TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week
July 19th-25th: including Mrs Robinson, Karen Pirie and Baz Luhrmann’s Faraway Downs
Danny Dyer
Pulse review: Plot is far from a priority in this Greys Anatomy-inspired soapy distraction
Television: It may be honkingly derivative but it sure goes down easily
Hugh Grant and Danny Dyer: Why these two treasures of contemporary culture were born to be on screen together
The actors have taken very different routes to the top of the hill, yet they are elegantly complementary
Personally, I find it really hot when men are nice to women
Danny Dyer becoming the sex symbol of 2025 was not on anyone’s bingo card but it proves how radically the female gaze swerves from its male counterpart
Rivals: The thrusting bum is intercut with spurting soap and overflowing champagne. We are in safe, if filthy, hands
Patrick Freyne: If I was in Disney+’s Jilly Cooper adaptation, someone would surely compliment my ‘magnificent column’
Danny Dyer could play a flautist in wartime Budapest, Percy Bysshe Shelley or Jesus Christ. He’s just that good
Instead he must play a cockney geezer with a penchant for violence but a heart of gold, over and over. He’s good at that, too
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
April 14th-19th: From Jordan Conroy and Danny Dyer’s separate explorations of masculinity to Alan Yentob’s encounter with synth-pop legends Pet Shop Boys
Henpocalypse!: A bash, bawdy chortle-fest with a sliver of ice in its soul
Television: A hen party has to survive on chocolate penises as civilisation collapses in Caroline Moran’s offbeat comedy horror series
‘I would like you to stop talking so tragically about your life,’ Chris Eubank hisses at Gazza
Patrick Freyne: On Scared of the Dark, Danny Dyer has locked eight celebs in a pitch-black bunker. He’s basically the angel of death
Prince Charles and Camilla to appear in EastEnders jubilee episode
Royals were filmed playing themselves during ‘historic’ day for BBC soap
Patrick Freyne: Why’s Danny Dyer challenging an Irishwoman? He messes with your nut
I’d watch The Wall host in anything, though. Cast him in your prestigious HBO drama, you cowards
EastEnders reaches peak absurdity with a 35th anniversary shipwreck
The special episode is a cut-price version of the Titanic movie, with added melodrama
How to turn racists’ genetic arguments against them
Every white supremacist has African ancestry, and every Nazi has Jewish heritage
Who wants to be a TV game show genius?
My licence fee isn’t paying for The Wall with Danny Dyer – someone else has that pleasure
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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