After bordering on unwatchable, the second season of And Just Like That has slowly found its way back to the magic that fans were missing

Sex and the City fans might remember the fictional Vogue editor Enid Frick, played by the inimitable Candice Bergen, for both her icy demeanor and immortal words of advice. “The key to having it all,” she once told a young Carrie Bradshaw, is to “stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like.” By “it”, she meant both fall collections and the less-than-ideal realities of romantic partnership, but I couldn’t help but wonder, would she say the same of television reboots?

And Just Like That, the sequel to the beloved HBO series, decidedly failed to meet SATC fans’ expectations. The stellar ratings of season one, which debuted last year with an audience of 1.1m households, plummeted to less than half of that for the premiere of season two; for many viewers, Miranda’s Che Diaz-induced spiral had undoubtedly killed the desire to keep tuning in. Season one relied so heavily on cringe-inducing, hapless gags that when they thankfully stopped in the second season, the show lost all momentum; with no backup plan for what the characters might do instead, their worlds felt strangely inert. The highlight of Carrie’s lifeless affair with her producer, devoid of any personality, excitement or sexual tension, was learning to poach an egg. Amid Harry’s improbable desire to wear a top hat to the Met Ball, we were suddenly watching a show about nothing – not the comedic nothing of Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, but the miserable nothing of characters with no ambitions or stakes.

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Singer breaks down in tears while discussing divorce as she returns for presenter’s last episode of The Late Late Show

Adele broke down in tears while discussing her divorce as she joined James Corden for the final Carpool Karaoke in his last week as host of the The Late Late Show on the US network CBS.

Corden took over The Late Late Show in 2015, replacing the Scottish-American comedian Craig Ferguson. He announced last year that he would be leaving the show and returning to the UK, with Corden’s last episode airing on Thursday.

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Almost overlooked for the job of Strictly judge, Len Goodman ended up being the show’s lifeblood, thrilling audiences with his straight-talking ways – and fabulous footwork

In 2004, as his 60th birthday approached, Len Goodman was preparing to retire from his professional enthusiasm – a ballroom dancing school in Dartford, Kent – to spend more time with private passions: his family, golf.

His one regret was that the BBC was working on a new hoofing show, having axed Come Dancing a decade earlier. Friends and colleagues were being auditioned, but Goodman had not been asked. He admitted in his memoirs to being miffed enough about this omission that he lied to friends about having turned down an offer.

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Late-night hosts discussed the major settlement in the Fox News-Dominion case – and who might be next to pay out

On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert spoke about the $787.5m settlement between Fox News to Dominion in the much-publicised defamation lawsuit. “Fox got taken to the cleaners,” he said. It’s “a huge hit to Fox’s bottom line”.

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