Campaigner and broadcaster Deborah James has said it should be made ‘loud and clear’ that cancer treatment is a priority amid the Covid-19 pandemic – and has revealed she’s now had her vaccine. The mother-of-two, 38, was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in December 2020 when she was 35, and given five years to … Read more
The Terror BBC2, Wednesday Rating: McDonald & Dodds ITV, Sunday Rating: Friends, where are we this week with our television? The second episode of Bloodlands had THAT ending. Unforgotten’s latest cold case is warming up deliciously (this is the show I most look forward to all week). Gregg Wallace has taken to sporting a pink … Read more
Bloodlands BBC1, Sunday Rating: Unforgotten ITV, Monday Rating: A new thriller and the return of an established one this week, and I know which I preferred. (Big clue: the stars I’ve awarded. Sorry for that spoiler.) The new thriller is Bloodlands, a four-parter by first-time writer Chris Brandon. He sent his script to the BBC … Read more
Deborah Knight pays a touching tribute to murdered mother Hannah Clarke on the one-year anniversary of her tragic death By Zoe Burrell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:38 GMT, 20 February 2021 | Updated: 05:38 GMT, 20 February 2021 On Friday, Deborah Knight paid tribute to murdered mother Hannah Clarke. While filling in for host … Read more
Cornwall And Devon Walks With Julia Bradbury ITV, Wednesday Rating: Darcey Bussell’s Wild Coasts Of Scotland More4, Monday Rating: Joanna Lumley’s Home Sweet Home: Travels In My Own Land ITV, Tuesday Rating: Extraordinary Escapes With Sandi Toksvig Channel 4, Wednesday Rating: Television has a monstrous appetite for new programming, but how do you feed the … Read more
The Drowning Channel 5, Monday-Thursday Rating: The Investigation BBC2, Friday Rating: And so on to what feels like the 768th missing-child thriller of recent years, and this time it’s The Drowning. It starred Jill Halfpenny as Jodie, whose four-year-old son, Tom, drowned a decade ago during a family picnic at a park lake but no … Read more
Deborah Copaken, a writer on Netflix’s hit series Emily In Paris, penned a powerful op-ed about I May Destroy not earning a single Golden Globe nomination. Despite her own series picking up two major nods, the 54-year-old author and photojournalist found the British drama’s snub unfathomable. ‘Now, am I excited that Emily In Paris was nominated,’ Copaken wrote in a Guardian … Read more
Katie Price: Harvey And Me BBC1, Monday Rating: Back Channel 4, Thursday Rating: I wonder what you think of when you think of Katie Price, aka ‘Jordan’. A lot of things, probably. The boob jobs. The hair extensions. The self-marketing. The branded bed linen that I once saw on sale at Matalan. The marriages that … Read more
Finding Alice ITV, Sunday Rating: It’s A Sin Channel 4, Friday Rating: The opening episode of Finding Alice began with Alice (Keeley Hawes) being shown around her new home. That is, the multi-million-pound ‘smart’ house her husband Harry (Jason Merrells) has designed and built, although why she has never seen it before, not even while it … Read more
The Great is a period romp based on the life of Catherine the Great, but it is not your average period romp as it is lavishly filthy, wonderfully funny, snappily paced, savagely witty and totally modern.