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From anxiously funny Fleabag to the final season of Game of Thrones, 2019 has been a year packed with excellent television

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Victor Hugo's classic tale comes to an end in the Les Miserables finale. Valjean (Dominic West) risks imprisonment to seek Marius (Josh O'Connor) and kill him

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In Les Miserables episode five, Marius (Josh O'Connor) and Cosette (Ellie Bamber) begin their annoying romance amid the violent June Rebellion in Paris

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The teenage Cosette (Ellie Bamber) is desperate to see the world for herself, but her guardian Jean Valjean (Dominic West) doesn't want her exposed to its pain

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In Les Miserables episode 3, Jean Valjean (Dominic West) attempts to answer for his previous crimes while fulfilling the wishes of the dying Fantine (Lily Collins)

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Luther series 5 has finally seen the light! DCI John Luther (Idris Elba) has a new partner (Wunmi Mosaku) and a new case centred around a mask-wearing, bus-sneaking serial killer

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Luther series 5 is back. We met with Idris Elba and Ruth Wilson to find out more about the surprises in store for series 5

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Dance takes centre stage on television with BBC One The Greatest Dancer, a new talent show where the public decide who's to be crowned top hoofer

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In the Doctor Who series 11 finale, The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) travels with her companions to the battlefield planet Ranskoor Av Kolos – where they meet a familiar face...

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A non-musical adaptation of the Victor Hugo's classic Les Miserables, starring Lily Collins and Olivia Coleman, comes to the BBC this Christmas. Here's everything we know

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In the penultimate episode of Doctor Who series 11, the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker)4 and co. land in a Norwegian fjord near a deserted cottage – where two universes are colliding

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In episode 8 of Doctor Who, The Witchfinders, the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and co. find themselves in 17th century Lanchashire during a violent spread of witch trials

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In episode 7 of Doctor Who, the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) is sent a mysterious message from the galaxy's biggest retailer, Kerblam! The TARDIS team go and check it out

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In Episode 6 of Doctor Who, Jodie Whittaker goes back in time and across the water to the Punjab in 1947. Religious riots are raging and alien demons are lurking...

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In episode five of Doctor Who, The Tsuranga Conundrum, the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and friends wake up on a medic ship. But something dangerous and hungry is on board...

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In episode four of Doctor Who, Jodie Whittaker is up against some fierce and massive spiders crawling rampant in Sheffield

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Jenna Coleman delivers another heart-ripping performance in The Cry finale, which reaches an unsettling conclusion

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In episode 3 of Doctor Who, the TARDIS 'accidentally' lands Jodie Whittaker and team in Alabama, 1955 – a day before the Rosa Parks incident on the Montgomery bus

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

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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

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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

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