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    • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
      When the BBC put cameras into viewers’ hands

      The 1970s ‘Open Door’ project gave members of the public free rein. Now the results can be seen in a London exhibition

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Review
      Shrinking — makers of Ted Lasso return with feel-good comedy

      Jason Segel plays a fortysomething in new sentimental tale of emotional enlightenment

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Review
      Pamela, a Love Story review — an intimate and touching Netflix documentary

      Pamela Anderson shares her traumatic life story with good humour in a film highlighting exploitation and sexism

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Upstream
      The Traitors is reality TV at its most immersive, dramatic and addictive

      Steeped in duplicity, hubris and the power of the herd mentality, this is very much a murder mystery for our times

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Review
      The best of TV and streaming this week

      Chuck D’s ‘Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World’ comes to BBC2; Máiréad Tyers is magnetic in Disney sitcom ‘Extraordinary’; Palme d’Or-winner Hirokazu Kore-eda brings his geisha drama ‘The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House’ to Netflix; and ★★★★★ for ‘The US and the Holocaust’, a harrowing story of Jewish refugees — reviews by Dan Einav

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      Extraordinary — quarter-life-crisis sitcom with added magic

      Disney’s new quarter-life-crisis sitcom is an unexceptional show with a magnetic performance from Máiréad Tyers

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World — from Bronx streets to Oval Office

      Public Enemy’s Chuck D hosts a series focusing on rap’s rise and role as social commentary

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House — gentle drama of trainee geisha

      Palme d’Or-winner Hirokazu Kore-eda luxuriates in detail and avoids fetishising the career

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      Upstream
      Why 18th-century Versailles outstrips 1970s LA for sexual frankness

      ‘Marie Antoinette’ says more about gender and power than the violent tale of the crazily successful Chippendales club

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      The US and the Holocaust, BBC4 — outstanding, harrowing account of national shame

      The documentary mini-series asks us not just to remember the past but to consider how to do things differently

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      The Last of Us, Sky Atlantic — beautiful and brutal adaptation of a much-loved video game

      Post-apocalyptic series co-created by the maker of ‘Chernobyl’ somehow manages to feel hopeful

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Can Netflix’s Break Point revitalise tennis?

      As the sport’s most decorated players bow out, a behind-the-scenes docuseries aims to bring the game to a new generation

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      Welcome to Chippendales: a tale of sex, striptease and murder

      This 1980s-set drama follows the real-life downfall of the founder of the world’s first male strip club for women

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Upstream
      Unhappy endings — Netflix’s abrupt cancellations

      Subscribers are angry at the opaque reasons for abandoning programmes such as ‘1899’ and ‘Tuca & Bertie’

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Review
      Our Flag Means Death, BBC2 — swashbuckling story of wit, whimsy and romance

      HBO Max period comedy centres on an aristocrat who swaps high society for the high seas

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Review
      Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street, Netflix — the story of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history

      New docuseries draws on interviews to explore the psychology of the ‘financial sociopath’

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Review
      Kaleidoscope, Netflix — heist series makes the viewer choose

      Eric Garcia’s experimental eight-part thriller can be watched in any order

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Review
      If These Walls Could Sing review — charming history of Abbey Road Studios

      Amid a starry cast of contributors, The Beatles loom large in Mary McCartney’s memoir of a pop shrine

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Review
      Five stars for Happy Valley — dark detective drama returns for swansong

      Sarah Lancashire has created an indelible character in Sally Wainwright’s show

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Esther Bintliff
      Andor and the return of appointment TV

      A Star Wars spin-off showed how science fiction at its best can move as well as transport us

    • Wednesday, 28 December, 2022
      Review
      Reservation Dogs season two — peerless exploration of American minority identity

      The FX series about a group of indigenous teenagers returns with more offbeat humour and familial warmth

    • Tuesday, 27 December, 2022
      Review
      Prince Andrew: The Musical, Channel 4 — royal narcissism makes for scandalous showtunes

      The programme has to tread a fine line when it comes to the allegations of sexual assault

    • Tuesday, 27 December, 2022
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      The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2022
    • Monday, 26 December, 2022
      Review
      Mayflies — end-of-life drama takes in male bonding and biscuits

      A terminally ill schoolteacher strives for a dignified death in a BBC adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s novel

    • Saturday, 24 December, 2022
      Review
      Marie Antoinette, BBC2 — a commodity in search of compassion

      Emilia Schüle stars as the ill-fated queen of France in a show written by Oscar-nominated Deborah Davis

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