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‘You know your show is garbage!’: inside TV’s biggest backlashes
From Watchmen to The Rings of Power, TV is increasingly being bombarded with outrage. We talk to the creators of shows who faced down furore, review bombing and a furious police force

Stuart Heritage

30, Aug, 2024 @12:00 PM

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‘Forget the football and the election – this is the event of the year’: what to watch on TV right now
Bored with the Euros and wall-to-wall debates? Here’s what else you can tune in to over the next fortnight (including the return of the greatest show of our time)

Stuart Heritage

21, Jun, 2024 @10:00 AM

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Knives, guns, poison: the bizarre catastrophes that befell hit TV shows
From the murder inspired by Breaking Bad on 3 Body Problem to stabbings on Lost and ‘awful explosive diarrhoea’, TV sets are so often littered with strange tragedies

Stuart Heritage

12, Jan, 2024 @6:00 AM

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‘I’ve never forgotten it’: the very best (and very worst) TV endings of all time
From The Sopranos’ unbeatable conclusion to the nonsensical anticlimax of Game of Thrones, here are the most memorable TV finales of all time – for varying reasons …

Chitra Ramaswamy, Scott Bryan, Phil Harrison, Kate Abbott, Stuart Heritage, Alexi Duggins, Rebecca Nicholson, Mark Lawson, Michael Hogan, Micha Frazer-Carroll and Lucy Mangan

07, Feb, 2023 @3:23 PM

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‘I had to lie to my co-workers for months’: the art of delivering a great TV twist
The creators of The Good Place and Severance reveal how they pulled off some of the most fiendish plot reveals of recent years – and the importance of avoiding ‘twistflation’

Amelia Tait

03, Jun, 2022 @10:00 AM

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‘Good times? I was out of it’: The Dropout’s Naveen Andrews on booze, drugs and baffling the world in Lost
He found fame in The English Patient before becoming a huge TV star. Now he is tackling the Theranos fraud scandal. But addiction in the 90s nearly cost him everything

Steve Rose

07, Mar, 2022 @6:00 AM

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Nostalgia, ultra: the best podcasts on all things retro
Whether you’re after fond reminiscences about The A-Team or investigations of truant fitness gurus, there’s a podcast for that

Stuart Heritage

15, Feb, 2022 @10:00 AM

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From Shonda Rhimes to Armando Iannucci: 10 of the best TV showrunners
A celebration of the brains behind some of the small screen’s biggest and best shows, including The Wire, Grey’s Anatomy and Friends

Jack Seale

27, Aug, 2021 @8:00 AM

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‘Tarnished for ever’: why don’t great TV shows ever end well?
Line of Duty, Game of Thrones, Lost, Dexter ... so much TV goes from fan favourite to laughing stock the second its finale ends. Has any show ever stuck the landing?

Stuart Heritage

04, May, 2021 @12:08 PM

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Hobbit forming: how Dominic Monaghan became obsessed with scorpions
Dominic Monaghan has starred in Lord of the Rings and Lost. But neither compare to the joys of gardening in LA – and raising deadly creatures

Ryan Gilbey

25, Apr, 2021 @2:00 PM

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'It's the best show ever': how showing Lost to my kids made me love it anew
Despite my warnings, the pilot had them hooked, so we all watched it together – 121 episodes, one each night – right through lockdowns one and two

Jenny Colgan

09, Feb, 2021 @10:00 AM

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'Even the Queen needed to know!' The best TV cliffhangers ever
Walter White’s standoff with neo-Nazis, JR taking two in the gut, Jack and Kate’s flash-forward ... here are the TV moments that made the world hold its breath

Lucy Mangan, Chitra Ramaswamy, Kate Abbott, Sarah Hughes, Ammar Kalia, Rebecca Nicholson, Stuart Heritage, Graeme Virtue, Jack Seale, Gwilym Mumford and Paul MacInnes

26, Sep, 2019 @1:18 PM

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