53 h. ago Loud music, flirting, strip poker...old folks homes never looked so fun, CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Play For Today: Never Too Late

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Albert Ladysmith Steptoe didn't know what he was missing. If he had realised old folks homes were such hotbeds of sex, he'd have been in like a junkyard rat.

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56 h. ago Play for Today: Never Too Late review – Soapy, staid and lightweight. Is nostalgia all this returning institution has to offer?

Anita Dobson and Nigel Havers strive for laughs in a wistful care-home drama that fails to avoid what should have been its biggest imperative – not feeling dated

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65 h. ago EastEnders' Anita Dobson moved to tears as she opens up on 'overwhelming' OBE

EastEnders star Anita Dobson was on This Morning today (Thursday 13 November) to discuss her new role in Channel 5's revival of Play for Today, with Never Too Late airing tonight

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66 h. ago Never Too Late cast in full as Play For Today returns on Channel 5

Channel 5's Play for Today has been revived for a new slate of episodes, with one of them, Never Too Late, airing tonight. But who stars in the drama?

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66 h. ago Channel 5 Play for Today cast as EastEnders legend stars in Never Too Late

Play for Today returns for a new episode, Never Too Late, but who features in the show?

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3 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews: Richard Burton: Wild Genius: A deft tribute to Burton's career

Everyone had a Richard Burton story. The man was a human anecdote machine, generating clouds of them wherever he went, eagerly gathered up and treasured by all who met him.

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4 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Eubanks: Like Father, Like Son: An hour of hero

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: With a rematch between Chris Eubank Jnr and Conor Benn looming, it seems biased to screen a documentary lauding one of the fighters and his father

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5 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Trespasses on Channel 4: This wretched 70s

At the end of the second episode of Trespasses, primary school teacher Cushla (Lola Petticrew) searches the house for her mother's hidden stashes of booze, and finds enough to fill Belfast docks.

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6 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Kingdom: Mesmerising stories, breathtaking pictures... this is perfect family TV

Its depth of erudition is remarkable. Narrated by the great Sir David Attenborough, Kingdom is packed with well-researched, informative detail.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Panorama: Trump And The Tech Titans on BBC1: Super

Would you trust a robot to do the babysitting? That's how half-baked multi-billionaire Elon Musk is trying to sell us Optimus, his 'autonomous assistant, humanoid friend'.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Game of Wool: Britain's Best Knitter: Stylish Tom Daley is the perfect host for the Great British Knit Off

Have you knitted yourself an emotional support chicken yet? Apparently, in the homespun world of crafting, it's a bit of a craze.

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Art Detectives: It's no Old Master, but this brisk art world whodunnit is a decent copy

DI Palmer is an expert on every aspect of art from Grecian marbles to post-surrealists.

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Down Cemetery Road: Like Slow Horses? You'll love this

Her demeanour seems to say, 'This is how it is done, children. Watch closely and learn. 'She plays Zoe Boehm, one half of a shabby Oxford detective agency.

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Mary At 90: A Lifetime Of Cooking: The horror! Mary's 1970s barbecue was a drain cover on breeze blocks

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Mary turned 90 last March, though she's as bright as ever, and for this six-part celebration she is giving cookery lessons in everything from spaghetti to sponge

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