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Lucy Mangan

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Lucy Mangan is the Guardian TV critic and author of Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives

October 2026

  • A man with dark hair in an unbuttoned white shirt leans on a wooden railing, looking aside

    TV review
    Yaga review – this erotic witchy thriller starring Hudson Williams is a total head-messer

  • The Celebrity Traitors - final seven contestants with Claudia Winkleman

    The Celebrity Traitors final review – more muted but still thrilling to the last

  • Stephen Graham sits quietly in a brick-walled room

    TV review
    Nocturne review – Stephen Graham is TV’s most evil serial killer … and it’s impossible to stop watching him

  • Woman in a dark patterned top sits at a kitchen table and looks defiantly into the camera

    TV review
    Murder in Belfast: Sisters Seeking Justice review – a family’s astonishing bravery helped make history

  • TV review
    The One About Matthew Perry review – the star of one of TV’s biggest ever shows gets a loving tribute

  • TV review
    Adultery review – a risible tale of middle-aged car sex, rat poo and rickety furniture

  • TV review
    The Audacity review – cracking TV packed with even more gloriously awful people than Succession

  • TV review
    Stacey Dooley: Down the K Hole review – the weird tale of how you can order ketamine quicker than pizza

  • TV review
    Aberfan: The Village That Fought Back review – the contempt they have faced to get justice is sickening

  • TV review
    The Book That Changed My Life review – these joyful tales of the power of reading are TV magic

  • TV review
    The Party review – this pacey, perfectly cast thriller is enormous fun

  • TV review
    Time review – David Tennant’s furious drama is as important as Adolescence

  • TV review
    Carrie review – the teenage hell-raiser’s glorious return couldn’t come at a better time

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    The Reluctant Vampire review – Lenny Rush’s absolute joy of a comedy is perfectly cast

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    War review – Sienna Miller and Dominic West’s hellish divorce drama is massive, massive fun

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    Kill Jackie review – Catherine Zeta-Jones’ assassin thriller is like Killing Eve … minus good characters or plot

  • TV review
    The Celebrity Traitors review – Ross Kemp really needs to get a grip

  • TV review
    East of Eden review – Florence Pugh in soapy Steinbeck adaptation is brilliant, compelling TV

September 2026

  • Alison Hammond, Nigella Lawson and Paul Hollywood admiring a Bake Off contestant's work

    TV review
    The Great British Bake Off review – Nigella is wise, generous … and perfect for this national treasure of a show

  • A middle-aged man in dark jacket and middle-aged woman in a jeans jacket and long brown hair looking at each other standing close to each other under an umbrella at night.

    TV review
    Youth review – Sharon Horgan is back … and she’s better than ever

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