In Vogue: The 90s review – Anna Wintour and pals offer up hour after hour of fabulous nothingness | Television & radio

TThere's nothing I like more than a fashion documentary where I have to look online to see if at least one of the contributors is the real deal, and I was delighted to see that In Vogue: The '90s features two such contributors — three if you include legendary editor Anna Wintour herself, which would […]
TV tonight: Jack Dee and Rosie Jones star as Taskmaster returns | Television

Taskmaster 9pm, Channel 4Television's greatest challenge show will air its junior spinoff this autumn, but before that some of the biggest names in the game – Andy Salzman, Babatunde Aleche, Emma Sidi, Jack Dee and Rosie Jones – will take on taskmaster Greg Davies. In the first round, they'll have to hunt for seals, throw […]
Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter review – a staggering, mesmerising true-crime tale | Television & radio

I It feels like a long time (ten minutes? maybe twenty?) since Netflix last added to the true-crime documentary genre (anthologies focused on men's violence against women and girls), but “Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter” is worth the wait, if only for the strange, perverse way in which such a voyeuristic endeavor takes place. […]
‘The Caitlin Clark Effect’ Is So Massive That It’s Out Here Competing Against The NFL For Television Ratings

If you're still in doubt, the “Caitlin Clark Effect” has officially been verified. The Indiana Fever's superstar rookie is setting new records in ticket sales, TV ratings and merchandise sales. And she's also putting up historic numbers on the basketball court. But the “Caitlin Clark effect” goes even further: She's still pulling in astounding TV […]
‘My T*ts Are Still Struggling’: Jason Kelce Gets His Television Career Off To An Absolutely Hilarious Start

Jason Kelce is still Jason Kelce! Future NFL Hall of Famer and former Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tom Brady, wasn't the only player making his television debut in Week 1. Former Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Jason Kelce also made his career debut. Spending All 13 A decade […]
In My Own Words: Alison Lapper review – a hammer blow to your heart | Television

TThe latest edition of the BBC documentary In My Own Words tells the story of Alison Lapper. As you'd expect from this formidable woman, born with shortened arms and legs and abandoned in an orphanage by her mother, she tells her story with unsentiment and relentlessness. Nearly every word hits like a poignant hammer-blow. She […]
TV tonight: Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s remarkable pivot from comedian to president | Television

The Zelensky story 9pm, BBC TwoThis is not a new story, but it is an astonishing and almost unbelievable one: a TV comedian played a fictional president and was then elected the real president of Ukraine. The story is told in three parts. In the first, Volodymyr Zelensky, his wife Olena and those who knew […]
TV tonight: John Simm is back solving grisly crimes in Grace | Television & radio

Grace 8pm, ITV1 The world of antiques is a dangerous one, as Brighton detective Roy Grace (played by John Simm) discovers in the revival of this crime drama. Just when his life is going well and he's about to have a baby, there's a brutal crime to solve: an elderly woman is tortured by robbers […]
Sambre: Anatomy of a Crime review – the misogyny of the French police will make you want to scream | Television

TThe six-episode series fictionalizes the story of a notorious French serial rapist who assaulted more than 50 women and minors in more or less the same style, in more or less the same locations, over a period of 30 years. The series is depressing and often painful to watch; the fact that it took 30 […]
‘Wildly hubristic’: when turning a TV show into a movie is doomed to fail | Television

More stars were announced for the upcoming Peaky Blinders film this week, with none other than Barry Keoghan joining the production yesterday in an as-yet-unrevealed role. Keoghan's presence adds an extra layer of prestige to the film — he was nominated for an Oscar last year, joining a cast led by new Best Actor winner […]