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  • February 23 2026
    Review
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    ‘The Tony Blair Story’ gives the ex-PM a grilling; ‘Inside America’s Next Top Model’ revisits the reality TV contest; ‘The Museum of Innocence’ adapts Orhan Pamuk’s novel — plus ‘How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’, ‘Love Story’ and spy thriller ‘Betrayal’. Reviews by Rebecca Nicholson
  • February 21 2026
    Review
    The BBC’s Walsh Sisters adaptation takes the bite out of Marian Keyes’ novels
    The Dublin-set series is cosy and mesmerisingly slow — save for some frenetic cliffhangers
    Five women dressed in black sit or lie on a bed, looking concerned or thoughtful
  • February 20 2026
    Economic statistics
    The ONS wants Auntie to know that field agent impersonation isn’t clever, cool or funny
    Knock knock…
  • February 19 2026
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    Bafta to reward ‘human creativity’ as film and TV grapples with AI
    Chair Sara Putt acknowledges concerns in production sector about technology taking jobs
    Sara Putt stands in front of a table with multiple Bafta trophy masks.
  • February 18 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence becomes an awkward Netflix series
    The Nobel-winner’s 2008 novel about a man’s obsessive affair with a much younger women gets lost in translation
    A woman in a peach dress and a man in a white shirt and tie face each other indoors, holding opposite ends of a plaid umbrella.
  • February 17 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Tony Blair Story — former PM gets a grilling in a gripping docuseries
    Channel 4’s astute three-parter examines his domestic legacy and Iraq, with candid contributions from Jeremy Corbyn — and Cherie Blair
  • February 17 2026
    CBS Broadcasting
    CBS turmoil deepens as Cooper quits and Colbert defies lawyers
    Journalist’s exit comes as Bari Weiss seeks to revive Paramount-owned television network
    Anderson Cooper walks outdoors, holding a folder and wearing a name badge.
  • February 16 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Inside America’s Next Top Model — a grisly reckoning with 2000s reality television
    A Netflix documentary on the controversial modelling competition suggests its creators have learnt little
    Mercedes Scelba-Shorte, Jay Manuel, Tyra Banks, and Yoanna House, partially hidden, smiling and laughing with two shirtless male models in the foreground.
  • February 15 2026
    Northern Ireland
    How to get to TV heaven? From Belfast
    Lisa McGee’s new Netflix drama comes as Northern Ireland enjoys a film and TV boom
    Lisa McGee stands indoors, smiling, with one hand in her pocket, wearing a blue blouse with ruffled sleeves and a burgundy vest.
  • February 14 2026
    ObituaryJames Van Der Beek
    James Van Der Beek, actor, 1977-2026
    As the star of the television drama ‘Dawson’s Creek’, he captured the hearts of teenagers the world over
    James Van Der Beek in 2018. With his tousled golden hair and Disney prince looks, the actor rocketed to heart-throb status
  • February 13 2026
    ReviewTheatre
    Yes Minister update I’m Sorry, Prime Minister shows that politics may be beyond a joke
    Stage version of the beloved sitcom relies on jokes about social progress and cancel culture rather than Westminster machinations
    A scene from a stage play in which a middle-aged man with grey hair and in shirt and tie talks to an elderly man with white hair seated next to him on a sofa placed behind a coffee table with cups and a cafetiere.
  • February 12 2026
    Economic statistics
    The ONS vs Industry
    The stats agency / prestige television beef we didn’t know we needed
  • February 12 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Love Story — JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette saga is a glossy and gossipy US version of The Crown
    Ryan Murphy turns his gaze on the Kennedys and their place at the heart of American society
    Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Paul Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr. share a slow dance under string lights and paper lanterns.
  • February 12 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    How to Get to Heaven from Belfast — Derry Girls creator returns with a wild and gag-laden Netflix show
    Lisa McGee’s genre-defying Netflix series centres on three friends who become embroiled in a murder mystery
    Sinead Keenan as Robyn, Caoilfhionn Dunne as Dara, and Roisin Gallagher as Saoirse crouch together near stacked luggage, appearing tense or conspiratorial.
  • February 12 2026
    Interview
    How Walter Iuzzolino sold the UK on subtitled TV
    The brains behind Channel 4’s Walter Presents on tracking down the world’s best shows — and moving to a new city each year
    Montage of TV stills.
  • February 11 2026
    Turkish economy
    High inflation punctures Turkey’s TV soap bubble
    Dizi television dramas popular across the world are a parable of country’s broader economic woes
    A man in a suit and a woman in a blue dress hold hands while walking through a crowded street, surrounded by bystanders and market stalls.
  • February 10 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Betrayal — Romola Garai and Shaun Evans bring star quality to new spy thriller
    The ITV series about an intelligence officer focuses on the emotional cost of secrecy
    Shaun Evans as John Hughes and Romola Garai as Claire sit in armchairs, engaged in conversation.
  • February 9 2026
    Media
    Warner streaming boss defends HBO Max UK launch ahead of Netflix takeover
    JB Perrette claims ‘last mover advantage’ in crowded market ahead of its debut next month
    Teyana Taylor as Perfidia in ‘One Battle After Another’
  • February 9 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Small Prophets — Mackenzie Crook’s new BBC series is unexpected and very charming
    The ‘Detectorists’ creator returns with an idiosyncratic comedy with a folkloric twist
    Michael (Pearce Quigley) and Kacey (Lauren Patel) clink bottles while sitting outdoors by a fire pit, surrounded by greenery.
  • February 7 2026
    Rebecca Watson
    The treacherous business of screen-to-stage
    A theatrical adaptation for ‘The Traitors’ shows how audiences are being kept in the comfort zone
    A person in a red cloak holds a lit lantern in a dark, misty forest at night.
  • February 7 2026
    Film
    ‘Handmade, instinctive, intimate’: behind the scenes at Aardman animation studio
    At 50, the company behind stop-motion superstars Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep is the subject of a major exhibition in London’s Young V&A
    Wallace and Gromit models stand on a patterned floor inside the Young V&A, with a "DESIGN" sign visible in the background.
  • February 6 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Lord of the Flies — a beautiful, haunting and confusing adaptation
    Written by Jack Thorne, the first TV take on William Golding’s classic prizes artfulness over clarity
    Roger (Thomas Connor), Ralph (Winston Sawyers), Piggy (David McKenna), Littlun (Lake Coleman), and Simon (Ike Talbut) gather with other boys on a beach, some seated and some standing.
  • January 30 2026
    Lunch with the FT
    Actor Riz Ahmed: ‘I want to tell my own stories’
    The Oscar winner on the liberating power of film, what Hollywood still has to offer — and realising his 20-year ambition to produce and star in his own ‘Hamlet’
    An illustration of a man wearing a black jacket and cap
  • January 29 2026
    Review
    Bridgerton series 4 — yet more forbidden love, finery and heavy breathing
    The rumour mills of Regency romance keep on churning as the Netflix hit continues to stick to what it knows
    Luke Thompson as Benedict Bridgerton lounges in a leather armchair, adjusting his collar with a relaxed expression.
  • January 28 2026
    Digital media
    Google scuppers service comparing YouTube viewing with TV and streaming audiences
    ‘Cease and desist’ letter forces Barb and Kantar Media to halt measurement service just months after its launch
    MrBeast waves and smiles onstage at YouTube Brandcast 2025, standing beside a large illustrated logo.
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