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Television

  • Tuesday, 10 March, 2026
    Life & Arts
    A Woman of Substance — Channel 4 hit gets a Downton-meets-Dallas reboot

    This new take on the popular 1985 series about a maid’s rise to property mogul feels stuck in the 1980s

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  • Monday, 9 March, 2026
    Life & Arts
    The best of TV and streaming this week

    Dark infidelity drama ‘DTF St Louis’ (★★★★★); ‘Molly vs the Machines’ is a rage-inducing documentary on social media; erotic fantasy ‘Vladimir’ — plus ‘Dirty Business’ (★★★★★) about England’s polluting water companies. Reviews by Rebecca Nicholson

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  • Thursday, 5 March, 2026
    Media
    ITV ‘actively engaged’ with Sky to sell broadcast division, chief says

    Carolyn McCall says 5% slide in advertising revenue will not affect ongoing talks

    Carolyn McCall smiles while posing for a photo.
  • Thursday, 5 March, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Rachel Weisz descends into erotic fantasy in Netflix’s Vladimir

    The actor stars as a college professor who becomes fixated on a younger colleague played by Leo Woodall

    Rachel Weisz as The Protagonist smiles at Leo Woodall as Vladimir, who looks down at a book while walking outside.
  • Thursday, 5 March, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Molly Vs the Machines — a harrowing, rage-inducing documentary about social media

    The suicide of teenager Molly Russell is at the heart of a provocative film that aims to dismantle tech companies’ defences

    Molly looks at a smartphone, surrounded by digital overlay graphics and highlighted boxes.
  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2026
    Behind the Money podcast32 min listen
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    An interview with the creators of the hit TV drama, ‘Industry’

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  • Tuesday, 3 March, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Jason Bateman and David Harbour bond in brilliantly surreal infidelity drama DTF St Louis

    A singular HBO series evolves from blossoming bromance to knotty murder mystery

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  • Friday, 27 February, 2026
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    Lex. Netflix could be streaming media’s most victorious loser

    Buying WBD for $83bn would have cost the streaming giant financial flexibility and its ability to take on YouTube

    Premium content
    Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Daniel Radcliffe crouch together in a tense scene from “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”
  • Thursday, 26 February, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Dirty Business — thrilling drama about Britain’s filthy water is a rallying call to arms

    Channel 4 mini-series has a strong message, a sharp creative vision and charming performances from David Thewlis and Jason Watkins

    Peter (Jason Watkins) stands holding a tripod while Ash (David Thewlis) takes a photo with a camera in a wooded area.
  • Wednesday, 25 February, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Disney+’s Scrubs reboot is silly, sentimental and slow to find its funny bone

    The hospital sitcom is back with the same cast and surreal humour — and some cranky modern updates

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  • Wednesday, 25 February, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Paul McCartney’s ‘uncool’ years reconsidered in Man on the Run

    Documentary skips through the 1970s as the musician forms Wings and searches for ordinary life amid notoriety and sheep

    Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine and drummer Denny Seiwell pose with instruments in front of a “RUDE Studio” sign, raising drinks and smiling.
  • Saturday, 21 February, 2026
    Life & Arts
    The BBC’s Walsh Sisters adaptation takes the bite out of Marian Keyes’ novels

    The Dublin-set series is cosy and mesmerisingly slow — save for some frenetic cliffhangers

    Five women dressed in black sit or lie on a bed, looking concerned or thoughtful
  • Friday, 20 February, 2026
    Economic statistics
    FT Alphaville. The ONS wants Auntie to know that field agent impersonation isn’t clever, cool or funny

    Knock knock…

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  • Thursday, 19 February, 2026
    Film
    Bafta to reward ‘human creativity’ as film and TV grapples with AI

    Chair Sara Putt acknowledges concerns in production sector about technology taking jobs

    Sara Putt stands in front of a table with multiple Bafta trophy masks.
  • Wednesday, 18 February, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence becomes an awkward Netflix series

    The Nobel-winner’s 2008 novel about a man’s obsessive affair with a much younger women gets lost in translation

    A woman in a peach dress and a man in a white shirt and tie face each other indoors, holding opposite ends of a plaid umbrella.
  • Tuesday, 17 February, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Tony Blair Story — former PM gets a grilling in a gripping docuseries

    Channel 4’s astute three-parter examines his domestic legacy and Iraq, with candid contributions from Jeremy Corbyn — and Cherie Blair

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  • Tuesday, 17 February, 2026
    CBS Broadcasting
    CBS turmoil deepens as Cooper quits and Colbert defies lawyers

    Journalist’s exit comes as Bari Weiss seeks to revive Paramount-owned television network

    Anderson Cooper walks outdoors, holding a folder and wearing a name badge.
  • Monday, 16 February, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Inside America’s Next Top Model — a grisly reckoning with 2000s reality television

    A Netflix documentary on the controversial modelling competition suggests its creators have learnt little

    Mercedes Scelba-Shorte, Jay Manuel, Tyra Banks, and Yoanna House, partially hidden, smiling and laughing with two shirtless male models in the foreground.
  • Sunday, 15 February, 2026
    Northern Ireland
    How to get to TV heaven? From Belfast

    Lisa McGee’s new Netflix drama comes as Northern Ireland enjoys a film and TV boom

    Lisa McGee stands indoors, smiling, with one hand in her pocket, wearing a blue blouse with ruffled sleeves and a burgundy vest.
  • Saturday, 14 February, 2026
    James Van Der Beek
    Obituary. James Van Der Beek, actor, 1977-2026

    As the star of the television drama ‘Dawson’s Creek’, he captured the hearts of teenagers the world over

    James Van Der Beek in 2018. With his tousled golden hair and Disney prince looks, the actor rocketed to heart-throb status
  • Friday, 13 February, 2026
    Theatre
    Yes Minister update I’m Sorry, Prime Minister shows that politics may be beyond a joke

    Stage version of the beloved sitcom relies on jokes about social progress and cancel culture rather than Westminster machinations

    A scene from a stage play in which a middle-aged man with grey hair and in shirt and tie talks to an elderly man with white hair seated next to him on a sofa placed behind a coffee table with cups and a cafetiere.
  • Thursday, 12 February, 2026
    Economic statistics
    FT Alphaville. The ONS vs Industry

    The stats agency / prestige television beef we didn’t know we needed

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  • Thursday, 12 February, 2026
    Life & Arts
    Love Story — JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette saga is a glossy and gossipy US version of The Crown

    Ryan Murphy turns his gaze on the Kennedys and their place at the heart of American society

    Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Paul Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr. share a slow dance under string lights and paper lanterns.
  • Thursday, 12 February, 2026
    Life & Arts
    How to Get to Heaven from Belfast — Derry Girls creator returns with a wild and gag-laden Netflix show

    Lisa McGee’s genre-defying Netflix series centres on three friends who become embroiled in a murder mystery

    Sinead Keenan as Robyn, Caoilfhionn Dunne as Dara, and Roisin Gallagher as Saoirse crouch together near stacked luggage, appearing tense or conspiratorial.
  • Thursday, 12 February, 2026
    Life & Arts
    Interview. How Walter Iuzzolino sold the UK on subtitled TV

    The brains behind Channel 4’s Walter Presents on tracking down the world’s best shows — and moving to a new city each year

    Montage of TV stills.
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