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For full TV listings for the week, see our comprehensive TV guideViewing guide, by Ben DowellThe Playboy Bunny MurderITV1, 9pm “Her parents are dead, her whole bloody family is dead, there’s no one
For full TV listings for the week, see our comprehensive TV guideSaturday’s viewing guide, by Ben DowellThe CurseParamount+ Newlyweds Asher and Whitney Siegel (Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone) sit
“Somebody had a shit in the shower” is not a run-of-the-mill exclamation, even in a TV reality show. In this one seven celebrities are banged up in the building that was HMP Shrewsbury. They are in the company of genuine screws and reformed ex-lags (who act as if they are still detained)
It’s the second series following the gloved and top-hatted shenanigans of late 19th-century New York as imagined by the Downton Abbey mastermind Julian Fellowes. However, if you didn’t catch the previous tales it’s probably wise to start from the beginning
The Traitors on BBC1 is one of the stand-out reality shows of recent times, with a cleverly conceived twist, excellent casting and some nifty editing. Will lightning strike twice for the BBC, with this revival of the 20-year-old American format that maroons two teams in a tropical location and pits them against each other in a battle of wits, brawn and cunning? The host, Joel Dommett, claims that it is the “most physically demanding and emotionally draining show on the telly”. Really?