DEBORAH ROSS: Tormented? Lost your wife? You’ve got the TV cop job…

Grace  ITV, Sunday Rating: Bloodlands BBC1, Sunday (Warning: spoilery) Rating: Midway through ITV’s new Sunday-night cop drama, Grace, I began to wonder if there was an interview process for TV cops hoping to be on TV. I wondered if a TV cop had to be summoned into the TV office of a TV police commander, … Read more

Dr Deborah Birx was ‘extraordinarily uncomfortable’ while Trump discussed injecting disinfectant

‘I didn’t know how to handle it’: US Covid expert reveals she was ‘extraordinarily uncomfortable’ as she sat in silence while Trump discussed using disinfectant injections to treat Covid Dr Deborah Birx said she still thinks about Trump’s heavily criticized remarks ‘every day’ The president had suggested using disinfectant to ‘clean’ people of the virus  The … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: I’m not one for banter, but Freddie Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp ambushed me

DNA Journey  ITV, Wednesday  Rating: DNA Family Secrets  BBC2, Tuesday  Rating: Straight to it this week with DNA Journey and DNA Family Secrets. The first is ITV ripping off the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?, while the second is the BBC ripping off ITV’s Long Lost Family so that, I suppose, makes it … Read more

Deborah James says it should be made ‘loud and clear’ that cancer treatment is a priority

Campaigner and broadcaster Deborah James has said it should be made ‘loud and clear’ that cancer treatment is a priority amid the Covid-19 pandemic – and has revealed she’s now had her vaccine.  The mother-of-two, 38, was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in December 2020 when she was 35, and given five years to … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: I should hate it… but this icy horror story has me hooked

The Terror BBC2, Wednesday Rating: McDonald & Dodds ITV, Sunday Rating: Friends, where are we this week with our television? The second episode of Bloodlands had THAT ending. Unforgotten’s latest cold case is warming up deliciously (this is the show I most look forward to all week).  Gregg Wallace has taken to sporting a pink … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: Top of this week’s TV cops? Sorry James Nesbitt, it’s no contest 

Bloodlands BBC1, Sunday Rating: Unforgotten ITV, Monday Rating: A new thriller and the return of an established one this week, and I know which I preferred. (Big clue: the stars I’ve awarded. Sorry for that spoiler.) The new thriller is Bloodlands, a four-parter by first-time writer Chris Brandon. He sent his script to the BBC … Read more

Deborah Knight pays tribute to Hannah Clarke through her choice of clothing on the Today show 

Deborah Knight pays a touching tribute to murdered mother Hannah Clarke on the one-year anniversary of her tragic death By Zoe Burrell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:38 GMT, 20 February 2021 | Updated: 05:38 GMT, 20 February 2021 On Friday, Deborah Knight paid tribute to murdered mother Hannah Clarke.  While filling in for host … Read more

Deborah Knight poses for a selfie with Karl Stefanovic as she co-hosts Today

No hard feelings? Deborah Knight smiles for a selfie with Karl Stefanovic as she co-hosts the Today show… two years after their rumoured feud By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 22:35 GMT, 18 February 2021 | Updated: 22:48 GMT, 18 February 2021 Deborah Knight was rumoured to have had a strained relationship with Karl … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: I’m a celebrity… get me yet another boring travel show 

Cornwall And Devon Walks With Julia Bradbury ITV, Wednesday Rating: Darcey Bussell’s Wild Coasts Of Scotland More4, Monday  Rating: Joanna Lumley’s Home Sweet Home: Travels In My Own Land ITV, Tuesday Rating: Extraordinary Escapes With Sandi Toksvig Channel 4, Wednesday Rating: Television has a monstrous appetite for new programming, but how do you feed the … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: Can Jill Halfpenny find her missing son in The Drowning – or even just a decent coat?

The Drowning Channel 5, Monday-Thursday Rating: The Investigation BBC2, Friday Rating: And so on to what feels like the 768th missing-child thriller of recent years, and this time it’s The Drowning. It starred Jill Halfpenny as Jodie, whose four-year-old son, Tom, drowned a decade ago during a family picnic at a park lake but no … Read more