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Billy Foley

Reporter · GB

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 24, 2026
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Jul 4, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · By Billy Foley

    The Blame review: ITV drama tries too hard to make a point to the detriment of the crime drama (opens the original)

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    ITV drama The Blame struggles to make up its mind as to whether it’s a crime drama about a murdered teenager or a reflection on the appalling misogyny in the police Michelle Keegan stars as no-nonsense Detective Inspector Emma Crane, who, along with her partner DI Tom Radley (Douglas Booth), is assigned to lead the investigation into the murder of a 16-year-old girl. Sophie Madsen (Matilda Freeman) is a talented ice skater who goes missing, and her terrified parents can’t figure out why, onl

  2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · By Billy Foley

    Israel’s espionage thriller is back on Netflix with a series on October 7 – and it’s troubling viewing (opens the original)

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    It says something about the polarising nature of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict that even a TV drama can be seen as a political act. Perhaps a review of it as well. There have been very few dramas dealing with the October 7 attack on Israel and the subsequent obliteration of Gaza and the death of around 70,000 Palestinians. Perhaps it’s because the reverberations continue, with the conflict widening to include Lebanon and a US/Israel attack on Iran, which saw retaliation against any country

  3. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · By Billy Foley

    How The Tudors Lost Their Heads review:Â Cheer yourself up with a reminder of how awful things could have been if you were born 500 years earlier (opens the original)

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    It’s always cheering to watch the most violent history TV programmes, if only to remind yourself of how lucky your life is. We may have wars in the Middle East, Sudan and Ukraine, a climate crisis and scary AI predictions of robots taking over, but compared to Medieval times, life is just great. Political violence is not unknown in our times, but in 16th-century England it was an everyday, brutal fact of life. Being ambitious to reach the top could cost you your life, and family connections we

  4. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · By Billy Foley

    The Airport Chaplain review – comfort food television for cosy autumn evenings (opens the original)

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    Yes, there is such a thing as an Airport Chaplain, they do exist. Heathrow has 25 of them, it seems, dishing out multi-faith words of comfort in times of crisis. They can be found hanging out near the prayer room until emergency calls arrive from bereaved passengers and staff, the lost, the lonely and the worried. It’s an important service in what can be a highly stressful environment, and, amazingly, no one has thought to make a TV series about it before. It’s Death in Paradise-style agreea

  5. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · By Billy Foley

    Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing review: Might be best not to watch this horror story if you’re preparing to fly (opens the original)

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    It’s probably for the best that the main holiday season is over with the release of this Netflix documentary on the tragic failures of the aeroplane company Boeing. If not, I suspect a lot more people would be paying attention to that section of your flight booking which shows which plane is providing your service. Traditionally, only aeroplane nerds were interested in the various models provided by Boeing and its European competitor Airbus. Watch Freefall at your peril - you might start makin

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