CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend’s TV: 40 years on, Blunt may still be Windsors’ downfall 

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend’s TV: Forty years on, traitor Blunt may still be the Windsors’ downfall By Christopher Stevens for Daily Mail Published: 02:11 BST, 5 April 2021 | Updated: 02:11 BST, 5 April 2021 Queen Elizabeth And The Spy In The Palace Rating: Line Of Duty Rating: Royal documentaries now fill so much … Read more

Double down for domestic bliss: PETER HOSKIN reviews It Takes Two 

Double down for domestic bliss: PETER HOSKIN reviews It Takes Two By Peter Hoskin For The Daily Mail Published: 02:01 BST, 2 April 2021 | Updated: 02:33 BST, 2 April 2021 It Takes Two Rating: A Way Out Rating: Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes Rating: Snipperclips Rating: Here’s the good news: with lockdown relaxing, you soon won’t … Read more

The intense emotion of sitting for an artist: PATRICK MARMION reviews Sitting

Sitting (BBC4, Wednesday 2.30pm) Verdict: You’ll be drawn in Rating: Scaramouche Jones (stream, theatre) Verdict: Richie re-born Rating: Sadie (BBC iPlayer) Verdict: Gritty but powerful Rating: People worry about the wrong things when they’re being painted. They think they’ll get bored, or restless. But what should really concern them is what they’ll say when they … Read more

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Gyles gives us Austen literary tour to write home about

In Jane Austen’s Footsteps With Gyles Brandreth  Rating: This Is My House  Rating: Life wasn’t so different a couple of hundred years ago. Sunseekers rushed to the beach on the first warm day in spring — and because bathing costumes hadn’t been invented, they all went skinny-dipping. There were riots on the streets of Bristol, … Read more

Straight-talking takeaway boss hits back at bad online reviews in hilarious fashion

A straight-talking takeaway boss has won praise for hitting back at bad online reviews in a hilarious fashion. Alice Cheung, 50, runs Oriental Express in Leeds, which, despite its five star rating on Just Eat, still attracts the occasional complaint. But the restaurant owner is more than ready to put angry punters in their place.  … Read more

I’m A Celebrity winner Abbie Chatfield hilariously reviews her business class flight 

I’m A Celebrity winner Abbie Chatfield hilariously reviews her first ever business class flight – but says she’d rather spend the money on cheese By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 14:06 BST, 28 March 2021 | Updated: 14:07 BST, 28 March 2021 I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! Australia winner Abbie Chatfield took … Read more

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Naming a child after your favourite pizza?

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Naming a child after your favourite pizza? That’ll take some topping! By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 02:10 GMT, 26 March 2021 | Updated: 02:10 GMT, 26 March 2021 Pizza Boys   Rating: Discovering Westerns On Film  Rating: Every dog you see these days has a human name. … Read more

When the endgame is just the beginning: PETER HOSKIN reviews Marvel’s Avengers and Gnosia 

Marvel’s Avengers (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £59.99) Verdict: For ever? Never! Rating: Let’s start at the end — because that, in a way, is where Marvel’s Avengers wants us to begin. This is what the marketeers call a ‘game as a service’. The idea is that you bash away at a controller, mastering the combos and … Read more

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Taskmaster | Daily Mail Online

Taskmaster Rating: Billy Monger’s Big Red Nose Day Challenge Rating: Admit it, you had a go, too. And it’s not as simple as it looks. There’s no shame in it — everyone who tuned in as Taskmaster (C4) returned felt the urge to spin a cushion on one finger, like a magician twirling a plate … Read more

PATRICK MARMION reviews Adventurous and The Picture Of Dorian Gray 

Adventurous (Jermyn Street Theatre; stream.theatre)   Verdict: Lovable stereotypes  Rating: The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Barn Theatre, Cirencester; pictureofdoriangray.com)  Verdict: Not-so-lovable stereotypes Rating: Stereotypes have had a bad rap in this age of woke, but I’ve got a lot of time for them. My only caveat is that someone should make sure they receive a regular refresh. … Read more