6 h. 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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3 d. 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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4 d. 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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4 d. 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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5 d. 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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6 d. 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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7 d. 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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3 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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3 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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3 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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4 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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