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  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    Review
    The best of TV and streaming this week

    Comedy drama ‘Sunny’ centres on a grief-stricken woman with a robot companion; ‘Sprint’ goes behind the scenes with the athletes competing in the Paris Olympics; ‘Spent’ is a comedy about life after a modelling career; five stars for season 3 of ‘The Bear’ as it prioritises character over plot; Hugh Bonneville faces trial by Twitter in ‘Douglas is Cancelled’; Black south Londoners acquire unearthly powers in ‘Supacell’ — reviews by Dan Einav

  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    News in-depthStreaming services
    How Saudi Arabia’s MBC came to dominate Middle East streaming

    Wide range of Arabic-language shows and films helps media group compete with Netflix

    A poster for ‘One Wife is Not Enough’
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    Interview
    Actor Jenna Coleman: ‘I’m ready to play someone who lets it all out’

    In a sharp change from ‘Doctor Who’, she is a bullish rookie detective investigating a disappearance

    Woman with light brown hair and black top standing with arms folded
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast27 min listen
    Culture Chat: Does 'The Bear' still cook?

    The FT’s food experts discuss the third season of the critically acclaimed series

  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Spent, BBC — modelling and midlife crises

    A riotous new comedy series explores what happens when your career comes crashing down

    A glamorous woman sits in an ugly red mohair coat on a bench with a suitcase outside a rundown housing block
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Sunny, Apple TV+ — odd-couple dramedy where one half is a robot

    Thoughtful show about a grief-stricken woman and her android companion offers welcome summer viewing

    A woman sits cross-legged on a couch in casual clothes next to a humanoid white robot with a large flat face with an emoji-like expression on
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Sprint — Netflix warms up for Olympics with dashing docu-series

    Glossy show about athletes set to dominate in Paris goes trackside and behind the scenes

    A group of female athletes racing on an athletics track
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    Streaming services
    Murdoch’s Fox to launch free streamer Tubi in UK

    Ad-supported service to compete with platforms including Netflix, Disney and Amazon

    An image from the movie ‘Billy Eliot’
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump-Biden debate draws smaller audience as voters tune out US election

    Many media outlets have seen dwindling interest in their coverage of this year’s presidential contest

    People watch the presidential debate at a watch party in New York City on June 27 2024
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Douglas is Cancelled, ITV — Hugh Bonneville faces trial by Twitter in sledgehammer satire

    Four-part series from Steven Moffat follows a middle-aged TV presenter who is accused of making sexist remarks

    A middle-aged news anchor in a blue suit sits next to his younger female co-host on blue sofa of a news talk show set. He leafs through sheets of paper on a clipboard with a confused expression. She stares at an electronic tablet with ‘Live at 6’ on the back.
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    InterviewFilm
    Julio Torres, the wildly original new voice of film and TV comedy

    Mermaids working in call centres? Hamsters going clubbing? Meet the actor-director behind ‘Problemista’ and ‘Fantasmas’

    A dark-haird young man in a blue shirt, looking slightly confused, sits behind an office desk
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Five stars for The Bear season 3 — kitchen tragicomedy lowers the heat but deepens the flavour

    While tensions still simmer in Chicago, the emphasis is more on character and atmosphere than plot

    A man and a woman sit on a restaurant countertop, both wearing white outfits
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Supacell — south London superheroes feel the power

    Ordinary people become superhuman in a Netflix series from YouTube sensation Rapman

    A man lies on his front on the ground screaming as his eyes emit a fiery glow
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Review
    Under the Bridge — true crime drama re-examines the complex case of a teenage murder

    The Hulu series avoids turning a tragedy into a ghoulish whodunnit as it recounts the murder of 14-year-old Reena Virk

    Three teenage girls sit on an old sofa in a messy junkyard. A fourth girl leans against the back of the sofa.
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Review
    Copa 71 — the Women’s World Cup that Fifa refused to sanction

    BBC documentary tells the forgotten story of the ‘Lost Lionesses’ and a record-breaking football tournament in Mexico

    A female player in a red and white strip holds a golden cup over her head in a crowded football stadium
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Review
    Dead Calm: Killing in the Med? — the a migrant boat disaster that became a Greek tragedy

    Rigorous BBC2 documentary suggests the Greek coast guard helped cause the 2023 sinking, with the loss of nearly 650 lives

    A blue-painted boat heavily crowded with people sails across blue water
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Review
    The Stormtrooper Scandal — the dark side of NFT art exposed

    A new BBC documentary about an auction of dubious digital artworks reveals the flimsiness of the crypto fad

    A man wearing a suit has a blue and orange stormtrooper helmet on. A dog looks up curiously at him
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Will House of the Dragon catch fire like Game of Thrones?

    As the prequel returns for a second series, showrunner Ryan Condal talks about ‘making it feel different in a good way’

    A person with white-blond hair rides on a huge dragon, with the roofs of temple-like buildings behind
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    Interview
    How real TV scandals and online abuse inspired Douglas Is Cancelled

    Writer Steven Moffat and stars Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillan on making a comedy-drama about the rush to judge celebrities

    A man in a suit stands next to a presenter’s desk on a TV set, talking to a man in shirt sleeves. A woman sits on the sofa behind the desk
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Review
    Clipped — basketball scandal becomes a smart sport docudrama

    Six-part series about LA’s loss-prone ‘other basketball team’ uses a real-life controversy to tackle issues surrounding fame, race and power

    A portly man in a blue shirt stares at a hard-faced man in a dark suit who is holding a blond woman’s hand in a locker room
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Review
    Presumed Innocent — Jake Gyllenhaal goes darker in legal thriller

    The enigmatic actor is the perfect choice to play a criminal lawyer on trial for murder in Apple’s new eight-parter

    A man in a dark suit sits at a desk in a courtroom
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    ‘How I got here’: Southbank Centre’s Elaine Bedell on her career path

    The CEO of London’s prestigious arts complex on navigating the traditional sharp lines between ‘executive’ and ‘creative’

    A woman in a bright red suit sits confidently in an empty auditorium. She has short brown hair and a composed expression, with her hands resting on the armrest of the seat. The background shows rows of beige chairs
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Netflix Inc
    Woman sues Netflix for $170mn over ‘Baby Reindeer’ link

    Fiona Harvey says she is inspiration for character in hit series

    ‘Baby Reindeer’ stars Jessica Gunning, left, and Richard Gadd on stage at The 92nd Street Y in a conversation about the Netflix series
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Review
    On Thin Ice: Putin v Greenpeace — Russian roulette in the Arctic

    A new six-part BBC documentary tells the engrossing tale of the ‘Arctic 30’ activists detained for occupying a Russian oil rig in 2013

    Two men drive a speed boat across the ocean, both wearing orange jackets, life vests and yellow helmets with ‘greenpeace’ written on the front.
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Review
    Queenie, Channel 4 — the Bridget Jones we need now

    Screen version of Candice Carty-Williams’s bestseller injects a familiar quarter-life crisis tale with wit and multicultural smarts

    Four women wearing jackets and holding drinks stand together outside as if in conversation. A blurred city skyline is visible in the background.
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