Kate Abbott

London

TV Editor at The Guardian

@guardian TV editor, 90s r&b enthusiast

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The best TV of 2025 in the UK so far

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kate Abbott |Alexi Duggins |Hollie Richardson |Phil Harrison |Matthew Pearce

AdolescenceNetflixThe first streaming show ever to top UK charts. The second biggest English language Netflix series of all time. The most tense scene of an actor retching at the thought of a child eating a cheese sandwich. Such are the lists of firsts for this breathtaking drama about toxic masculinity in teens that it’s nigh on impossible to overpraise it.
saving forests from climate change

1 month ago | prismreports.org | Kate Abbott

In North Adams, a recovering mill town in Massachusetts, a stream runs through white pines that are 90 years old. Michaela Lapointe enjoys listening to the sound of the water. Once, she saw the quick, sleek movement of an otter diving a few feet away. For eight years, she has walked the Bellows Pipe Trail almost daily. She first came to the woods at a difficult time, when her father was dying of cancer. Now she comes to remember him.
Stalking saga Baby Reindeer leads 2025 TV Bafta nominations

Mar 27, 2025 | theguardian.com | Kate Abbott

Baby Reindeer, Richard Gadd’s groundbreaking semi-autobiographical saga about his years of abuse and being stalked, has been nominated for the most 2025 TV Bafta awards. The Netflix drama – which claimed to be a true story, prompting the woman who allegedly inspired the stalker character to sue for defamation – leads the pack with eight nominations, including a leading actor nod for Gadd as the traumatised comic Donny Dunn.
The 50 must-see TV shows for 2025

Jan 2, 2025 | theguardian.com | Stuart Heritage |Kate Abbott

Missing YouThanks to shows including last year’s Fool Me Once, Harlan Coben has become one of Netflix’s biggest ever hitters. Missing You, in which a police detective’s fiance goes missing, only to turn up on a dating app, is almost certain to continue this streak. Now on NetflixPlaying NiceWhat would you do if you found out your child wasn’t related to you after all?
‘Scream-at-the-screen stupid’ - the TV letdowns of the year

Dec 30, 2024 | theguardian.com | Kate Abbott |Alexi Duggins |Stuart Heritage |Hollie Richardson

A Very Royal ScandalYes, the Prince Andrew/Emily Maitlis head-to-head was the TV moment of 2019, and it is unlikely that any television interview will ever be as jawdropping again. But why did we need not just one but two screen recreations of it this year? This one came with Maitlis’s blessing, but sadly already existed in the shadow of Netflix’s Scoop. Despite excellent turns by Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson, it never felt anything other than slight and superfluous.
‘What a gift!’ The best television you never watched in 2024

Dec 26, 2024 | theguardian.com | Hollie Richardson |Alexi Duggins |Kate Abbott |Stuart Heritage

SlipThe premise sells itself: a thirtysomething woman is transported to a parallel life each time she orgasms. But, actually, this lends itself surprisingly well to digging deep into millennial frustrations, anxiety and ennui. Zoe Lister-Jones plays Mae Cannon, a New York art curator who feels stuck in a rut with her life – specifically with her longterm husband.
the must-see TV for autumn 2024

Aug 24, 2024 | msn.com | Alexi Duggins |Kate Abbott |Stuart Heritage

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the must-see TV for autumn 2024

Aug 23, 2024 | msn.com | Alexi Duggins |Kate Abbott |Stuart Heritage

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Rivals to Slow Horses: the must-see TV for autumn 2024

Aug 23, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Alexi Duggins |Kate Abbott |Stuart Heritage

Sophie Willan’s brilliant sitcom returns for a second series. The first was basically miraculous, taking a superficially bleak premise – a meditation on Britain’s care system during the age of austerity – and making it rich and hilarious in equal measure. If the follow-up is even half as good, it’s going to be very special indeed. • BBC Two, date TBCThe best character in Motherland was always the vain, grasping, status-obsessed Amanda, played by Lucy Punch.
Glorya Kaufman School of Dance is ... Loving well

Jul 30, 2024 | btwberkshires.com | Kate Abbott

The movement opens, grounded and glad. Janae Holster leaps into a long extension, holding their body level with the earth and stretching outward, her center of balance rooted deep enough to reach into space. A voice is singing, ‘Loving loving loving … Am I loving well?’ The company circle, relaxed and confident and vivid in translucent orange vests lose enough that once in a spin the cloth surrounds a dancer’s head and shoulders and drifts free again in the wind.