Tv & radio
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The Last Week Tonight host criticised the network for promoting unconfirmed conspiracy theories over the spate of pipe bombs
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3 out of 5 stars.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina review – where has the magic gone?
3 out of 5 stars.The saccharine series from the 90s has been rebooted for darker times, but this teenage witch fails to cast a spell -
Late-night hosts discussed the president’s reaction to the explosive devices sent to his enemies and his many false claims before the midterms -
From Killing Eve to Mindhunter and Narcos, there’s a trend in TV for colossal captions. It’s a confident style choice that nods to noir fiction -
In the intricately terrifying Netflix adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s classic novel, a family is torn apart by the supernatural but also each other
What to watch
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3 out of 5 stars.
The folly of the US justice system is laid bare as investigations persist into a gruesome crime puzzle that speaks to our times -
2 out of 5 stars.
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4 out of 5 stars.
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The Good Place season 3 review – a fiendishly smart sitcom salvation
4 out of 5 stars.
Episode recaps
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One of the show’s most divisive characters meets their fate as the penultimate episode ups the stakes and violence comes to town -
The rapper has dominated the season – it would have been fitting to end on Paul Simon and Bridge Over Troubled Water -
The Last Week Tonight host criticised the network for promoting unconfirmed conspiracy theories over the spate of pipe bombs
Videos
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Life imitates art … sort of. Meghan Markle has made her final appearance in the legal drama Suits, one month before her wedding to Prince Harry
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The actor debuts his take on Trump's former chief strategist in an interview alongside Fred Armisen as the Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff
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Former US president talks dad dancing on Letterman's new chat show, explaining that the key is 'staying in the pocket'
Talking points
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By promoting its shows with bit-part black actors, Netflix is distorting the truth about Hollywood diversity, writes the Guardian’s TV editor, Lanre Bakare -
In a powerful new documentary, film-makers follow the lives of Nigerian girls freed after being kidnapped by Boko Haram -
History is littered with failed rehashes of shows that tried to cross the Atlantic. But, just occasionally, lighting strikes twice
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Season one of The Good Place was fantastic, season two was awe-inspiring. How could season three top it? Short answer: it hasn’t -
The retooled sitcom brings back the cast that surrounded the disgraced star for a competently realized, if formula-reliant look at suburban life without a matriarch -
The glorious cat-and-mouse thriller subverted decades of spy-thriller tropes. Here are its archetype-slaying moments
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Stephen King says The Haunting of Hill House is ‘nearly perfect’. But can a Netflix TV adaptation capture Shirley Jackson’s dark visions of duty and domesticity?
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The actor and former teen TV star talks Instagram fame, coming to terms with trauma and how she became Hollywood’s most powerful BFF -
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