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Accused: Trial In The Outback Tues/Wed, Channel 5 Rating: Talent YouTube Rating: Something strange has happened at Channel 5 lately, by which I mean it isn’t as obsessed with, say, endlessly showing ‘the human face’ of bailiffs, and is actually offering some decent shows to watch. I think the opposite of rot set in with … Read more
The Undoing Monday, Sky Atlantic, Now TV Rating: Who killed Elena Alves? At first I thought it was Jonathan (Hugh Grant). Then I thought it was Grace (Nicole Kidman). Then I thought it was their boy, Henry (Noah Jupe). Then I thought it was Grace’s friend Sylvia (Lily Rabe), because otherwise why was she there? … Read more
‘I’m living when I shouldn’t be’: BBC podcast presenter Deborah James who has incurable stage 4 cancer says she’s ‘putting her hope in science’ after new combination of drugs saved her life Deborah James, 38, had received the all-clear from cancer back in January However, doctors later found evidence that the cancer returned to her … Read more
Deborah Hutton, 58, reflects on life six months after her skin cancer surgery… and reveals why she’s partially ‘grateful’ for her diagnosis By Nicole Douglas For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:39 GMT, 3 December 2020 | Updated: 01:55 GMT, 3 December 2020 Deborah Hutton underwent life saving surgery to remove two skin cancers from her … Read more
Shaynna Blaze, Deborah Hutton and Melissa Leong lead the celebrity red carpet arrivals at the 2020 AACTA Awards in Sydney By Demeter Stamell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:50 GMT, 30 November 2020 | Updated: 08:23 GMT, 30 November 2020 The stars turned out in force for the 2020 AACTA Awards in Sydney on Monday. Leading … Read more
The Fall Of Anne Boleyn Tuesday-Thursday, Channel 5 Rating: The Wall Saturday, BBC1 Rating: A couple of years ago, Channel 5 gave us the lavish historical reconstruction Anne Boleyn: Queen For A Thousand Days. Currently, it is working on a colour-blind ‘psychological thriller’ about Anne Boleyn, starring Jodie Turner-Smith and Paapa Essiedu. And this week … Read more
The Crown Netflix Rating: James May: Oh Cook Amazon Prime Rating: It’s season four of The Crown and everyone is asking: but is it historically accurate? No. It is not. For instance, there is absolutely no evidence that Queen Elizabeth was once Claire Foy and then Olivia Colman. None at all. Neither is there any … Read more
Industry Tuesday, BBC2 Rating: My Family, The Holocaust And Me With Rob Rinder Monday, BBC1 Rating: Industry is a drama series following five recent graduates as they set out in the world of investment banking, and already you have two problems with it, as I did. One, you just don’t know how interested you are … Read more
Roadkill Sunday, BBC1 Rating: DNA Saturday, BBC4 Rating: Roadkill, the latest political thriller from David Hare, stars Hugh Laurie as shady Tory Minister Peter Laurence and Helen McCrory as the Prime Minister, and both are so wonderful and mesmerising and terrific that if I had my way, I’d cut everyone else out, and all the … Read more
John Bishop’s Great Whale Rescue Mon-Tues, ITV Rating: Taskmaster Thursday, Channel 4 Rating: John Bishop’s Great Whale Rescue wasn’t John Bishop’s exactly. I say this because transporting two Beluga whales from captivity in China to a reserve off the coast of Iceland took years of planning, 100 people in ten countries, bespoke stretchers, bespoke tanks, … Read more