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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Ellen Jones
Are any of the writers on And Just Like That (AJLT) reading this? Because I have several helpful suggestions to bring the current series of your Sex and the City reboot into 2025: Charlotte’s husband, the hitherto harmless Harry, could start pressuring her into an open marriage, involving whatever passes for wild sex parties on the Upper East Side.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Phil Harrison |Graeme Virtue |Ellen Jones |Alexi Duggins
Murder 24/79pm, BBC TwoAfter DPD driver Aurman Singh was beaten to death while on a delivery in Shrewsbury, the police assessed the shocking level of violence involved and surmised that robbery wasn’t the motive. Stretched across the week, this gripping true-crime series follows the West Mercia police as they track the suspects, make arrests, then realise the roots of the crime run much deeper than they thought.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Phil Harrison |Jack Seale |Ellen Jones |Simon Wardell
Pile Up: World’s Biggest Crash Test9pm, Channel 4Every day, thousands of people get into their cars with minimal understanding of the risks they’re taking. This documentary is a spectacular corrective to that, staging a multi-car pile-up and enlisting four drivers to remotely control real cars. The results are striking and the aftermath is fascinating as the crash scene is pored over and the extent of the (thankfully hypothetical) injuries is assessed.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Phil Harrison |Ellen Jones |Ali Catterall |Graeme Virtue |Simon Wardell
Meghan & Harry: Where Did the Money Go? 8.30pm, Channel 5 The Sussex Squad may have largely disappeared from British public life, but they still seem to arouse tabloid fury. Hence, this unnecessary documentary on the exiled couple’s financial affairs. The sources of their wealth don’t seem too mysterious: inheritance, a massive Netflix deal and a payout from the publishers representing the Sun newspaper won’t have hurt. But clearly it’s time for another stir of the pot.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Hollie Richardson |Jack Seale |Ellen Jones |Graeme Virtue
Surviving Syria’s Prisons9pm, BBC TwoWhen the reign of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad came to an end in December 2024, the image that went around the world was of political prisoners being released after years of confinement and torture. This film follows the story of two incarcerated brothers, matching it with the confessions of more than 40 former regime operatives, from intelligence officers to prison guards. They describe actions so dark and cruel, they are hard even to comprehend.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Hollie Richardson |Jack Seale |Ali Catterall |Ellen Jones |Simon Wardell
Billy Joel at the BBC8.40pm, BBC TwoIt’s basically a Billy Joel night for megafans to get lost in on BBC Two, with his 100th show at Madison Square Garden last year and a vintage recording from 1978 airing later in the evening. But first: a warm-up with these archive clips of Joel performing over the years, with the likes of Uptown Girl, Piano Man and Just the Way You Are, along with interviews and appearances.
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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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4 weeks 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 month 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.
