‘Forget the football and the election – this is the event of the year’: what to watch on TV right now
Bored with the Euros and wall-to-wall debates? Here’s what else you can tune in to over the next fortnight (including the return of the greatest show of our time)
January 2024
Knives, guns, poison: the bizarre catastrophes that befell hit TV shows
From the murder inspired by Breaking Bad on 3 Body Problem to stabbings on Lost and ‘awful explosive diarrhoea’, TV sets are so often littered with strange tragedies
February 2023
‘I’ve never forgotten it’: the very best (and very worst) TV endings of all time
From The Sopranos’ unbeatable conclusion to the nonsensical anticlimax of Game of Thrones, here are the most memorable TV finales of all time – for varying reasons …
June 2022
‘I had to lie to my co-workers for months’: the art of delivering a great TV twist
The creators of The Good Place and Severance reveal how they pulled off some of the most fiendish plot reveals of recent years – and the importance of avoiding ‘twistflation’
March 2022
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‘Good times? I was out of it’: The Dropout’s Naveen Andrews on booze, drugs and baffling the world in Lost
He found fame in The English Patient before becoming a huge TV star. Now he is tackling the Theranos fraud scandal. But addiction in the 90s nearly cost him everything
February 2022
There's a podcast for that
Nostalgia, ultra: the best podcasts on all things retro
Whether you’re after fond reminiscences about The A-Team or investigations of truant fitness gurus, there’s a podcast for that
August 2021
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From Shonda Rhimes to Armando Iannucci: 10 of the best TV showrunners
A celebration of the brains behind some of the small screen’s biggest and best shows, including The Wire, Grey’s Anatomy and Friends
May 2021
‘Tarnished for ever’: why don’t great TV shows ever end well?
Line of Duty, Game of Thrones, Lost, Dexter ... so much TV goes from fan favourite to laughing stock the second its finale ends. Has any show ever stuck the landing?
April 2021
Lockdown culture
Hobbit forming: how Dominic Monaghan became obsessed with scorpions
Dominic Monaghan has starred in Lord of the Rings and Lost. But neither compare to the joys of gardening in LA – and raising deadly creatures
February 2021
'It's the best show ever': how showing Lost to my kids made me love it anew
Despite my warnings, the pilot had them hooked, so we all watched it together – 121 episodes, one each night – right through lockdowns one and two
September 2019
'Even the Queen needed to know!' The best TV cliffhangers ever
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January 2019
Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die
‘It’s doing what novels did 100 years ago’: how TV became a cultural force
May 2018
Eight years after it finished, why is Lost being reappraised?
Podcasters are obsessed with it, as are gamers, and Reddit won’t stop digging into it. So what is it about Lost that people still can’t get enough of?
March 2018
Instant gratification: are today's TV shows really too long?
As viewing habits change in the streaming era, viewers and critics increasingly complain about drawn-out programmes. But things were far more meandering in the 70s and 80s
February 2018
From Lost to Breaking Bad: how your favourite TV shows almost ended
Nailing a perfect finale is no easy feat and successful writers and showrunners have often toyed with multiple ways to say goodbye
January 2018
Do you dread a Lost revival? Here's how it can find its way again
The divisive show could be set to return, but with so many options open to its creators, it needs to go in the right direction. Here’s a simple foolproof plan
September 2017
Larry David to Lisa Simpson – life lessons from TV's top role models
From eight-year-old Mensa members to smeghead slobs and doll’s-house-loving detectives, here are the small-screen idols who have taught us everything
June 2017
From Line of Duty to Lost: what if things had ended differently?
The right finale can make a show great. Here, we consider alternative endings that were ditched in the edit. Warning! There will be spoilers
