • Monday, 27 October, 2025
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Once Upon a Time in Space — what can past space missions tell us about the future?

    Bafta-winning director James Bluemel brings his oral-history approach to the cosmos in a thrilling new BBC docu-series

    Astronaut plays a soprano saxophone while floating in the middeck of the Space Shuttle Challenger during STS-41B.
  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Nobody Wants This season 2 review — Seth Rogen and Leighton Meester join Netflix’s sunny hit romcom

    The series’ second run brings new faces and fresh drama to its story about modern love and faith

    Seth Rogen and Kate Berlant stand side by side, smiling indoors in a brightly lit setting
  • Tuesday, 21 October, 2025
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Lazarus — Bill Nighy turns ghostly shrink in schlocky Harlan Coben adaptation

    The actor and Sam Claflin star as father-and-son psychiatrists in this silly yet watchable thriller series

    Bill Nighy stands with arms crossed in an office, surrounded by books and sculptures, with large windows behind him.
  • Saturday, 18 October, 2025
    InterviewPhotography
    Lynsey Addario: ‘Does it matter if a war photograph is beautiful? I need to get people to pay attention’

    The photographer has borne witness to conflict and suffering for three decades. Now her own story is told in a documentary

    Lynsey Addario photographing with a camera in hand and two additional cameras hanging from her shoulders under a bright sky.
  • Wednesday, 15 October, 2025
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Murdaugh: Death in the Family — Patricia Arquette is regal in southern true crime saga

    A Disney+ retelling of the 2021 murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh is a study in wealth, privilege and justice

    A redheaded man in a white long-sleeved T-shirt and a woman in a beige gilet stand outdoors by the water, facing each other in conversation.
  • Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Tim Robinson’s bracingly unhinged The Chair Company is one of the shows of the year

    An office mishap sends a middle-aged man spiralling in HBO’s furiously weird series

  • Saturday, 11 October, 2025
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Sally Wainwright’s mid-life punks take centre stage in Riot Women

    Joanna Scanlan, Tamsin Greig and Rosalie Craig channel frustration and pain into a rock band — to big-hearted, crowd-pleasing effect

    Three women stand at a sound mixing desk, each displaying surprised or shocked expressions
  • Saturday, 11 October, 2025
    Film
    The many faces of Martin Scorsese

    Artist and businessman, saint and sinner, tormented addict and silly goose — all are on show in docu-series ‘Mr Scorsese’

    Two men stand in a street talking.
  • Friday, 10 October, 2025
    Poland
    The ‘lektor’ lives on: Polish TV shows foreign films the old-fashioned way

    Voiceover artists remain essential for viewers watching Titanic, Pulp Fiction or The X-Files

    Maciej Gudowski, a Polish voice-over artist, poses for a photo at his workplace in TVP Polish Television recording studio in Warsaw on August 4, 2025
  • Wednesday, 8 October, 2025
    Review
    Victoria Beckham — joyless Netflix portrait needs more spice

    Director Nadia Hallgren (Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’) documents the fashion designer’s ups and downs

    Victoria Beckham wearing large sunglasses and a black turtleneck sweater outside a building with red curtains.
  • Wednesday, 8 October, 2025
    Review
    The Celebrity Traitors — a starry cast keeps the back-stabbing alive

    Alan Carr, Stephen Fry and Celia Imrie are among the contestants in the latest series of the hit reality TV show, which remains as watchable as ever

    Contestants wearing blindfolds sit around a large circular table, with a host standing behind them.
  • Tuesday, 7 October, 2025
    Review
    Film Club — Aimee Lou Wood’s comedy-drama is an understated gem

    The actor co-writes and stars in this tender portrait of mental health, family and resilience

    Two people sit side by side in a dimly lit room, illuminated by a projector. The man wears glasses and a suit, covered with a blanket, while the woman is dressed in a black dress with feathered details. Both appear to be watching something intently.
  • Friday, 3 October, 2025
    Review
    Alan Partridge turns documentarian in moronically hilarious How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)

    Letting Steve Coogan’s creation loose on hot-button topics leads to a predictable crescendo of awfulness in the new BBC1 series

    A woman leans on a kitchen counter holding a knife, looking at a man who appears to be speaking or gesturing defensively.
  • Tuesday, 30 September, 2025
    Review
    Taylor — Swift documentary is heavy on the fandom but light on revelations

    Swifties dominate Channel 4 two-parter that highlights why the star inspires such devotion

    Taylor Swift stands on stage in a sleeveless outfit, looking over her shoulder, with purple lights in the background.
  • Monday, 29 September, 2025
    Review
    Wayward — Toni Collette is fantastically sinister in Netflix’s uncanny rural thriller

    The actress plays a headteacher whose influence over an idyllic Vermont town unfurls slowly and with creeping malice

    Toni Collette as Evelyn Wade stands in front of a group of people huddled together with their heads down.
  • Friday, 26 September, 2025
    Jimmy Kimmel
    Jimmy Kimmel returned to the airwaves by local TV groups

    Nexstar and Sinclair bring back the comedian’s late night show to millions of viewers despite pressure from Donald Trump

    Jimmy Kimmel speaks on stage at a podium with a Grammy logo
  • Friday, 26 September, 2025
    Review
    Glen Powell’s sporting comedy Chad Powers is the anti-Ted Lasso

    The Disney+ American football series is a misanthropic, mean-spirited mess

    Glen Powell, wearing a blue athletic shirt with ‘200’ on it and a blue arm sleeve, stands outside on a college campus
  • Friday, 26 September, 2025
    NBC Universal Inc
    NBC launches attack ads against YouTube over streaming negotiations

    Network and Google-owned service face Tuesday deadline to agree new licensing deal

    Utah Jazz forward Kyle Filipowski drives to the basket while defended by Minnesota Timberwolves centre Rudy Gobert during an NBA game.
  • Thursday, 25 September, 2025
    Review
    House of Guinness, Netflix — Dublin-set brewing drama takes time to settle

    ‘Peaky Blinders’ creator Steven Knight brings his combustible style to a heady tale about the wealthy Irish family

    A woman in a white satin gown and gloves sits closely beside a man in formal attire at a banquet table, both appearing relaxed and engaged in conversation.
  • Thursday, 25 September, 2025
    Interview
    Jack Thorne on The Hack and how ‘journalism lost the public’s trust’

    The ‘Adolescence’ writer has dramatised the phone-hacking scandal for TV and is shocked at ‘how deep this thing went’

    Jordan Renzo and Steve Pemberton as James and Rupert Murdoch, both dressed in suit and tie, sit at a hearing table, with nameplates in front of them.
  • Wednesday, 24 September, 2025
    FT SeriesThe HTSI autumn arts special: heroes and villains
    Who’s the baddest of them all?

    We rate the stars of the autumn arts season on a sliding scale of wickedness

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