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We're supposed to be used to this by now, but getting used to it is dangerous. Her colleagues should have spoken upCatherine Lucey, who covers the White House for Bloomberg News, was doing what reporters are supposed to do: asking germane questions.Her query to Donald Trump a few days ago during a "gaggle” aboard Air Force One was reasonable as...
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There is no point pretending that change is not happening, or that it can be avoided. But these are the risks we must addressThe idea of serving the public has been baked into the bones of journalism ever since the profession was created.Whether it was quality information to inform the citizenry, or sensationalism and gossip, newsrooms and editors...
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'You've done this before,' comedian told president, who ranted about Kimmel online and demanded his firingEarly on Thursday morning, Donald Trump made another plea for ABC to fire the late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, writing on his Truth Social platform that he has "NO TALENT” and "VERY POOR TELEVISION RATINGS”.On his show later that night,...
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Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat as credibleHundreds of English-language websites – from mainstream news outlets to fringe blogs – are linking to articles from a pro-Kremlin network flooding the internet with disinformation, according to a study released by a...
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From Claire Foy's Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall to Adriana in The Sopranos, we meet the actors who had to bump off TV legends … and then face the wrath of the publicTalk about being a pantomime villain. It's unpopular enough playing the antagonist who murders a long-running TV character. When your victim is a fan favourite, though, you risk being...
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An utterly beguiling Taiwanese drama about a single mother, plus Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri star in a dark thriller about accusations of sexual assault on a college campusShih-Ching Tsou is a regular collaborator of Sean Baker, the Oscar-winning director of Anora. He returns the compliment here by co-writing and editing her...
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Organisers look at other UK venues amid concerns over costs and industry's lack of working-class voicesFor almost 50 years, the great and the good of British broadcasting have descended on Edinburgh each summer to discuss the trials and tribulations of the TV world. David Attenborough, Tina Fey, Emily Maitlis and Rupert Murdoch are among those to...
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Head back to Hawkins for one last hair-raising, horrifying showdown with Vecna. Plus: Peter Jackson works yet more miracles with stunning footage of the Fab Four As one of the streamer's defining creations, this supernatural coming-of-age drama ends on its own terms. The final season begins by rewinding back to young Will in the Upside Down for a...
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Gemma becomes a mum in the second series of Daddy Issues. Plus, the final episode of Empire With David Olusoga. Here's what to watch this evening9.35pm, BBC OneAimee Lou Wood and David Morrissey's sweet father-and-daughter comedy returns – and they're now joined by baby Sadie. Gemma (Wood) is grappling with motherhood and daydreaming about dating...
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The tale of Prof Sarah Blagden's attempt to find a treatment that stops the disease is the rarest of things – TV that makes you dare to hopeCancer Detectives: Finding the Cures should come with a rare warning: may make you feel hopeful for humanity and marginally less convinced that we are all willingly leaping into a handcart and smoothing our...
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All the bleak tenderness from the musician's novel makes it into this heartbreaking screen adaptation of a father-and-son road trip where the dad relentlessly pursues sex. It will undo youThe travelling salesman used to be a stock figure – a centrepiece for jokes about man's priapism, the untameable wanderlust of the peen once free of its...
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Exclusive: Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance acquiring Warner Bros DiscoverySenior White House officials have discussed internally their preference for Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery in recent weeks, and one official has discussed potential programming changes at CNN with Larry Ellison, the...
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ESPN lands MLB.tv out-of-market packageNetflix gets Home Run Derby, marquee gamesNBC takes over Sunday Night Baseball slateESPN and Major League Baseball appeared headed for an ugly separation after the network opted out of its rights deal in February.Nine months later, it appears to be the best thing to happen to both parties. Continue reading...
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Lords say culture department has mishandled process and suggest CMA or Cabinet Office oversee new auctionThe government has been urged to take control of the sale of the Telegraph through an auction run by a body such as the UK competition regulator or the Cabinet Office.Peers called on the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, to wrest the sale process...
