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The week in TV: Us; Criminal; Bake Off; Grayson Perry in America; Ghosts

Tom Hollander and co are just right in David Nicholls’s adaptation of his 2014 bestseller. Meanwhile Grayson Perry gets to the heart of America and Bake Off rises to the occasion

Us (BBC One) | iPlayer
Criminal (Netflix) | Netflix
The Great British Bake Off (Channel 4) | All 4
Grayson Perry’s Big American Road Trip (Channel 4) | All 4
Ghosts (BBC One) | iPlayer

I was glad to see the adaptation of Us looming in my headlights a couple of weeks ago, because it gave me an excuse to order the book, and I’d quite forgotten how consistently smart and charming a writer is David Nicholls.

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