Love Island

‘A shallow new low’: Love Island All Stars is a miserable attempt to rewrite history

Why do contestants seemingly act as though their real lives don’t exist? And why are past series’ tragedies jarringly ignored? This show’s airbrushing of reality is the nail in the coffin

Yomi Adegoke

19, Feb, 2024 @9:00 AM

TV tonight: Jodie Foster’s no-nonsense investigator joins the True Detective canon

The latest in the anthology series sees eight men disappear at an Alaskan research station, leaving behind only a severed tongue. Plus: more sinister death in Silent Witness. Here’s what to watch this evening

Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Ali Catterall and Ellen E Jones

15, Jan, 2024 @6:20 AM

The Guide #121: Just when I thought I was out on Love Island, All Stars has pulled me back in

In this week’s newsletter: As a long-suffering fan who gave up seasons ago, bringing back the show’s greatest contestants is a stroke of genius

Lauren O'Neill

12, Jan, 2024 @5:18 PM

‘Viewers enjoy seeing people suffer’: reality TV’s desperate struggle to be more ethical

From Love Island to Married at First Sight, producers says they are making their shows less demeaning. But while audiences flock to supposedly cruel reality shows, will we ever see real change?

Serena Smith

12, Dec, 2023 @2:51 PM

‘I was in tears, angry, emotional’: do reality TV shows use sleep deprivation to trigger meltdowns and showdowns?

Exhaustion, vomiting, brains ‘turning to mush’ … from Love Island to The Apprentice to Squid Game: The Challenge, former contestants reveal how their big TV breaks became waking nightmares

Amelia Tait

11, Dec, 2023 @5:00 AM

Love Island star has had ‘serious conversations’ about becoming MP

Georgia Harrison, a violence against women campaigner, says she has talked to ‘a couple of Labour MPs’ about standing in Essex

Rachel Hall

21, Oct, 2023 @11:39 AM

Big Brother is back in a new era of reality TV. But can these shows be ‘kinder’ – and still give us the drama we crave? | Fiona Sturges

The challenge for the series is not just whether it can recapture past glories, but whether it can take care of its contestants, says arts writer Fiona Sturges

Fiona Sturges

15, Oct, 2023 @10:59 AM

All hail My Mum, Your Dad: great TV – and Britain’s overdue love letter to older, single parents | Gaby Hinsliff

It’s great that rather than treating fiftysomethings falling in love as a freak show, the series celebrates families’ tender rites of passage, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Gaby Hinsliff

15, Sep, 2023 @7:00 AM

‘Middle-aged Love Island’ is here – a concept with an obvious flaw | Zoe Williams

My Mum, Your Dad switches the focus from twentysomethings to their parents. If they are anything like as buff as their kids, they’re bound to be boringly disciplined, writes Zoe Williams

Zoe Williams

12, Sep, 2023 @10:00 AM

Blazin’ Squad look back: ‘We needed chaperones – it wasn’t great for our credibility’

The Chingford rap crew on teen fame, atrocious hair and the power of Love Island

Harriet Gibsone

02, Sep, 2023 @11:00 AM

You’d have to cut off my electricity to stop me tuning in to an ‘older Love Island’ | Barbara Ellen

TV viewers adore dating shows. But their appeal is more complicated than it seems at first sight

Barbara Ellen

26, Aug, 2023 @6:08 PM

‘I’d never experienced an orgasm’: Yewande Biala on her journey into female pleasure

The former Love Island star might be a pioneering scientist, but until she was 20, she didn’t know women could climax. For her new documentary, she talks masturbation, God and the orgasm gap

Emine Saner

25, Aug, 2023 @12:00 PM

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