The week in TV Anne; Four Lives; Mandy; Toast of Tinseltown

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Maxine Peake and Sheridan Smith are unforgettable in two painful real- life dramas, while Diane Morgan and Matt Berry return as the supremely daft Mandy and ToastAnne (ITV) | ITV HubFour Lives (BBC One) | iPlayerMandy (BBC Two) | iPlayerToast of Tinseltown (BBC Two) | iPlayerAnne, ITV’s four-part drama directed by Bruce Goodison (Leave to Remain), is a reminder that we may all know about Hillsborough – the 1989 FA Cup semi-final disaster in the Sheffield stadium that killed 97 Liverpool fans – but we didn’t live it, and then relive it, viscerally, relentlessly, as the bereaved did. Continue reading...

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