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Love island: Scott breaks his silence as ex Kady returns to the villa

The pair finished third in the second series and moved to Manchester together before splitting up a year later leaving fans of the ITV2 show devastated

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You Are Awful: Black Mirror creates ‘Joan is Awful’ posters of fans

Salma Hayek, Michael Cera, Annie Murphy, and Himesh Patel star in the opening episode of the sixth season

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Wednesday beats Stranger Things! Netflix’s Top Ten viewership rankings

The streaming service has changed how it measures viewership and revealed the spooky series is on top

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Wednesday beats Stranger Things: Here’s what we know about Season 2

From the confirmed new Addams family member to what our favourite death-obsessed teen will be up to

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Titanic Sub: Lost at Sea — Where to watch the documentary tonight

The documentary was produced very last-minute following the recent events surrounding the Oceansgate sub

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Who is Clive Myrie? Presenter ‘pulled’ from BBC News after Boris jokes

The satirical comedy show was broadcast at 9pm on June 16, and Mr Myrie was reportedly replaced on News at Ten the same evening

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Secret Invasion on Disney+: What is the conspiracy behind the show?

As otherworldly as the plot of Secret Invasion may seem, the inspiration for the Skrull species actually has its roots far closer to home

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And Just Like That... returns: ‘we know fans missed Samantha Jones’

Ahead of the Sex and the City reboot’s second season, the cast discuss Kim Cattrall’s surprise return

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Squid Game: Netflix reveals new details in season two teaser trailer

Fan favourites Lee Jung-jae and Gong Yoo are returning for season two

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Here’s a first glimpse at Heartstopper’s opening sequence in season 2

Wholesome romance is here to stay as the graphic novel spin-off returns

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Stranger Things season 5: Everything we know so far

Filming for the season was meant to start in May or June, but was put on hold amid the Writers’ Guild of America strike

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Black Mirror season 6: ‘Still the twisted mind of Charlie Brooker’

We go behind the scenes with the stars of the anthology series

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Outlander star Caitriona Balfe on the dark side of the epic TV show

The Irish star on the show’s contribution to the lockdown baby boom and how its portrayal of issues such as sexual violence has evolved

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HBO addresses reports The Idol is being cancelled after one season

Starring Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd, the show’s second episode was slammed for being ‘too graphic’

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Break Point Part 2: All the details about Netflix’s tennis series

Wimbledon to feature in second part of hit Netflix show

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Charlie Brooker and Jessica Rhoades talk Black Mirror season 6

This season abandons tech dystopia for an entirely new frontier: the past

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Outlander location Doune Castle reopens to public

Doune Castle features as Castle Leoch in the television show.
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BAFTA winner Lenny Rush joins Doctor Who – “What a dream come true!”

The 14-year-old Am I Being Unreasonable star set to play Morris in the upcoming sci fi series

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Hijack on Apple TV+ review: Idris Elba does his best Luther impression

This new TV thriller is a bingeable treat - though it does verge on the ridiculous

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What to watch: our recommendations for this week

Streaming recommendations from the Standard’s Culture team 

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Inbetweeners star says US remake actors were ‘not weird enough’

Taking a look back at the British successes that flopped stateside

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Channel 4 releases 25 short films that ‘reflect modern Britain’

The broadcaster’s new ‘representative and diverse’ idents are shown looped together with the words of British writer John Joseph Holt as the soundtrack

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Blackadder 40th anniversary: Where to watch the unaired pilot tonight

The lost pilot will finally be shown on BBC television to mark 40 years of the comedy

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The best summer TV to binge: from Black Mirror to Champion

Sit back this summer and feast on some world-class television

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Black Mirror season 6 is almost here: here’s what you need to know

The hit anthology series is back and ready to give you nightmares

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BBC’s first look snaps of true crime The Sixth Commandment

Timothy Spall, Sheila Hancock and Éanna Hardwicke star in gripping new drama of the infamous Buckinghamshire murder

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The return of The Full Monty: ‘Times have changed. Have they?’

Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy and the cast discuss the return of Gaz and friends

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Best Interests on BBC One review: a vivid portrait of a true nightmare

Best Interests grapples with one of the great moral dilemmas of our age with impressive maturity

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Jonathan Bailey’s new LGBTQ+ series Fellow Travelers is coming soon

We’ve got fireworks, we’ve got kissing in alleyways and we have corridor meet-cutes

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The Full Monty on Disney+ review: where’s that magic touch?

This is certainly an ambitious sequel, but it doesn’t quite hold together

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Who was Kerri-Anne Donaldson? BGT star dies aged 38

Kings and Queens star fondly remembered in dance community

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Davina McCall: Women’s access to contraception has never been worse

77 per cent of women experience side effects on the pill, including headaches, depression and mood swings, but where’s the research?

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ITV confirm details of new Love Island-style show ‘aimed at oldies’

The series will debut this autumn hosted by Davina McCall

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Natalia Grace: the mind-blowing docuseries everyone’s talking about

A new docuseries, titled The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, opens up the unbelievable drama

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Saint X on Disney+ review: a disjointed murder mystery

A death in a luxury resort? No, it’s not The White Lotus - it’s something rather more misjudged

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The Crowded Room on Apple TV+: even Tom Holland can’t save this

The Crowded Room ultimately falls foul of its overly complicated plot