8 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Murder Before Evensong: Grantchester meets Midsomer... this new drama could run and run

The Rev Richard Cole's Murder Before Evensong is essentially a 1980s-set remake of ITV 's Grantchester, with a dash of Midsomer Murders thrown in.

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33 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS on Joe Wicks: Licensed To Kill: Why The Body Coach's ultra

'This is step one of a journey that I'm on,' Joe Wicks declared, wiping away a manly tear and brandishing a protein bar.

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57 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Frauds on ITV: How do you pinch a priceless Dali painting? I can't wait to find out...

With its cinematic, spaghetti western swagger, Frauds could have been nothing more than a pastiche of Thelma & Louise, the archetypal outlaw gals movie.

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5 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home: Affectionate portrait of the Prince of Darkness's poignant final years

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: This sweetly affectionate documentary, charting the last couple of years of his life as he and his wife prepared to return to England, was never morbid.

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6 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Perfect Pub Walks: Is James May really planning to shift down a gear and quit presenting?

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: James May has that knack of saying inconsequential things seriously while dismissing important matters with a quip.

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7 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Taylor: This superficial Channel 4 documentary told us little about the real Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is a social phenomenon, a self-made master-piece of PR manipulation, the poet laureate of teenage girls everywhere.

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8 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Blue Lights: With all the coppers pairing off, this is like a soap version of Line of Duty

This time, the undercover bods are desperate to obtain a drug-runner's handset 'with the encrypted messaging app still running'. They hope this will lead them back to Mr Big.

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Deep Ocean: Kingdom Of The Coelacanth on BBC2: In search of the elusive ancient fish Sir David first filmed 46 years ago

Next time your bicycle has a flat tyre, find a coelacanth. These 'living fossils', dating back 400 million years to before the dawn of the dinosaurs, are an essential part of an African puncture repair kit.

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS on Mr Polaroid: Fascinating snapshot of the college dropout who invented the Polaroid

PBS America is lurking far down the list of Freeview channels at no. 84, a hiding place you're likely to discover only if the cat sits on the remote.

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Doc: My prognosis for this slow, maudlin medical drama? It's not looking good

Special prize for the laziest, least imaginative title of the year goes to the hospital drama Doc.

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Rob and Rylan's Passage to India: A trip to Delhi? Cue hand

Rylan, the waxen-faced former X Factor contestant now on the roster of This Morning presenters, is in a class of his own. He doesn't shamelessly name drop celebrities he knows, he carpet-bombs them.

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Newsreader: To use Lockerbie as the backdrop for light comedy is simply unforgivable

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Either nobody bothered looking at the opening minutes of The Newsreader, or worse still, somebody did - and failed to see how grossly offensive it was.

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3 w. ago ‘The Christophers’ Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Bohemian London Drama

‘The Christophers’ Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Bohemian London Drama  Deadline

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Rumour: Emily Atack's spiteful school mum ought to have been in Motherland

Emily Atack plays her to perfection: rude, smug, false and, underneath the facade, deeply unhappy.

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4 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Great British Bake Off: Simple? Bake Off's biscuit challenge now requires a degree in dunking...

STEVENS: As I age, keeping up with the accelerating demands of technology can be nearly impossible - but I never thought I'd end up underqualified to eat a biscuit.

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last month CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: The batting's a bit off, but Freddie's new cricket kids have all the banter

Freddie Flintoff has tried doggedly to change cricket's image in his Field Of Dreams series, inspiring a bunch of lads from his home town Preston to take up the sport.

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