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I like what I see in
the Mirror

BOYD’STVLAND

All the week’s news, views and erm, things to amuse from Boyd Hilton, heat’s King of Telly TM

“Who put blue
MYTOP3 paint in my
foundation?”
SHOWSONTV

Feud:
BetteAndJoan
The story of the rift between
Hollywood legends Bette
Davis (Susan Sarandon) MY VERDICT ON…
and Joan Crawford (Jessica
Lange) keeps getting better.
BBC2, Saturday, 9pm Black Mirror

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hatthehellisBlackMirror anyway? about alady trying to keep a horrendous incident
It’softendescribedasasci-fianthology from her past a secret. Hang The DJ is a clever and
Will&Grace W techno-paranoia series, but some surprisingly funny spin on online dating. And as
Aftera12-yeargap, the episodesdon’tfeellike science fiction at all, while if all that’s not bold and ambitious enough, we get
ground-breaking American othersembracethepositive side of technology, Black Mirror’s most jaw-droppingly daring episode
sitcom is back with a fresh andtheveryfirststory, famously, was about a Prime yet: Black Museum incorporates four separate
series of 16 new episodes. Ministerbeingbribed to have intimate relations tales into its spooky framing device – an anthology
Channel 5, Friday withapig.So,it’svery difficult to pin down what it of stories within an episode, which is itself part
5 January, 10pm reallyis.Takethefourth season – all six episodes of an anthology of stories. Which may seem more
ofwhicharrivesthisFriday on Netflix. One story, confusing than trying to work out what the hell
Metalhead,featuresMaxine Peake being pursued Black Mirror really is. In the end, though, it really
bysomethinghorrible across a barren Scottish doesn’t matter, because even when one of the
landscapeinblackand white. USS Callister is Star individual episodes may seem a tad drawn out
Trek withamassivetwist (and Michaela Coel (USS Callister), or when the twist feels a bit of
fromChewingGumin brilliant form). Arkangel, a stretch (Hang The DJ), the pleasure of settling
directedbyJodieFoster, is about a mother fitting down to watch a drama series in which you
herkiddiewithatracking device and taking it way genuinely never know what to expect is as
toofar.Crocodileisa kind of Scandi-noir thriller great as anything else out there right now.
Spiral
Seriessixofthesuperior
French detective thriller
arrives, and this time the The legend that is Miriam
IF YOU LIKE...
team are investigating an THE REAL Margolyes gets her own
anonymous murder victim. MARIGOLD HOTEL travelogue, as she tours the
If you’ve yet to sample it, now THEN TRY… heartland of middle USA.
is the perfect time to start. MIRIAM’S BIG BBC1, Wednesday
AMERICAN
BBC4, Saturday, 9pm 3 January, 9pm
ADVENTURE

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