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 Apple TV+10. Down Cemetery RoadEmma Thompson and Ruth Wilson team up in this suspense series based on one of Mick Herron's non-Slow Horses novels, the first of his four Zoë Boehm books. Thompson plays Zoë, in a leather jacket and...

Enter William Taynton, a 20-year-old office boy who was working downstairs from Baird's makeshift laboratory. He told the BBC 40 years later to the day: "Mr Baird came rushing down full of excitement and almost dragged me out of my...

Wearing rubber boots, Zelano waded from the train station through Strada Nova, which was still about 40cm (1ft 3in) underwater. She went to the house of a friend of a friend. The tide had retreated by the time she got...

This coding error occurred in World 1 level 2, which was introduced on screen as "World 1-2". After Mario had glided through the wall and down the pipe in World 1-2, text would appear on the screen to indicate which...

Eldest son Arthur expected that the role to be given to him, and that he'd enjoy a free hand with his controlling interest in the brewery, only to learn at the reading of his father's will that he would be...

The formal innovations might not have worried the Lord Chamberlain too much, but some of the songs' lyrics would definitely have had him reaching for his blue pencil, especially those with the "four-letter words, explicit sexual content, rituals, drugs" mentioned...

Marshall also scatters mirrors across School of Beauty, School of Culture, a nod to Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait(1434) and Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas (1656), two works renowned for playing with reflection. In Van Eyck's domestic scenes, a curved mirror offers...

Elsewhere, if you're a fan of domestic thrillers featuring expensive furnishings, then two shows should be for you: Netflix's The Beast in Me (November), in which Claire Danes becomes suspicious of her new neighbour, and Peacock's All Her Fault (November),...

Presented to the French court as a peace offering after years of hostility with Austria, Marie Antoinette had split allegiances that mired her in suspicions − not all unfounded − that she shared military secrets with Austria. She was deemed indifferent to the French...

At the immigrant centre, Perfidia encounters the sinister Captain Steven Lockjaw, a character as broadly drawn as his name. Sean Penn makes him thoroughly convincing as a sexual creep who later bullies and blackmails her, and who admits that he...