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The 20 best TV shows of 2025, from Adolescence to The Celebrity Traitors

THE COUNTDOWN: Nick Hilton and Patrick Smith count down the greatest television this year had to offer, from poignant documentaries to agenda-setting dramas and irresistible reality TV

The Independent UK

LGBT+ artists decry Supreme Court ruling as tens of thousands turn out for rainy London Pride parade

‘Trans people right now, they need our support and love more than ever’, says musician and actor Olly Alexander

The Independent UK

LGBT artists decry Supreme Court ruling at rainy London Pride parade

Tens of thousands of people gathered in central London for this year’s Pride parade.

Evening Standard

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Paris Lees on her blazing trans drama: ‘I have this compulsive desire to tell the truth, even about the darkness within’

INTERVIEW: The warm and darkly funny author and journalist has turned the pain of her upbringing into the BBC’s latest hit show, ‘What It Feels Like for a Girl’. She speaks to Hannah Ewens about attention seeking, the ways the internet makes us sick and why she’s starting to rediscover…

The Independent UK

Ellis Howard: 'as a queer person, to wear your own skin is an act of protest'

The actor is stepping into a leading role, writing a show with James Graham and is a proud activist

Evening Standard

What It Feels Like For A Girl on BBC Three review: fearless and compelling TV

4/5 Ellis Howard shines in this adaptation of Paris Lee’s memoir of sex work, drugs and crime at the turn of the millennium

Evening Standard

Paris Lees adaptation What It Feels Like for a Girl is a raw, engaging case for optimism

4/5 Messy coming-of-age tale is both universal and rooted in the transgender experience

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TV tonight: Paris Lees’ captivating millennial coming-of-age drama

Byron is a working-class teenager desperate for a different life. Plus: a great art series continues with Lubaina Himid. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

‘All of us felt like we had touched gold’: What It Feels Like for a Girl, the BBC’s electric coming-of-age tale

Paris Lees has turned her hit memoir of growing up as a working-class trans kid into a vivid, joyful drama. Its team talks teenage sex work, nostalgia for Tony Blair, and why TV drama is so posh it’s like Jane Austen

The Guardian - UK

Paris Lees says coming-of-age BBC series ‘struck gold’ with cast

What It Feels Like For A Girl is based on journalist Paris Lees’ memoir, recounting her formative years when she lived as a boy named Byron.

Evening Standard

What It Feels Like For A Girl: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interview and everything you need to know

What It Feels Like For A Girl is a coming-of-age story following a frank and fearless trans woman.

WhatToWatch

Cost of living crisis sees return of Step Up For Scousers campaign

"I thought I'm going to do something about it myself"

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