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"But then Lucy Green ruined my life." So begins this intriguing 10-part drama of bite-size episodes, executive produced by Sharon Horgan. It rewinds to Tim escorting millennial pop star Lucy (Bel Powley) to rehab in…
The teen grew close to former copper Craig Ingram (Matthew James-Bailey) amid her step-mum Denise Fox's (Diane Parish) battle with acute myeloid leukaemia battle. He discovered that she was the one who attacked Joel…
The Gilded Age has now happily embraced its own lack of real nutritional value and, towards the end of the third season, its ratings swelled as a result. In the opener, Agnes is scheming to retain her position in society…
The Golden Compass diluted Philip Pullman's theological bite, Warcraft thought that just explaining its world would make us care about it, and The Dark Tower compressed Stephen King's sprawling mythology so ruthlessly…
YouTube footage bears this out: frontman HR, born Paul D Hudson, is equal parts straining sinew and raw electricity as he bucks and contorts, punctuating rapid-fire snarls and otherworldly croons with impeccably timed…
Larry and Marian have been in a will-they-won’t-they romance for years, and following a night of drinks and dancing, their journey home runs awry when the carriage breaks down. The pair stay in a hotel and end up sharing…
The accompanying, now almost obligatory, high-prestige screen actor is Keira Knightley , presumably whipping up ticket-selling frenzy and stage-door brouhahas. Except this production is helmed by theatre wunderkind…
Television and radio producer Chuck Thomas wondered on X whether it could be a Derren Brown-style psychological experiment; a Ghostwatch-esque stunt; or even a dark TV comedy in the vein of the genre-bending series…
It is a new natural history show narrated by the 100-year-old David Attenborough, so there cannot be many more of those to enjoy. It is a Sunday-night showcase on BBC One, which is nothing like as significant a shared…
The judges, Joanna MacGregor, Ben Gernon and Errollyn Wallen, hailed Sofia Demetriades's performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturity. The 18-year-old is from Leicestershire, and…