tv & radio
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Kellyanne Conway is a 'truth scarecrow'Comics, including Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah, discussed Trump’s counselor, his criticism of the judiciary system and his apparent lack of competency
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Small screen queens: how teen angst took over the TV sceneFilms like 16 Candles used to showcase high school drama, but shows like Pretty Little Liars and Riverdale have relocated the jocks and geeks to the small screen -
Desus and Mero: 'The more ridiculous the story is, the faker it is'Viceland’s late-night TV hosts turned their raw and unfiltered social media personalities into a bankable brand. They explain how telling it like it is pays -
Legion review – Marvel takes on mental illness in dazzling new showEven for those with superhero fatigue, there’s something fascinatingly unconventional about Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley’s ambitious drama
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Late-night roundup: hosts weigh in on 'the real president' Steve BannonComics, including Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert, discuss the influence of Trump’s controversial adviser and the confirmation of Betsy DeVos
what to watch
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Detroiters review – Jackass meets Mad Men as stupidity sells in the motor cityComedy Central’s take on the advertising game is a lo-fi cousin to Don Draper and company – but as juvenile as it may be, there are laughs, too
episode recaps
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The Walking DeadThe Walking DeadThe Walking Dead: season seven, episode eight – Hearts Still BeatingThe half-season hobbled to a close with 10 minutes of hugs and learning. We have to wait till spring for significant carnage? That’s too darn long
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HomelandHomelandHomeland recap: season six, episode three – The CovenantCarrie calls in a big favour, Saul reunites with the black sheep of the family and Quinn get bloody revenge
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Melissa McCarthy steals the show as Sean Spicer on Saturday Night LiveGrim Reaper-esque Steven Bannon encourages Donald Trump to tell Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull ‘your reef is failing’
videos
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South Park creators on difficulty of writing Trump jokes: 'Satire has become reality' – videoTrey Parker and Matt Stone said writing for the show had become ‘really tricky’ as ‘what was actually happening was way funnier than anything we could come up with’
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Late night hosts on the inauguration – videoUS late night hosts didn’t pull any punches on Thursday night, on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States
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Counting with the Count, Sesame Street's most famous vampire – videoNumbers are fun, especially when you get to count with The Count! We catch up with number enthusiast Count Von Count to talk about his lovers and moving to Sesame Street
talking points
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Is change as good as a rest to keep classic British TV characters fresh?Doctor Who, Bond, Sherlock: reboots are changing audience views of heroes
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Lena Dunham’s Girls: the show that turned TV upside downGirls helped reinvent the female ensemble show, but it hasn’t been an easy ride. As it approaches its final season before hitting the big screen, we assess its legacy
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South Park creators to back off Trump jokes: 'Satire has become reality'Trey Parker and Matt Stone say it will ‘be more difficult’ to mock the new administration: ‘They’re already going out and doing the comedy’
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Doctor Who: why the new Time Lord can and must be a womanWithout a massive shakeup, the time-travel fantasy will die. Casting the 13th Doctor is a key decision for the BBC – and it needs to think outside the Tardis
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24 under Trump: why the hit show's use of torture is all-too-relevantAs the new president comments about the virtues of torturing terror suspects, the thriller returns to the small screen with predictably grisly results
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My Super Sweet 16 is back – and it's a perfect grotesque for the Trump ageA gaudy parade of humanity’s worst instincts, the MTV show died in 2008 just before Obama rose to power. Now it’s being revived, in all its monstrousness
you may have missed
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Stranger Things 2 – everything we learned from the trailerThe boys are now Ghostbusters – and the monsters are mega! But where’s Winona? And can we wait till Halloween for our fix?
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Lena Dunham: ‘I find trolls hard to handle – it must be even worse for teenagers’As the final series of Girls begins, its creator explains why she has to speak out about online abuse
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Prankster in chief: why I threw swastika golfballs at Donald TrumpHe stage-invaded Kanye, gave Blatter a cash shower, and got cuffed for riling Trump. As Simon Brodkin gets his own TV show, he reveals why Scottish police are the best – and Swiss officers the worst
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First look at Rihanna as Marion Crane in new Bates Motel trailerThe star plays the character made famous by Janet Leigh in Psycho in the latest season of the small-screen expansion
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Search Party: this hipster murder mystery is the sharpest TV satire in yearsLike Columbo meets Girls, a new series is switching up the classic detective story with pin-sharp humour and millennial malaise
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Drew Barrymore 'I don't pretend to be perfect'Drew Barrymore is back on our screens, this time as a flesh-eating estate agent. She tells Rebecca Nicholson about the endless ups and downs of her life – from child star to teen rebel, and savvy producer to business woman – and explains why she’ll ‘fight to the death to be happy’
'Is it like Girls?' How I found recognition and relief in Brooklyn's TV daughters