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For the Love of Dogs review – Alison Hammond brilliantly fills Paul O’Grady’s shoes

Hammond takes over presenting duties at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home – and gets all the tails wagging. Just like that, canine TV’s top dog should stay the leader of the pack

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‘The courgettes were so good last year, I got a tattoo of one’: life on a Birmingham allotment

A city of welly-wearers, Birmingham has more allotments than any other UK local authority – some of its keen plotholders tell us why

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Kurt Cobain: Moments That Shook Music review – even 30 years on, his death seems utterly tragic

This documentary about the Nirvana singer’s demise is at its best when it uses archive interviews with fans to show the scale of their loss. Otherwise, it struggles to really convey his impact

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Baby Reindeer review – features the most chilling TV episode of the entire year

Scottish comedian Richard Gadd’s borderline horror about a female stalker is brilliantly eerie. It’s tense, creepily filmed television that will stay with you for a long time to come

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Race Across the World series four review – TV that makes you feel that there is hope

It’s back! The BBC’s smartphone-free travel sends contestants racing from Japan to Indonesia, and it’s as full of human kindness and intimate relationship portraits as ever

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‘Unfurling tension and menace’: how slow TV like Ripley makes for a truly gripping watch

Elegant, luxurious, catlike … Netflix’s Andrew Scott-starring series is devastatingly unhurried – although not all viewers agree

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Tracker review – like a daft Sherlock, but with more topless scenes

This big, bold drama about a lone wolf who hunts down missing people has been a mega-hit in the US. Thanks partly to its lead cracking unfathomable mysteries and spending a lot of time shirtless

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Float series two – this poignant lesbian romance is packed with chemistry

The coastal setting is beautiful, the central couple are messily believable and it’s an eerily accurate homage to small-town life. Hopefully sewage won’t get in the way of all the tender, water-based bonding

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MasterChef turns 20! The cookery competition just gets better and better

It made TV culinary showdowns fun – and it shows no signs of stopping. From the spinoffs to new rounds, there’s no danger of this televisual institution going off the boil

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The Underdog: Josh Must Win review – this sham reality show is like old-school Big Brother, but better

Nick Grimshaw and his celebrity pals need to make sure an ‘underdog’ wins a fake reality competition. It’s a fun, canny spectacle that completely shakes up the genre

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Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods review – a harrowing vision of hell you will never forget

In this distressingly intimate film, Ukrainian soldiers as young as 19 carry their dying comrades through a freezing forest as the sky turns red with gunfire. Their horror and humanity will never leave you

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Wonka: The Scandal that Rocked Britain review – a whole hour of TV on the chocolate disaster that went viral

Willy’s Chocolate Experience should have wowed the children of Glasgow. Instead it was so bad it became an instant classic – unlike this overblown documentary

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Is University Really Worth It? review – not when students are left starving

This bleak, eye-opening film finds mass strikes, gobsmacking whistleblower lecturers and med students forced to survive on food rations of £10 a week. Higher education is failing so many

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Extraordinary season two review – does anal 3D-printing count as a superpower now?

The sparky comedy show that takes superhero shenanigans to sublime heights of silliness is back – and this time, it’s as profound as it is crude. Brace yourself for a body-splitting, time-rewinding, dead-communing romp

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Dead Hot review – it’s Skins meets Queer As Folk … but way weirder

Charlotte Coben’s zany thriller about a missing man who left a severed finger behind has plenty of whiplash-inducing twists. She’s clearly cut from the same cloth as her dad Harlan

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Darren McGarvey: The State We’re In review – this whip-smart look at life in the UK absolutely flies by

How did Britain get to this point – and what can be done? The Scottish musician and writer’s provocative documentary comes at the question from a highly refreshing perspective

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Shōgun review – a mesmerising epic that goes big on the gore

Strap yourself in for a wild adventure in feudal Japan. This lavish adaptation of the classic samurai novel is beautiful, intellectual fare that amply rewards your full attention. But be warned: it’s gruesome from the get-go

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Out of Order review – perfectly raucous post-pub television is back

Rosie Jones, Judi Love and Katherine Ryan are the comedy supergroup we didn’t know we needed. But you might want to save this wild panel show for Friday night

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Prisoner review – this brutal Danish drama grabs you by the scruff of the neck and won’t let go

The Killing’s Sofie Gråbøl leads a cast of officers and inmates in an impossibly taut and compelling series. It’s all-action right from the start – utterly gripping

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Constellation review – this slick space thriller is the heir to Gravity

It’s yet another classy, elegant science fiction Apple series – but which will occasionally make you jump out of your skin. It’s an unsettling, disorientating watch, with a tendency to lapses in energy

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Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin review – the moments of honesty are utterly arresting

Doherty’s wife’s intimate, up-close-and-personal film about the star’s messy relationship with hard drugs might be lacking in analysis – but the genuine soul-baring is captivating

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The Drought review – Spain’s answer to The Bridge

This highly entertaining crime drama set near Spain and Portugal’s border is a gripping tale of greed and power. It’s the Iberian heir to the antics of Saga Norén

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Bring the Drama review – Bill Bailey’s new acting competition is a warning sign for us all

This talent show’s attempt to open up acting to more than just the wealthy is warm and gentle. But if this is what it takes to broaden access, society is in deep trouble

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Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions by Ed Zwick review – the director’s cut

A Hollywood veteran dishes up irresistible servings of industry gossip, as well as tips for surviving the movie-making process

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The Hairy Bikers Go West review – an absolutely magical return to the open road

Their first series since Dave Myers was diagnosed with cancer is so funny, welcoming and hopeful that it would warm the heart of even the most hardened misanthrope

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