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Historical drama (TV)

April 2024

  • ‘We were in castles, on horses – and up to our necks in a bog!’ … Hughes as Shardlake.

    ‘I know what it’s like to be stared at’: Shardlake star Arthur Hughes on playing CJ Sansom’s disabled Tudor sleuth

    He was the first disabled actor to play Richard III at the RSC. As he appears as Shardlake, the star recalls the parts that made him – and explains why this latest character is like the Lone Ranger
  • Arthur Hughes in Shardlake.

    The watcher
    Shardlake: murder mysteries don’t get more fantastically creepy than this

    Set in a spooky Tudor monastery, Arthur Hughes and Sean Bean must solve a fateful crime while all the monks seemingly have secret affairs. It’s fun, knowing TV … I just hope you’ve all done A-level history
  • Jonah Hauer-King photographed in London by Suki Dhanda for the Guardian.

    ‘Shaving my head became so poignant’: Jonah Hauer-King on The Tattooist of Auschwitz and his extraordinary family story

    He melted hearts as Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid, but his latest role couldn’t be more different – playing an Auschwitz tattooist in an epic Holocaust drama. The actor opens up about how his own family’s plight inspired him

March 2024

  • Tony Curran.

    ‘We had a very dry orgy!’ Tony Curran on mastering Jacobean sex for Mary & George

    The actor stars alongside Julianne Moore in this salacious TV drama about the troubled monarch’s lascivious life. He explains how he negotiated palace backstabbing – and stately home sex shoots

February 2024

  • Two policeman drag away a striking miner at Orgreave, 1984

    ‘They didn’t understand us at all’: why the miners’ strike still captivates Britain, 40 years on

    Artists, writers and film-makers have long been inspired by the stories – and myths – of the 1984-5 strike. But how do those most affected by its legacy feel about the portrayals?

January 2024

  • Ncuti Gatwa in Masters of the Air.

    ‘They fought flak, frostbite – and the Nazis’: Spielberg, Hanks and the heroes of Masters of the Air

    Completing the trilogy that began with Band of Brothers and The Pacific, this epic mega-budget TV series tells the brutal, thrilling story of the US bombing raids that left from East Anglia. We meet its stars

November 2023

  • There goes the knighthood! How The Crown blew the palace doors off

    A deluge of royal dramas is now being unleashed on screen and stage – with scant regard for accuracy. Is this The Crown’s legacy? As the lavish hit returns, we look at how it finally destroyed deference

July 2023

  • A marriage made in hell … Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult in series three of The Great.

    Russian romps and roller discos! Behind the scenes of The Great, the raciest show on TV

    Makeup sex! Booze! Broken bones! As the saucy period comedy-drama returns, stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult spill their secrets

February 2023

  • A scene from The Story of Flanders dealing with the Battle of the Golden Spurs.

    Lavish Flemish epic grips Belgians – but is it history or propaganda?

    The Story of Flanders, spanning 38,000 years of the region’s history, is funded by the nationalist government and is accused of stretching the truth

December 2022

  • Jack O’Connell as Paddy Mayne in the final episode of SAS Rogue Heroes

    Guns, death and Daddy issues: why SAS Rogue Heroes is one of the year’s most emotional TV shows

    This brilliant series from the Peaky Blinders creator might be a high-octane, action-packed riot – but it’s also tender, touching and funny. Its finale will not disappoint

November 2022

  • ‘I would read antique pornography and copy out the lesbian bits’ … Elaine Cassidy and Sally Hawkins in the BBC adaptation.

    ‘My diabolical delight’ – Sarah Waters on her rip-roaring, salacious classic Fingersmith

    As her thrilling story of swindlers preying on an heiress turns 20, the author recalls the sinful inspiration Victorian pornography gave her – and the fans who turned their favourite lines into tattoos
    • Warning: contains spoilers

October 2022

  • RHS Chelsea Flower Show Kicks Off After Pandemic-Related Delay<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 20: Dame Judi Dench stands with Chelsea pensioners on the RHS Queen's Green Canopy Garden on Chelsea Flower Shows' press day on September 20, 2021 in London, England. This year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show was delayed from its usual spring dates due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which also prompted its cancellation last year. Previously, only two World Wars had caused the event's suspension. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images,)

    Judi Dench wins royal rumble as Netflix labels The Crown ‘fictional dramatisation’

    Trailer now comes with disclaimer after the actor accused the show of sacrificing accuracy for ‘crude sensationalism’

September 2022

  • Hilary Mantel pictured in 2017 for her Reith lectures, entitled Resurrection: The Art and Craft.

    Dame Hilary Mantel obituary

    Double Booker prize-winning author best known for her Wolf Hall trilogy based on the life of Thomas Cromwell

July 2022

  • Jon Hamm as Don Draper in Mad Men, season seven

    Mad Men at 15: how the genius advertising drama foresaw the death of the American dream

    From the micro-aggressions toward Black, female and LGBTQ characters to its depiction of a worrying narcissist named Donald, this forward-thinking drama was a warning from history

June 2022

  • Electric … Alicia von Rittberg as the young Elizabeth in Starzplay’s Becoming Elizabeth.

    TV review
    Becoming Elizabeth review – like Succession, but sexier

    This romp through the Tudor court shows a poisonous family power struggle with sex at its heart – and with so many fascinating monsters on screen, you won’t be able to look away

April 2022

  • Rupert Friend and Sienna Miller play a Tory MP and his long-suffering wife in Anatomy of a Scandal.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Anatomy of a Scandal; Derry Girls; Killing Eve; Gentleman Jack

    Art imitates life in a probing Westminster thriller; more laughs with Lisa McGee’s Troubles comedy; Eve and Villanelle go out with a bang; and the dapper diarist is back

November 2021

  • Diana Gabaldon

    Outlander author Diana Gabaldon: ‘I needed Scotsmen because of the kilt factor’

    She secretly wrote the first of her time-travelling novels while her husband slept. Now she’s published the ninth in the smash hit series. She talks explosive sex scenes – and where George RR Martin went wrong

October 2021

  • A still from the SBS drama series, New Gold Mountain

    Australian TV review
    New Gold Mountain review – lush neo-western takes a new route through gold rush Australia

  • WARNING: Embargoed for publication until 00:01:00 on 22/06/2021 - Programme Name: The North Water - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. 1) - Picture Shows: ** GENERAL RELEASE ** Patrick Sumner (JACK O’CONNELL), Captain Brownlee (STEPHEN GRAHAM) - (C) See-Saw Films - Photographer: Nick Wall

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Jack O’Connell’s Arctic agonies escalate

September 2021

  • Colin Farrell in The North Water.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The North Water; Wolfe; My Childhood, My Country; Imagine: Tom Stoppard; Big Age

    A dark whaling tale brings out the wonderful worst in Colin Farrell, Paul Abbott goes cartoonish with a bipolar pathologist, plus author Bolu Babalola’s sparky new comedy
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