Romeo & Juliet (Sky Arts/NowTV) Verdict: A little too grown up Rating: An Elephant In The Garden (barntheatre.org.uk) Verdict: Animal healing Rating: Where The Bugaboo Lives (littleangeltheatre.com) Verdict: Puppets enchant Zoom Rating: Prince Charles playing Romeo? Well, not quite, but it was a little disconcerting this week to see the features of the heir apparent in the … Read more
Intruder Rating: The Syndicate Rating: Wherever Intruder (Channel 5) is set, I want to live there. It’s clearly on the wild Irish coast — you can tell from the houses, the seascape and the rugged hills. It boasts a picturesque Celtic fishing harbour, and boozy wine bars with great seafood. There’s even a place that … Read more
Sort your life out Rating: Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic Rating: Look, I don’t want to sound like one of Monty Python’s four moaning Yorkshiremen, but when I was a lad I had one mug to drink from — and I counted myself lucky to have that. It’s true. My mother has never thrown it … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend’s TV: Forty years on, traitor Blunt may still be the Windsors’ downfall By Christopher Stevens for Daily Mail Published: 02:11 BST, 5 April 2021 | Updated: 02:11 BST, 5 April 2021 Queen Elizabeth And The Spy In The Palace Rating: Line Of Duty Rating: Royal documentaries now fill so much … Read more
Double down for domestic bliss: PETER HOSKIN reviews It Takes Two By Peter Hoskin For The Daily Mail Published: 02:01 BST, 2 April 2021 | Updated: 02:33 BST, 2 April 2021 It Takes Two Rating: A Way Out Rating: Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes Rating: Snipperclips Rating: Here’s the good news: with lockdown relaxing, you soon won’t … Read more
Sitting (BBC4, Wednesday 2.30pm) Verdict: You’ll be drawn in Rating: Scaramouche Jones (stream, theatre) Verdict: Richie re-born Rating: Sadie (BBC iPlayer) Verdict: Gritty but powerful Rating: People worry about the wrong things when they’re being painted. They think they’ll get bored, or restless. But what should really concern them is what they’ll say when they … Read more
In Jane Austen’s Footsteps With Gyles Brandreth Rating: This Is My House Rating: Life wasn’t so different a couple of hundred years ago. Sunseekers rushed to the beach on the first warm day in spring — and because bathing costumes hadn’t been invented, they all went skinny-dipping. There were riots on the streets of Bristol, … Read more
A straight-talking takeaway boss has won praise for hitting back at bad online reviews in a hilarious fashion. Alice Cheung, 50, runs Oriental Express in Leeds, which, despite its five star rating on Just Eat, still attracts the occasional complaint. But the restaurant owner is more than ready to put angry punters in their place. … Read more
I’m A Celebrity winner Abbie Chatfield hilariously reviews her first ever business class flight – but says she’d rather spend the money on cheese By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 14:06 BST, 28 March 2021 | Updated: 14:07 BST, 28 March 2021 I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! Australia winner Abbie Chatfield took … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Naming a child after your favourite pizza? That’ll take some topping! By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 02:10 GMT, 26 March 2021 | Updated: 02:12 GMT, 26 March 2021 Pizza Boys Rating: Discovering Westerns On Film Rating: Every dog you see these days has a human name. … Read more