CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend’s TV

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend’s TV: While the Beeb sneers, Donald Trump enjoys the tweet smell of success By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 02:07 BST, 20 July 2020 | Updated: 02:07 BST, 20 July 2020 Trump in Tweets  Rating: Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm Rating: During the 2004 U.S. elections, the … Read more

CLAUDIA CONNELL reviews the weekend’s TV: Confused? This complex gold rush tale is missing its shine

The Luminaries Rating: Lost Pyramids Of The Aztecs Rating: Flashback, as a method of bridging time and filling the viewer in on a narrative, can be a highly effective method in film. If overused though, it can be frustrating, confusing and downright annoying. In new BBC drama The Luminaries, the time-jump trick was constantly employed … Read more

Stealing meat from hungry lions? That’s real bravado! Christopher Stevens reviews the weekend’s TV

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend’s TV: Stealing raw meat from hungry lions? Now that’s real bravado! By Christopher Stevens for Daily Mail Published: 01:25 BST, 25 May 2020 | Updated: 08:29 BST, 25 May 2020 Walking With Elephants  Rating: Britain’s Greatest Comedy Character Rating: Any walk with adventurer Levison Wood is exhausting, and not only … Read more

Building sites will be allowed to stay open late and at weekends to help construction industry

Construction sites will be allowed to stay open late and during weekends in a proposed move by ministers to help firms get back to work and avoid worsening impact wreaked by the coronavirus outbreak on the economy.  A proposed temporary override of measures that typically prohibit building work being undertaken at night or on Sundays … Read more

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend’s TV: Bravo, Britain’s Got Talent!

­Britain’s Got Talent (ITV)  Rating: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Celebrity Special (ITV) Rating:   We needed that. ­Britain’s Got Talent (ITV) is back, and the show was ­bursting with superb upbeat acts to send the ­nation’s spirits surging. BGT can be a ruthless spectacle — in years gone by the judges have shattered … Read more

Fourth storm in successive weekends strikes Britain as 70mph Storm Jorge batters flood-hit towns

Flood-hit towns took another severe battering yesterday as February was declared the wettest on record. Storm Jorge was the latest in a series which have struck the UK, bringing heavy downpours, 70 mph gales and snow. More than 300 flood warnings and alerts were in place across England and Wales yesterday. And today there are … Read more