4 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS on last night's TV: The best way to attract visitors to a stately home? Scare them to death!

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Running costs at Chavenage are close to £400,000 a year. You could tie yourself in knots trying to generate that sort of income. The answer - monetise the spooks.

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4 d. ago CHRSTOPHER STEVENS on last night's TV: The best way to attract visitors to a stately home? Scare them to death!

CHRSTOPHER STEVENS: Running costs at Chavenage are close to £400,000 a year. You could tie yourself in knots trying to generate that sort of income. The answer - monetise the spooks.

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5 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Prof Lucy has unearthed an 1880s killer as grisly as Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper's gory murders in late Victorian London are not only the most famous unsolved crimes in history.

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9 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Hairy Biker Si swaps his leathers for a silk scarf in a welcome return to TV

Britain's Favourite Railway Stations (More4) is an unspectacular but well-chosen comeback for Si King in the wake of the death of his Hairy Bikers pal Dave Myers in 2024.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: This measly Millionaire spin

Millionaire Hot Seat is a version of ITV's champion quiz, with everything that's great about it shrunk, replaced or lost. We're left with a bland, unsatisfying recipe in identical packaging.

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1 week ago EastEnders Jean Slater star Gillian Wright's life including Corrie role and death scare

Gillian Wright has been playing Jean Slater in EastEnders since 2003, and has been at the heart of many big storylines on the BBC One soap

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Posh Lynley has all the qualities of a top TV cop

Lynley, based on the series of almost two dozen books by crime queen Elizabeth George, is an heir to the classic detectives in many ways.

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Night Manager: The BBC took a big risk by meddling with perfection, but series two is fizzing... and the fuse is burning

To revive The Night Manager seemed an impossible ambition - and the first few minutes of the new series only served to underline the difficulties.

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Harlan Coben's latest rollercoaster thriller is like a soap on steroids...

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: This is soap packed full of steroids. It demands actors who are not afraid to go over the top, and viewers who are willing to suspend all disbelief.

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2 w. ago Gary Neville calls out Premier League star over tactic that would 'scare him to death'

Tottenham deploy a high line with their defenders, leaving Micky van de Ven with huge space behind him, and Gary Neville has asked him how he has the bravery to use such tactics

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: A cocky Gladiator steals the show as The Apprentice sends itself up

Here he is, noisiest of the stars on a festive edition of the boardroom game show, pushing his mush into every frame and yelling his gormless catchphrase, 'Bosh!'

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: The Chinese mafia's running amok, who you gonna call? The midwives!

Ronnie and Reggie Kray revered the nuns of Nonnatus House, or so says Dr Turner, in Call The Midwife (pictured).

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Tantalising snippets from the papal conclave

There were rare moments in the documentary that revealed some of the real secrets from the Conclave last April. All those involved in electing the Pope take a solemn oath to preserve its mysteries.

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