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Government wants social media platforms to be less attractive for foreign agents after recent intelligence warningsThe government is holding talks with LinkedIn on how it can clamp down on prolific Chinese espionage activity after a rare interference alert was issued by MI5.The National Protective Security Authority, which is part of the UK's...
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Jed Mercurio's police drama is getting a comeback – which gives it the chance to be TV's greatest cop show once more. Here's what it needs to doMother of God, fella, they're back at last. In a rare piece of good news for the beleaguered BBC, blockbuster drama Line of Duty is to return for a long-awaited seventh series. So long-awaited, in fact,...
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Actor praises co-star in abominably reviewed Ryan Murphy legal drama, and claims show deserved more appreciationGlenn Close has hit back at the critical mauling for her recent series All's Fair. The actor stars in Ryan Murphy's legal drama, which has received a string of zero-star reviews. In her appraisal, the Guardian's Lucy Mangan described it...
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The Death of Bunny Munro is based on a Brighton-set novel about a sex-addict salesman. Plus: Celebrity Race Across the World hits El Salvador. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, Sky AtlanticMatt Smith is at his most grotesque in an unsettling drama based on Nick Cave's scandalous novel of the same name (Cave also executive produces). It's set in...
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Only our current tech hellscape could create a comedy so insidiously inoffensive. Prepare to be pummelled into submission as your time is siphoned off by OK entertainmentThis is a cosy, lighthearted whodunnit about a retired professor who gets a second wind as a private eye. It's also a bingo card for just about everything that makes streamer-era...
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JMW Turner left behind some 37,000 sketches when he died, many of which have rarely been seen. Do they – including a huge collection of explicit sketches – reveal truths about the elusive man?The hook for Turner: the Secret Sketchbooks is meant to be that many of the 37,000 sketches left behind by the great British painter JMW Turner have...
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This heart-stopping Danish investigation about a mob lawyer turned whistleblower is more dramatic than Scandi-noir as it drops one huge revelation after another. It's easy to see why it absolutely rocked DenmarkAs film-maker Mads Brügger explains at the outset of this four-part documentary series, a black swan is the name given to an event so...
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National broadcaster says it has 'mutually parted ways' with the former fast bowler, who was due to commentate the AshesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian cricket legend Glenn McGrath has been dropped from ABC commentary duties due to his partnership with a...
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Challenge to Meta could have forced it to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp, but judge ruled company did not hold social networking monopolyMeta defeated a major challenge to its business on Tuesday when a US judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly in social networking.The case, brought by the US Federal Trade Commission, could have...
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ABC managing director tells National Press Club comparisons between BBC program edit and Four Corners episode are not legitimateFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesSign up for Guardian Australia's free weekly media newsletter hereThe ABC managing director, Hugh Marks, has criticised attacks on the ABC as "opportunistic” as it...
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Fans and experts consider whether the artist may have been neurodivergent. Plus: inside the biggest Irish dancing challenge in the world. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC TwoJMW Turner is an enigma. But while he didn't leave behind a diary, he did leave 37,000 private sketches that give clues to his character – and they have been made...
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Critics accuse the US president of trying to 'shut women journalists up' with 'demeaning language'US politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump, who has a history of making extremely personal attacks on female journalists, referred to a Bloomberg News correspondent as a "piggy” during a clash onboard Air Force One on Friday.While the remark did...
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News Corp commentators have lined up to accuse the ABC of unethical practice over a 2021 Four Corners program. Here's what Trump said, and what it saidFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesSign up for Guardian Australia's free weekly media newsletter hereSky News Australia and The Australian have accused the ABC of distorting a...
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Lib Dem MP says way figures were compiled on 'non-British-sounding' surnames in court was 'frankly racist'GB News has been accused of risking inflaming tensions over crime committed by migrants after presenting unscientific research that counted the number of defendants with "foreign-sounding names”.Ofcom, the UK's media regulator, has received...
