5 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Tommy: The Good, The Bad, The Fury... and asks why we need five hours of this spectacularly dense reality star

This 10-part documentary follows Tommy around his soulless Cheshire mansion, goes motoring with him in his flash cars, and hangs around at the gym while he trains for his next fight.

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29 h. ago The genius man haunted by the patients he couldn't save... CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Confessions Of A Brain Surgeon

Henry is a retired neurosurgeon who spends much of his free time in Ukraine, a country he loves, helping out in the operating theatre at Lviv hospital.

Science

45 h. ago British brain surgeon 'assaulted woman, posed with weapons and watched beheading video'

Brain Surgeon Dr. Sayed Talibi has been struck off after it was found proved that he has committed a myriad of offences, including assaulting and threatening a woman

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55 h. ago Jodie Whittaker proves there is life after her Doctor Who train wreck... writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

Jodie Whittaker 's career was dramatically derailed when she became the first female Doctor Who.

Events

6 d. ago Alien: Earth review: This surreal Disney+ reboot is a true genre

Panto season will never be the same again. Disney have invented a new kind of movie sequel crossover, updating Sigourney Weaver 's horror classic Alien by blending it with Peter Pan.

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7 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews In Flight on Ch4: Spare a thought for the Bulgarian tourist board after this dark thriller

The opening three minutes of In Flight were crammed with so much backstory, I had to check this rush of events wasn't a recap of an earlier series.

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8 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Celebs Go Dating on E4: Television hits the most wretched abyss with this atrocity of a series

Nadir: that's the word. It's the lowest point possible, the utter depths, the most wretched abyss... the very definition of Celebs Go Dating.

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9 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Antiques Roadshow: VJ Day Special on BBC1: Poignant keepsakes of the Forgotten Army brought a lump to the throat...

The words are inscribed on war memorials across the country: 'When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, we gave our today.'

Culture

1 week ago Brain surgeon who 'raped woman' and posed for series of selfies with an arsenal of weapons including knives in a Snapchat post with the message 'Who wants to play?' is struck off

Dr Sayed Talibi (pictured), 38, of the town of Tamworth, Staffordshire, used to work for the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Fortune Hotel: 'A witless game show set in paradise, but as boring as hell'

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Whoever invented this game show format must be blessed with a very high boredom threshold, because it is stultifyingly dull.

Sport

1 week ago With TWO disgraced presenters, BBC decision to air MasterChef is an insult to all of us and a slap in the face to everyone who has been belittled and abused on the show, says CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

The return of the long-running culinary contest, after the sacking of its disgraced presenters Gregg Wallace and John Torode , is an insult.

Events

1 week ago Wednesday review: Netflix's grisly answer to Hogwarts is packed full of gore, gags and superstar cameos, says CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

Serial killers and stalkers are not an adolescent girl's worst nightmare. Wednesday Addams positively relishes hers.

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Do You Have ADHD?: 'Do you fidget and get distracted by noise? Maybe you've got ADHD too'

These days, the most talked about diagnosis is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD].

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins... and says Dad's Army's Private Godfrey could have done better than these recruits

Previous series of Celebrity SAS have been camp enough to merit their own float at a Pride festival.

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2 w. ago The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – sex and the city

Newly decoded extracts from his diaries expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious sexual predatorSamuel Pepys’s diary, which covers 1660 to 1669, is regarded as one of the great classic texts in the English language. Words spill out of Pepys – 1.25m of them – as he bustles around London, building a successful career as a naval administrator while navigating the double trauma of the plague and the Great Fire of London. Historians have long gone to the diary for details of middle-class life during the mid‑17th century: the seamy streets, the watermen, the taverns and, as Pepys moves up the greasy pole, the court and the king. Best of all is his eye for the picturesque detail: the way, for instance, on the morning of 4 September 1666, as fire licks around his house, Pepys buries a choice parmesan cheese in the garden with the intention of keeping it safe.Not all of the diary is in English, though. Quite a lot of it is in French (or rather Frangla...

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2 w. ago The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator

Newly decoded extracts expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious abuserSamuel Pepys’s diary, which covers 1660 to 1669, is regarded as one of the great classic texts in the English language. Words spill out of Pepys – 1.25m of them – as he bustles around London, building a successful career as a naval administrator while navigating the double trauma of the plague and the Great Fire of London. Historians have long gone to the diary for details of middle-class life during the mid‑17th century: the seamy streets, the watermen, the taverns and, as Pepys moves up the greasy pole, the court and the king. Best of all is his eye for the picturesque detail: the way, for instance, on the morning of 4 September 1666, as fire licks around his house, Pepys buries a choice parmesan cheese in the garden with the intention of keeping it safe.Not all of the diary is in English, though. Quite a lot of it is in French (or rather Franglais), Latin, Spanish and a ...

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