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2019 TV: what happened next?

What came after the biggest television moments of the year

  • Coronation Street – the Bailey family

    'The pressure is immense': catching up with Corrie's first black family

  • I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson.

    Meet Focus Group Man: the most unlikely meme of 2019

  • Hunter Schafer and Zendaya in Euphoria.

    'I must be dreaming!' The trans teen who came face-to-face with her Euphoria idol

  • Group hug: Jonathan Van Ness with his former music teacher Kathi Dooley in Queer Eye’s fourth series.

    'It was very hurtful' – what really happens when Queer Eye comes to town?

  • John Bercow, the former Speaker of the Commons.

    Order, order! How BBC Parliament became the toast of TV

    Political pandemonium turned a tiny channel into the BBC’s runaway success of the year. Its controller Peter Knowles reflects on a remarkable 12 months
  • Motsi Mabuse on Strictly Come Dancing.

    Motsi Mabuse: ‘People didn't expect black people in ballgowns’

    Strictly’s newest judge learned to stick up for herself in apartheid-era South Africa. She talks racism, the ‘rift’ with her sister Oti – and learning to dance amid knife fights
  • ‘Playing Kendall has been like holding myself under ice...’ Jeremy Strong.

    'They're damaged': Succession’s Jeremy Strong on sibling hell – and that cringey rap

    It was the show of the year and he was its cold heart. The actor talks about fracturing his feet, concocting that ludicrous rap – and what’s next for the Roy evil empire
  • A very needy crush: Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Fleabag.

    Kneel! How the whole world bowed down to Fleabag ... and her Hot Priest

    There was no escaping Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s comedy this year. It transformed our porn habits, sent gin-in-a-tin sales soaring ... and then the Catholic church weighed in
  • ‘No one would sell fridge magnets at Auschwitz’: the souvenir stand on the edge of The Zone near Chernobyl.

    Radioactive ice-cream and penis graffiti: how toxic TV tourists took over Chernobyl

    First came the army of HBO fans snapping selfies in radioactive rooms. Then came the love locks ... and the tourist deaths
  • Emily Maitlis with Prince Andrew in Buckingham Palace ahead of the Newsnight interview.

    Emily Maitlis: ‘Prince Andrew was unleashed. He wanted to tell me everything’

    Newsnight was granted a rare audience with the royal ... and after a decade of silence, he was unstoppable. Its presenter shares the secrets of the interview of the century
  • ‘I’m amazed at how serene they’ve been through all this’: Dan Reed (centre) with Wade Robson (left) and James Safechuck.

    ‘I was surprised how unceasing the abuse was’: the fallout from Leaving Neverland

  • Coffee to go? The cup that crossed the seven kingdoms.

    Mad props! How Game of Thrones gave us the mystery of the year

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