Barbara Ellen

5 days ago | observer.co.uk | Barbara Ellen

TV round up: Poker Face is back with the powerhouse Natasha Lyonne; parents stand trial for their kids’ crimes in a dystopian courtroom drama. Plus, a sharp update of Judy Blume’s 70s teen bible Poker Face Sky Showcase/MaxThe Trial Channel 5The Real Adolescence: Our Killer Kids Channel 5Forever NetflixThe Handmaid’s Tale Channel 4Poker Face (Sky Showcase/Sky Max), the Emmy-winning US comedy drama starring Natasha Lyonne as an amateur sleuth-cum-human lie detector, shouldn’t work.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Barbara Ellen

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3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Barbara Ellen

Just Act Normal (BBC Three) | iPlayerThe Last of Us (Sky Atlantic) |(Sky/Now) The Stolen Girl (Disney +) Government Cheese (Apple TV+)Do not miss Janice Okoh’s Just Act Normal on BBC Three. Its six episodes are adapted from Okoh’s Bruntwood award-winning 2013 stage play Three Birds, originally starring Michaela Coel.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Barbara Ellen

The Cotswolds had better steel itself: reality television is upon it. A series is planned (rumoured working title: Ladies of the Cotswolds) and it sounds posher than most. It’s made by the company behind Grand Designs and set in the “chocolate box” town of Charlbury, in the Evenlode valley. Names are being proposed for the series, such as Gabriela Peacock (nutritionist entrepreneur married to hedge fund banker David Peacock, and pals with Joan Collins and Princess Beatrice).

1 month ago | msn.com | Barbara Ellen

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