• 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

  
• 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
  Film

  Bafta to reward ‘human creativity’ as film and TV grapples with AI

  Chair Sara Putt acknowledges concerns in production sector about technology taking jobs

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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’

  
• 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

  
• 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