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Documentary

March 2025

  • Formula 1: Drive to Survive.

    ‘You get hooked so quickly!’ How Formula 1: Drive to Survive became the apex of TV documentaries

  • Michael Sheen's Million Pound Giveaway.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: how Michael Sheen’s mega ‘debt heist’ helped hundreds of people

  • ‘Alison’, who found a debit card with an unfamiliar surname when her partner suddenly disappeared.

    TV review
    The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed review – what sort of country would let the police do this?

  • Adrian Chiles

    Remote controls, tumble dryers, documentaries … do we have to make everything so complicated?

    Adrian Chiles

  • TV tonight
    TV tonight: Tamara Lawrance is an ace detective in a Jamaica-set thriller

  • Surfers, sheep and sexual revolution: the film-makers who sold Australia to the world

  • TV tonight
    TV tonight: how ‘skinny jabs’ became a cultural obsession

  • BBC’s Gaza film has issues, but we should be allowed to see it

  • TV tonight
    TV tonight: pop art pioneer Pauline Boty gets the documentary she deserves

  • Stacey Dooley: ‘I’ve spent my life assuring everyone I’m a strong woman’

  • Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Toxic Town; Small Town, Big Story; Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October; Dope Girls – review

February 2025

  • Lisa Nandy

    Culture secretary to hold urgent meeting with BBC chair over Gaza film

  • Surgeons: At the Edge of Life.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: an edge-of-your-seat surgery series – if you can stomach it

  • Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama and Mahmoud Abbas in 2010

    TV review
    Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October review – deserves nothing but praise

  • The White Lotus<br>The exploits and misadventures of various guests and employees at a tropical resort over the course of one week.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The White Lotus; A Thousand Blows; Escaping Utopia – review

  • Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Unforgotten; Virdee; Live Super Bowl LIX; Surviving Black Hawk Down – review

  • TV tonight
    TV tonight: an action-packed new crime thriller set in Bradford

  • ‘Into the heart of the whirlwind’: how Led Zeppelin were sweet-talked into making a new film

January 2025

  • Scarlett Johansson in London, 2024.

    Channel 4 may have violated Sexual Offences Act with deepfake video of Scarlett Johansson

  • still from Vietnam: The War That Changed America shows US troops arriving in Vietnam.

    TV review
    Vietnam: The War That Changed America review – a stunningly powerful tale of regret

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