Perfect Days
A quiet character study built from work, music and repeated daily rituals. A good door into films where attention matters more than plot machinery.
Drama
A quieter way to choose
Discover
Databases are good at information. Critics are good at taste. Randomness is good at surprise.
Poster first, blurb next
Wander
Aftersun
A daughter looks back at a holiday with her father, where small remembered moments slowly acquire a different weight.
Drama
Detectorists
Two friends search fields for buried history while ordinary life keeps interrupting. Gentle, funny television with a precise sense of place.
Comedy · Drama
Happy Valley
A police sergeant confronts a case that reaches into her own family history. Tense crime drama anchored by character rather than spectacle.
Crime · Drama
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
After the heroes have already won, an elf begins to understand how differently her human companions experienced their time together.
Fantasy · Drama
The Apothecary Diaries
A sharp-minded apothecary solves medical puzzles and court intrigues while trying not to attract more attention than necessary.
Mystery · Drama
Lahai — Sampha
Restless, intimate songs that reward a full-album listen, moving between electronic detail, family memory and warm piano lines.
Electronic · Soul
My 21st Century Blues — RAYE
A wide-ranging debut album that moves through pop, soul, jazz and dance music without sanding down its sharper personal edges.
Pop · R&B
What is arriving, not what is trending
Seasonal TV & film calendar
Selected premieres and cinema dates · updated 2026-10-02
United Kingdom · Autumn 2026
TV premieres
United Kingdom · Autumn 2026
Cinema releases
United States · Fall 2026
TV premieres
Thursday · Returning
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Season 28 · NBC / Peacock next day
Check the sourceUnited States · Fall 2026
Cinema releases
A small editorial calendar, not a complete release database. Future dates can move; follow the linked source before making plans. This is deliberately selective rather than a complete release database.
Broadcast discovery
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United Kingdom
2026-10-02 · evening selection
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New-episode data from TVmaze, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This is a partial discovery guide, not a complete national EPG; repeats, films, news blocks and local listings may be absent.
People, not scores
Voices worth learning
Feed-derived examples · editorial review required
Stuart Heritage
UK
An active written feed with reviews, live episode coverage and television criticism. Only article metadata is imported; any short take remains editorial.
2026-10-01
The Celebrity Traitors: episode one — as it happened
Live written coverage of the opening episode and its unusually star-heavy cast.
Open the original2026-09-19
The Guide #261: There is so much good telly this autumn you may never go outside again
A broad autumn television survey designed as a route into several shows rather than one ranked recommendation.
Open the originalPeter Bradshaw
UK
A high-frequency written UK film source whose review headlines usually identify one work cleanly.
2026-10-02
Take It or Leave It
Bradshaw responds to the film as an atmospheric account of Madness before fame.
Open the original2026-10-01
Extra Geography
He highlights its comedy and its treatment of class, sex and female friendship.
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Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
Bradshaw presents the documentary as both frightening and life-affirming.
Open the originalLucy Mangan
UK
A named UK television critic with a dependable author feed and consistently title-specific reviews.
2026-10-02
Kill Jackie
Mangan finds the assassin thriller lacking in both character and plotting despite its familiar premise.
Open the original2026-10-01
The Celebrity Traitors
Her response centres on Ross Kemp’s conspicuous struggle to stay composed.
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East of Eden
Mangan praises Florence Pugh and finds the Steinbeck adaptation compelling television.
Open the originalNick Creamer · Wrong Every Time
US / international
Long-form criticism spanning animation, television and film, plus weekly viewing diaries, arrives as complete written articles through a working RSS feed.
2026-09-30
Summer 2026 — Week 13 in Review
A weekly viewing diary covering current anime alongside feature films, kept as a collection rather than forced onto one title.
Open the original2026-09-28
Apocalypse Hotel — Episode 6
Close episode criticism focused on hospitality, inheritance and the series’ use of long-term hope.
Open the original2026-09-26
The Mighty Nein — Episode 5
An episode essay on adaptation choices, group failure and how tabletop play becomes coherent television drama.
Open the originalAlexis Petridis
UK
A named UK music critic whose review headlines usually expose artist and release; quizzes, rankings and live reviews are filtered out.
2026-10-01
Meshell Ndegeocello — Synonym
Petridis admires the record’s vivid reinventions of songs from a deliberately wide range of writers.
Open the original2026-09-24
Gilla Band — Pugnello
He responds to the album’s aggression, absurd humour and refusal to sound ordinary.
Open the original2026-09-17
Beabadoobee — Pylon
Petridis finds recognisable feeling inside a louder record about rock-star frustration.
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