Television

Ratings are down and the Brexiteer is missing his chance to capitalise on new net migration numbers

Does Nigel Farage’s I’m a Celebrity... appearance signal a return to the mainstream? Or just desperation?

Forty years on, the adventures of a bunch of brickies abroad still have a lot to tell us about Britain, its workers and Europe

The two media monsters were formed out of their nation’s very proclivities

A hit Netflix show is drawing tourists to the Azores, the archipelago where migration and magic are facts of life

As two TV series and the life of its former mayor show, the Spanish beach resort has become a byword for glamour and corruption

Berlusconi may have gone, but his TV legacy – and his influence – lives on

A new Netflix drama sees a 17-year-old Polish migrant return from exile in Wales to battle racism, sexism and Romany traditions

Hit Netflix series Restaurants on the Edge demonstrates that keeping it simple in the kitchen doesn’t always mean submitting to the obvious

Meet Italy’s new Wonder Woman, Inspector Imma Tataranni

The deputy Tory chairman’s first GB News show began with a typically jingoistic fib

The Brexit-voting audience was friendly and open to argument – but why was there no one from the government on the panel?

New series A Small Light explores Miep Gies’s acts of humanity – and it prompted a look at my own family history

Decades from now, this once-in-a-lifetime series will still be watched as a cultural artefact of a particular moment in history

East Germany’s first black policeman started the 1990s as a media phenomenon, but ended it in jail. A new series tells his story

How did an obscure British comedy sketch become a New Year tradition for Germans?

A Storm for Christmas fails to deliver more than the usual festive tropes… but perhaps it doesn’t need to

With its charming campery, the plot of this 1940s Spanish crime drama is a breath of fresh air

Empires rise and fall, and yet Bake Off remains on our screens. Yet, across the pond commentators recently took aim at Mexico week

The divisive filmmaker's latest shows how modern-day Russia was formed out of the ashes of empire

Netflix's retelling of a French tragedy depicts the humanity of events with a beautiful rawness

A new historical drama brings to life the story of a German duchess turned Austrian empress

A new Spanish Netflix dramedy reimagines cancer storytelling with style, wit and grace

Michael Winterbottom's telling of Boris Johnson's pandemic begs the question: when is the general public ready to consume recent real-life events on screen?

At the centre of Samantha Morton’s new series about the Medicis is a maligned queen whose character remains a mystery

Witty, cathartic and darkly funny, Sharon Horgan’s Irish revenge comedy proves hell hath no fury like a sister scorned

This new French Netflix sitcom sets out to make profound and amusing statements about younger generations’ relationship with technology. It fails on both accounts

German public broadcasting has gone beyond a public service and has become excessive and expensive

A Spanish drama about the aftermath of a brutal gang rape is a little hard to take seriously

A new Polish crime thriller is riveting - but also stressful, banal and not a great deal of fun to watch

Its creators may plead otherwise, but the world's biggest TV show rendered sex as grotesque and alienating as any puritanical religiosity

Tight, exciting and nuanced, new six-part Croatian drama thriller Four Strangers is a proper treat