tv & radio
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Insiders reveal what TV gets right and wrong about the super-richChampagne, private jets, holiday fortresses … how do TV’s mega-wealthy stack up to reality? Our panel of experts size up shows from Billions to The Night Manager
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Top Gear's big studio audience told to forget how show used to lookBBC tweaks format to create livelier feel with larger audience and Chris Evans and Matt Le Blanc competing for best jokes -
Round and round she twists the knifeWe’re heading for a chilling climax next week. All we ask is that Sofia and Simon – two lost souls dragged into the psychopathic terrorist gang – make it out alive -
Maria Bamford’s experimental comedy does meta betterCombining meta humor, flashbacks and riffs on mental illness, Netflix’s newest show is its own mysterious animal that’s unlike anything else
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The podcasts you should listen to this weekendFrom the 11-year-old collecting books with black girl characters to the writer seeking spiritual enlightenment on a 21-day fast, here are four must-listens. Let us know what you’re listening to in the comments
what to watch
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What's on tonightWhat's on tonightFriday’s best TV: Love, Nina; Bob’s Burgers; No Such Thing As the NewsNicky Hornby brings Nina Stibbe’s book to life; the deadpan US cartoon crosses the Atlantic; and the QI elves front their own panel show
episode recaps
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Peaky BlindersPeaky BlindersPeaky Blinders recap: series three, episode three – say no to torture, Tommy!An excellent episode, with shock deaths, darkness, despair – and Tommy Shelby desperately trying not to let his monstrous side out
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Game of ThronesGame of ThronesGame of Thrones recap: season six, episode four – The Book of the StrangerSome brilliant, epic and shocking moments this week – and it looks like it’s about to kick off all over Westeros. Hold tight!
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Blue EyesBlue EyesBlue Eyes recap: episode nine – round and round she twists the knifeWe’re heading for a chilling climax next week. All we ask is that Sofia and Simon – two lost souls dragged into the psychopathic terrorist gang – make it out alive
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UndercoverUndercoverUndercover finale recap – it's a miracle!Finally, some gripping moments in the show that’s failed to live up to its great potential. But did Maya really have to overturn the US constitution?
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MarcellaMarcellaMarcella finale recap – devastatingly unsettlingMarcella goes down swinging with a bold, bracing episode featuring heists, plastic prisons – and a wall-clawing psychopath. I suspect we’ll be seeing more of Anna Friel’s tortured detective very soon
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Indian SummersIndian SummersIndian Summers finale recap – farewell, Club Simla. We raise a glass to youAlice saves Aafrin, Cynthia cashes out … and we finally get to witness the downfall of evil Mr Charlie. It’s a classy farewell from the show that piled high the feelgood factor – but never really made sense at all
reviews
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Going Forward review: this is serious comedy … just don't expect to laughJo Brand’s Nurse Kim has gone private, which doesn’t actually make life any easier. Plus: Angela Rippon undertakes a very personal investigation into The Truth About Dementia
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Dennis Skinner vs Dementia review: why singing is good for your healthEven as he faded from her memory, the veteran MP’s mum could still belt out a Gracie Fields number, he tells Jeremy Vine
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news
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ITV News' Noreena Hertz: 'I know I have a lot to learn'The new economics editor has been criticised for her political ‘leftie’ views and for her lack of broadcasting experience
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Whitney Houston’s hologram appearance on The Voice axedThe late singer’s part of a planned duet with Christina Aguilera ‘not ready to air’, says estate after online leak
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Trailer watchTrailer watch24: Legacy is already the best show of 2017. That's a guaranteeForget Kiefer-era 24. The new trailer is a masterpiece of giddy thrills, baddies, man-bags … and the climax is a tube rolling down a hill
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The X-Files reboot trailer – videoWatch the trailer for Fox’s resurrection of The X-Files, the sci-fi series that first aired in 1993
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Bowie in his own words: highlights from his TV interviews – videoDavid Bowie’s television interviews were as varied as his career, ranging from a 17-year-old ‘long hair’ advocate to a widely loved and celebrated recording artist
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A short history of death on EastEndersPeggy Mitchell is the 111th person to expire on EastEnders. From rake impalings to assisted suicides, we relive every death on the Square
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Bonkers, biting, brilliant: the late-night sketch show by Britain's best young standupsOffbeat TV comedy has been in the doldrums since the likes of The Mighty Boosh, but a strange new show called Elevenish may just change all that
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Chelsea Handler makes a grand global promise to ‘free the talkshow’In the first look at her new Netflix chat show, Handler vows to change all the rules
you may have missed
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It's Orange is the New Black – with added sex and violenceThe Spanish women’s prison drama is a thriller that starts with an inmate being boiled alive – and only ratchets up from there
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Meet Diane Morgan, the genius behind TV dimwit Philomena CunkShe’s deadpanned her way from chip shop to comedy star. Diane Morgan talks about hating standup, loving Stan Laurel – and bringing Philomena Cunk’s unique insight to Shakespeare’s First Folio
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Hedge-fund billionaires are misunderstoodAs Lewis brings his impeccable American accent back as gazillionaire Bobby Axelrod in new show Billions, he talks Tony Blair, megalomania and megabucks
Preacher It's bigger than Breaking Bad. It's a romp