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Jimmy McGovern’s prison drama shifts its focus without pulling its punches; Basil Fawlty is alive and well on GB News; and Roman Kemp proves a great campaigner for young people’s mental healthTime (BBC One) | iPlayer The Dinosaur Hour (GB News)All the Light We Cannot See (Netflix)Roman Kemp: The Fight for Young Lives (BBC Three) | iPlayerYou’d be forgiven for wondering how writer Jimmy McGovern (Cracker, Hillsborough) could follow up his 2021 Bafta-garlanded prison drama, Time. Starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham, it was a potent stealth masterpiece examining struggling masculinity, and one that stood complete. Continue reading...