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  • A scene from the House of the Dragon season two finale.

    House of the Dragon
    ‘It feels torturous’: how much longer can the Game of Thrones prequel fail to give viewers what they want?

    This show had one key selling point: mass dragon battles. The longer this increasingly slow and frustrating show takes to deliver, the harder it is to justify watching
  • Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon Targaryen Matthew Needham as Lord Larys Strong

    House of the Dragon
    Season two, episode eight recap – what were the writers thinking?

  • Alexandra Farmer from Whitby wildlife sanctuary in Yorkshire By the Sea

    Review
    Yorkshire By the Sea – God’s own country lives up to its name in every gorgeous shot

  • Snoop Doog wearing horse-riding gear and feeding a horse a carrot

    Paris 2024
    Snoop Dogg, bare bums and rogue window cleaners: 12 TV moments of the Olympics so far

  • The Titanic departing for its fateful voyage, from Southampton, in April 1912

    Review
    Titanic In Colour – a gripping history, once you’ve made it through three minutes of staring at a carpet

  • Comedian Chris McCausland

    Strictly Come Dancing confirms first two contestants including first blind dancer Chris McCausland

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Reviews

  • Paul Dano (right) has a close encounter with an alien in Fantasmas.

    Fantasmas
    This wildly creative comedy is a beacon of hope for TV’s future

  • A participant in the BBC’s Atomic People.

    Atomic People
    The quietly devastating truth about surviving Hiroshima

    • Roger Stone in A Storm Foretold.

      A Storm Foretold
      A terrifying glimpse into Trump’s time in the White House

    • Linford Christie

      Linford
      The scenes about the racist fetishisation of his genitals are heartbreaking

    • ‘Altogether masterly’ … Natalie Portman and Mikey Madison in Apple TV+’s Lady in the Lake.

      Lady in the Lake
      Natalie Portman’s TV debut is absolutely impeccable

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What to watch

  • Fred Sirieix in First Dates.

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: watch amazing and terrible dates in action

    The First Dates restaurant opens its doors again. Plus: Linford Christie faces off against Ellie Simmonds in the kitchen. Here’s what to watch this evening
  • Tymika Tafari as Gina and Zoe Lister-Jones as Mae in Slip.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Slip to The Influencer: the seven best shows to stream this week

  • Noa played by Owen Teague in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes to Mission: Impossible – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Best on the box

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    Episode recaps

    • Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon Targaryen Matthew Needham as Lord Larys Strong

      House of the Dragon
      Season two, episode eight recap – what were the writers thinking?

      The finale was a 69-minute tease with a payoff that we’ll have to wait two years for. It was almost aggressively anti-climactic
    • Hot shot … Hugh Hammer (Kieran Bew) faces down Vermithor in House of the Dragon.

      House of the Dragon
      Season two, episode seven recap – ferocious, explosive TV

    • Is this the start of a serious romance? … Emma D’Arcy as Rhaenyra in House of the Dragon.

      House of the Dragon
      Season two, episode six recap – fans are being cheated (despite that steamy snog)

    • Aemond Targaryen (Ewan Mitchell) in House of the Dragon

      House of the Dragon
      Season two, episode five recap – here come some newbies to turn up the heat again

    • Fiendish … Freddie Fox as Gwayne Hightower and Fabien Frankel as Ser Criston Cole in House of the Dragon.

      House of the Dragon
      Season two, episode four recap – dragons rain hell in a truly terrific hour of TV

    • So that’s where he flounced off to … Matt Smith as Daemon in House of the Dragon.

      House of the Dragon
      Season two, episode three recap – talk about eye-popping TV

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    Podcasts

    • Jake Shears and Moya Lothian-McLean

      The best podcasts of 2024 so far

      From lifting the lid on what really went on at Guantánamo Bay to an investigation of whether Avril Lavigne has died and been replaced by a doppelganger – read on for the finest shows of the year
    • Spectators at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with the Eiffel Tower in the background.

      Hear here
      The brains behind QI bring you an Olympic-sized quiz show

    • American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist James Baldwin poses at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, on November 6, 1979. AFP PHOTO RALPH GATTI (Photo credit should read RALPH GATTI/AFP/Getty Images)

      Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
      The week in audio: The Lost Archive of James Baldwin; Extreme: Muscle Men; Paris Olympics – review

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