TV tonight: David Dimbleby confronts a history of BBC scandals
The broadcaster remember the days that shook the corporation. Plus: Hogarthian scenes in Night Coppers. Here’s what to watch this evening
September 2021
Sarah Harding obituary
Girls Aloud singer who later wrote a memoir about her rackety life as a pop star and her cancer diagnosis
August 2021
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TV tonight: Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe return for a third supernatural series
The pair star once again as Alison and Mike in Ghosts. Plus: John and Gregg put another batch of famous faces to the test in Celebrity MasterChef . Here’s what to watch this evening
August 2020
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TV tonight: former teen star Billie Piper plays former teen star Suzie Pickles
Art imitates life in this new Sky Atlantic drama. Plus: Celebrity MasterChef’s best bits. Here’s what to watch this evening
July 2020
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Gregg Wallace: 'My daughter laughed when I said I wanted to go on Love Island'
The MasterChef judge on his plans to become an influencer, and why Boris Johnson’s coronavirus briefings made him cry
September 2019
How MasterChef’s India Fisher became the most-loved voiceover artist in the UK
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TV tonight: Jeremy Paxman returns to ask politicians what went wrong
October 2016
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Reverend Richard Coles: ‘If you doubted the possibility of miracles, I made it to the semis of MasterChef’
From pop stardom and battles with drugs and depression to Radio 4 regular, he’s no ordinary vicar
June 2016
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Celebrity MasterChef review – if anyone can befuddle John Torode, it’s Sinitta
The celebrity cooking contest has found a new secret weapon for its billionth series. Plus: possibly the last dying breath for TV property shows
July 2015
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Celebrity MasterChef 2015: Rylan, Scott, Kimberley or Sam – who should win?
From Rylan, the weaponised Bee Gee, to Kimberley, who tackles every task as if it were an attempt on Everest, every contestant in this series deserves to win. But who will it be?
June 2014
Andrew Collins: telly addict
Celebrity MasterChef; Tigers About the House; Alan Davies As Yet Untitled and more: TV review – video
Telly addict Andrew Collins gives his verdict on this week's TV
September 2013
Andrew Collins: telly addict
The week in TV: Educating Yorkshire, Jamie's Money Saving Meals, The Daily Show ... and more - video
Adrian Edmondson wins Celebrity MasterChef 2013
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Celebrity MasterChef: who should win?
Andrew Collins: telly addict
The Week in TV: The X Factor, My Hero, The Newsroom and What Remains – video
August 2013
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Celebrity MasterChef is back where it belongs: in our lives
Les Dennis, hotel funk, Jamie Theakston threatening custard and the bromance at the centre of it all, we hail the return of the cooking show that remembers to be fun
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Rewind TV: Celebrity Masterchef; The Mill; The Dealership; Caligula with Mary Beard; BT Sport – review
It was scary in the kitchen, grim up north, deranged in Essex and illuminating in ancient Rome, writes Euan Ferguson
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Celebrity MasterChef reheated for primetime viewing
Stuart Heritage: A typically combative Janet Street-Porter and some cute inter-host bromance cooked up the energy that the new series of Celebrity MasterChef desperately needed
September 2012
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Celebrity MasterChef: who should win?
Stuart Heritage: The show may have been relegated to a teatime slot this year, but Emma Kennedy, Danny Mills and Michael Underwood have all cooked great plates of food. Who will lift the trophy?
December 2011
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Kirsty Wark: 'People at Newsnight are obsessed with MasterChef'
The Newsnight presenter is trenchant about the programme's critics, deep-fried Mars bars and her near miss on MasterChef. It still haunts her, she tells Carole Cadwalladr
