Lucy Mangan

· 4-min read Welcome to your first odd-couple detective drama of 2025.

Like all modern takes on frontier life, this drama focuses on its brutish nature. We’ve seen it all before – even if it is a gripping yarn

This fascinating documentary looks at people who have traded modern life to live on minuscule British islets. Its script might be banal, but their existence is a joy to see

I hadn’t noticed that my time was a thing to be considered because no one else seemed to have done either

Roll up, roll up – fun times are here again, especially for us ladies! Last week we had 2025's first addition to the bulging files of true-crime

I wasn't idiotic enough to think I was immortal, I just didn’t think I was going to die.

This documentary about Price and her partner’s attempt to have a child may have spawned acres of coverage, but there is no delving into the agonies of infertility, which makes it depthless, thoughtless and downright offensive

The way this documentary locks people in rooms with their greatest terror until they’re gibbering wrecks is like an awful reality show. Should we really be gawping at them?

What are you irrationally scared of? What is the thing that, if you see it, means there is likely to be a you-shaped hole in the nearest wall as you flee in panic?

Prime Target is one of those endeavours that gives you the inescapable feeling that someone came up with the title first and worked backwards from there.