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  • Jay Blades and Judi Dench at Ridley Road market.

    Review
    Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple – Dench and Blades’ real-life friendship fills you with wonder

    The acting legend and the Repair Shop host lift the lid on their relationship in a way that is intimate and beautiful – despite the show’s insistence on tiring stunts
  • Faye Dunaway in Sidney Lumet’s Network.

    Review
    Faye – where are all the hair-raising stories of Dunaway’s nightmare behaviour?

  • One of the contestants from Dating Naked UK.

    Reality TV
    From live sex broadcasts to naked dating: are the UK’s romance shows the wildest TV in the world?

  • Dame Judi and Jay - The Odd Couple<br>75332 Dame Judi and Jay - The Odd Couple-6

    The watcher
    Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple – the year’s weirdest, most soul-enriching TV show

  • Matthew Perry

    Five arrests made in death of actor Matthew Perry, California police say

  • David Morrissey and Aimee Lou Wood in Daddy Issues

    Review
    Daddy Issues – Aimee Lou Wood and David Morrissey’s dad-daughter comedy is daftly touching

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Reviews

  • David Morrissey and Aimee Lou Wood in Daddy Issues

    Daddy Issues
    Aimee Lou Wood and David Morrissey’s dad-daughter comedy is daftly touching

  • Nico Mirallegro and Asim Chaudhry in Stags.

    Stags
    The exhilarating, gorgeous tale of eight idiots

    • Kelly Brook kisses her husband, Jeremy Parisi, both wearing backpacks.

      Celebrity Race Across the World
      Kelly Brook’s checkpoint sprint is white-knuckle stuff

    • Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams

      Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams on Tour
      An utterly stirring way to come back from that car crash

    • Vince Vaughn in Bad Monkey.

      Bad Monkey
      Vince Vaughn’s easy-going detective drama is tons of fun

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  • Darren Boyd and Kyla Harris in We Might Regret This.

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: cracking comedy upends the usual tropes about disability

    Big problems lie ahead when tetraplegic Freya moves in with her new lover. Plus: the rise of Mohammed bin Salman. Here’s what to watch this evening
  • Eunchae Jung in Pachinko.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    From Pachinko to OceanXPlorers: the seven best shows to stream this week

  • Awkwafina and John Cena in Jackpot!.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Jackpot! to Men: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Best on the box

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    Episode recaps

    • Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon Targaryen Matthew Needham as Lord Larys Strong

      House of the Dragon
      Season two, episode eight recap – what were the writers thinking?

      The finale was a 69-minute tease with a payoff that we’ll have to wait two years for. It was almost aggressively anti-climactic
    • Hot shot … Hugh Hammer (Kieran Bew) faces down Vermithor in House of the Dragon.

      House of the Dragon
      Season two, episode seven recap – ferocious, explosive TV

    • Is this the start of a serious romance? … Emma D’Arcy as Rhaenyra in House of the Dragon.

      House of the Dragon
      Season two, episode six recap – fans are being cheated (despite that steamy snog)

    • Aemond Targaryen (Ewan Mitchell) in House of the Dragon

      House of the Dragon
      Season two, episode five recap – here come some newbies to turn up the heat again

    • Fiendish … Freddie Fox as Gwayne Hightower and Fabien Frankel as Ser Criston Cole in House of the Dragon.

      House of the Dragon
      Season two, episode four recap – dragons rain hell in a truly terrific hour of TV

    • So that’s where he flounced off to … Matt Smith as Daemon in House of the Dragon.

      House of the Dragon
      Season two, episode three recap – talk about eye-popping TV

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    Podcasts

    • Jake Shears and Moya Lothian-McLean

      The best podcasts of 2024 so far

      From lifting the lid on what really went on at Guantánamo Bay to an investigation of whether Avril Lavigne has died and been replaced by a doppelganger – read on for the finest shows of the year
    • Moses Swaibu

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      Cash, cartels and controlling scores in Confessions of a Match Fixer

    • Rioters facing off against a line of police in Liverpool

      Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: Policing Protest; Dream Space; Sing It Pink; Prom 21; Hip-Hop Is History – review

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