Fifteen years into the future, science has made a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet — a test that unequivocally tells you who your soulmate is. Julian seems to have been a 1990s Tory MP who perished in an accidental auto-erotic asphyxiation. In one of the longest-running science fiction series in network TV history, FBI special agents investigate unexplained, mind-bending cases known as "X-Files." At first, the ghosts are not very happy with their plans and conspire to get rid of the newcomers. Tom Hollander and co are just right in David Nicholls’s adaptation of his 2014 bestseller. Proof that history was farcical from the start ... Charlotte Ritchie, I love the people and the people love me / So much they restored the English monarchy. Not just in the execution but even in the conception: the head of a famous personal hero. But such uncomfortable realities are swept beneath the rug in John Carney’s rigorously whimsical new Amazon series. Villanelle’s new vulnerability invites us to question what it is exactly she wants from Polastri. Ghosts is back, and in even better form. The series is written and performed by many of the cast members of Horrible Histories and Yonderland. ", "While there are plenty of well-turned one-liners, the deeper attraction of Fleabag is schadenfreude. The remake will … With Lolly Adefope, Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Jim Howick.

Great guests, great stories, great characters. ", "In a TV world where too often we are encouraged to see the Nazis as warm and cuddly real people with emotions, it’s refreshing that they are here relegated back to pure baddies, strafing cafes, shooting surrendering fathers and generally being Nazi-ish about things. And she’s got a tattoo!” exclaims the buttoned-up Edwardian Lady Button. Because neither she (for financial reasons) nor the ghosts (who are stuck there for eternity) can leave, both sides eventually agree that they have no choice but to coexist as best they can. BBC News An 80-year-old man has been jailed for his part in the deaths of three civil rights activists in Mississippi in 1964.
", "Plausibility is a spectrum; Bodyguard became ridiculous but Line of Duty stays just the right side, and as usual there is more plot in an hour than in whole series of other programmes.

During the writing process, the intention was to make an adult show, but one that would appeal to older children, along the lines of Blackadder: "We wanted to do something that has a properly creaky atmosphere. Then the presenters each choose a 200mph legend for a trip, before Freddie tries to break the 200mph barrier. But it is American in the sense of having a gag-to-airtime ratio much higher than British sitcoms normally manage these days. Ghosts isn’t Ibsen, but it does raise thorny existential questions. The new show from Horrible Histories may be the most unlikely comedy spinoff since Frasier, but what a glorious romp. [1] It is filmed on location at West Horsley Place in Surrey. And now, in Ghosts (BBC One), there is a country house called Button Hall filled with ancestral spirits who died stupid deaths. Once you get over the faintly loopy premise – a disparate batch of crims, accusers, witnesses are brought before a finely tuned little band of interviewers, most of whom will watch proceedings from behind a two-way mirror with a famously unexplained red neon surround; there will be no car chases; in fact it’s the perfect one-act play – there is high drama, and constant challenging of our prejudices. Full of thrilling stunts, epic challenges, and hilarious contests, 'Top Gear' takes the public’s passion for cars, strips away the boring stats, and adds races, explosions, and car-crazy stars. Still on Channel 4, Grayson Perry was the best host we have yet had for that TV trope of “white people trying to get to the heart of culture wars in Trump’s America”. Unfailingly clever, he’s unafraid to let the silences draw out, feels not the need to fill them with gabble, then stings with the most pertinent question, often about the elephant in the room. Modern Love is adapted from a New York Times column (it also spawned a hit podcast) and is as much a valentine to a fantasia vision of Manhattan as it is a dissection of the human heart.

", "After an hour of Tories at War (Channel 4), I felt I had to get out into the fresh air and go for a walk. You can’t buy love, even if you pay for David Attenborough. ", "In Kathy Burke’s All Women on Channel 4, the unapologetic, effing-and-blinding, salt-of-the-earth actor meets lots of different women – from nuns to reality stars – to understand what it means to be a member of the fairer sex, so to speak, in 2019. I just wonder what the ghosts of Button Hall do on Halloween, or, as we will soon learn to call it, Brexit Day. Both mistake her for the 80s pop sensation Kim Wilde, even though it is hard to believe that a 19th-century versifier and the unacceptably hirsute missing link between apes and humans would be familiar with Kids in America. No feet on the ground. BBC One - Ghosts A cash-strapped young couple inherit a rickety country mansion, only to find it teeming with needy ghosts. With scientists from around the world, Sir David has unique access to the elephant's skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History. Ignoring their solicitor's advice to sell the property, Alison and Mike decide to move in and renovate it, with the idea of turning the house into a luxury hotel. Viv Rook makes Ann Widdecombe look like, well, Emma Thompson at an Extinction Rebellion sit-in. Mateo is furious when he discovers that Jonah stole his passport, scuppering his chance to fly to Colombia to meet his soulmate the next day. Yet still we feel for Douglas, a loving man who means best, confused – and a little jealous? Attempting to haunt the couple into leaving, their actions have unexpected consequences. She has a face – and a set of elastic expressions – that feels both well-suited to a period piece (as first displayed in her Oscar-nominated role in True Grit in 2010), and resolutely out of place in it. [6], A young married couple, Alison and Mike, unexpectedly inherit the vast but crumbling Button House from a 99-year-old distant female relative of hers. And Hollander does this all with the softening of his eyes, a moue here, a shrug there, no words. This time, Commander Benjamin Sisko is in charge of a diverse crew. However, two burglars break-in and the ghosts do everything they can to alert Mike of the burglary. ", "Joseph is almost never out of shot, whether seen from afar, contemplating a bottle of strong cider in a playground, or in visceral close-up, clutching his doner to his face. The twist is that a family who returns to Surrey from a holiday touring around France discover a Syrian refugee stuffed in the back of their SUV.

A new building project, The Light, is being built on the outskirts. [11][12] Some scenes were also filmed on London Road and Clandon Road in nearby Guildford.[13]. After a few weeks in an induced coma, she returns to Button Hall sporting a neck brace and a new superpower – she can see ghosts. Bake Off returned in slightly kinder, less snarky mode than last year’s graceless journey, and was every bit as warming, as charming, as wired-to-the-moon daft as the old show we know and love. Pressure is put on the group to return home. They start a torrid affair, but is everything as it seems? Baynton noted in the i newspaper that the original audience of Horrible Histories would now be grown up "hopefully we're making something so they can continue to watch us!

", "The Road to Brexit is easily the best thing to emerge from the whole brexit imbroglio. Next new episode is today at 8:30pm. Meeting the relatively privileged African Americans of Atlanta, Georgia, the “capital of black America”, and hearing about the culture war in a more optimistic context. They have inherited Button Hall after the last of the Button family died. ", "So here we have an intriguing, but rather flawed sort of Big Brother thriller set in our contemporary world of digital snooping, near constant surveillance and (a topical touch) widespread use of facial recognition technology. Nikki and Franklin are happy in their marriage, but when everyone they know starts taking the soulmate test, they must ask if their relationship is enough. The group seeks shelter from a storm inside an abandoned high school. Testing the Tesla Model 3, Volvo S60 and BMW 3-Series by spending 24 hours in them. It works, in other words – which is quite special for supernatural-based light entertainment. So Julian manages to push Alison out of a window. It’s a remarkable watch, often funny, never schmaltzy.