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 […]
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 […]