Television

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  Piglets review: The police needn’t have got upset over the title – this unfunny show is harmless

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  Today’s top TV and streaming picks: The Great British Sewing Bee final, Downsizing and Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam

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  BBC director general addresses Strictly Come Dancing allegations

• The Battle To Beat Malaria review: Science meets compassion in the quest to find a vaccine

  

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  ‘Lady in the Lake’ review: Natalie Portman’s TV debut sinks under its dead weight

  

• I thought ‘long and hard’ before making Strictly complaint, says Amanda Abbington

  

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  James Corden reveals Gavin And Stacey script has been finished

  

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  GAAGO: Counties with highest number of games played behind paywall are revealed

  

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  Educating Yorkshire to return to Channel 4

  

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  Best weekend TV: Two women’s lives collide in Lady in the Lake – a murder mystery set in the 1960s

  

• Coronation Street to air episode about MND dedicated to Rob Burrow

  

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  Television reviews: Misogyny? Check. Dark secrets? Check. Clichés? Check. That’s the modern TV crime drama for you

  

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  Those About to Die review: Anthony Hopkins reigns supreme in an Ancient Rome as silly and decadent as the present day

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  It’s not Strictly Come Dancing’s ‘training methods’ that are the problem – it’s the men

• Review Magazine

  Worst House on the Street review: ‘Like every property expert on television, Stuart and Scarlette are extremely strict and laugh a lot at their own jokes’

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  Those About to Die review: ‘This Roman epic is cliched and cheesy, but that didn’t stop me having a good time watching it’

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  Daley: Olympic Superstar review – Britain’s greatest athlete, Thompson, has spent too long in the shadows

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  Zara McDermott breaks silence on Graziano Di Prima’s Strictly exit and reveals ‘victim shaming’ fears

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  The Locals review: Misjudged RTÉ documentary on local elections gives too much airtime to the toxic far-right

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  Let’s hope Miss Merkel will soon be solving mysteries on Irish TV screens

• US

  ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ and ‘Heathers’ actress Shannen Doherty, who detailed her struggles against breast cancer, dies at the age of 53

• EastEnders takes home seven gongs at new soap awards show

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  Ryan Coogan: Meet the Rees-Moggs on reality TV? Don’t mind if I do…

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  ‘I can’t stomach any more dark, disturbing TV – why I’m over the misery watch’

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  16 top TV picks to watch this weekend (with a generous helping of sporting action)

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  Netflix’s Love Is Blind UK to air next month

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  Faye Dunaway is reflective in extraordinary doc about her tumultuous life and career

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  RTÉ Investigates: Girls in Green did women in Ireland a great service

• ALF child star Benji Gregory ‘dies from heatstroke’ at 46 after falling asleep in car

• Germany

  Angela Merkel reimagined as small-town detective in German TV show

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  Sunny review: Sinister AI is nothing new but it’s what this Apple TV+ series does with it that counts

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  Empire's list of the 100 best TV shows of all time ignores huge chunks of television history