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© ITV When you place the words ITV and sitcom side by side, the British TV channel doesn't really have much of a glorious history. While ITV has excelled at drama, it has struggled to match the BBC's or Channel 4's sitcom output. Mention ITV sitcoms and it tends to conjure up memories of ropey shows like ' On The Buses ,' ' Man About The House ,' ' George and Mildred ,' ' Never The Twain ,' ' Curry and Chips ,' ' The Upper Hand ' and ' Duty Free '. Even its edgier shows like ' The New Statesman ,' ' Men Behaving Badly ,' ' Mr Bean ,' ' Brass ,' ' Vicious ' and ' Benidorm ' can't quite hold a candle to the two rival broadcasters' output. © ITV However all that could be changing in this era of streaming. Unencumbered by the need for a studio audience, the channel has scored a success with the first series of Nancy Harris' Dublin comedy drama co-production with B...

© Apple TV+ In the 1980s, Michael J Fox seemed to have it all. His sitcom ' Family Ties ' was a massive success, challenging ' The Cosby Show ' and ' Cheers ' in the ratings. He also made a successful leap into movie acting with the iconic ' Back to the Future ' trilogy but also scored box office hits with ' Teen Wolf ,' ' The Secret of My Success ' and ' Doc Hollywood '. However, we all know by now that at the age of 30 in 1991 he revealed publicly that he had started to exhibit signs of early onset Parkinson's Disease. © Apple TV+ Fox hasn't retreated from the public eye, though, as the disease has ravaged his body. He has been a prominent campaigner for Parkinson's Disease research and has continued to act in TV shows like ' The Good Wife ,' ' Curb Your Enthusiasm ' and ' Designated Survivor '. Now at the age of 61, he has teamed up with director Davis Guggenheim for a deeply personal reflect...

© HBO & Vertigo Releasing Reality Winner is not the kind of name you should forget in a hurry. However it should register even more with people now that Tina Satter's movie 'Reality' is hitting cinemas. A hit with audiences and critics when it screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, it is based on a real FBI transcript of the interrogation of a 26 year old woman in her home in Augusta, Georgia. Reality Winner was accused of leaking sensitive US Government intelligence in 2017. © HBO & Vertigo Releasing Based on the play 'Is This A Room?' that Satter which was first staged in 2019, the film stars Sydney Sweeney as Winner, a former member of the US Air Force who developed Arabic language. With her ability to translate Farsi and Pashto, she was employed by the Pluribus International Corporation in Augusta, a small contractor providing services to the National Security Agency in the US. When we first see Reality in Satter's movie, it ...

© Apple TV+ Football fans will know everything about third season syndrome. Marcelo Biesla, Brendan Rodgers and Jose Mourinho have all fallen victim to it while managing various clubs. All of them have enjoyed two seasons of bliss at clubs like Leeds United, Leicester City and Manchester United, only to see their dream go sour. But can it also happen to fictional soccer coaches? © Apple TV+ With Apple TV+'s 'Ted Lasso' entering its third and probably its final season, will Jason Sudeikis' much loved fictional football coach avoid the same fate? Season Three of the Emmy winning sitcom finds AFC Richmond back in the Premier League mixing it with the big clubs. (SPOILERS APLENTY!) Favourites for relegation, Lasso's team witnessed in the previous season the acrimonious departure of its former kitman turned assistant coach, Nick Mohammed's Nathan Shelley who grew frustrated that Ted seemed to be getting all the credit for his tactical genius. Nathan has now ended u...

© HBO There's something delicious about the makers of ' Succession ' setting a pivotal scene in the final season in a karaoke bar. Alan Ruck's delusional Connor Roy has dragged his siblings, Jeremy Thomas' Kendall, Sarah Snook's Shiv and Kieran Culkin's Roman to the venue as he tries to come to terms with the fact that he might be jilted at his own wedding. As Connor  mangles Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' the karaoke bar becomes the perfect metaphor for his three siblings. Throughout the show, each of them has been a pretender in both senses of the word. © HBO Like people singing karaoke, Shiv, Kendall and Roman have been doing an unconvincing impersonation of someone else - their dad. Each sibling's illusion is brutally shattered, however, when their father, Brian Cox's Logan Roy turns up to persuade them to shelve their opposition to a deal he's cooking with Alexander Skarsgard's streaming billionaire Lukas Matsson to...