London Kills Rating: Putin: A Russian Spy Story Rating: Yikes, the gaffer isn’t looking too good. DI Bradford was sweaty, shiny-skinned and unshaven, as London Kills (BBC1) returned. The gruff detective has a sackful of secrets in his private life — is coronavirus one of them? His teenage daughter Carly discovered the truth on an … Read more
Belgravia Rating: Celebrity Murder Mystery Rating: How outdated it all seems, the emphasis on good breeding and the reverence shown to sons and nephews of earls in the Victorian London of Belgravia (ITV). It wouldn’t happen now, eh? But the aristocracy of tellyland is just as convoluted and interwoven as the family trees in Burke’s … Read more
Hilary Duff beams cradling baby Banks as she and Matthew Koma get visit from their wedding officiant Christopher Mintz-Plasse By Sameer Suri For Dailymail.com Published: 04:29 BST, 29 March 2020 | Updated: 04:29 BST, 29 March 2020 Hilary Duff beamed while carrying her one-year-old daughter Banks as she and her hubby Matthew Koma got a … Read more
Born To Be Different Rating: The Pet Talent Agency Rating: Last night at 8pm the country stood to applaud the nurses, doctors and other tireless workers of our NHS. We don’t take the time to appreciate them enough. But there’s another group of people, around six million of them though they are too often treated … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Our Girl’s Kabul kit… make-up as thick as a bulletproof vest! By Christopher Stevens for Daily Mail Published: 01:57 GMT, 25 March 2020 | Updated: 01:57 GMT, 25 March 2020 Our Girl (BBC One) Rating: Back in Time for the Corner Shop (BBC Two) Rating: Gone Girl returned to … Read more
Putin: A Russian Spy Story Rating: Toxic Town: The Corby Poisonings Rating: Young Vladimir Putin faces the TV cameras for an interview in 1992, as chief political fixer to the St Petersburg mayor. He’s a slight figure, even boyish, though boyish like Damien (the devil-child) from the Omen movies, not Kevin from Home Alone. The reporter … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: It takes a rare superpower to make superheroes super dull… Published: 01:45 GMT, 20 March 2020 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 20 March 2020 Mark Kermode’s Secrets Of Cinema: Superheroes (BBC4) Rating: Meet The Richardsons (Dave) Rating: There’s a great TV programme to be made about the obsession of the … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: An ITV sitcom to make even Victor Meldrew laugh? I don’t believe it! By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:52 GMT, 19 March 2020 | Updated: 01:53 GMT, 19 March 2020 Kate & Koji Rating: Feel Good Rating: Beyond any argument, what ITV does well is costume … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Lust, blasphemy — and Bob The Builder as an unfaithful husband! By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 02:26 GMT, 18 March 2020 | Updated: 02:26 GMT, 18 March 2020 Penance Rating: The Great Celebrity Bake Off Rating: Not so long ago, the sheer blasphemy would have been … Read more
Miss World 1970: Beauty Queens And Bedlam Rating: Age Of The Image Rating: To his great credit, Michael Aspel did not try to excuse his 14-year stint as compere of the Miss World contest with the phrase: ‘Things were different in those days.’ That pretext is becoming as hackneyed as the plea: ‘I was only … Read more