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Nick Hilton

Nick Hilton is The Independent's chief TV critic

<p>Huw Edwards had been at the forefront of BBC news coverage for decades</p>
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Huw Edwards: From breaking Queen’s death to scandal and leaving BBC

<p>Richard Armitage in ‘Red Eye’ </p>
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Ridiculous ITV thriller Red Eye is little more than a cheap thrill

<p>Tom Hollander and Jessica Lange in ‘Feud: Capote vs The Swans’ </p>
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Feud: Capote vs The Swans is a glitzy retelling of a society scandal

<p>Katherine Devlin in ‘Blue Lights’ </p>
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Blue Lights series 2 is first rate but generic

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Video game adaptation Fallout has a boatload of cyberpunk chutzpah

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Netflix stalker drama Baby Reindeer is something very special

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This Town is a new Steven Knight tale that feels deeply personal

<p>Nicola Coughlan as Maggie, ‘a ball of chaotic charisma’, in ‘Big Mood’ </p>
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In Big Mood, Nicola Coughlan has enormous fun as an anxious do-badder

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Passenger is beautiful and brilliantly acted – but it’s doing too much

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Kristen Wiig social-climbs in style-over-substance show Palm Royale

<p>Courting trouble: Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine portray a mother with lofty-but-lewd plans for her son </p>
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Mary & George is a bawdy but boring knock-off of The Favourite

<p>Hiroyuki Sanada as Yoshii Toranaga in 'Shōgun’</p>
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Disney’s violent epic Shōgun might be the next Game of Thrones

<p>Way out there: spectral father Denny portrayed by Michael Sheen, who co-created the scatty three-parter </p>
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Michael Sheen’s political drama The Way is a mess

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Michael Sheen’s political drama The Way is a mess

<p>Way out there: spectral father Denny portrayed by Michael Sheen, who co-created the scatty three-parter </p>
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The Baftas reminded us all that 2023 was more than just Barbenheimer

<p>Clarkson inspires a unique form of adoration, predominantly among men of a certain age</p>
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Untangling the strange, enduring appeal of Jeremy Clarkson

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The Grand Tour: Sand Job – Blokey pantomime that’s actually enjoyable

<p>‘They’re home when they’re together’: Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough in ‘Alice & Jack’ </p>
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Alice & Jack is a love story lacking in chemistry and believability

<p>‘They’re home when they’re together’: Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough in ‘Alice & Jack’ </p>
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Alice & Jack is a love story lacking in chemistry and believability

<p>Woodall and Mod in the new Netflix adaptation of David Nicholls’s romantic novel ‘One Day’ </p>
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One Day never quite manages to land a true emotional sucker-punch

<p>Dominic West recently spoke candidly about his reaction to negative reviews </p>
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Do fragile actors deserve a break from the poison pens of critics?

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Brangelina remake Mr & Mrs Smith is one of the sexiest shows on TV

<p>Trigger Point</p>
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Twisty Vicky McClure thriller Trigger Point is back with a boom

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The thrilling Traitors finale was perfectly orchestrated chaos

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The Traitors and Mr Bates show that appointment TV is truly back

<p>Young Hollywood: Austin Butler and Callum Turner lead the action-packed historical drama</p>
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It’s hard to resist the pulse-quickening action in Masters of the Air

<p>Damian Lewis and David Schwimmer portrayed the horrors of the Second World War in ‘Band of Brothers’</p>
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How Band of Brothers shaped the future of television

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The Traitors and Mr Bates show that appointment TV is truly back

<p>Young Hollywood: Austin Butler and Callum Turner lead the action-packed historical drama</p>
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It’s hard to resist the pulse-quickening action in Masters of the Air

<p>Damian Lewis and David Schwimmer portrayed the horrors of the Second World War in ‘Band of Brothers’</p>
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How Band of Brothers shaped the future of television

<p>Well-calibrated verisimilitude: Kieran Culkin delivers a charming acceptance speech for his role in ‘Succession’ at last night’s Emmys</p>
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Hollywood may be out of touch, but their Emmy speeches made them human

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Hollywood may be out of touch, but their Emmy speeches made them human

<p>Well-calibrated verisimilitude: Kieran Culkin delivers a charming acceptance speech for his role in ‘Succession’ at last night’s Emmys</p>
<p>King of the rings: a contestant clashes with Fury, the gladiator in a test of strength </p>
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In Gladiators, watch people get smashed in the face with a giant Q-tip

