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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Review
    Playing Nice — James Norton stars in baby-swap melodrama

    Queasy thriller shaped more by one man’s sociopathy than broader sociological insight

  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Review
    American Primeval — Old West saga is a darker alternative to Yellowstone

    Brutally violent Netflix series about a mother and son on the run is set in 1850s Utah Territory

    A woman and boy ride in a wagon through an Old West landscape
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Review
    Severance season 2 — dystopian office thriller amps up the surreal

    Lumon employees grapple with newfound information about their alter egos in Apple TV+’s striking, superlative series

  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Review
    The best of TV and streaming this week

    ‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’ stars Colin Firth as a father bereaved by the 1988 airliner bomb; season 2 of ‘Squid Game’ dials up the psychological warfare; Simon Schama surveys postwar British culture in ‘Story of Us’; ‘Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action’ chronicles the show’s huge audiences and ruined lives; Diane Morgan deadpans her way through existential questions in ‘Cunk on Life’; ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ is a feature-length treat — reviews by Dan Einav

  • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
    Making the Western great again

    The genre is thriving and, with bumper ratings for shows such as ‘Yellowstone’, is proving well attuned to Trumpian times

    A cowboy on horseback holding a whip
  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    FTAV’s further reading

    Penile accidents; Zildjian; allocator laments; subscriptions; Markle’s cooking show

  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    The Aesthete
    Couples Therapy’s Orna Guralnik: ‘Love your partner for who they are, not who you want them to be’

    The clinical psychologist talks taste

    Orna Guralnik at home in New York
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action TV review — a grimly intriguing Netflix documentary

    Two-part show explores how Springer drew huge audiences and ruined lives — though its approach is problematic

    A grey-haired and bearded man wearing tinted glasses looks straight ahead
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Simon Schama’s Story of Us — a love letter to postwar British culture

    The historian’s BBC documentary ranges from the music of The Specials to the art of Pauline Boty to explain a country in flux

    Jarvis Cocker in a forest-green blazer and Simon Schama in a black jumper standing in a narrow aisle lined with towering stacks of film reels
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Lockerbie: A Search for Truth TV review — Colin Firth searches for justice in heartbreaking drama

    The actor plays a grieving father whose daughter was among the 270 victims of the deadly 1988 terrorist attack

    Colin Firth in a tie and jacket stands in front of an airport departures and arrivals board facing a group of photographers
  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Cunk on Life TV review — a deadpan dive into the big existential questions

    Charlie Brooker and Diane Morgan’s satirical creation waxes lyrical on biology, consciousness — and ‘Pump up the Jam’

    A sad-looking woman wearing black and in a funereal hat and veil sits with others in a church
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    2025’s most anticipated hot tickets
    The best TV series to look forward to in 2025

    More ‘The Night Manager’, ‘Severance’ and ‘Andor’, plus new offerings from Lena Dunham and the creator of ‘Breaking Bad’

    Scenes from Andor, Severance, Get Millie Black, Dear England, and Rhea Seehorn, who will star in Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s unnamed new project
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Life & Arts
    2025’s most anticipated hot tickets

    The FT’s critics pick the cream of the crop, from film and TV to art exhibitions, theatre, dance, games, pop and classical music

  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Squid Game Season 2 dials up the psychological warfare

    Netflix’s Korean megahit returns with inky-humoured satire underpinning its brutal competition

    A Korean man wearing a green jumpsuit stands with an anxious expression, surrounded by people dressed in identical jumpsuits
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Emily Nussbaum’s Cue the Sun! — reality TV bites

    An exploration of the history and legacy of this manipulative genre manages to navigate the silly and the serious

    A man with a red suitcase walks through the street
  • Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
    Review
    Gavin & Stacey: The Finale — farewell takes fans on a teasing emotional ride

    Christmas special marks the end of James Corden and Ruth Jones’s sitcom after 17 years

  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl — busybody robot and villainous penguin wreak havoc

    Feathers McGraw is back on the rampage in a gently pointed parable about the dangers of our tech-obsessed times

    A claymation scene depicting Wallace smiling eagerly as he holds up a knitted suit, which is being knitted by Christmas elf sitting in his living room. Gromit, the dog, sits nearby holding knitting needles and looking at them
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Review
    From Roger Moore with Love — fittingly slick tribute to the suave Bond star

    Documentary traces how a working-class boy from south London turned himself into a global icon of British charm

    A close-up colour photo of a younger Roger Moore wearing a short-sleeved black shirt and looking suntanned
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Review
    SAS Rogue Heroes — more raucous, irreverent and mythologised war stories

    Steven Knight’s hit military drama returns with a second series about the real-life mavericks of an unruly unit

  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Review
    Doctor Who Christmas Special — Ncuti Gatwa and Nicola Coughlan pair up for a zippy and tearful treat

    Love, loss and a perilous suitcase feature in Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies’s hour-long ‘Joy to the World’

    a man entering a room with a friendly demeanour, holding a tray with a red cup and saucer
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    What to watch, listen to and play this Christmas
    The best 2024 TV to watch over Christmas

    From ‘Slow Horses’ to ‘Pachinko’ and ‘Baby Reindeer’, our critic picks the series to catch up on

  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Jude Webber
    Disney drama falls foul of Troubles families

    Controversy stalks a series that deals with Northern Ireland’s violent recent past

    Lola Petticrew as Dolours Price in ‘Say Nothing’
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    Interview
    The Split creator Abi Morgan: ‘I’m trying to make people feel less alone’

    The screenwriter on the draw of life’s ‘messy stuff’ and why the time felt right to rekindle her divorce drama

    A woman with short hair and thick-rimmed glasses in a bright green sweatshirt sitting on a dark blue sofa in a living room
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    ITV PLC
    ITV to put hundreds of hours of programmes on YouTube

    Partnership is latest sign of diminishing importance of traditional TV platforms in favour of social media channels

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Review
    No Good Deed — Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano fail to sell real estate comedy

    The 1990s sitcom stars unite as a couple selling a Los Angeles villa containing dark secrets

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