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TV tonight: Our highlights for Sunday, August 13

A Spy Among Friends is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

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TV tonight: Lesley Manville’s overlooked war drama World on Fire returns

The cast also boasts the Little Mermaid star Jonah Hauer-King. Plus, how women won the right to get in the fighting ring. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

A Spy Among Friends: release date, cast, interviews, plot, trailer, first looks and all about the espionage drama

A Spy Among Friends stars Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce in an espionage thriller based on a true story of treachery during the Cold War.

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TV tonight: Our highlights for Sunday, July 9

A Spy Among Friends is just one of the gems on TV tonight

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TV Tinsel: Candid and determined, British actress Anna Maxwell Martin is the real deal

Actress Anna Maxwell Martin obliterates the stereotype of the ever-so-proper British matron sipping tea from a porcelain cup. Leaning back in her straight-backed chair and plopping her arm on the table in front of her, Martin admits that one of her failings is her penchant for telling the unvarnished truth.…

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Inside Cold War spy Kim Philby's life - sex, deception and double-dealing

Biographer James Hanning tells of his fascination with Kim Philby, who was played by Guy Pearce in the ITV series A Spy Among Friends. He spied for the Russians while working as a British secret agent

Daily Mirror

Betwixmas television: The best TV series to binge between Christmas and New Year’s Eve

The most bingeworthy boxsets to unwrap this Christmas

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The week in TV: I Am Ruth; Harry & Meghan; A Spy Among Friends; The Confessions of Frannie Langton

Kate Winslet and daughter hit home; the Sussexes’ docu-marathon gets under way; Guy Pearce excels as a sharkish Kim Philby; and hats off to the ‘anti-Bridgerton’

The Guardian - UK

'ITV's A Spy Among Friends so good it should be savoured and not binged'

The small screen spectacle of Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce and Anna Maxwell Martin in ITV's A Spy Among Friends should be savoured and not devoured, says Ian Hyland

Daily Mirror

Extreme times: polarised politics and what we can learn from the past

Compelling new ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends explores the real-life private and public fallout that ensues when MI6 agent Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) discovers his decades-long colleague and friend Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) is a communist double-agent, radicalised at university and recruited by the KGB to spill top-level secrets.…

The Independent UK

From dead drops to laser-spying: tradecraft through the decades

New ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends explores the incredible story of two real-life MI6 spies – Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) and Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) – whose decades-long friendship fell apart when Philby was revealed to be a treacherous double agent, spilling secrets to the KGB. Here historian Guy…

The Independent UK

Telling the tale of two spies: Ben Macintyre and Alexander Cary Q&A

ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends, starring Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis, throws new light on the Kim Philby affair via his friendship with (and brutal betrayal of) fellow MI6 agent Nicholas Elliott. Here writer Adam Smith talks to executive producer Alexander Carey and author Ben Macintyre (whose book the…

The Independent UK

A Spy Among Friends review: ITVX’s big-budget adaptation is like a slug of hot mulled wine

Guy Pearce and Damien Lewis star in the inside story of the capture of Soviet double-agent

The Independent UK

A Spy Among Friends review – don’t take your eyes off this star-packed espionage thriller

Guy Pearce is a charismatic traitor, Damian Lewis is an enigma and Anna Maxwell Martin carries along a fabulous drama that’s full of excitement – if a tad stuffy

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A Spy Among Friends on ITVX review: terrific cast, disappointing material

Damian Lewis is impossibly po-faced in this buttoned-up espionage drama

Wales Online

The intriguing and heart-warming story of the isolated mountain railway cottage almost lost forever

From a musical icon to a double-agent spy to a characterful couple whose ashes were scattered at the site - this remote cottage has welcomed them all to its amazing story that almost ended in dereliction

Evening Standard

ITV release star-studded A Spy Among Friends trailer ahead of new streaming service launch

The new series is among a huge programme roll out for the new streaming platform

Evening Standard

What to watch on ITVX, from A Spy Among Friends to Litvinenko to Riches

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Neal Ascherson at 90: ‘Journalism was easier in my time. You had more time to think’

The distinguished former Observer foreign correspondent reflects on an extraordinary life – beginning with a horrifying brush with a Luftwaffe machine gunner

The Guardian - UK

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review – ingenious, essential viewing from Adam Curtis

Showing everyone from reindeer herders to scientists wrapping themselves in sticky tape to head into Chernobyl, this fine series traces the latterday Russian revolution that brought in a kleptocracy and paved the way for Putin

The Guardian - UK

MI5 missed early chance to expose Soviet agent Kim Philby, files reveal

British intelligence viewed Flora Solomon as ‘inconsequential’ in 1951 but her evidence later ‘clinched’ case against Philby

Daily Mirror

Becks on Disney + to Emily Blunt western, what to watch on TV this autumn

As autumn sets in, there is nothing we like better than curling up on the sofa under a rug and watching the telly. It's a good thing then that there's a whole host of new shows to watch, from Netflix chillers to spy thrillers

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Kit Harington opens up about his family history

The former Game of Thrones star uncovers family links to Ian Fleming and spy Kim Philby. Plus: big changes are afoot for the vets in All Creatures Great and Small. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Moral arguments alone not enough to justify spying, says MI6 ethics chief

Book review says in reality, intelligence agencies are tasked ‘to defend the national interest for its own sake’

The Guardian - UK

Charlotte Philby: ‘We visited Kim in Moscow’

The spy novelist, whose latest book tells the story of her grandfather Kim Philby and the Soviet agent Edith Tudor-Hart, talks about the perils of writing about family, and why female spies get overlooked

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