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why did Belle Gibson fake cancer? For likes, of course

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Sophie Anderson

Everyone on Instagram is a con artist to some degree. All those curated images selling the lie of a perfect lifestyle. Sitting ...

warning – this show has reached hokum overload

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Sophie Anderson

You don’t tune into Midsomer Murders (ITV1) expecting verité film-making, but even so The Blacktrees Prophecy touched the very heights of hokum. ...

Ben Miller’s awkward detective makes for uncomfortable viewing

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Sophie Anderson

Professor T (ITV1) is a strange series about an odd fish. It’s back for a third run, which must mean that quite ...

Kris Marshall’s golden age Agatha Christie whodunit

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Sophie Anderson

Beyond Paradise (BBC One) defied all expectations to become British TV’s third most-watched drama last year, attracting a whopping 7.4m viewers. Cultural ...

Jason Watkins makes Channel 5’s latest far-fetched thriller worth watching

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Sophie Anderson

Coma (Channel 5) is one of those thrillers in which an ordinary person makes a split-second decision that has terrible consequences. For ...

Sofía Vergara’s drug kingpin is impossible to root for

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Sophie Anderson

After a decade chewing lumps out of her Colombian accent as Modern Family’s comedy glamourpuss Gloria, it’s easy to see why Sofía ...

The Apple ad that brainwashed America

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Laura Adams

Four decades on from Ridley Scott’s Apple Mac ad, its message of human liberation seems, in hindsight, risible. We do not live in ...

a perfect tonic to lift your post-Christmas spirits

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Sophie Anderson

Likewise, Colin (Steffan Rhodri), another diffident man living an isolated life with his crossword puzzles following his wife’s death. The prospect of ...

Julia Donaldson’s loveable London cat

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Sophie Anderson

At regular intervals I encourage my children to embrace the life-changing magic of tidying up. As part of the process, I suggest ...

Magician tackles most treacherous trick yet…burying himself alive. But was it all a rebranding exercise?

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Sophie Anderson

The long build-up to his burial was intercut with pre-recorded footage of Dynamo meeting celebrities to talk about mental health, then wow ...