From Dickinson to Rebecka Martinsson and Pieces Of A Woman: The best on demand TV to watch this week

APPLE TV+, SKY, BRITBOX & ACORN TV   Dickinson Quirky comedy drama about the great American poet Emily Dickinson, whose genius was unrecognised during her lifetime. In the show, which takes inspiration from her poetry as well as her life, Emily (Hailee Steinfeld) is a young woman, scornful of convention and ambitious as a writer … Read more

David Bowie single review: He runs the gamut from tenderness to torment

David Bowie                 Mother/Tryin’ To Get To Heaven                Out Friday Rating: ‘Five years,’ David Bowie sang at the start of Ziggy Stardust. ‘What a surprise.’ Next week marks five years since his death, which is only half-surprising. He remains ever-present, commemorated in every … Read more

From Joyce Carol Oates to Barry Schechter, Gemma Reeves and Isabel Ashdown: This week’s fiction 

From Joyce Carol Oates’s quartet of novellas to Useless Miracle by Barry Schechter, a kaleidoscopic debut by Gemma Reeves and Isabel Ashdown’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson and Madeleine Feeny and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 2 January 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 2 January 2021 Cardiff, By … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: Black Narcissus starring Aisling Franciosi is all so sinfully slooow, sister 

Black Narcissus BBC1, Sunday-Thursday Rating: The Serpent BBC1, Friday Rating: Black Narcissus is based on the novel by Rumer Godden and was famously filmed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in 1947, starring Deborah Kerr, but what that told so successfully in under two hours, this doesn’t manage in three.  This was soooooooo slooooooooow. It’s a … Read more

Pregnant Binky Felstead works out at home in a crop top showcasing her bump

Binky Felstead proved she’s still keeping fit and healthy despite her pregnancy on Saturday. The Made In Chelsea star, 30, took on a work out in her living room, posting it to Instagram, teasing her blossoming baby bump in a lilac crop top and grey leggings. Using just the coffee table and the floor to work … Read more

Illegal New Year’s Eve party for 100 was held at £4m home in England’s worst Covid hotspot

An illegal New Year’s Eve party attended by 100 people was held at a £4million home near Teddy Sheringham’s house in England’s worst Covid-19 hotspot. The rave, which was broken up by police, took place at a luxury property called Knoll House in the upmarket hamlet of Sewardstonebury in Epping Forest, Essex. Neighbours believe that … Read more

Mark Wright gets behind the controls of a demolition truck to tear down his £1.3m Essex home

Mark Wright gets behind the controls of a demolition truck to tear down the £1.3m Essex home he shares with wife Michelle Keegan in unseen 2020 throwback video By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 01:50 GMT, 2 January 2021 | Updated: 02:58 GMT, 2 January 2021 Michelle Keegan and Mark Wright had their £1.3 million Essex home … Read more

Bert Newton beams as he celebrates the New Year with his grandson after returning home from hospital

Bert Newton celebrated Christmas with his adoring family after he returned home from hospital following a mystery illness, late last year. And on Friday, the 82-year-old TV icon was once again joined by his loved ones as he rung in the New Year.  Bert’s doting wife Patti, 75, shared a sweet photo of him beaming … Read more

Brad Paisley gifts a new guitar to a Nashville explosion survivor… who lost his home

Brad Paisley gifts a brand-new guitar and groceries to Nashville bombing survivor who lost his home and car in Christmas Day blast  Brad Paisley is offering his support to a musician, named Buck McCoy, who is one of the many survivors from Nashville’s Christmas Day bombing   After watching the singer-songwriter reunite with his lost cat … Read more