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Michael Sheen, James Graham and Adam Curtis collaborate on dystopian drama ‘The Way’; ITV’s ‘Breathtaking’ dramatises the Covid pandemic; ‘Shōgun’ on Disney+ is a sprawling historical epic; ‘Total Trust’ is a terrifying documentary about Chinese surveillance; Noomi Rapace gets lost in space in trippy sci-fi ‘Constellation’; Netflix’s adaptation of bestselling novel ‘One Day’ — reviews by Dan Einav
A sprawling 10-part historical epic marries novelistic character depth with cinematic grandeur
A draining three-part series set in a fictional London hospital captures the chaos of the first coronavirus wave
The BBC series, in which Britain turns on the Welsh working class, is thinly sketched and tonally inconsistent
The documentary film brings home the extent to which invasive technologies, social initiatives and media propaganda are used
The trippy Apple TV+ sci-fi series has an uneasy atmosphere and ever-intensifying air of mystery
Posh boys and the path to true romance
New Apple TV+ series dramatises Dior and his haute-couture contemporaries during and after the Nazi occupation of Paris
Broadcast defies slide in TV audiences to draw record 123mn viewers
New romantic drama on Channel 4 spins out into a tortured affair
Outspoken presenter is moving his ‘Uncensored’ show from TalkTV to YouTube
Three-part series explores how institutional failings led to the death of seven astronauts in 2003
But legacy television remains vital for content producers
Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall star in a romantic drama that plays out over years on the same day in July
Plan to aggregate games offered by groups’ TV networks comes amid cord-cutting and soaring costs
Anne Wood’s characters defined kids’ TV for a generation, and she’s not finished yet
Donald Glover and Maya Erskine exude effervescent chemistry in the Pitt-Jolie roles of romantically linked assassins
The first episode of the final series takes in phones, judgmental cleaners and a confrontation with a white African
Set in Shanghai in the 1990s, the series has sparked a wave of nostalgia for a particular place and time in Chinese history
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Rishi Sunak are among the interviewees in the second season of Norma Percy’s insightful show
Paramount+ spin-off series may share the same name and characters but it is an entirely different animal
The Argylle actress loves DIY eyelashes, the Dewey Decimal System and quilted vests
Pieces featured onscreen generate demand from fans of dramas such as ‘The Crown’ and ‘House of the Dragon’
New Amazon Prime series paints a universal story of loss played out in an elite, expatriate community in Hong Kong
Apple’s second-world-war drama provides nerve-fraying immersion but is downed by earnest sentimentality
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