Press, BBC One, series finale review - scarcely credible but highly entertaining

★★★★ PRESS, BBC ONE Mike Bartlett's newspaper saga races towards mutually assured stalemate

Mike Bartlett's newspaper saga races towards mutually assured stalemate

It’s difficult to tell whether Press (BBC One) came to praise newspapers or to bury them. The slugfest between preachy liberal do-goodery and mucky market-led skulduggery ended in a score draw, with the main protagonists living to fight another day and speak to their ever more polarised silos. Any sensible viewer might have concluded that the plot was stark-raving amphetamine-enriched baloney.

Wanderlust, BBC One, series finale review - you can't have your cake and eat it

★★★★ WANDERLUST, BBC ONE, SERIES FINALE You can't have your cake and eat it

Nick Payne's marital examination asks questions to the very end

So Wanderlust (BBC One) has ceased wandering and its angsty parade of characters have left a sentence unfinished for the last time. In the end, where were we, compared to where we’ve been? The final episode opened with Joy, like King Alfred, burning the pancakes. Seemingly her boats had suffered the same fate, atomised under the centrifugal forces of love and lust, but also a mass break-out of grief. She tried filling the void with muffins.

Doctor Who, The Woman Who Fell to Earth, BBC One review - a captivating debut from Jodie Whittaker

★★★★ DOCTOR WHO, THE WOMAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, BBC ONE The 13th official incarnation - a captivating debut from Jodie Whittaker

The 13th official incarnation of everybody's favourite time-travelling alien

Re-casting a beloved character always carries a measure of risk. Solo: A Star Wars Story relied on the willingness of fans to buy in to Alden Ehrenreich as a younger incarnation of Harrison Ford: the film bombed (you know, in Star Wars terms, since it barely made $400 million).

The Cry, BBC One review - every parent's nightmare

★★★ THE CRY, BBC ONE How do you cope with the unthinkable? Every parent's nightmare

How do you cope with the unthinkable?

Following the runaway success of Bodyguard, Jed Mercurio is no doubt popping more champagne and saying “follow that”. Stepping up to BBC One’s Sunday 9pm slot is The Cry, which transports us from suicide bombs and political intrigue and instead immerses us in the emotional plight of new mother Joanna (Jenna Coleman) and her partner Alistair (Ewen Leslie).

Bodyguard, BBC One, series finale review - gripping entertainment of the highest calibre

★★★★★ BODYGUARD, SERIES FINALE, BBC ONE Gripping entertainment of the highest calibre

Was it the police, the government or MI5 who murdered Julia Montague? And was she really dead? CONTAINS SPOILERS

And breathe. Bodyguard – not, as even some careless BBC broadcasters keep calling it, "The Bodyguard" – careered to a conclusion as if hurtling around a booby-trapped assault course. It turned out that, contrary to a popular theory about Jed Mercurio's BBC One thriller, the Home Secretary Julia Montague was not secretly alive and well and hiding round the corner in a crazy Mercurioso twist.

Wanderlust, BBC One review - an unflinching look at stale sex

★★★★ WANDERLUST, BBC ONE Strong cast, well-crafted script offer new take on marital infidelity

A strong cast and well-crafted script offer a new take on marital infidelity

What signals the end of a relationship? The loss of attraction? Infidelity? Or is it, as Wanderlust explores, something more innocuous? The opening episode of BBC One's latest show packed in enough domestic drama to sustain most series, but found its pressure points in unexpected places.

Bodyguard, BBC One, episode 2 review - a wild ride to who knows where

★★★★★ BODYGUARD, BBC ONE, EPISODE TWO A wild ride to who knows where

What's love got to do with it? Jed Mercurio's counterterrorism thriller starring Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes continues

It was always a question of when. As in when would the hoity-toity Home Secretary and her poker-faced bodyguard move into the horizontal? “I’m not the queen, you know,” she said, by way of a hot come-on. “You can touch me.” As a mode of discourse, this marked quite a step-up from the first episode of Jed Mercurio's new drama. Then the Rt Hon Julia Montague didn’t even want his vote. Now she was after her bodyguard’s body. “I Will Always Love You”, anyone?

Keeping Faith, BBC One review - this summer's watercooler drama

★★★★★ KEEPING FAITH This summer's watercooler drama

New BBC Wales drama promises to grip from opening episode

How well do you know the person you love? Are they someone completely different when you’re not around? This is the central question Eve Myles (main picture) has to answer in the BBC’s latest mystery drama. Faced with the sudden disappearance of her seemingly lovely husband, she must piece together where he’s gone and what she’s been missing.