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  • Aidan Turner and Victoria Smurfit in Rivals.

    Rivals – even the naked tennis scene is a triumph

    Packed with sex, excess and fabulous awfulness, this adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s 80s bonkbuster starts as gloriously as it means to go on. Champagne all round!
  • a woman and three men sitting in a room playing a dating game

    Netflix to double profits after adding millions of subscribers in three months

  • Ice-T

    Ice-T: ‘Anybody that thinks controversy is a way to make money, it’s not. You need lawyers!’

  • Shrinking Photo 020602

    Shrinking season two – Harrison Ford’s lovable comedy is beautifully untaxing TV

  • A selfie of a woman wearing sunglasses sitting in a car

    ‘She preyed upon that empathy’: the TV writer who faked having cancer

  • Trevor Noah

    Trevor Noah: ‘I’ve met a few people where I’ve thought – yeah, you’re probably an alien’

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What to watch

  • Cate Blanchett and Sacha Baron Cohen in Disclaimer.

    Disclaimer – only Cate Blanchett could deal with a script this abominable

    Alfonso Cuarón’s new drama about a wife whose secrets are exposed looks beautiful. Sadly, it’s also slow, turgid and – despite stars like Kevin Kline – so bad it needs to be pureed into mush
  • Ella Purnell as Rhiannon, in officewear, sitting at a reception desk.

    Sweetpea – Ella Purnell’s deathly dull serial killer show reeks of cowardly decision-making

  • Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna in La Máquina.

    La Máquina – Gael García Bernal’s boxing drama feels like it was written by bashing random keys

  • Mr McMahon – this wrestling tale has more political intrigue than the House of Commons

  • Where’s Wanda – this knotty crime thriller has all the dark humour of Bad Sisters

  • Joan – Sophie Turner sparkles in this wild true story of a rags-to-riches jewel thief

  • Grotesquerie – horror as gorily unsubtle as you’d expect from Ryan Murphy

  • Nobody Wants This – Kristen Bell and Adam Brody’s joyous romcom is as funny as When Harry Met Sally

  • Agatha All Along – the perfect show for Halloween season

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Episode recaps

  • man in fedora hat looking off to the right

    Saturday Night Live
    ‘I was a coke fiend, I made a lot of bad choices’: Garrett Morris on SNL’s early days – and how the show lost its courage

  • man in a suit sits

    Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: episode by episode
    John Oliver on Trump’s immigration plan: ‘Full of shit from a practical standpoint, as well as a moral one’

    Last Week Tonight host digs into Trump campaign promise of mass deportation of 13 million undocumented people
  • A man wearing a black sweater sits at a desk with his hands folded, a picture of Donald Trump sitting in a garbage truck on screen

    Late-night TV roundup
    Seth Meyers on Trump’s garbage truck stunt: ‘I think you should stay there’

    Late-night hosts discuss Trump’s attempt from backlash over Puerto Rico comments and a gender gap in early voting
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Videos

  • Carl Weathers' most memorable film and TV roles – video obituary

  • The Canadian-American actor best known for playing Chandler Bing in the international hit series Friends has died at the age of 54

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    Matthew Perry's best moments on screen – video obituary

    The Canadian-American actor best known for playing Chandler Bing in the international hit series Friends has died at the age of 54
  • The TV host will be remembered for his role as the host of The Jerry Springer Show

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    A look back at the career of TV host Jerry Springer – video obituary

    The TV host will be remembered for his role as the host of The Jerry Springer Show
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Opinion

  • Rivals<br>Undated handout photo issued by Disney+ of Aidan Turner as Declan O'Hara in their new drama, Rivals, based on the book by Dame Jilly Cooper. Issue date: Wednesday September 25, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SHOWBIZ Rivals. Photo credit should read: Disney+/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Exuberant bums abound on the new Rivals. What a relief

    Rachel Cooke
  • Celebrity Jeopardy on Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live: the 20 greatest sketches ever

    The comedy show reaches its 50th anniversary this week and to celebrate, a look back to its funniest moments ever
  • Kit Harington as Henry Muck in Industry

    ‘I’m a man and I’m relentless!’ What does Industry say about banking’s toxic masculinity crisis?

    They’re lonely, controlling ‘dinosaurs’ seemingly incapable of decently treating the people who look to them for love. Do the characters in the finance drama have any hope of understanding masculinity?
  • The Sorkin sparkle … President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) of The West Wing

    This is getting silly now! Why won’t politicians stop ripping off The West Wing?

  • Cate Blanchett as Catherine Ravenscroft in Disclaimer.

    Disclaimer: Cate Blanchett’s new show is either beautiful … or a schlocky nightmare

  • A woman stands at her desk using a landline phone

    ‘They would have just been fired’: bankers on drug- and sex-fuelled drama Industry

  • Draught beer or daft beer? … Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Shelley Long, John Ratzenberger and George Wendt in Cheers

    Not just desperate but cruel! Making a British Cheers is the stupidest TV idea yet

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    Kaos creator ‘gutted’ at Netflix show’s cancellation

  • Richard E Grant in Marvel satire, The Franchise.

    ‘It’s like Trump – how do you satirise something so ridiculous?’: Armando Iannucci’s hilarious superhero spoof

    Foul-mouthed farce The Franchise is deliciously ironic, star-packed TV with more than a hint of Succession. Its stellar team talk about why making Marvel look ludicrous is actually an act of love
  • Not quite as you remember her … Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft.

    Goodbye cartoon breasts, hello sweat stains: the feminist reinvention of Tomb Raider

    Finally, Lara Croft no longer looks like a strong wind would knock her over. Netflix’s new animated series boldly reimagines the adventurer – with no thought to the male gaze
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    Dodge the vomiting cake! How TV baking went from twee to terrifying

  • Jenna Fischer, pictured in the 2024 film Mean Girls

    The Office’s Jenna Fischer reveals ‘aggressive’ breast cancer diagnosis

  • Slugging it out … Bernal in La Maquina.

    Return of the Mexican sex bombs: Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna on their boxing comedy La Máquina

  • ‘I started with Cocomelon ... now I can watch Borgen!’

    ‘Cocomelon taught me Danish!’ The people who learned a new language by watching TV

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