A new series relives the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and here, those involved remember and reflect on a national scandalBob Shrum had known Bill Clinton since their student days at Georgetown University in Washington. Working as a p…
Grantchester review – Fleabag-esque hot priest digs into betrayal and blackmail
The long-running whodunnit returns with much customary rose-tinting of the past and a swoon-worthy Tom Brittney – before a surprising segue into the plight of gay men in the 1950s‘“Marriage is like a deckchair,” says Roy Reeves, master of entertainment…
The D’Amelio Show: what do you do with TikTok fame?
The new reality show on Charli and Dixie D’Amelio attempts to transfer one kind of gargantuan fame into another with mixed results“I get asked why I’m famous a lot,” says Charli D’Amelio, the most followed person on TikTok, early in the third episode o…
‘There’s a lot to unpack’: the dark, difficult life of Rick James
In a new documentary, the defining funk artist’s ups and many downs are examined with a clear eye and a lack of sugar-coatingIn the jarring new music documentary, Bitchin: The Sound and Fury of Rick James, we see a star torn in half. On the one hand, t…
Reservation Dogs: a groundbreaking, hilarious sitcom about Native American teens
The dark comedy from Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi set in rural Oklahoma is a watershed for indigenous representationThe second episode of Reservation Dogs, FX’s mirthful dark comedy about a ragtag group of indigenous teens in rural Oklahoma, takes p…
The 18-month hangover: Hen Night’s disabled trailblazers on making TV history
Made on a shoestring, this short about a tough and successful disabled woman whose life is upturned by lockdown is a landmark moment in broadcasting. We talk to its makersJessica is tough and successful. She’s a young disabled woman who loves her work …
‘Parts of my brain light up when he’s talking’: Nigella Lawson and Mark Cousins in conversation
The cook and the film-maker, who struck up a friendship on Twitter, discuss aesthetics, watching and being watched, and the benefits of ageingMark Cousins and Nigella Lawson seem, at first, an unlikely pairing. He is an author and film-maker from North…
Vigil: Suranne Jones’s classy new drama is Sunday night TV at its best
This multilayered murder mystery set on a nuclear submarine takes the usual police procedural beats and gives them a new lease of lifeThere are three things we, as a nation, love and adore: bank holiday weekends, multilayered murder mysteries being sol…
Colin Farrell on making The North Water: ‘It’s a relief that no one died’
Farrell and Stephen Graham star in the gritty new thriller about an 1850s whaling ship. However, the drama wasn’t confined to the screen …Nothing shocked me about The North Water,” says Colin Farrell, stroking his straggly beard. “If I want to be shock…
Elizabeth Holmes stands trial – podcasts of the week
The acclaimed Dropout podcast returns to chronicle legal proceedings against the Theranos founder. Plus: good cops go bad in a new series with shades of The WireThe Dropout (available from 31 August)The polo neck wearing, deep voice-imitating, Stanford…