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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Graeme Virtue, Phil Harrison and Henry Wong

TV tonight: The Time Traveler’s Wife should be excellent … but is it?

Rose Leslie and Theo James in The Time Traveler’s Wife.
Here today, gone tomorrow … Rose Leslie and Theo James in The Time Traveler’s Wife. Photograph: HBO/2021 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO® and all related programs are the property of Home Box Office, Inc.

The Time Traveler’s Wife
9pm, Sky Atlantic

Everything about this latest adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s time-travel romance novel should make it excellent: it’s a beloved story, Steven Moffat (Sherlock, Doctor Who) is the writer and Game of Thrones’ Rose Leslie the star. And yet … it’s somehow not (blame the occasionally appalling dialogue). For those unfamiliar with the tale, it switches between following Clare (Leslie) and her time-travelling husband Henry (Theo James). Hollie Richardson

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