World on Fire, BBC One review - more melodrama than drama

★★★ WORLD ON FIRE, BBC ONE Peter Bowker's WWII saga needs more depth, less breadth

Peter Bowker's World War Two saga needs more depth and less breadth

For his new drama series for BBC One, writer Peter Bowker (The A Word, Monroe etc) has taken as his canvas no less than a panorama of Europe in 1939, just as World War Two is breaking out.

The Cameron Years, BBC One review - quite interesting but a bit boring

★★★ THE CAMERON YEARS, BBC ONE Quite interesting but a bit boring

The former Prime Minister finally opens up about the EU referendum

David Cameron has been a recluse since the fateful days of June 2016 when the referendum on EU membership didn’t go quite the way he’d hoped. He’s probably been living through a private purgatory. “I think I will think about this forever,” he murmured to the camera in this first instalment of BBC One’s two-part doc.

Power, politics and Peaky Blinders - the Shelby family return for Series 5

Steam-punk gangsters invade the corridors of Westminster

This is how Steven Knight pictured Peaky Blinders when he first set about creating it. “I was very keen not to do a traditional British period drama, especially where it comes to depictions of working class people. Where the impulse is to say ‘it’s a shame, it’s a pity, isn’t it awful, wasn’t everything terrible for women’.

Heartbreak Holiday, BBC One review - can it match up to Love Island?

Ten strangers and their not so achy-breaky hearts

The BBC’s version of Love Island has familiar ingredients: ten 20-somethings, many with pale manicures and hair extensions, on an island, in this case Mykanos. It’s not to everyone’s taste. “All I see is water, I don’t see no nail shops,” observes Melissa, whose argumentativeness causes her to fall out with people and who wants to improve her friendship skills.

Inside the Secret World of Incels, BBC One review - involuntary celibacy, violence and despair

★★★ INSIDE THE SECRET WORLD OF INCELS, BBC ONE A disturbing documentary about men who feel rejected

A disturbing documentary about men who feel rejected

A sad story of lonely men, Simon Rawles's atmospheric and beautifully shot documentary has no narration, apart from the occasional faint, off-camera question from the interviewer. This makes everything more depressing. We’re alone on a nightmare ride, starting with Catfishman. “I catfish females.

Who Do You Think You Are? - Naomie Harris, BBC One review - shocks old and new

★★★★ WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? - NAOMIE HARRIS, BBC ONE Shocks old and new

Naomie Harris's fascinating story stretched back to Caribbean slavery

This episode of the celebrity genealogy show began with footage of Naomie Harris at Ian Fleming's former home in Jamaica, where she was helping launch Bond 25 (to be released next year), in which she is playing Moneypenny for the third time. It was a fitting location, as Harris’s folks hail from the Caribbean; her mother was born in Jamaica and her father's family are from Trinidad via Grenada.

Dark Money, BBC One review - powerful idea poorly executed

★★ DARK MONEY, BBC ONE Story of Hollywood child abuse fails to launch

Story of Hollywood child abuse fails to launch

It’s a topical idea, at least. Isaac Mensah, a child actor from a working-class family in London, has been cast in a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster, and when he returns home his family and friends are agog to find out what his amazing movie experience was like. But the sky falls in when Isaac (Max Fincham) plays his parents a video he shot on his phone, containing evidence that he was abused by the film’s all-powerful producer, Jotham Starr, the boss of Yonder Starr Productions.