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Grayson Perry’s Big American Road Trip

2020-09-24T08:59:00Z

“This was more than just another celebrity travelogue”
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The Great British Bake Off

2020-09-23T09:19:00Z

“This was a reliably wonderful return: with the news that we might be inside for a long while yet, it is a joy to have this show back for an hour each week.”
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Ghosts

2020-09-22T08:56:00Z

“It pulls off the rare trick of appealing to both children and adults.”
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Us

2020-09-21T09:21:00Z

“The first episode did not disappoint, capturing the novel’s winning blend of poignancy and wry humour”
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The Real ‘Des’: The Story of Dennis Nilsen

2020-09-18T08:39:00Z

“I reckon that the droning narcissist would have hated this film, which is gratifying. For here we learnt what a truly crushing bore he was”
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Lost at Sea: My Dad’s Last Journey

2020-09-17T08:50:00Z

“This moving, intense film wasn’t really about rowing at all.”
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The Third Day

2020-09-16T09:53:00Z

“This folk-horror puzzler is like watching a video game being played out.”
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Des

2020-09-15T08:59:00Z

“David Tennant portrayed serial killer Dennis Nilsen in what was a breathtaking and career-defining performance”
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The Singapore Grip

2020-09-14T08:55:00Z

“ITV’s adaptation of JG Farrell’s satirical novel is sumptuous, but tonally strange, knowingly overacted and hammed up to big band music”
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The Black Full Monty

2020-09-11T09:15:00Z

“This was a fun and surprisingly sweet programme”
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Dog Tales: The Making of Man’s Best Friend

2020-09-09T09:14:00Z

“You could lean in if interested in the nuts and bolts of pet evolution. Or turn down the sound and ‘ooh’ and ‘aaah’ at the fur balls.”
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Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border

2020-09-08T09:20:00Z

“The series felt like an awkward combination of a Mexican travelogue and a hard-hitting film on the issue of migration and the Mexican border”
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Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge

2020-09-07T09:10:00Z

“Few people have a back catalogue as cracking as Theroux’s and it was an hour well spent”
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Council House Britain

2020-09-04T09:28:00Z

“Beneath the heartwarming tales and amusing tales of cockroaches and eccentrics were enough stories to keep Ken Loach in business for a decade”
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Two Weeks to Live

2020-09-03T09:06:00Z

“The episodes require a bit of leaning back and letting it all simply exist, but I admired its dedication to a zippy pace”
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All Creatures Great and Small

2020-09-02T08:59:00Z

”With its wild landscapes, drystone walls, steam trains and vintage cars, it was family-friendly comfort-viewing. A soothing balm in febrile times”
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Me and My Penis

2020-09-01T08:56:00Z

“This tender and thoughtful programme should be added to the sex education curriculum”
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I Hate Suzie

2020-08-28T08:40:00Z

“A glorious mess of ideas, a potent, fizzing monument to the creativity of its makers”
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Peter: The Human Cyborg

2020-08-27T08:52:00Z

“It is a rare compliment these days to complain of a documentary being too brief. But this was an exception”
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The Truth About Cosmetic Treatments

2020-08-26T08:50:00Z

“You have seen at least 80% of this programme in some shape or form at least 1,000 times before”