Is this the rudest man on TV?
No one is spared in this late night offering that makes Seth, the Jimmys and Stephen Colbert look like boring nerds.
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Starstruck is back and giddier than ever
If we learned anything from Flight of the Conchords, it’s that taking New Zealanders out of New Zealand is a punchline in itself.
We’re going to need distractions this September
Netflix gives us a break from the referendum with One Piece – the most buttered up, sugared-up, pirate family adventure you can imagine.
Watch this and you’ll never eat supermarket chicken again
This eco-horror thriller is confronting and scary and will have you thinking twice about what you buy at your local supermarket.
Royals ordered changes to Suits script, creator reveals
Buckingham palace made ‘irritating’ objections to the show’s script in the early days of Meghan Markle’s relationship with Prince Harry.
Netflix win for Meghan: Suits comes back into fashion
After a bruising year, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex may be relieved to learn a TV show featuring Meghan was America’s most popular – 12-year-old legal drama Suits.
Could Kanye be a genius and a jerk?
When Kanye West’s mother died, so too did the parts of him that made him an international icon. The jury is still out whether Ye can stage a comeback, both politically and musically.
‘Broadcasters cowards for fear of causing offence’
Documentary filmmaker says organisations such as the BBC need to remain bold in the face of anything-goes extremists able to build online audiences
Old age, deception and murder most horrid
The Sixth Commandment is the latest respectfully made story of not only murder but the way that age so often defines and diminishes people.
‘Star Wars heaven’: Ahsoka is here
Ahsoka, the latest offering in the Star Wars saga, is here. But is the spin-off from The Mandalorian one for true believers only?
Art and philosophy; the cult of a fighter
The legendary actor and martial arts star – whose breakthrough film, Enter the Dragon, came out 50 years ago – saw himself as a poet-philosopher.
Special Ops: Lioness, controversial action drama hits its target
Taylor Sheridan’s military thriller sees a covert CIA operation use women to infiltrate a terrorist’s social circle in Afghanistan.
‘Self-proclaimed sporting capital … but refuses the Comm Games’
Kids’ entertainer turned comedian Jimmy Rees on what makes his home state of Victoria so special, and his Sydney Opera House wardrobe malfunction.
‘This show will have you thanking God you’re not American’
Painkiller proves the fascination and horror the US opioid crisis induces is as strong as ever. But you might need sedating after watching Matthew Broderick ham it up this badly.
The Yorkshireman who refused to ‘go native’
Michael Parkinson hated snobbery about his background, as he revealed in a meeting of two Yorkshiremen over lobster thermidor and a perfectly chilled Chablis Premier Cru ’94.
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The OC remains a Californian classic
I am not shy to admit that I love trash – television that is – and it turns out the classics are sustainable elements of entertainment.
Gunslinging hero delivers justice on mean streets of Detroit
Crime novelist Elmore Leonard’s US Marshal Raylan Givens is granted permission to inhabit another TV series. The results are stellar in Justified: City Primeval.
Porn stars and pork miso soup
Midnight Diner is the ultimate comfort viewing. Part food show, part melodrama, this Japanese anthology series takes place in a late-night restaurant, open only from midnight till 7am.
Star Trek as you’ve never seen it
Since childhood Anson Mount was driven to take his place in the captain’s chair.
The singular life of Sinead O’Connor
The documentary, Nothing Compares, which charts the meteoric rise of a young, abused Dublin woman who was thrust into stardom as swiftly as she was condemned to exile.
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