TV: The New Yorker Presents
The inimitable magazine takes itself down a peg or two with this new webseries, which sees its pages spring to life on the small screen. It’s a mixture of interviews, live-action adaptations of short stories (featuring the likes of Alan Cumming) and the magazine’s stories rendered in documentary form. Topics from Los Angeleno light to musician Courtney Barnett and redesigning Times Square are covered, plus you get a behind-the-scenes insight into office life at the publication – and even see the work that goes into those jarringly jocular cartoons that break up articles about terrible murders. It may not quite capture the intellectual clout of the mag’s painstaking journalism, but it does convert the fascinating subjects into more easily consumable form.
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TV: Fuller House
In Full House – the US sitcom from the 80s and 90s that birthed the careers of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen – widowed dad Danny Tanner moved his friends into his home to help bring up his children. This reboot catches up with the untowardly unlucky family, as Danny’s eldest, DJ – who is now also widowed – moves her sister and best friend into her home to help bring up her children. The sadistically set-up series will be available to stream from Friday.
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TV: Crashing
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s sitcom rewarded those who made it past a challenging premise (the protagonists live in a condemned hospital as property guardians) with dark LOLs as middle-class jobs met sub-student lifestyles, and Kathy Burke as you’ve never seen her before. The whole series is available to watch now on All4.
TV: Horace And Pete
Despite the modernity of its distribution (you have to pay via the comedian’s website to view his new series), the latest televisual realisation of the dark thoughts of Louis CK resembles a static-looking 70s sitcom. Albeit a very sweary one. Set in a Brooklyn bar, it follows the exploits of CK’s Horace and two Petes played by Alan Alda and Steve Buscemi, as well as a roster of regulars and some existential bar chat.
Audio: Not For The Radio
Presenters Duane Jones, Chams and Posty grill the likes of Wiley, Ghetts and Wretch 32 in these detailed and incredibly in-depth interviews (they often last for over an hour). The trio are steely and extremely knowledgable interrogators, confident enough to pursue potentially awkward lines of inquiry – which makes for some very revealing conversation.
