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Netflix Just Quietly Released The Best Spy Thriller Of The Year

'Legends' tells the true story of British Customs agents going deep cover in a gripping Netflix series.

Inverse

Legends review – Steve Coogan stars in an Eighties-set drug thriller that is less than the sum of its parts

3/5 Engaging but not gripping, authentic but not original – Netflix’s latest outing adds to the growing pile of risk-averse television

The Independent UK

Legends review – Steve Coogan takes on Britain’s biggest drug gang

This astounding true story, written by Neil Forsyth, asks the question: what if the A-Team was comprised entirely of disgruntled customs officers?

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Legends on Netflix: The undercover customs officials who busted £1bn worth of class-A drugs

IN FOCUS : Neil Forsyth’s new six-part Netflix thriller is based on a top-secret operation that few people knew existed. Patrick Smith meets the man who lived it, Guy Stanton, and the writer who brought it to the screen

The Independent UK

3 thrilling new Netflix shows you shouldn't miss in May 2026

Get your thrills with Netflix this May, as three great new originals are streaming throughout the month.

TechRadar

Olivier Awards 2026: Full list of nominations as Paddington and Into the Woods dominate

Nick Mohammed will host the Olivier Awards at The Royal Albert Hall in April

The Independent UK

BBC announces new dark comedy drama

The six part series is named Shy & Lola and features an unlikely duo who ‘turn out to have a talent for crime’.

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The Night Manager season 2 is back and better than ever after 10 years — with an incredibly sexy new villain

After 10 years of waiting patiently, The Night Manager season 2 is back... and boy does it defy all expectations.

TechRadar

All My Sons review: 'An astonishing, deeply moving piece of theatre'

5/5 Bryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Paapa Essiedu are pitch perfect in this Arthur Miller revival

Evening Standard

Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘I’d work for Mike Leigh again in a heartbeat – in fact, I’ll pay him!’

The actor moved to LA 22 years ago. Now she’s back in the UK to star alongside Bryan Cranston in All My Sons. She talks about the frightening rehearsal schedule, how she’d work again with Mike Leigh in a heartbeat, and why she’s taking up boot-making

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Death of England: Closing Time; Sunset Boulevard – review

The fourth in Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation play series is precise, fierce and moving, while Nicole Scherzinger hammers home the drama as Norma Desmond

The Guardian - UK

Death of England: Closing Time at the National Theatre review – uniquely brilliant

Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Hayley Squires are riveting, creating a love-hate relationship that feels deep, detailed and combustively alive

Evening Standard

Death of England: Closing Time review – riotous comedy with a serious sting

Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ state-of-the-nation series continues, this time giving the perspective of the women in its central duo’s lives

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Hayley Squires’s cultural highlights

The Bafta-nominated British actor on the book that broke her heart, a gig to remember with 50,000 Geordies, and Daniel Kaluuya’s new film

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BBC One's Great Expectations full cast: Who stars in the BBC adaptation alongside Trystan Gravelle

New BBC One drama Great Expectations features an impressive cast including Olivia Coleman and Welsh star Trystan Gravelle

WhatToWatch

Great Expectations cast: who's who in the Steven Knight adaptation

The Great Expectations cast features some huge stars. Here are all the major players in the new BBC series.

The Guardian - UK

This is England … and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: where to find the UK’s greatest film scenes

From aliens cruising Glasgow to punks rocking Belfast, most regions of the UK have had their big-screen moment. Our critics take us on a tour of some of their favourite locations

Daily Record

Lanarkshire hair stylists prep film stars for red carpet at BAFTA Scotland Awards

Staff from Rainbow Room International were backstage with some of Scotland's biggest TV and film stars

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Daniel Mays on Line of Duty, female rage and working-class representation: ‘Where’s the next Gary Oldman?’

‘The more that men understand the anxieties and emotions and trauma that women experience, the better’

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Control Room; Maryland; Unvaccinated; Better Things

An emergency call handler is bombarded with improbable plot twists in the BBC’s new thriller; playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s fury sears on the small screen; and Covid vaccine sceptics get the needle

The Guardian - UK

Maryland review – 25 minutes of female fury that speaks for us all

Lucy Kirkwood’s rage-filled, agonisingly truthful drama about two women attacked by the same man – and the woeful police response – perfectly captures generations of anger and pain

The Independent UK

Maryland review: An angry, galvanising call to action on women’s safety

Short and sharp, Lucy Kirkwood’s play-turned-film is one that everyone should watch

Evening Standard

Maryland on BBC Two review: Lucy Kirkwood’s film about sexual violence is horribly, depressingly necessary

The playwright has adapted her ‘howl’ of rage, written after the murder of Sabina Nessa, for the screen

The Independent UK

Maryland writer Lucy Kirkwood: ‘The normalisation of violence against women is generationally handed down’

The Olivier award-winning playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s short play ‘Maryland’, written in response to the murders of several women, has been made into a BBC film. She talks to Jessie Thompson about the gendered compromises women make to be safe, pseudonyms, and being in her ‘f*** it’ era

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Lucy Kirkwood’s blistering drama about sexual violence

Zawe Ashton and Hayley Squires star in a powerful short film about the treatment of rape victims. Plus: Frank Skinner on The South Bank Show. Here’s what to watch this evening

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