<p>University of life: ‘Big Boys’ returns</p>
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Sweet misfit comedy Big Boys is back, and is something to be savoured

<p>Kali Reis and Jodie Foster in ‘True Detective: Night Country’ </p>
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Jodie Foster is superbly cast in the frosty series 4 of True Detective

<p>Knee-deep in the neighbourhood: lead character Jo wades through the waters that dredge up a number of questions for a small, Northern town </p>
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Police procedural meets climate change drama in ITV’s After the Flood

<p>Knee-deep in the neighbourhood: lead character Jo wades through the waters that dredge up a number of questions for a small, Northern town </p>
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Police procedural meets climate change drama in ITV’s After the Flood

<p>Lancashire deftly takes on a role previously played by another goliath, Meryl Streep</p>
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Sarah Lancashire returns in a delectable second season of Julia

<p>Leaders of the pact: the cast of ‘Truelove’ drink to their ‘perfect crime’ </p>
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Truelove on Channel 4 is not your typical mawkish euthanasia drama

<p>Brendan and Eilish O’Carroll in the vapid and abominable ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’</p>
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The best joke in Mrs Brown’s Boys is the sheer laziness of the premise

<p>Julie Hesmondhalgh and Toby Jones in ‘Mr Bates vs the Post Office’, a human drama without much drama </p>
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Mr Bates vs the Post Office gets too bogged down in bureaucracy

<p>‘The Tourist’ highlights just how miscast Dornan was in ‘50 Shades of Grey’, as he’s so much better at projecting vulnerability than confidence </p>
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Jamie Dornan starrer The Tourist still has the capacity to thrill

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Netflix’s Fool Me Once is the ultimate example of a background binge

<p>Aneurin Barnard’s young doctor and Iwan Rheon as a trial participant in ‘Men Up’</p>
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Viagra drama Men Up is a sweet tale of male bonding

<p>David Jonsson in ‘Murder Is Easy’ </p>
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BBC’s Christmas Agatha Christie Murder Is Easy is bland and incoherent

<p>Ricky Gervais’s seventh stand-up special is disappointing </p>
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Ricky Gervais knows he won’t be cancelled by jokes in lazy new special

<p>All buttoned up: finale allows fans of the show to say goodbye to all the residents of Button House </p>
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Ghosts, one of the warmest shows on TV, waves goodbye

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Anti-capitalist film The Heist Before Christmas could have been great

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Anti-capitalist film The Heist Before Christmas could have been great

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The Winter King – a boring and underwhelming take on Arthurian legends

<p>Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II, who has been increasingly sidelined in ‘The Crown’</p>
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The Crown’s demise is a metaphor for Netflix’s downward trajectory

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The 30 worst and best performances in The Crown, ranked

<p>Vigil</p>
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Without the submarine, Suranne Jones thriller Vigil has lost its way

<p>Vigil</p>
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Without the submarine, Suranne Jones thriller Vigil has lost its way

<p>Vitalis and Pointing in ‘Smothered’; two very different people trying to get along in a confusing world </p>
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Smothered is a zeitgeisty portrait of millennial life

<p>Dystopian: ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ recreates the horrific trials from the hit Netflix series</p>
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Squid Game: The Challenge is an epic of the reality genre

<p>Samuel (Paterson Joseph) and Janet (Daisy Haggard) discover a boat full of cocaine – and dead bodies – in ‘Boat Story’ </p>
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BBC’s Boat Story falls short of its Coen Brothers ambitions

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From Diana’s ghost to a gossipy tone – The Crown’s lost its way

<p>Emma Corrin and Harris Dickinson star as Darby Hart and Bill Farrah, a pair of amateur gumshoes reunited at a billionaire’s retreat </p>
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Emma Corrin shines in A Murder at the End of the World

<p>‘Robbie Williams’ is a tender portrait of a genuine British sensation</p>
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Robbie Williams’ Netflix show is a tender portrait of a Brit sensation

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Louis Theroux is defanged and dull in his latest series of interviews

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WWII saga All the Light We Cannot See is a shonky, star-studded dud

<p>Bella Ramsey in Time</p>
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Bella Ramsey steals the show in Time season 2 as a hard-bitten addict

<p>For decades now, the disembodied voices of these two men have dominated screens big and small</p>
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Morgan Freeman and Netflix can never hope to match David Attenborough

