16 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Once Upon A Time In Space: Sexism, drugs, tragedy... a gripping look at astronauts and their families

The first hour of this four-part documentary was heavily weighted towards two stories - those of Ron McNair, the son of a Harlem mechanic, and Anna Fisher (pictured), the first mother to go into orbit.

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40 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews ITV1's Trigger Point: Cyanide extracted from fruit? There must be a WI maniac on the loose!

Kerry Godliman, as Dr Sonya Reeves, swaggered into the Met's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit while new boy Rich (Mark Rowley), an Afghanistan veteran, was working on his torso definition.

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4 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Ridge: The tension and paranoia are electric in this bingeable murder mystery...

Lyle lifts this murder mystery, set in a small New Zealand town, out of the rut of the ordinary, because she's so good at conveying inner tension.

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5 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Lazarus: A shrink for murder victims? This supernatural thriller is totally mad

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: For Dr Joel, or Laz to his friends, in the six-part supernatural thriller Lazarus, 'I see dead people' could be the motto on his business card.

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7 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Forsytes: Sex, money, grand balls, shirtless heroes... The Forsytes is brilliant

When The Forsyte Saga aired at the end of the 1960s, Britain was scandalised. Pictured: Revival programme The Forsytes

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8 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews ITV1's Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening: Good game? Brucie would never have gone near this boring show

Romesh Ranganathan is the new king of Saturday nights. Even Bruce Forsyth never hosted three weekend shows on separate channels, one after another.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Iris Affair on Sky Atlantic: A wonderfully loopy thriller that pays homage to classic Hitchcock

Don't worry, there's a simple way to escape detection. Just put on a pair of glasses... and you'll be unrecognisable.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Witches Of Essex on Sky History: Rylan's a Tudor historian now, with a PhD from the University of YouTube

That Rylan's come on nicely, hasn't he? I don't really remember him on X Factor or Celebrity Big Brother, I admit, but it seems like only yesterday he was presenting Supermarket Sweep.

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Riot Women on BBC1: A raucous charge through midlife, these lady punks really are a riot

Punk rock was wasted on teenagers. What it needs is a revival by a bunch of narky menopausal women. And that is the vision of Sally Wainwright, the brilliant writer of Happy Valley.

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Taste Test Restaurant: Fine dining? No, but I enjoyed every course of this hilarious TV dinner

The hilarious conceit of this foodie show, which first aired last December, is to treat factory-made meals as if they were the height of fine dining.

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Perfect Pub Walks: An emotional Alexander Armstrong reveals the challenges of raising an autistic son

Talking to Chris Packham on his Perfect Pub Walks, Armstrong was revealing for the first time that one of his sons is autistic.

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2 w. ago The Celebrity Traitors 5* review by CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Claudia's Traitors fight for the best prize of all

What wouldn't you give to be a Traitor? Some of the stars jostling to stab each other in the back at Claudia Winkleman's Highlands castle are so eager, they might literally kill to take part.

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2 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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4 w. 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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