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Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild, Series 10, Channel 5 review - living off your wits and below the radar in Sweden

Adam Sweeting

“I think we all dream of simplifying our lives and reconnecting with nature,” reckons Ben Fogle, and since this was the start of the tenth series of this show, he must have struck a chord with viewers. His first subject was 24-year-old Italian woman Annalisa Vitale, who’d dropped out of university in Italy despite her obvious academic potential and set out to build a life of self-reliance.

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Pose, Series 2, BBC Two review - satisfying return for one of TV's most triumphant dramas

Jill Chuah Masters

Pose offers something that is really rare in the TV world: it’s a show that manages to be both darkly sombre and completely uplifting.

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The Accident, Channel 4 review - Sarah Lancashire leads another bleak but gripping drama

Jill Chuah Masters

I wouldn’t want to live in Jack Thorne’s head. Nor Sarah Lancashire’s, for that matter.

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The Troubles: A Secret History, BBC Four, finale review - peace at last, but at what price?

Adam Sweeting

This terrifying but gripping BBC Four series about Northern Ireland’s savage sectarian war reached its conclusion with a meticulously detailed account of how hostilities were eventually brought to a close by the Good...

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The British Tribe Next Door, Channel 4 review - risible culture-clash farrago

Adam Sweeting

What’s the most ridiculous programme that Channel 4 has ever made? Sex Box? The Execution of Gary Glitter? Extreme Celebrity Detox? Whatever, The British Tribe Next Door is up there vying for supremacy.

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Spiral, Series 7, BBC Four review - hard-hitting return of our favourite French cop show

Adam Sweeting

And welcome back to our favourite French cop show – perhaps our favourite cop show from anywhere, in fact – which has raced into its seventh series (on BBC Four) with some typically grimy storylines about death and lowlife in a very de-romanticised Paris.

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Giri/Haji, BBC Two review - inspired Anglo-Japanese thriller makes compulsive viewing

Adam Sweeting

Well here’s an interesting one. We’ve been up to our eyebrows in Eurocops for the past few years, but this Anglo-Japanese fusion from BBC Two (the title translates as "Duty / Shame") feels strikingly fresh and different.

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In the Long Run, Series 2, Sky 1 review - Idris Elba's warm-hearted comedy returns

Jill Chuah Masters

Dust off the record player: Idris Elba’s Eighties comedy In the Long Run (Sky 1) has returned for a second series.

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Lenny Henry's Race Through Comedy, Gold review - illuminating account of TV's struggle to become multicultural

Adam Sweeting

Sir Lenny Henry, PhD and CBE, is scarcely recognisable as the teenager who made his TV debut on New Faces in 1975. He’s been a stand-up comedian, musician and Shakespearean actor, and even wrote his own dramatised autobiography for BBC One.

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Chaos in the Cockpit: Flights from Hell, Channel 5 review - do we really want to watch plane-wreck TV?

Adam Sweeting

Apparently your odds of dying in a plane crash are about one in 11 million, while chances of death in a car accident are about one in 5,000. Therefore flying is theoretically safe, and supposedly getting safer.

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