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Ed Cumming

Ed Cumming is The Independent's TV critic.

The Investigation is a radical take on the true crime genre

It’s a Sin is a reminder to find joy in the scariest times

The Queen’s Gambit, Emily in Paris and Bridgerton are all the same

Finding Alice: Keeley Hawes stars in confusing grief drama

Alex Wheatle is Small Axe’s most conventional entry but still great TV

Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’ is full of texture and detail

Abolitionist drama The Good Lord Bird looks 2020 straight in the eye

Irvine Welsh: The black people I see in media went to colonial schools

His Dark Materials doesn’t inspire as much wonder as it ought to

Oscar Pistorius emerges as a complex and difficult figure in new doc

Jean Reno: ‘I was shocked by how many soldiers in Vietnam were black’

It’s hard not to shrug at The Queen and the Coup in today’s world

The Salisbury Poisonings feels like a Crimewatch reconstruction

Why Dave is the best new comedy of 2020

New Alex Rider series makes schoolboy super-spy seem credible

Ali & Cavett reminds us of the boxer’s huge political impact