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 […]
TV tonight: Strictly dancer Amy Dowden’s cancer treatment journey | Television
Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me 8pm, BBC OneWhen Strictly dancer Amy Dowden was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in May 2023, she made the brave decision to be followed by cameras during her treatment. This film is the result, and as you’d expect, it’s a rollercoaster of emotions with surgery and chemotherapy, but there […]
TV tonight: Aimee Lou Wood and David Morrissey’s sweet new sitcom | Television
Father Issues 9pm, BBC ThreeSex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood returns to her comedic talents in this new father-daughter comedy. She plays Gemma, a vivacious 20-something hairdresser who panics when her roommate moves out after she falls pregnant after a one-night stand. To sort out her financial worries and living situation, she moves in with her […]
The Body Next Door review – a jaw-droppingly addictive true-crime tale | Television
circleDetective Inspector Gareth Morgan often talks about murder as a ‘whodunit’ but he thinks a ‘whodunit’ is a more appropriate phrase for an extremely bizarre case that took place under his watch in South Wales in 2015. When a filthy, seeping bundle was discovered in the village of Beddow – a decomposing body semi-preserved within […]
TV tonight: how Brief Encounter became the most romantic film of all time | Television
Classic Movies: The Story of Brief Encounter 8pm, Sky ArtsIan Nathan’s fascinating new series on film history begins with David Lean’s masterpiece. It’s often described as the most romantic film of all time, but perhaps its timing makes this story of fleeting, forbidden love so striking? Released in 1945, it symbolised an end to fear […]
TV tonight: watch amazing and terrible dates in action | Television
First Date 10pm, Channel 4The funny, sweet and sometimes toe-curling dating show is back. Fred Sirix invites a variety of people to his restaurant: 24-year-old William, who has never kissed a woman and is going on his first date; Glenn, who rather boldly compares himself to Christian Grey from “Fifty Shades”; and, perhaps most memorably, […]
Paris Olympics deal hands Discovery+ gold in UK TV streaming race | Television industry
Discovery+ has become the UK’s fastest-growing paid streaming service, with the nearly £1 billion deal its parent company spent to wrest Olympic rights from the BBC appearing to be paying off. Six years ago, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), which runs the Discovery+ streaming service in the UK and the Max streaming service across Europe as […]
Atomic People review – the quietly devastating truth about surviving Hiroshima | Television
TThe survivors of the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki said,Atomic bomb survivorsAtomic People combines interviews with several of them (all of them at least 80 years old, most in their 90s, and a few over 100) with period footage of President Harry Truman praising the achievements of the Manhattan […]
Paris Olympics opening ceremony review – soaring ambition deflated by patchy delivery | Television
TThe perfect staging of Tokyo’s opening ceremony was always going to be a challenge for any successor, and Paris made the wise decision not to try to replicate the stadium spectacle or high-tech trappings (remember the menacing array of 1,800 drones?). The ceremony’s creative director, Thomas Joly, had the bright idea to play up the […]