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Tuesday, Jul 9

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Sunny Review

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Apple TV+’s latest sci-fi thriller sends Rashida Jones on a stylish slog through Japan.

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'Sunny' Review: Robotics and Revelations on Apple TV+

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Rashida Jones plays a grieving widow in Japan whose life is further upended by secrets about her husband and a cybernetic helper that shows up on her doorstep.

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Hot Summer TV Show Based on 2016 Bestseller You Can Read in a Weekend

I’m lucky enough to work with some of the smartest, most in-the-know folks around, so I’m constantly filling my Zara shopping cart, Trader Joe’s list, and Netflix queue with their recommendations. One recent pick that caught my eye was a…

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Sausage Party: Foodtopia TV Review

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Sausage Party: Foodtopia is an absurd and deliciously clever political satire that serves as a sequel series to the 2016 original film

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'Sunny' review: Apple TV+ series, about a robot with mystery-solving smarts, makes bold choices

Considering the sheer volume and overall quality of films and TV series available on Apple TV+, it’s almost jarring to realize the subscription streaming service was launched just five years ago. In that half-decade, the Apple Originals…

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Is Los Angeles’s Hotel Cecil actually haunted? All the worst reviews

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Dare to stay at the Hotel Cecil in Los Angeles? Binge-watch reality as chilling guest reviews evoke spirits scarier than any TV ghost. Will you check in or ghost them?

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Cocky, reckless...this Istanbul cop is Turkey's answer to Gene Hunt

www.dailymail.co.uk

Istanbul multi-millionaire Mesut (Baris Kislak), on The Turkish Detective, wasn't the sort to book a budget twin room at a three-star resort. His luxury villa was practically a private hotel for one.

Monday, Jul 8

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SUNNY Review: Forlorn American Turns Determined Detective with a Robot in Japan

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Rashida Jones, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura, Judy Ongg, YOU, annie the clumsy, and Jun Kunimura star in the darkly comic Apple TV+ mystery series.

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House of the Dragon Season 2, Episode 4 Review

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Ferociously entertaining TV that finally delivers scale and scope as well as thorny moral dilemmas.

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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Little light relief in this grim tale of a cabbie who thinks he's John Wayne

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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: During the only upbeat scene in The Night Caller, lonely taxi driver Tony decides he's going to be a bit more Clint Eastwood, live his life a bit more like John Wayne.

Sunday, Jul 7

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The Turkish Detective review – downright ridiculous, in a good way

www.theguardian.com

Our titular crime-solver is unbelievably bland in this cliche-stuffed book adaptation. And yet, its far-fetched plots and unguessable twists make it oddly comforting TV fare

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Your Lie in April review – high-school musical mixes manga aesthetics with Broadway sound

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Harold Pinter theatre, London The sad love story between bereaved piano prodigy Kōsei and free-spirit Kaori is played with verve – but what worked on paper and as an anime TV series stutters on stage

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Britain’s Economy, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, 1,000 Kids – Review

‘The superpower genre needs it’: Tosin Cole as Michael in Supacell. Photograph: Netflix Is the superhero genre all out of super? The ongoing torrent of superhero movies and TV shows might have left viewers feeling fatigued. How many times…

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The week in TV: Supacell; Skint: The Truth About Britain’s Economy; A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder; The Man With 1,000 Kids – review

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A south London superhero drama feels scrappy but real; economist Tim Harford dishes up hard facts; a gen Z Miss Marple is pure middle England. Plus, one seriously rogue sperm donor

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TV REVIEW: Just like Gareth Southgate's England side, the BBC raised their level for quarter-final coverage - Gary Lineker and Co were brilliant as the Three Lions marched on at Euro 2024

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TV REVIEW BY ROGER ALTON: It was perfect Saturday evening TV drama - two hours of gripping narrative with several plot lines that left you guessing how it would all end.

Saturday, Jul 6

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TV REVIEW: We see if there is enough life in Netflix's 'Dead Boy Detectives'

Detective duo share deep bond amid supernatural-flavoured escapades.

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Biden says only ‘the Lord almighty’ could make him drop out in pivotal TV interview

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In appearance aimed at quelling nascent rebellion among Democrats, Biden made no big gaffes, but reviews are mixed

Friday, Jul 5

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KATHRYN FLETT'S My TV week: Stricken Celine's agony... in close-up

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UK writer Kathryn Flett reviews I Am Celine Dion, a documentary about the 'Queen of Power Ballads' which includes intimate footage that highlights the horror of Dion's Stiff Person Syndrome illness.

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HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES Rob Zombie’s debut – reviews and free on Plex, Pluto TV and Tubi

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‘Dare you enter…’ House of 1000 Corpses is a 2003 horror film about two young couples travelling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends who end up as …

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Sunny on Apple TV+ review: this Rashida Jones and A24 collab is kooky and gripping

www.standard.co.uk

The unlikely duo of a potty-mouthed Rashida Jones and her emotional support robot, Sunny, is the genre-bending new A24 show worth staying in for