TV tonight: Anthony Joshua reveals all to Louis Theroux
The roving reporter takes on the former heavyweight boxing champion. Plus: Bake Off continues. Here’s what to watch this evening
July 2023
TV review
Full Circle review – Steven Soderbergh’s hit-and-miss noir series
The film-maker brings a visually distinctive yet narratively muddled thriller to life with help from an on-form Claire Danes and an off-key Zazie Beetz
June 2023
Best culture of 2023 so far
The best TV of 2023 so far
A tantalising new cop drama, a thrilling trip down the rage super highway and wicked fun on the labour ward – here are the year’s telly highlights up to now
February 2023
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Fleishman Is in Trouble; You & Me; The Consultant; The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate
TV review
Fleishman Is in Trouble review – Jesse Eisenberg’s endlessly witty divorce drama is almost too good
November 2022
TV review
Fleishman Is in Trouble review – Jesse Eisenberg unravels in a smart comedy series
A hit-and-miss adaptation of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s 2019 novel brings almost too much to the table in its tale of struggling adult New Yorkers
May 2022
TV review
The Essex Serpent review – Claire Danes is magnificent … unlike Tom Hiddleston
The watcher
The Essex Serpent: such a slog surely no one will make it past episode one
September 2020
A Kid Like Jake review – a film about gender that dodges any debate
A couple use their boy’s love of Disney dress-up to get him into a private pre-school in a film that fails to do its premise justice
May 2020
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: The A Word, Isolation Stories, The Eddy; Trying; Homeland – review
Peter Bowker’s wry autism drama returned to fresh complications, ITV went full lockdown, and Netflix’s jazz story was all tuned up with nowhere to go
April 2020
Claire Danes on the end of Homeland: 'It was so nice to play such a badass'
The landmark drama’s star reflects on how playing Carrie Mathison – and learning from real spies – has shaped her view of politics
February 2020
Homeland: the show that became a work of genius – after you stopped watching
Sound and vision
This week’s best home entertainment: from Homeland to Hunters
April 2018
Why Homeland deserves to go out on top
Thanks to a former CIA man in the writer’s room, the show has had an uncanny ability to predict world events. But, after seven years, its time has come
February 2018
The watcher
Homeland: Claire Danes sulks her way through more relentless catastrophising
What was once unmissable event TV is now struggling to find its place in Trump’s world. But one thing’s for sure: Carrie loves scrambled eggs
August 2017
Riot grrrls, beta males and fluid fashion: how My So-Called Life changed TV forever
The show lasted only one series, but it rewrote television’s rules, breaking down conventions and giving teens an authentic voice
January 2017
Homeland hits New York City: 'Things are very disrupted here at home'
The producers of the hit thriller’s sixth season talk about the decision to relocate Claire Danes’ Carrie to the US which, as in the real world, has a new president
November 2016
Romeo + Juliet at 20: Baz Luhrmann's adaptation refuses to age
The extravagantly mounted adaptation of Shakespeare’s doomed romance remains as youthful and effervescent as ever
September 2016
Donald Trump, Claire Danes and the politics of fake tan
Claire Danes’s excessive use of bronzer at the Emmys sparked many Twitter jokes. But was she embracing the Republican candidate’s pallor message: you’ve got to fake it to make it?
August 2016
Clive James: adventures in box sets, from The West Wing to Weeds
Clive James loves to read, but nothing beats a box set binge. He salutes his greatest passions
