68 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Agatha Christie's Seven Dials: Mix yourself a cocktail and enjoy this frightfully glorious mystery

It opens with a wild house party, crammed with Bright Young Things and dashing chaps from the Foreign Office, whooping it up to the sound of a jazz band - mayhem with an edge of debauchery.

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3 d. ago Stand on one leg and close an eye: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews How To Keep Your Brain Young

Bertie Wooster always attributed the unrivalled IQ of his manservant Jeeves to a steady diet of fish. Sole and sardines featured heavily - hence his size 14 in hats.

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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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6 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews weekend TV: In real life, Casualty's junior doctors would be on the picket line by now

Casualty has its work cut out. When the Saturday night medical drama launched 40 years ago, NHS doctors and nurses made the most reliably sympathetic characters on TV.

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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 Can You Keep A Secret? Dawn's back to her French And Saunders best in this dark sitcom

The word is 'pseudocide'. It means faking your own death, and it happens more often than you'd think.

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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 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 CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last year's TV: My wish for 2026? Ditch the woke ideas and give us a new Nora Batty

Well, this is glamorous. Following a minor op on my legs, I spent Christmas in a pair of black surgical compression stockings . . . much to my wife's hilarity.

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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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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Death In Paradise: Swindon's not exactly paradise, but this whodunnit was still a delight

The more impossible the killings, the more delightful this show is. And this 90-minute special served up a real puzzler... because while the corpse was in the Caribbean, the murder weapon was in Wiltshire.

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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 Stuffed: Even an elf smashed on eggnog could see how this dire comedy would end

Guz Khan's turkey of a festive sitcom, Stuffed, has one claim to originality. It is the first show I've seen that needs its own built-in spoiler alert.

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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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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Wild Horses, The Rockies and Me: Manes so magnificent they would make Claudia Winkleman proud

Claudia's equine lookalikes had their hoofprints all over cameraman Gordon Buchanan's Wild Horses, The Rockies And Me, as he spent three weeks in the Canadian wilderness.

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