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An Indigenous journalist's experience of entering the belly of Cop where time does not flourish, it is consumedI feel as if I've been swallowed. And in the creature's stomach, I walk with the sensation of being drowned. My nose hurts, with the same pain we feel when we are struggling to breathe. That's my perception of the blue zone of Cop30, the...
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The hit BBC crime drama is coming back to screens for the first time since its record-breaking 2021 finaleBBC hit crime drama Line of Duty has been confirmed to return for a seventh series. A new six-part season following police anti-corruption investigations was today announced by the BBC."We couldn't be more delighted to be returning for a...
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From Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones to the Hot Priest in Fleabag and of course Dr Frasier Crane, we salute the game-changers who boosted later seasons of our favourite seriesWelcome. Nice of you to finally join us. Hope it was worth the wait. Yes, sometimes a late addition can improve a drama or comedy so much it becomes hard to imagine the...
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World's richest person wanted to 'purge' propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformationEntries in Elon Musk's new online encyclopedia variously promote white nationalist talking points, praise neo-Nazis and other far-right figures, promote racist ideologies and white supremacist regimes, and attempt to revive...
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The EU is under US pressure to unravel its hard-won online safety laws. We must not give inProtecting our digital sovereignty is crucial. The challenge is why European decision makers are meeting in Berlin on Tuesday at the behest of the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron. As individuals, we spend four to...
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Secret cameras roll as Amira Smajic advises criminal groups. Plus: artist Yinka Shonibare tells his deeply affecting story. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC FourDenmark has been named the least corrupt country in the world for the past six years, but this astonishing documentary series by film-maker Mads Brügger shows a darker side to the...
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The after-school TV series ran from 1989 to 2006, launched the careers of Ant and Dec and was like nothing else on TV. As ITVX streams every single episode, we look back at its highlightsVery quietly, ITVX is making a case for itself as one of the best streaming services around. All of Lost is there. All of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is there. It's...
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Mortified documentarian James Blake meets young men who have drifted towards misogynist influencers – and finds them lonely, heartbreaking and on 'semen retention journeys' to control their sex drivesJust as you can accurately measure the quality of a documentary about pornography by the number of examples of its subject that it does not show, so...
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Advertising group declines to comment on reports of interest from rival Havas and private equity groups Apollo and KKRBusiness live – latest updatesShares in WPP have risen sharply amid speculation that the advertising group could be the subject of a takeover by a rival or a private equity buyer.Its French rival Havas, which was listed on...
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Journalist, literary critic, food writer and columnist whose work graced the Observer for 24 yearsRachel Cooke filled her weekly slots in the Observer with curiosity, enthusiasm, humour and discernment for 24 years. Books, food and people were her three main subjects as a critic, columnist and interviewer – and as an author herself. Readers...
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Judgmental assertions of bias should not supplant careful analyses of evidence, writes Prof Peter Ayton. Plus letters from Peter Williams, Richard Evans, David Bell, Sam White and Ste ThomasYour editorial (The Guardian view on the BBC under siege: Britain must defend its own truth, 10 November) argues that the row over the editing of Donald Trump's...
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The Hollywood star – who had been nominated for multiple Oscars but never previously won – was honoured at the Academy's annual Governors awards, along with Dolly Parton, Wynn Thomas and Debbie AllenTom Cruise finally received an Oscar on Sunday night in Los Angeles – though not for a specific acting role. The star of Top Gun, Jerry Maguire...
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The director has taken fresh aim at the new film, saying that producer Seth MacFarlane 'totally missed' the spoof-comedy style that defined the original Naked Gun franchiseOriginal Naked Gun director David Zucker has gone back on the attack over the recent reboot starring Liam Neeson, after appearing to soften his tone in the wake of its release.In...
