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“Baby Reindeer” begins by telling viewers that “this is a true story”. Now the Netflix hit is at the centre of another real-life drama, starring an army of armchair detectives. The seven-part TV series stars comedian Richard Gadd and combines two autobiographical plays he wrote and which “premiered to rave reviews” at the Edinburgh Fringe […]

May is a diverse month on TV. You would be hard-pressed to find a theme among this month’s new releases, which include a fresh season of a sultry Regency-era historical romance, a stark look at the Holocaust and a docuseries about a popular Twitter collective.  ‘Tattooist of Auschwitz’ (May 2) This Peacock miniseries is not […]

“It would be easy for a historical murder procedural that relies on you having at least an A-level-size grasp on Tudor court intrigue to be a bit boring,” said Joel Golby in The Guardian. But “Shardlake”, the four-part Disney+ adaptation of the best-selling series of Tudor murder mystery novels by CJ Sansom, is a lot […]

Turning novels into TV shows is a practice as old as the visual medium itself. But it is relatively rare for filmmakers to tackle award-winning or short-listed works of literature, which makes Max’s adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 novel “The Sympathizer” a gamble. As opposed to more plot-driven genre writing, prestigious literature depends on […]

Truman Capote went from society darling to social pariah after publishing secrets about the glamorous women of Manhattan’s elite. “Much ink has been spilled” over the rise and fall of this “brilliant and troubled author of groundbreaking books like ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ and ‘In Cold Blood’”, said Vanity Fair. Now 40 years after his death, […]

The apocalyptic setting of Amazon’s new TV adaptation of the video game “Fallout” makes comparisons to 2023’s mega hit “The Last of Us” inevitable. But not only are the “two shows tonally distinct from each other, they’re also very differently structured”, said The Independent. The new series from “Westworld” showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner […]

The host of “University Challenge”, Amol Rajan, is to change the way he pronounces the letter “H” after complaints from viewers that he was doing it incorrectly during his first series presenting the BBC quiz. Rajan found himself at the centre of a linguistic storm when he was criticised by viewers for saying “haitch” rather […]

April showers might bring May flowers, but April TV brings intrigue, murder and noir. This month’s new releases include several gritty book-to-screen adaptations, from a new take on “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” to an espionage thriller based on a Pulitzer-winning book, to a harrowing revisit of a true crime from the ’90s. ‘Ripley’ (April 4) […]

Anyone who has seen the 1999 film “The Talented Mr Ripley” will be “astonished” at how a new Netflix adaption “transforms the same story into something completely different”, said movie critic Caryn James. The big-screen take on Patricia Highsmith’s novel secured a string of awards, but the streaming giant’s new eight-part series is “just as […]

A new BBC documentary tells how in 1972 the Irish Republican Army (IRA) allowed an American TV crew to film the inner workings of “Europe’s deadliest guerrilla force”. It’s “The Troubles meets a Tom Clancy novel”, wrote Ed Power in The Irish Times. The background In 1972, during the “darkest days of the conflict in the […]