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Wednesday, Jun 12

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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Danny La Rue's sparkly dress brings glitz and glamour to The Repair Shop

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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Danny La Rue, who stood seven feet tall in heels and ostrich feather fascinator, loathed the phrase 'female impersonator'.

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TV review: 'Presumed Innocent' is guilty of being wildly different from the movie

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Jake Gyllenhaal fills in for Harrison Ford in the limited Apple TV+ series.

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TV Q&A: Did Alby Oxenreiter retire from WPXI?

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Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review.

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The Boys season 4 review: TV's most violent, gory superhero show gets even more shocking and politically charged

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The Boys remains as irreverential as ever in its fourth season, growing more violent, darker, and politically bolder this time

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WATCH | Ignition TV reviews the 2024 GWM Tank 300

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Join Ignition TV presenter Juliet McGuire as she tests the rugged GWM Tank 300.

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Presumed Innocent review – Jake Gyllenhaal gets his first TV role … and it’s impossible to care about it

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This underwhelming legal thriller is an efficient tale, with good performances. But it’s soullessly slick, fails to properly develop female characters and all feels meaningless

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The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot is an innovative study of a notorious real-life crime and is utterly absorbing, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS as he reviews last night's TV

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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The biggest problem for true-crime shows lies in conveying the extraordinary drama of a murder plot without sacrificing the factual detail.

Tuesday, Jun 11

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Samsung's 2024 Frame TV review: Prettier than ever

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We got our hands on Samsung's 2024 65" Frame smart TV. And, yep, it's still worth every penny.

'Presumed Innocent' Review: Jake Gyllenhaal, Prime Suspect

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The actor stars in an Apple TV+ adaptation of Scott Turow’s legal thriller from creator David E. Kelley, the soapy whodunit specialist behind ‘Big Little Lies.’

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The Boys Season 4 TV Review

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Karl Urban and Antony Starr lead the best season yet of Prime Video's dark superhero series.

Tribeca 2024 Review: RESTLESS, Don't Be a Menace to the Lady Next Door

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Nicky (Lyndsey Marshal) just wants to sleep. Well, actually at first Nicky just wants to come home after work, bake some cakes, watch some billiards on TV and snuggle with her cat. What Nicky doesn’t want, or love, is her new neighbor…

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Book Review: 'Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ tells a tale of modern love and success

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The cover art and title of “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” don’t quite convey the wild ride readers who crack open this new fiction from Rufi Thorpe will take. There’s a reason Apple TV optioned it as a series starring Nicole Kidman and Elle…

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‘Presumed Innocent’ Review: Jake Gyllenhaal Headlines an Apple TV+ Update That Doesn’t Feel Updated Enough

David E. Kelley tackles Scott Turow's legal thriller (already adapted into a 1990 Harrison Ford movie) about a prosecutor who finds himself accused of murder.

'The Boys' Season 4 review: A punishing season of television

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"The Boys" Season 4 is weighed down by lackluster satire and uninteresting shock value. TV review.

‘The Boys’ Suffers Growing Pains in Its Darkest Season Yet: TV Review

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You have to hand it to “The Boys.” Production on Season 4 of the Amazon action satire wrapped over a year ago, with its release delayed by subsequent strikes in the entertainment industry. (Season 3 aired two full years ago, in the summer…

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Aquaman star and Creed 2 director teaming up for Netflix's TV adaptation of Denzel Washington's most underrated movie

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is set to lead Creed 2 director Steven Caple Jr's new take on Denzel Washington's Man on Fire. The pair are teaming up to adapt the movie, which received mixed reviews upon its release in 2004 but has since found…

Being Mr Wickham review – Jane Austen’s cad meanders into old age

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Jermyn Street theatre, London Adrian Lukis’s self-penned one-man show revisits the character he played in Pride and Prejudice on TV in 1995, but doesn’t discover much

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Review: Disney's Frozen by touring company

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Disney’s animated film Frozen is a core memory for me and for the rest of Gen Z. It was released in 2013, and I’ve been a die-hard fan ever since. I have many fond memories of singing and twirling around to “Let it Go” in front of the TV…

Monday, Jun 10

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Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace review: Teary TV doesn’t need to be exploitative

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This ITV hit could easily be a misery-fest, but the reunion between foundlings Thomas and Martina was deeply emotional without being ghoulish

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Presumed Innocent on Apple TV+ review: grumpy Jake Gyllenhaal is hard to warm to in this gripping but formulaic remake

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This eight-part remake of the 1990s hit movie has a stellar cast and looks good but it won’t linger long in the memory