Amazing Grace review – blazing Hannah Walters struggles to save a lonely caller at the end of his tether

Grace quickly ascertains that Walter is in profound emotional distress, and although he keeps hanging up on her when her probing questions become too painful, he also keeps calling back until he feels safe enough to…

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EastEnders airs violent killer cliffhanger for Amy Mitchell story in early BBC iPlayer release

When questions were raised about why he'd lost his job, Craig said it was because he was found to be withholding evidence. The truth was that a series of complaints of inappropriate behaviour had been lodged against him…

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TV tonight: the final episode of gloriously daft sketch show Ellie & Natasia

But as a consequence, its hit rate is high, and when it's good, it's hilarious. The pair are gloriously daft but retain a keen eye for absurd modern manners: check their po-faced, all-female reimagining of Only Fools and…

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Judi Dench says Daniel Craig ordered her death. James Bond just got a lot scarier

Because, while the reputations of all the previous Bonds have ossified over the years – in chronological order: sexy, wooden, camp, boring and silly – the Daniel Craig era is finally coming into focus. And it turns out…

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Stick review – you really need Owen Wilson’s beautiful golf comedy in your life

"Moses had a crisis! Churchill had a crisis! Charlie Sheen had a crisis!" We're not worrying, either: Pryce has been living fairly happily through a midlife crisis for as long as we've known him, which is for the one…

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‘May every data centre crumble to dust!’ How can we stop the tech bros, tyrants and tycoons? With quilts!

"After four months of doing it, I found myself getting really bad headaches towards the end, so I had an eye test," says Reay. "I totally ruined my summer!" If that sounds extreme, he had given himself a relatively…

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Why Kim Kardashian came back to 'the worst TV drama ever'

Kardashian, who is best known as a media personality and businesswoman, tells the BBC she had no choice but to "lean into" the discourse and come back for a second series. "We thought we were this law show, dealing with…

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Constantinople to Istanbul review – you won’t want to leave this lavish celebration of double imperial splendour

It collides the Byzantine empire, whose capital Constantinople was officially inaugurated on 11 May AD330, with the Ottoman Turks who conquered this great city in 1453 and turned it into Istanbul. The combined glories of…

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Tall Tales and Murder review – this Irish version of The Wire makes for mile-a-minute TV

Billed as a Bonnie and Clyde-style escapade, there are hints of Channel 4's offbeat hit The End of the F***ing World , BBC Scotland's thriller Guilt , and even a less elaborate Da Vinci Code in this tale of ill-gotten…

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Latest Sarah J Maas book becomes UK’s fastest-selling adult fantasy novel

The novel, the sixth in Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses (Acotar) series and her first return to it in more than five years, sold 188,914 copies in the UK between publication day on 27 October and 31 October, according…

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