★★★★☆Video didn’t kill the radio star, and streaming isn’t killing the movie star – it’s just making TV stars of movie stars. This is hardly news. Take Only Murders in the Building (Disney+), back for a third series not just with its lead trio of Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as our true-crime sleuths, but with added Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd. What was news last week, however, was that over-65s are deserting “traditional” telly and becoming silver streamers in droves. Only Murders is surely part of the draw, and rightly so, because frankly it’s got a bit more about it than EastEnders.
By now the standards are, if anything, flying higher than ever. Well, it’s always going to help when
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