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From the improbable phenomenon ‘Baby Reindeer’ to the comfort of ‘Gogglebox’ and the smart, sexy and slick ‘Mr & Mrs Smith’, here are the top 20 releases from the past 12 months, selected by The Independent’s TV critic Nick Hilton

From the improbable phenomenon ‘Baby Reindeer’ to the comfort of ‘Gogglebox’ and the smart, sexy and slick ‘Mr & Mrs Smith’, here are the top 20 releases from the past 12 months, selected by The Independent’s TV critic Nick Hilton

The streaming platform’s first serious foray into live sports was a night of the buff and the buffering, writes Nick Hilton. And it was hard to get behind a fight between a convicted rapist and a dead-eyed, Trump-supporting YouTuber

The BBC’s starry adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s acclaimed novels returns for a second season, with Mark Rylance reprising his role as Thomas Cromwell

The BBC’s prestige thriller is relentless, nasty, sexy, vulgar, and all the other adjectives generally reserved for TripAdvisor reviews of Berghain

The uncompromising banking drama, set in a professional milieu of almost grotesque vapidity, is raising the stakes in its third season. It’s smart, seedy and dares to take risks – a breath of fresh air in a TV landscape filled with superheroes and space operas, writes Nick Hilton

Need proof that television is in the doldrums? Just look at the trophies handed out to ‘The Crown’ and ‘The Morning Show’ at last night’s Emmys, writes Nick Hilton. Thank God, then, for Richard Gadd’s phenomenon of a stalking drama

After 22 years of driving around the globe together, Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond go for one last blokey adventure in Zimbabwe

Gary Oldman is impeccable, as ever, but the ensemble cast – from Kristin Scott Thomas to Jack Lowden and James Callis – make this one of the best series on TV

Monica Dolan and David Harewood are stellar additions but series two of James Graham’s hit series is let down by attempts to shoehorn contemporary politics