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Questions are answered, tensions are raised, and emotions are strong - episode 3 of The Cry is the best one yet

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Cinematic, intense and with a shuddering performance from Jenna Coleman, episode 2 of The Cry explores the dark realities of loss

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Best of 

Parenthood is hard for so many people, and they often don't show it. But what about losing a child? The Cry explores both

In The Know

Dance 

Strictly Come Dancing 2018 launched last Saturday, but the competition itself won’t start for another couple of weeks. Meanwhile, Vikki Vile meets this year’s celebrity cast and assesses their prospects

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Watch through your fingers, decide you want an open relationship and bin your lingerie: Wanderlust on BBC One is not to be missed

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BBC Wales hit mysterious drama is set to air on BBC One

Preview

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From the writer of A Very English Scandal comes a new drama about our political future

In the Know

Best of 

Hide your children: the BBC's first horror TV show arrives with Requiem

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Sexual tension and dirty politics fail to deliver in The Last Post, BBC One: a melodrama set in 1965 during the British occupation of Aden (Yemen)

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An astonish cast: Emma Thompson, Andrew Scott, Christopher Eccleston and Anthony Hopkins to star in new BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear

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Darling it's better down where it's wetter: Blue Planet II arrives with a new cast of creatures for us to fall in love with this October

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The first episode of Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)'s crime novel The Cuckoo's Calling arrives as an adaptation on BBC One

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Our bare-chested hero is back – but you're no longer allowed to fancy him, so gird your loins: Poldark season three is here

Tried and Tested

TV 

Sean Bean stars in Broken, BBC One this Tuesday, as an abused Catholic priest struggling to help desperate, poverty-stricken families

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Kids 

The time-travelling, dimension defying Doctor returns to BBC One

Tried and Tested

TV 

Liz Bonnin joins a team of world-renowned scientists aboard research vessel Alucia, for a groundbreaking mission researching the wildlife of the Galapagos archipelago

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TV 

What if the Nazis had won the Second World War? SS-GB comes to BBC One this February to shake us to our core

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The shocking story of 'missing' schoolgirl Shannon Matthews comes to BBC One in The Moorside starring Sheridan Smith