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The 50 best TV shows of 2023

With fabulous finales for Top Boy, Happy Valley and Barry – oh and that show about a media dynasty you may have heard of – the year provided 50 more reasons it’s a golden age for telly

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Letters from Anne Frank's father Otto discovered at Gateshead's Little Theatre

Otto Frank typed two letters to Gateshead's Little Theatre in 1963 after the venue's amateur community drama club, Progressive Players, performed a play based on his daughter's diary

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These 6 new TV dramas have a flawless 100% Rotten Tomatoes score in 2023 so far

It's only been six months into 2022 and there are already six new shows that critics have rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Bel Powley avoided period pieces, but 'A Small Light' was no 'dusty historical drama'

Bel Powley isn't one of those English actors who is forever starring in period pieces and stuffy literary adaptations.

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The true Disney+ series with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score that has viewers 'ugly crying'

A Small Light debuted on the streaming service earlier this month

Manchester Evening News

Is A Small Light based on a true story? Everything we know about the truth behind the Disney+ series

Is A Small Light based on a true story? Here's what we know about Miep and her story, plus news about the actress who plays her.

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A Small Light Showrunner Explains Trying To Find 'Joy In This Tragedy' Of Miep Gies And Anne Frank's Story Despite Knowing The Ending

A Small Light continues telling Miep Gies' story, and showrunner Joan Rater opened up about the show finding joy despite the coming tragedy.

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The week in TV: Tom Jones; Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story; A Small Light; Black Ops

ITV’s new period romp is charming if a bit well scrubbed; a spirited Bridgerton spin-off feels weightier – and sexier; and a familiar story is sensitively retold in Disney’s fine Anne Frank drama

The Guardian - UK

Bel Powley on Botox, nepotism and difficult sex scenes: ‘The heroin chic thing is gonna die again, right?’

The star of ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’ and ‘Everything I Know About Love’ talks to Ellie Harrison about playing the woman who hid Anne Frank and rescued her diary in ‘A Small Light’

The Independent UK

Disney’s A Small Light: The true story of the woman who hid Anne Frank

Bel Powley plays Miep Gies, the Amsterdam secretary who hid the Frank family, in the new show

The Independent UK

A Small Light review – this charming, poignant drama gifts Anne Frank’s tale to yet another generation

The writer is a minor character in a fresh, lively take on her family’s story. Its focus on her father Otto and his secretary Miep Gies – who hid the Franks – is engaging and courageous

The Guardian - UK

Behind the scenes of new wartime show A Small Light on Disney+: ‘we always need shows like this’

The show’s cast and crew talk about Anne Frank, modernism in period dramas and why telling these stories is so important

Evening Standard

Liev Schreiber on untold Anne Frank tale

Salon spoke to the actor and showrunners of "A Small Light," which highlights the woman who helped hide the Franks

Salon

'A Small Light' focuses on those who helped Anne Frank

The new National Geographic series “A Small Light” stars Bel Powley as Miep Gies, a real-life heroine who protected celebrated diarist Anne Frank and seven others in a secret annex in Amsterdam during World War II

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‘A Small Light’ Offers a Unique Take on Anne Frank’s Story

Bel Powley plays ‘everyday superhero’ Miep Gies and Liev Schrieber plays Frank’s father Otto

WhatToWatch

A Small Light cast: who's who in the World War Two drama

Meet the A Small Light cast who are bringing the story of Miep and Jan Gies, the people who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II.

Cinemablend

A Small Light Showrunner Discusses The Goal To 'Take The Cobwebs' Off Miep Gies Beyond The Diary Of Anne Frank

A Small Light is a new limited series based on the true story of Miep Gies, and showrunner Joan Rater opened up about shedding more light on the woman known from Anne Frank's diary.

The Guardian - UK

Actor Bel Powley: ‘I’d shied away from second world war stories – it’s always all about men’

The Morning Show star on playing the woman who hid Anne Frank, revitalising period dramas and working with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon

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From Polite Society to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s a high-kicking romp about marital martial arts, or a Force-fuelled frolic around a galaxy far, far away, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

Evening Standard

A Small Light on Disney+ review: this story of bravery and perseverance is a hammer-wallop round the head

The remarkable Miep Gies deserves to be spotlighted in this moving National Geographic series about Anne Frank

The Independent UK

New series about the Anne Frank story is under attack by antisemitic trolls, creators say

A Small Light, streaming from 2 May on Disney+, focuses on the heroic efforts of Miep and Jan Gies during the Second World War

The Independent UK

Anne Frank’s story transformed the world’s view of the Holocaust. This woman kept her family and her diary alive

The diary of Anne Frank — written as she hid with her family and others in the annex of an Amsterdam building while Hitler’s Nazis hunted for Jews in the Second World War — is one of the most widely read books in the world. A new series shines a…

WhatToWatch

A Small Light: release date, cast, plot, trailer and all about the moving war drama on those who tried to protect Anne Frank

A Small Light on Disney Plus follows the couple who hid Anne Frank's family and stars Bel Powley, Joe Cole, Liev Schreiber and Eleanor Tomlinson.

The Guardian - UK

Michael Rosen marks Anne Frank anniversary with new poem

Sonnet for Anne Frank reflects on the ‘awful paradox between the living spirit of the diary and then the knowledge that you have’

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