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The Guardian - UK
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Entertainment
Kate Abbott and Stuart Heritage

The 50 best TV shows to watch this autumn

Blade Runner Harry Potter Joe Lycett Apple TV+ Channel 4 United States Hunter Schafer Matthew McConaughey Michelle Yeoh Prime Video
Coming up … David Tennant in Time and Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer in Bladerunner 2099.
Coming up … David Tennant in Time and Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer in Bladerunner 2099. Composite: Guardian Design/BBC/BBC Studios/Peter Marley

The Lycett Arms

Wayward and chaotic, in the grand tradition of The Word and TFI Friday, Late Night Lycett proved that Joe Lycett had fully inherited Friday nights on Channel 4. Its follow-up sounds even more TFI-esque. The Lycett Arms is a real east London pub, open for just one hour a week, which required Lycett to train to be accredited with a level 2 award for personal licence holders. The show promises “top-drawer comedy entertainment from Joe and a pub full of celebrity guests”. What could possibly go wrong?
• Channel 4, 4 September

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