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  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Review
    The best of TV and streaming this week

    BBC4’s ‘Corridors of Power’ rakes over US foreign policy failures; HBO series ‘Fantasmas’ is bold but at times baffling; 1970s-set drama ‘Las Azules’ follows an all-female Mexican police unit; BBC documentary ‘Atomic People’ talks to survivors of the A-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Netflix’s ‘The Decameron’ adapts Boccaccio’s classic; ‘Time Bandits’ is a reboot of Terry Gilliam’s 1981 cult classic — reviews by Dan Einav

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Top 10 shows to stream over the summer holiday

    Escape from loved ones and extreme weather with fashion dramas, ghost stories and sexy spy capers

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  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Corridors of Power — what happens when US foreign policy fails

    Examining the country’s responses to global conflicts, this sweeping series highlights repeated mistakes and inaction

    Two lines of monitors show an image of Samantha Power seated at a table with a microphone in front of a name plate displaying with the words ‘United States’ on one side. The other side shows an image of Vitaly Churkin in front of a name plate that says ‘Russian Federation’.
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Las Azules — Mexico’s first female police unit battles the bad guys

    Set in the 1970s, a polished new Apple series focuses on female cops combatting crime — and rampant misogyny

    Four women in bright blue skirts and matching jackets with police badges, black boots and whistles attached to their collars walk together down a street
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Fantasmas TV review — Julio Torres’s vision is weird and occasionally wonderful

    The six-part HBO series is a colourful but meandering odyssey through the kinetic mind of its creator

    Julio Torres, with dyed copper-coloured hair, gazes with a mesmerised expression into a glass case filled with bejewelled earrings
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
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    Younger UK viewers turn away from traditional TV channels

    Less than half of 16- to 24-year-olds are tuning in every week, Ofcom finds

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  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
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    Warner Bros Discovery in talks with UK streamers over HBO programmes

    US group’s discussions raise questions over its exclusive agreement with Sky to show programmes such as ‘Game of Thrones’

    Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen in a scene from “House of the Dragon”, a prequel to “Game of Thrones
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Decameron, Netflix — black comedy sends up the Black Death

    A new adaptation of Boccaccio’s pestilent classic amps up the camp and offers lashings of bodily fluids

  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Time Bandits — Apple’s charming reboot of a fantasy cult classic

    Terry Gilliam’s 1981 film is remade as a 10-part series following the surreal journey of a quirky cadre of interdimensional thieves across different epochs

    Five adults dressed in costumes from different eras and a young boy in glasses stand in a stone temple or courtyard gazing at something with surprised or delighted expressions
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Atomic People — survivors reveal the bomb’s human fallout

    A new BBC documentary gathers harrowing testimony from living witnesses of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    An elderly Japanese woman in a bucket hat, grey sweater and a green broach stands in front of a house and stares into the distance.
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
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    BBC plans 500 job cuts in push for more cost savings

    UK national broadcaster warns funding squeeze will affect content budgets as it pledges more digital investment

    The BBC show ’Strictly Come Dancing’
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Media
    Deadline looms for Warner Bros Discovery with NBA broadcasts on the line

    League’s longtime broadcast partner has to decide whether to match rival bids or potentially lose out on programming

    The Inside the NBA broadcasters
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Review
    Those About to Die — sword-and-sandals epic is a spectacle of excess

    Anthony Hopkins stars, but this sprawling series is let down by a laboured script and too many digital effects

  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Review
    Lady in the Lake — Natalie Portman excels in dreamlike 1960s thriller

    New Apple TV+ drama cleverly contrasts two Baltimore women from different backgrounds whose lives collide

    A teenage girl with long auburn hair stands behind Natalie Portman, elegantly dressed in a pink turtleneck and striped coat, coiffed hair falling around her shoulders. They stand next to a wall covered in framed pictures.
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Review
    Hell Jumper — volunteer who rescued hundreds of Ukrainians remembered in stirring BBC doc

    This affecting tribute tells the story of Chris Parry, who was killed whilst evacuating civilians from the war zone

    A man in a military helmet smiles and looks to the camera in a selfie-style shot with a colleague, also wearing a helmet and a camouflaged vest, making the peace sign with his hand behind him.
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Interview
    Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s chief content officer: ‘If you try to make a show for everyone, you make a show for no one’

    She presides over a $17bn budget and is looking for local hits with global potential

  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    Review
    Omnivore, Apple TV+ — glossy food show is a feast for the senses

    Chef René Redzepi crosses the globe to uncover stories behind the foods we eat

    A group of men sit surrounded by a sea of red chillis, also holding plates of red chillis which they are eating
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Angela Merkel
    Angela Merkel’s imagined new career as a detective hits Italian screens

    Comedy portrays former leader, once Europe’s most powerful politician, solving murders in her retirement

    A TV still from the series ‘Miss Merkel’ of Katharina Thalbach as Angela Merkel with her dog
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Review
    The Jetty — Jenna Coleman shines in detective drama about violence against women

    She plays a detective reckoning with her own past in this thoughtful but over-ingenious small-town thriller

    Jenna Coleman in a long grey coat stands next to Archie Renaux wearing a shirt, tie and blue coat, both with their hands in their pockets. Behind them a jetty extends over a lake underneath a gloomy, cloudy sky.
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    InterviewFilm
    Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy on making a Marvel blockbuster: ‘Our movie is viewed as messianic’

    The filmmaker on helming this year’s only Disney Marvel film, fan scrutiny and his co-writing bromance with Ryan Reynolds

    A dark-haired man sits on a wooden bench, leaning forward slightly, one arm resting on his knee. He wears a dark open-neck shirt, turquoise jacket and jeans
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Review
    Brats — Andrew McCarthy searches for closure in ‘Brat Pack’ documentary

    The actor-turned-filmmaker considers the impact that a 1985 magazine article had on a group of young Hollywood stars

    Demi Moore and Andrew McCarthy, dressed casually in jeans, sit side-by-side on a garden patio surrounded by trees looking at an electronic tablet
  • 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
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    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
    Review
    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
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