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12 of the best TV shows to watch this April

Half Man premieres 23 April on HBO and HBO Max in the US and 24 April on BBC iPlayer in

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Eight reasons why Love Story became 2026’s first TV phenomenon

5. The soundtrack The series’ soundtrack has been nothing less than a total bop for viewers. GQ rightly dubbed it

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The ultimate saga of British privilege and power

Galsworthy’s writing career spanned the first three decades of the 20th Century and in 1932, he won the most prestigious

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Eight of the best podcasts of 2026 so far

In Creation Myth, De Groot ponders the question: to breed or not to breed? A compellingly raw audio memoir, it

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Six reasons why it was the best Oscars in years

Popular wins all round Frankenstein, which won three Oscars, and KPop Demon Hunters, which won two, are both Netflix films

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Eight of the world’s most stunning penthouses

This is one of four bedroom suites, its corner position giving views over the bay of San Francisco from two

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Ryan Gosling’s space epic is ‘a mind-stretching sci-fi’ ★★★★☆

Luckily, he’s not quite alone. It turns out that another spacecraft is on the same mission from a different planet,

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Research shows older women are winning more Oscars – here’s why

The most recent study from Annenberg also found that from Hollywood’s top 100 films last year, there were only four

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How Crash pulled off the most shocking win in Oscars history

Yet as much as Crash presented a flawed cross-section of LA society “crashing into each other”, as Don Cheadle’s weary

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The moment Cher wore the ultimate ‘revenge’ outfit

Since then, the phrase revenge dress has increasingly been used in celebrity culture. Revenge dresses as they are understood by