The week in TV: Becoming Karl Lagerfeld; Sunak v Starmer: The ITV Debate; D-Day: The Unheard Tapes; Queenie – review

The week in TV: Becoming Karl Lagerfeld; Sunak v Starmer: The ITV Debate; D-Day: The Unheard Tapes; Queenie – review

High-end fashion is awash with passion in Disney’s absurdly glamorous dramedy; the first leaders’ debate proves a waste of time; an oral history of D-day works brilliantly; and Candice Carty-Williams’s heroine has men trouble

Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (Disney+)
Sunak v Starmer: The ITV Debate (ITV) | ITVX
D-Day: The Unheard Tapes (BBC Two) | iPlayer
Queenie (Channel 4) | channel4.com

The new Disney+ French drama Becoming Karl Lagerfeld won a standing ovation at the Canneseries television festival, and it’s easy to see why. I’m not sure what I was expecting – maybe something brittle and peculiar, not unlike its subject. The late German designer (he died in 2019), who ended up as Chanel’s creative director, was known for strutting around with platinum hair, flapping his signature fan, spewing bitchy asides (Adele was labelled “a little too fat”).

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