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3 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Hollie Richardson |Ali Catterall |Phil Harrison |Ellen Jones |Simon Wardell
Little Simz: Live at the BBC11.40pm, BBC OneBefore she sets off on a European tour and curates this year’s Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre in London, multi-award-winning Little Simz gives us a taster with this electrifying session at Maida Vale Studios. She will perform six hits – some from her new album, Lotus, along with a few picks from her back catalogue – and chat with Clara Amfo about her struggles to make the album, collaborations and what’s ahead.
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5 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Graeme Virtue |Hollie Richardson |Jack Seale |Ellen Jones
Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius9pm, BBC TwoAt this point in the documentary series, Austen has written Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility plus Northanger Abbey – but nobody outside her family has read them. This chapter shows her journey to getting them published. But just after she gets good news, her father becomes sick and she faces losing her biggest cheerleader.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Hollie Richardson |Graeme Virtue |Ellen Jones |Phil Harrison |Simon Wardell
The Black Forest Murders9pm, BBC FourThis German drama is based on the real police investigation into two murders in 2016. When a woman goes missing on her run, a local search potentially interferes with evidence. Her body is found 72 hours later, and detectives Barbara Kramer and Thomas Riedle get on the case. But then another woman cycling home is killed. Are they connected to a murder committed four years earlier?
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Hollie Richardson |Ali Catterall |Graeme Virtue |Ellen Jones |Simon Wardell
The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone9pm, BBC Two“A cocktail of fame, lies, money, politics … and a national emergency.” In this two-part documentary, Laura Kuenssberg and other insiders tell the story of Baroness Mone of Mayfair – the lingerie entrepreneur who grew up in poverty in Glasgow, launched the Ultimo push-up bra, then went on to become a peer in the House of Lords and get embroiled in one of Covid’s biggest and most expensive scandals.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Hollie Richardson |Ellen Jones |Jack Seale |Phil Harrison
Ellie Simmonds: Should I Have Children? 9pm, ITV1Paralympian Ellie Simmonds won a Bafta for her 2023 documentary, Finding My Secret Family, in which she sought out the birth mother who gave her up for adoption two weeks after she was born with dwarfism. In this equally personal follow-up, she looks at the bigger picture of raising children with a disability – and probes her own decision to start a family.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Hollie Richardson |Jack Seale |Ali Catterall |Ellen Jones |Matthew Pearce |Simon Wardell
Death Valley8.15pm, BBC OneTimothy Spall has a hoot as grumpy retired actor John Chapel, who played popular TV detective “Caesar” and is called on to help with a real-life case. In this opener, talkative Welsh detective Janie Mallowan (Gwyneth Keyworth) – a big fan of the show – delightedly asks for John’s help when his neighbour is murdered in his home. From there, the unlikely duo continue to crack a new case every week. A good one for fans of last year’s Ludwig.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Hollie Richardson |Jack Seale |Ellen Jones |Graeme Virtue |Simon Wardell
The Last Anniversary9pm, BBC OneCold glass of Chardonnay and wraparound cashmere cardy at the ready: it’s another bingeable Liane Moriarty adaptation about wealthy women and family secrets, executive produced by Nicole Kidman. Sophie (Teresa Palmer) is a journalist who inherits the property of an ex-boyfriend’s relative. Off she heads to Scribbly Gum Island, where the mystery reason behind why Connie (Angela Punch McGregor) chose her and not one of the women in her own family slowly unravels.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Simon Wardell |Phil Harrison |Alexi Duggins |Graeme Virtue |Ellen Jones
Inside Our Dyslexic Minds9pm, BBC Two“Like a slippery fish you’re trying to grab hold of. And you can’t.” This is how Suiki describes her dyslexia as Chris Packham’s two-part series concludes. He has a particular connection to this form of neurodivergence as his stepdaughter, Megan, has dyslexia. But what becomes clear is that the experience of dyslexia affects people in different ways.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Phil Harrison |Ali Catterall |Ellen Jones |Simon Wardell
The Bombing of Pan Am 103Sunday, 9pm, BBC OneFollowing Sky’s Lockerbie but with a wider focus, this drama is a moving exploration of the terrorist attack that killed 270 people on 21 December 1988. The crash and its immediate aftermath is harrowingly well realised – there’s minimal dialogue, just the same stunned, horrified incomprehension that the first responders must have felt. The atrocity soon becomes a political football as British and US law enforcement bodies have to work together.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Hollie Richardson |Ellen Jones |Graeme Virtue |Phil Harrison |Simon Wardell
Alison Hammond’s Big Weekend8.30pm, BBC OneAlison Hammond is a pro at getting laughs out of celebrities, but this new series – in which she spends a weekend at a star’s house – proves she’s a brilliant interviewer too. Who else could get away with asking Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards if she needs to take a pregnancy test? The laughs are always there, but there’s depth too when Edwards talks about anxiety and panic attacks.
