Which series was truly life-changing? And which stuck the biggest finger up to the bigots? Readers share the television that made them laugh, cry and come out

Hawes and Jack Davenport radiate as postwar lovers in Lucy Kirkwood’s post-war romantic drama set against the birth of the NHS

The new year’s hottest shows include stage versions of Minority Report, Spirited Away and La Strada, performances by Keeley Hawes and Ian McKellen – plus laughs from Julia Masli, Rhod Gilbert and Ania Magliano

Russell T Davies’s Aids drama was gut-wrenching and it made us weep time and again, but it also made us truly love the characters. What a devastating delight

Keeley Hawkes and Hugh Bonneville are decent as the actor and children’s author whose daughter died aged seven, but there is no real howl of pain

Keeley Hawes stars in a new dark comedy series from the makers of The Durrells. Plus: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion. Here’s what to watch this evening

Mike Bartlett fashions a superior soap, while recent US political history rears its Trumpian head

It’s one last push for the cockle-warming Corfu Brits as a barn owl, an ‘idle walrus’ and the ever-wonderful Keeley Hawes kick off the drama’s final series