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The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) on board the Tardis in the new season of Doctor Who.

The Doctor has a new companion – and they’re making history in the Tardis

With Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu at the helm, this season marks the first time the blue police box will be occupied entirely by people of colour.

  • Benji Wilson

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Meghann Fahy in Drop.

Drop: As suspenseful as anything I’ve experienced in a cinema for ages

Meghann Fahy plays a woman having the worst night of her life as a series of mysterious threatening phone messages wrecks a first date.

  • Jake Wilson
John Hamm plays Andrew Cooper, who starts robbing the rich when he’s fired from his Wall Street job.

‘I’ve never been at a better place’: Jon Hamm is ready to take charge again

After almost a decade on Mad Men, it’s taken the 54-year-old another 10 years to feel like a leading man again.

  • Louise Rugendyke
Comedian Claire Hooper jokes that she is “mum and dad” while ruling the roost in her new game show Claire Hooper’s House of Games.

It’s a hit in the UK, now the cult game show is coming to the ABC

Stand-up comedian Claire Hooper will step into Richard Osman’s shoes to host the local version of House of Games.

  • Nicole Elphick
Jacob Elordi as Dorrigo Evans and Olivia DeJonge as Ella in The Narrow Road to the Deep North. 

Horror and heartbreak is real in the devastating Narrow Road to the Deep North

With a tender performance from Jacob Elordi at its centre, this is perhaps one of the most beautiful and harrowing war stories I have seen. 

  • Louise Rugendyke
Michael B. Jordan and Michael B. Jordan (playing identical twins) and Omar Benson Miller in Sinners.

Historic bluesfest or semi-comic bloodfest? Sinners is both

Marvel director Ryan Coogler goes Southern Gothic in this tale of identical twins and an Irish vampire with a taste for the blues.

  • Sandra Hall
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Jean Smart as Deborah Vance.

It’s been lauded as one of the best comedies, but Hacks is about to get darker

The third season ended on a note so toxic it surprised even its co-stars Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder.

  • Michael Idato
John Mulaney has twisted traditional late-night shows with Netflix’s Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney.

Can John Mulaney’s absurdist Netflix masterpiece save late-night TV?

If late-night TV is a sinking ship, this wild show is keeping the party going all the way down.

  • Patrick Lenton
Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Aiden (John Corbett) in And Just Like That ...

And Just Like That … Carrie and Aiden have reunited (again) for season three

The cat has made the cut, but will Aiden last the distance in the new season of the Sex and the City reboot?

  • Louise Rugendyke
Luke Carroll (left) and Luke Arnold in Scrublands’ second season.

‘Shame and trauma’: Why this murder mystery series just got a whole lot darker

The second season of Scrublands is a lot more personal, and that means a whole new challenge for star Luke Arnold.

  • Louise Rugendyke

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