<p>The Great Amazon Heist</p>
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The Great Amazon Heist sees prankster aim to bring down retail giant

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The Great Amazon Heist sees prankster aim to bring down retail giant

<p>The Great Amazon Heist</p>
<p>Freddy and Frasier, played by Jack Cutmore-Scott and Kelsey Grammer</p>
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The Frasier reboot is an unsettling collision of 90s sitcom tropes

<p>Steve Coogan plays disgraced former DJ Jimmy Savile </p>
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Jimmy Savile drama The Reckoning is a voyeuristic parade of villainy

<p>Vinette Robinson as Carly </p>
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Boiling Point takes us back inside the turbulence of the kitchen

<p>You ridin’ with me?: How Robert De Niro might look in his forthcoming advert for Uber</p>
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Robert De Niro is disgracing himself by starring in an Uber advert

<p>You ridin’ with me?: How Robert De Niro might look in his forthcoming advert for Uber</p>
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Robert De Niro is disgracing himself by starring in an Uber advert

<p>Toby Jones and Lee Ingleby as the officers hunting the Yorkshire Ripper </p>
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Yorkshire Ripper drama The Long Shadow is leering and unnecessary

<p>New head honcho Lachlan is ‘the eldest boy!’ as Kendall claimed to be, but he’s temperamentally much more like Roman </p>
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Rupert Murdoch’s Succession guide: Is Lachlan a Kendall or a Roman?

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Netflix’s progressive teen saga Sex Education reaches its climax

<p>Elba plays ‘negotiator’ Sam Nelson in real-time drama ‘Hijack’</p>
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Hijack: The Idris Elba plane thriller that’s flying under the radar

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Tom Holland works hard in clichéd, generic series The Crowded Room

<p>Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds celebrate Wrexham AFC’s promotion in April 2023</p>
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Welcome to Wrexham is a vapid ad masquerading as a sports documentary

<p>Reese Witherspoon in ‘The Morning Show’ season three </p>
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The Morning Show season 3 is melodramatic televisual mush

<p>Ashley Walters stars as Dushane in the last series of the violent ‘Top Boy’ </p>
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Top Boy’s bleak, blistering final series pulls no punches

<p>Bible basher: Elizabeth Olsen as Candy Montgomery </p>
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In Love & Death, Elizabeth Olsen excels as Seventies axe-murderer

<p>Understandably miffed: Elle Fanning in the just-cancelled ‘The Great’ </p>
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The Great’s cancellation is a travesty

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The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies: An uneven thriller

<p>Ruth Wilson in ‘The Woman in the Wall’ </p>
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The Woman in the Wall turns Irish tragedy into crass horror spectacle

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Ahsoka, Disney’s latest Star Wars outing, is flimsy and devoid of life

<p>Tyson Fury in new Netflix series ‘At Home with the Furys’</p>
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Is At Home with the Furys luring men into watching reality TV?

<p>Painkiller</p>
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Painkiller is a tonally muddled drama on the opioid crisis

<p>Dan Wootton recently used his GB News show to reject claims against him </p>
Home News

Who is Dan Wootton? GB News star under investigation

<p>Tyson Fury in new Netflix series ‘At Home with the Furys’</p>
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Is At Home with the Furys luring men into watching reality TV?

<p>Painkiller</p>
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Painkiller is a tonally muddled drama on the opioid crisis

<p>Dan Wootton recently used his GB News show to reject claims against him </p>
Home News

Who is Dan Wootton? GB News star under investigation

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In its effort to be affirming, Heartstopper forgets to be good

<p>Good Omens S2</p>
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David Tennant and Michael Sheen’s chemistry make Good Omens a hit

<p>Cavill gives a bruising, unshowy performance as Geralt in ‘The Witcher’ </p>
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Henry Cavill has always been the best thing about The Witcher

<p>The Bear season 2</p>
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Frenetic and intense, The Bear season two sizzles in the skillet

<p>‘The Sixth Commandment’ </p>
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The Sixth Commandment starts so well but sinks into tawdry true crime

<p>The Great</p>
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The Great season 3 is history at its most horrible – and enjoyable

<p>George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in Netflix’s ‘Wham!’ </p>
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Netflix’s Wham! doc plays like a greatest hits album and nothing more

<p>I’m a Virgo</p>
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I’m a Virgo is one of the most urgent, intense pieces of TV in years

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