[ When The Jinx originally aired on HBO (and Sky in the UK) in 2015, it opened the gates for a deluge of true-crime dramas designed to bait the audience with twisting tales of human depravity. Each one is released in delicious, bingeable portions for eager viewers to demolish in a weekend, the juice running … Read more
[ And so Curb Your Enthusiasm bows out in much the same way it began, 24 long years ago: unrepentant, gloriously rude, and often howlingly funny. The 12th and final season of the Larry David comedy that thrived mostly on its absence of plot came to an end in a court of law, where Larry, … Read more
[ Drive to Survive Friday 23 February, Netflix Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing winning the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in 2023 (Photo: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty) A week ahead of the opening race of the 2024 Formula One series in Bahrain, Netflix’s excellent docuseries going behind the scenes of last year’s races returns for … Read more
[ Sara Ramirez has stoked suspicion among fans that they will not return for the third series of And Just Like That following an Instagram post about the “duplicitous” nature of the entertainment industry. The 48-year-old actor has played the role of Che Diaz in the Sex and the City spin-off series since its launch … Read more
[ Pick of the day: True Detective: Night Country 9pm, Sky Atlantic Jodie Foster takes her first starring TV role since 1975 in the fourth instalment of the crime drama anthology. And there are shades of her Clarice Starling from Silence of the Lambs as Foster plays a detective, Liz Danvers, in the fictional, snowbound … Read more
[ Pick of the day: Julia 9pm, Sky Atlantic Sarah Lancashire’s casting as 60s US TV chef Julia Child raised a few eyebrows in Britain, but the actress has triumphed in the role. Series two of comedy-drama finds Child on a sojourn in France to write a follow-up cookbook but under pressure from the network … Read more
