Lucy Mangan

To watch this documentary about the one-time comedian’s astonishing journey to statesmanship is to feel that you’re witnessing the birth of a hero

It’s almost impossible to resist bingeing the entirety of this classy detective drama set around a posh wedding in Nantucket. It’s a glorious, perfectly paced delight

It's gorgeous to look at, it stars a 4,000-bedroom mansion on a beautiful stretch of US coastline and it's packed with lavish lifestyles funded by fifth-generational wealth.

When did we become so squeamish that a bathroom for each individual became virtually de rigueur?

The title of Matt Frei's latest documentary is Trump: Should We Be Scared? You probably know the short answer. This is the longer one.

Judging by these interviews with the Donald’s fans about everything from a national abortion ban to immigration, the future of the US looks unstable at best. But why the lack of pushback?

· 4-min read The latest edition of the BBC documentary strand In My Own Words presents Alison Lapper's story.

When Cathy Terkanian learns that the daughter she was persuaded to place up for adoption has gone missing, she knows the police will never bother to find her. So she does it herself

There is nothing I love more than a fashion documentary in which you have to look up at least one of the contributors online to make sure he or she is real.

I'm a late adopter of Only Murders in the Building.