Barbara Ellen

4 days ago | msn.com | Barbara Ellen

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

4 days 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.

5 days 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 week ago | msn.com | Barbara Ellen

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Barbara Ellen

Black Mirror (Netflix)Doctor Who (BBC One) | iPlayerWhat They Found (BBC Two) | iPlayerSimon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz (BBC Two) | iPlayerReunion (BBC One) | iPlayerLooming back for a seventh series, what has Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones’s Black Mirror become? Streamer-binge futuristic dystopia for doom-scrolling millennials? Whatever it is, can it compete with the crazed reality of the Trump era?