16 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Towards Zero on BBC1: A superlative adaptation of one of Christie's overlooked masterpieces

Agatha Christie did it first. Whatever fiendish plot device, impossible solution or dazzling denouement a mystery writer comes up with, you can be sure the Queen of Crime invented it.

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3 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Bergerac on U&Drama: Bergerac's back, but now he's a train wreck who's sozzled every night...

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Bergerac was one of the first detective dramas to lure top actors into one-off roles each week.

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4 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Doorstep Scammers: Don't Get Caught Out on Channel 5: Who needs Poirot? We all have to be amateur detectives these days

The Daily Mail's TV critic Christopher Stevens reviews Channel 5's Doorstep Scammers: Don't Get Caught Out

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5 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Sort Your Life Out on BBC1: 6,568 items of clothing, 437 pairs of shoes? Now that's a shopaholic... 

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The word is SABLE - an acronym for Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy. In other words, you've got far too much stuff.

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6 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The White Lotus on Sky Atlantic: We like nothing more than seeing rich people having a rotten time...

The Daily Mail's TV critic Christopher Stevens reviews Sky Atlantic's The White Lotus.

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7 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Baldwins: What hideous people! Now I really have no sympathy for has

RATING: ONE STAR Childcare manuals don't often spell out the surest ways to ensure small children grow up neurotic. But now we've got Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria to show us how.

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7 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews A Thousand Blows: Sex, robbery and bloody violence, this East End is no Disneyland!

Written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, the bare-knuckle boxing thriller A Thousand Blows, set in the Victorian East End, is by far the most violent show ever devised by Disney.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Zero Day: De Niro's back to his Taxi Driver best, shame this thriller can't match him

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: De Niro is utterly convincing in Zero Day, the statesman ready to sacrifice himself for one last service to his country, and a pill-popping septuagenarian.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews EastEnders' 40th anniversary special: Forget Corrie, Walford has brought back an even better special guest

EastEnders - the reigning champion of great British soap operas - had to showcase an even more special guest than Corrie. And it did, with the return of Angie Watts... full perm and all.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Amandaland on BBC1: With a lead as hilarious as Frank Spencer, this show's unmissable

Amandaland isn't just wickedly funny. It's a perfect defence against being ripped off by romance scammers and Artificial Intelligence bots.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone on BBC2: Horrific stories, but this BBC view of Gaza is what Hamas wants us to see

All the children in the documentary have suffered horrific ordeals. Whatever your views on the tortured politics of the Middle East, there can be no doubt this generation (pictured) are innocents.

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