Drive to Survive, Season 3, Netflix review - the agony and the ecstasy of the 2020 F1 campaign
Enthralling inside story of how the teams raced Covid and each other
The 2020 Formula One season was all set to start in Australia last March when it was derailed by the Covid emergency. The F1 organisers insisted that they’d get the racing back on track somehow, and what sounded like foolhardy bravado was justified when they successfully staged a 17-race championship between July and December.
One Man and His Shoes review - beautifully crafted, fast-paced documentary
A fascinating slice of black cultural history as well as a story about shoes
“Black people, since the beginning of time, have always made things cool. Jazz, rock ’n’ roll… pick anything from a cultural standpoint and we have always been the arbitrators of cool,” says sports journalist Jamele Hill. “And it was really no different with sneakers.”
Directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui: 'The disability community is the world community'
Interview with the men behind Netflix's new Paralympic documentary 'Rising Phoenix'
In 2018, directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui burst onto the documentary scene with McQueen, a visually stunning study of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen. Acclaim and offers followed, but no-one could have predicted the subject of their second feature.
Harry's Heroes: Euro Having a Laugh, ITV review - jokey documentary delivers painful emotional truths
It's back to the Nineties with Redknapp's band of brothers
Former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly famously commented that football is far more serious than a matter of life and death. This couldn’t quite be said of Harry Redknapp’s renewed adventures of footballers reunited (ITV), yet behind its jokey facade of a bunch of Nineties-era England veterans drinking their way across Europe, Harry’s Heroes is strangely poignant and delivers some painful emotional truths.
Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Netflix review - thrilling documentary series wreaks havoc in the paddock
Ripping away the corporate facade of motorsport's gated community
The 2020 Formula 1 season will commence in Melbourne next weekend... unless the race is cancelled because of the mounting coronavirus panic. Everyone will have to self-isolate and watch Netflix instead, so how fortunate that the ‘flix has delivered this second series of Drive to Survive in the nick of time.
Permission review - suspenseful melodrama of a true-life event
A chilling and poignant 88 minutes in the boots of futsal player Afrooz
Permission tells the story of Afrooz, the captain of Iran's National Futsal Team, who is stopped from joining her team at the Asia Cup Final because of the last minute whim of her estranged husband.
The Shiny Shrimps review - worth the plunge
Sink or Swim, Channel 4 review - the Channel awaits for these celebrities
The latest celebrity format lacks tension or conflict
Is there any challenge that television producers haven't filmed celebrities doing? They won't be happy until they've followed a bunch of them snowboarding down an Alp while baking a cake, conducting an orchestra and researching their family history. And if it involves a little sob followed by a group hug, bonus!
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Joanne McNally/ The Crown Dual/ Maisie Adam/ James McNicholas/ Titania McGrath
More from the world's biggest and best arts festival
Joanne McNally Assembly George Square ★★★★
The area Joanne McNally treads (actually stomps might be a better word, given her fantastically high-energy performance) in The Prosecco Express is not new – she’s 36 and wondering if she should settle down and have children, or would that mean settling for less – but the Irish comic makes it her own.