Confessions of a Teenage Fraudster review – why did they drag three hours of TV out of this?
His scams gave him a champagne lifestyle where he travelled the world first class as a teen. But this insight-free documentary really deserves no more than hour of your time, tops
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D-Day: The Unheard Tapes review – TV so good it’s worth the BBC licence fee on its own
This commemoration of the Normandy landings uses actors lip-syncing over period interviews to stunning effect. It poignantly keeps these soldiers’ memories alive
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The week in TV: The Sympathizer; My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom; Eric; Camden – review
Park Chan-wook directs a dazzlingly audacious spy thriller, while Mark O’Sullivan turns personal trauma into black comedy
May 2024
The seven best shows to stream this week
Becoming Karl Lagerfeld to My Son Jeffrey: The Dahmer Family Tapes – the seven best shows to stream this week
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Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult review – a horribly mesmerising look at an invite-only church
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My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom review – an astonishing testament to comedy’s healing power
‘I feel like my sister died’: inside the shocking TikTok dance cult
Other lives
David Naden obituary
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The week in TV: Insomnia; Cold Case Investigators: Solving Britain’s Sex Crimes; Rebus; Trying; The Nevermets – review
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TV tonight: The Red King throws up a slippery new suspect
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The Gullspång Miracle review – a staggering film about love, faith and secret sisters
Goths, gays, punks and surfers: behind the wild rise of Lollapalooza
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Imposter: The Man Who Came Back from the Dead review – the absolute zenith of true-crime TV
‘It became a beacon of hope’: the incredible story of Stax Records
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The week in TV: Better Off Dead?; Bridgerton; The Gathering; The Big Cigar – review
Inside the rise and fall of Ashley Madison: ‘People literally lost their lives’
‘I’m fighting for the right to live’: Liz Carr on acting, friendship and her campaign against assisted dying
‘George Davis is innocent OK’: Londoner recalls campaign to free him in new TV series
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TV tonight: the first family in the world to be diagnosed with hereditary Alzheimer’s
The week in TV: The Responder; Spacey Unmasked; Doctor Who; Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly – review
