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 […]
Stephen A. Smith makes massive Yankees blunder on live television
Maybe Stephen A. Smith should actually watch a Yankees game or two. The ESPN personality argued on Wednesday's “First Take” that Aaron Judge's potentially historic season was due in part to Juan Soto batting behind him in the Yankees' lineup, a pretty egregious error that could have been avoided with a couple of seconds of […]
Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me review – an exceedingly raw real-time battle | Television
and othersLast year, Amy Dowden felt a lump in her breast the day before her honeymoon. She knew right away. Her body instinctively knows when something’s not right, and it was a moment she couldn’t ignore. “I felt a bit sick,” the Strictly Come Dancing regular, now 34, tells the camera. “So I went to […]