Carol Midgley

Judi Dench: This Cultural Life — Shakespeare SpecialBBC4★★★★☆Celebrity SAS: Who Dares WinsChannel 4★★★☆☆Nice to see in Judi Dench: This Cultural Life — Shakespeare Special that, outside her house

Am I alone in remaining unmoved by the story of Fiona, Britain’s loneliest sheep? Was I the only person who, on reading about her being stranded for two years around cliffs in the Scottish Highlands

Today I was going to write about the heartless swine in a high-vis jacket who saw a homeless man sleeping on the pavement and thought not, “There but for the grace of God go I” but, “Haha, I’ll wet

Also reviewed: The 1970s Dinner Party

Also reviewed: The Tourist

From Call the Midwife to Grantchester, Vera to Silent Witness, there’s a reason why the terrestrial channels’ workhorses keep returning, says Carol Midgley

The TraitorsBBC1 ★★★★★Whoah, what a seat gripper. What an absolute nerve-shredder. I was never even a particular cheerleading fan of The Traitors but my fingernails were bitten to stumps. You don’t

One DayNetflix★★★★★Were you ambivalent about the new adaptation of David Nicholls’s novel One Day? I don’t blame you. The film version in 2011 was a dud, mainly because of Anne Hathaway’s systematic

Jury deliberations are a fascinating subject. I could watch them all day if we were allowed to, which of course we’re not, which made this fruit the more forbidden

The property reality series, the pouty love child of Selling Sunset and The Apprentice, shows that people can be obscenely rich and still have bad taste