Stuart Heritage writes about film, TV and music for the Guardian
February 2025
TV tonight
TV tonight: Keeley Hawes stars in a Jane Austen tale with a twist
TV tonight
TV tonight: the return of a popular Scandi crime drama
January 2025
The seven best films to watch on TV this week
The Straight Story to You’re Cordially Invited: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Harrison Ford’s MCU debut can wait. I prefer his whisky ads
Timothée Chalamet says he put on 20lb to play Bob Dylan. Can that tip the scales at the Oscars?
No phone, no watch, no problem: should we all be more like Severance’s Christopher Walken?
The Traitors finale review – the deliciously evil end game kicked this series into hyperdrive
‘I can’t handle all this emotion’: Mo Amer on using daring comedy to redefine the Palestinian experience
Vomiting! Fainting! Heart attacks! How dangerous can it be to watch a movie?
‘The high point of TV as a medium’: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks may never be bettered
Book of the day
Live Forever? by John S Tregoning review – adventures in mortality
The greatest celebrity anecdote of all time! How David Schwimmer triggered Rod Stewart’s divorce
A twist of Lime: Timothée Chalamet rode a rental bike on to the red carpet. But how long had he been in the saddle?
‘A lump of metal? Fascinating!’ I get interviewed by the AI Michael Parkinson
Ignore all the fresh horrors of reality … two School of Rock co-stars just got married!
Stuart Heritage
From stolen babies to dog murder: the TV shows that went way too far
‘Nothing short of a spectacular blunder!’ All the shocks from the TV Golden Globes
2025 culture preview
The 50 must-see TV shows for 2025
Ridley Scott is a genius film-maker who can do anything – even start a political crisis in Malta
Stuart Heritage
December 2024
2024 in TV
‘Scream-at-the-screen stupid’ – the TV letdowns of the year
From the silliest concept ever to killer thrillers so dull Villanelle would roll her eyes, there have been plenty of televisual duds in 2024. Here are the biggest turkeys
