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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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2024

‘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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2024