TV and film

The story of the scammer who passed herself off as an heiress should make for must-see television, but reality far outstrips Shonda Rhimes’s overly safe retelling

In this Netflix series a film conservator is tasked with rescuing a set of videotapes from the 1990s. What could possibly go wrong?

Roger Michell’s last film tells the unlikely story of how the Duke of Wellington’s portrait was stolen from the National Gallery – and found in a train station four years later

Salomé Jashi’s film ‘Taming the Garden’ documents how a tree-hogging former prime minister is pillaging the landscape to create a private paradise

In what now seems like a warning from history, the artist’s only feature film is about a magazine editor who is forced to work at home

There’s more than one way to knock a figure off its pedestal, as a documentary about dressing up public monuments in Liverpool shows

The TV competition series is billed as a ‘masterclass’ – and none of the contestants will be booted off until the finale. Where’s the fun in that?

The Amazon series limps through its art history but is just about salvaged by its endearingly goofy hero

As a new documentary reveals, the Scottish painter braved wind, rain and Arctic ice in search of his ‘rough truth’

Francis Lee’s film plays fast and loose with Mary Anning’s life – but at least it digs the great geologist out of historical obscurity

The knavery and folly of the rarefied art world are writ large in a documentary that picks over the Knoedler forgery scandal