This Way Up, the nuanced and singular comedy continues. Plus: globetrotting art sleuths get to work in Fake or Fortune? Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading…
Queen of comedy Charlotte Ritchie on Ghosts: ‘It’s loving, uncynical – and people fall over’
She got gross-out laughs in Fresh Meat, died superbly in Call the Midwife – and now she’s back communing with spirits in Ghosts. Is Charlotte Ritchie getting too famous to buy her own leggings?Charlotte Ritchie is video calling from her London flat, wh…
FandangoNOW and Vudu merge into a new streaming service with titles to rent, buy or stream free
Last year, movie ticketing and discovery business Fandango, a division of NBCUniversal, bought the on-demand video streaming service Vudu from Walmart, after the retailer had failed to capitalize on the service it had first acquired in 2010 for $100 million. Today, Fandango is taking the next steps with Vudu by merging the service with its […]
Love Island has filled the pandemic-sized hole in my social life | Imogen West-Knights
TV’s guiltiest pleasure is a reminder of just how much we love – and have missed – being nosy and judgmentalThere are very few things that I dedicate as much time to as watching Love Island during the summer. For two months it’s on six nights a week, f…
TV tonight: Jon Richardson has a snigger at horrifying foreign telly
The comic lines up a sample of international TV titbits. Plus: how to save £1,000 in a day. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading…
Jessie Cave on body image, bereavement and being relentless: ‘I don’t have any secrets’
The actor, comic and writer talks about her bestselling debut novel, the cruelty of costume fittings, how it felt to be in the Harry Potter franchise – and finding hope in small thingsAs a compulsive diary writer – she has kept one since she was eight …
Blind Ambition review – a candid, charming take on sight and artistry
This stunt-filled documentary sees TV producer Jamie O’Leary and comic Jamie MacDonald consider how creatives with low vision and blindness both survive and thriveBlind Ambition (BBC Two) takes the tried and trusted format of putting two grumpy men tog…
Pop maestro Simon Cowell finally bows to the public’s resounding ‘no’ vote | Rebecca Nicholson
The X Factor won’t be returning to our screens. It had long outstayed its welcomeLike a knackered old cruise singer who has finally decided that this cover of Make You Feel My Love will be, must be, their last, The X Factor has slunk offstage for good….
On my radar: Domhnall Gleeson’s cultural highlights
The actor on an exhibition that’s like a rave, the best crispy chicken and why he’s having to take a break from Kazuo Ishiguro’s latestDomhnall Gleeson was born in Dublin in 1983. Following his father, Brendan, into acting, he broke through in 2010 wit…
BBC’s Alex Scott ‘proud’ of working class accent after peer’s elocution jibe
Lord Digby Jones accuses Alex Scott of spoiling Olympics coverage by dropping her ‘g’sThe BBC presenter Alex Scott has said she is proud of her accent after she was criticised by a former minister who said she “needs elocution lessons” and “spoils” Oly…