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The week in TV: Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light; Bad Sisters; Immigration: How British Politics Failed; The Penguin – review

Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis return with added candlelight; Bad Sisters cranks up the chaos; and a valiant look at UK immigration is marred by Farage. Plus, a jaw-dropping late twist for The Penguin

The Guardian - UK

The Tudor effect: the English historic houses profiting from Wolf Hall

An increasing interest in Henry VIII and the new BBC drama about his reign have boosted visitor numbers for castles and palaces used as filming locations and connected to the king

The Guardian - UK

The Mirror and the Light: crisis of sovereignty and national identity makes a rich stage for the present

After a gap of nine years, Wolf Hall returned to our screens this week with a second series based on the last of the late Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of historical novels, The Mirror and the Light. Almost a decade may have elapsed off screen, but on screen the continuation is…

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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light review – six hours of utter TV magic

The final instalment of Hilary Mantel’s masterpiece is the most intricate television you are ever likely to see. It is so beautifully made it’s breathtaking

The Guardian - UK

‘She was the only genius I ever met’: Wolf Hall director on making latest instalment without Hilary Mantel

Peter Kosminsky hails novelist behind tale of dark arts in court of Henry VIII as it returns to TV screens after 10 years

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s going to be much darker’: inside the deadly return of TV masterpiece Wolf Hall

The Tudor epic about a tyrant king and his vengeful, backstabbing entourage is back for its final instalment – and it’s more brutal than ever. We go on set to talk to the Mirror and the Light team about death, dictatorship … and ostriches

The Guardian - UK

‘An impossible passion’: cinema’s long love affair with Wuthering Heights

Saltburn director Emerald Fennell has caused a stir with her project to remake Brontë’s classic – but the novel has been provocative for more than 170 years

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TV tonight: a deeply addictive train thriller with shades of Bodyguard

Joe Cole stars in Nightsleeper, the BBC’s new adrenalised treat for Sunday nights. Plus, a harrowing look at the civilian cost of the conflict in Israel and Gaza. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Grenfell survivors to confront executives of firms blamed for disaster

Survivors say in wake of Post Office scandal: ‘Those in power have lost their moral compass’

The Guardian - UK

Wolf Hall: Mark Rylance and star-studded cast return for final series, plus Harriet Walter and Timothy Spall

The celebrated actor will be reprising his role as the scheming Thomas Cromwell one last time

Evening Standard

BBC Wolf Hall team to reunite for Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light, final book of Cromwell Trilogy

Series follows 2015 adaptation of first two books in Mantel’s series

The Independent UK

Wolf Hall 2: The Mirror and the Light — release date, cast, plot, trailer and everything we know

Wolf Hall 2: The Mirror and the Light will see Mark Rylance return to play Henry VIII's advisor Thomas Cromwell.

WhatToWatch

8 cultural tributes to the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy, from Steve McQueen’s film to a comprehensive podcast

On the sixth anniversary of the tragedy, here’s how to remember those who lost their lives

Evening Standard

‘Our identity is being stolen’: survivors plead for halt to dramas about Grenfell

Residents and members of bereaved families call on BBC and National Theatre to scrap productions

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Wales Online

Almost 2,000 sign petition in four days calling for BBC show to be scrapped

"It makes me sick to my stomach"

The Independent UK

Kosminsky to wait for Grenfell final report before writing scripts for BBC drama

The writer and director wants to reflect its findings and the response of those impacted by the fire into his three-part series.

Daily Mirror

Grenfell Tower fire tragedy to be adapted into a BBC drama about the 'human stories'

The BBC has commissioned a three-part drama centred around 'what went wrong' during the 2017 fire at the Grenfell Tower that killed 72 people

The Independent UK

Grenfell Tower fire is being adapted into a BBC drama

Dramatisation, which BBC promises will be made ‘sensitively’, aims to reach the ‘heart of the catastrophe’

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Review: Cyberterrorism thriller ‘The Undeclared War’ imagines a plausible 2024 premise — but it’s not as gripping as it should be

A hit in England and now streaming on Peacock, the six-part Channel 4/Peacock coproduction “The Undeclared War” will likely find a smaller fan base here, especially younger ones (it’s rated TV-MA but the sexual and verbal content is aggressively discreet). It’s a frustrating watch, never crass or sloppy, but underpowered.

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‘I’m an all-or-nothing person’: actor Maisie Richardson-Sellers on risks, rewards and keeping it real

Her first ever role was in Star Wars, but Maisie Richardson-Sellers is also fascinated by more down-to- earth stories about women, queer love and politics

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Undeclared War; Aids: The Unheard Tapes; Sherwood; Only Murders in the Building and more

Coders fight to save Britain in Peter Kosminsky’s masterly cyberdrama; lip-synced Aids testimonies hit home; and James Graham’s Sherwood draws to a thrilling close

Daily Mirror

'The Undeclared War might be to much after Covid but it's bingeable for the die-hards'

Peter Kosminsky’s latest series The Undeclared War is packed with the tension of catastrophe and is a bingeable series that plays on our already long-list on anxieties

The Independent UK

The Undeclared War review: Simon Pegg-starring cyber crime drama is naff and politically muddled

Hannah Khalique-Brown and Adrian Lester also star in Peter Kosminsky’s ambitious but flawed Channel 4 series

The Guardian - UK

The Undeclared War review – Enid Blyton could have written this cybersecurity drama

Adrian Lester, Simon Pegg and the Mark Rylance star in a glacially paced show where GCHQ staff seem like bored office workers, and the one-note dialogue feels like something from a kids’ novel

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