• Spiral recap: season seven, episodes five and six – plus ça change ...

    Laure and Gilou go rogue in thrilling fashion, before reality bites. Meanwhile, Joséphine finally walks freeSpoiler alert: this recap is for people watching Spiral on the BBC. Do not read on unless you have watched season seven, episodes five and six. Continue reading...
  • Strictly Come Dancing 2019: week six – as it happened

    It’s the Halloween spooktacular! We followed every scary salsa and pumpkin-themed pasa doble, who’s time in the ballroom is coming to an end? 8.18pm BST Thank you all for joining in – I’m off to purge my fever in a dark room whilst reading all your comments. Don’t forget to put your clocks back, and I’ll see you back here tomorrow at 7.15pm for the results! Hx8.18pm BST So that’s IT for the dancing – bar the shouting tomorrow, that’s another
  • Strictly Come Dancing 2019: week six – live

    It’s the Halloween spooktacular! Join us for every scary salsa and pumpkin-themed pasa doble – and be ready to scream the whole night through6.44pm BST No Will and Janette this evening, Will has injured his knee. Boo, that’s a shame, hope he’s OK.Neil is also injured, so Kevin is dancing with Alex.6.43pm BST Out come the stars! Why is Aljaz dressed as Philip Schofield? Continue reading...
  • Jane Fonda accepts Bafta award during arrest at climate protest

    Actor is led away in handcuffs after winning Stanley Kubrick award for excellence in filmJane Fonda accepted a prestigious award from Bafta Los Angeles while being led away in handcuffs after being arrested during climate emergency protests.The actor and activist was honoured with the Stanley Kubrick award for excellence in film at the annual Bafta Britannia ceremony.Folks, @Janefonda accepted the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award WHILE BEING ARRESTED. #Britannias pic.twitter.com/LDbZKTZWrs Contin
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  • Epic Secrets About the Making of The Terminator

    The T-800 promised he'd be back.And he did indeed return, time and again, in one form or another, but as the better half of the soulless cyborg coin.It's now been 35...
  • ‘No better thrill available’: why The Chase is TV’s greatest gameshow

    There are plenty of bombastic quizzes. But only one has Bradley Walsh barking historical facts at you a mile a minute
    Bradley Walsh, host of The Chase (every day until the end of time, 5pm, ITV) has a curious ability to pull out the very tendrils of someone’s soul with three slithering little questions: what do you do for a living?; what do you do for fun?; and, what would you do with the money if you won today? Bradley Walsh is able to gauge the very essence of man merely by asking what t
  • 'I made gay sidekicks the leads': how Ryan Murphy changed TV for ever

    With hit series like Pose, Glee and American Horror Story, he brought marginalised characters to the masses. Meet TV’s most powerful man It is a rainy Friday morning on an unprepossessing street in the Bronx. Step inside the squat, utilitarian collection of buildings, however, and it’s a very different story. Statuesque, extravagantly coiffed figures strut about the corridors in wigs, sequins and retro block-colour suits. Elsewhere, lithe dancers in garish-glamorous leisurewear langu
  • What’s on TV Saturday: ‘BoJack Horseman’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’

    “BoJack” embarks on its final season, and Chance the Rapper hosts and performs as the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live.”
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  • TV tonight: how do you raise a family in Aleppo?

    An astonishing, devastating account of family life inside the embattled Syrian city. Plus, 70s music heaven with docs about Vivienne Westwood and Trojan RecordsIn a thoroughly human and heart-wrenchingly intimate take on the Syrian war, film-maker Waad al-Kateab documents through phone camera and camcorder footage the events of 2016 in Aleppo.Her focus is partly on the volunteer hospital where husband Hamza works, and partly on her life in a city under siege while raising her newborn daughter Sa

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