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'Gil Scott-Heron did the closing voiceover. He was giggling away, saying, "You English guys are crazy!”'My creative partner Al Young and I had been on the dole for 18 months when we landed our dream jobs at Howell Henry ad agency. We had to prove ourselves fast. Tango's brief was basically to get talked about. They told us: "We want Coca-Cola to...
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Not 'appropriate' to use licence fee payer's money to pay US president after threat to sue for up to $5bn, says peerThe BBC should not pay any money to Donald Trump, the former BBC director general Tony Hall has said.The US president has said he plans to sue the BBC for up to $5bn (£3.8bn) despite receiving the apology he demanded over a...
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James Blake speaks to young men about 'taking the red pill'. Plus: Celebrity MasterChef returns with added Grace Dent. Here's what to watch this evening10pm, BBC ThreeJames Blake meets the online community of alpha influencer Hamza Ahmed. "No one respects the nice guy,” says Shayne, who "took the red pill” after a breakup. "I don't worship...
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This six-part adaptation of Sarah Moss's novel is deeply confused. The acting is melodramatic, the tone bewildering and the plot is full of cartoonishly grim situations that go nowhereHolidays can be murder. Regular domestic life often smothers a festering seam of incompatibility in a relationship, or a fault in an outwardly solid family dynamic....
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With the annual trip to Blackpool in sight, Amber Davies topped the scores, while Balvinder Sopal and Vicky Pattison were joint bottom. But who would be Tower Ballroom-bound and who'd miss out on the seaside special?Which of these smiling pairs will be starved of fish and chips on Blackpool beach?Roll ye olde scene-setting VT. Blackpool-themed,...
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My father, Joe Rigby, who has died aged 87, was a working-class Catholic boy from Birmingham. He left school at 15, but rose to be a television executive at Granada Television in Manchester.For 20 years from 1973, he was Granada's head of programme planning, where he hired, inspired and nurtured the team of scriptwriters who wrote the on-air...
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Critics view increasing use of digital content creators to push policy as way to avoid serious scrutiny of decisionsNext time you're scrolling on TikTok or Instagram and that fitness guru or "mumfluencer” you follow pops up, they might be joined by an unexpected guest.As part of a UK government strategy to reach voters on social media – where...
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Book publishing websites in Australia, the UK and New Zealand appear to be using fake testimonials and AI staff pages to lure aspiring writers into handing over their moneyAn aspiring Australian writer met an apparent scammer face-to-face before realising she may have become a victim of a suspicious international publishing venture.Australia's...
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Female-targeted account pulled after sports fans criticise posts referencing matcha, Barbie and 'hot girl walks'Sky Sports has been forced to ditch its female-targeted TikTok channel Halo three days after its launch, following criticism that it was patronising and "unbelievably sexist”.Halo, which was described as the "lil sis” of Sky Sports by...
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US president says he will sue the corporation for 'anywhere between a billion and $5bn'Donald Trump has said he still plans to sue the BBC despite receiving the apology he demanded over a misleading edit of one of his speeches.The row, over an episode of Panorama from last year about the Capitol riot in 2021, led to accusations of bias at the...
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Cooke, who worked for the Observer for 25 years and was described as its 'backbone', was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year Tributes have been paid to the journalist and critic Rachel Cooke after her death from cancer.Cooke, 56, was diagnosed with the illness earlier this year and died on Friday. She worked for the Observer for 25 years, where...
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There are shades of Gossip Girl, Desperate Housewives and everything Nicole Kidman has appeared in for the last five years. Put your brain aside, and enjoyThat its ultra-wealthy characters live in a place called Richford Lake tells you almost everything you need to know about the glossy new thriller Wild Cherry. Yes, it's another entry in the...
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Anne Wood says algorithms bypass 'the responsibility of art' and have failed to support high-quality children's contentLots of programmes for children on YouTube are "empty” and do "nothing to encourage the imaginative life of children”, the Teletubbies creator has cautioned parents.Anne Wood, the veteran children's producer who devised the...
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Radio 2 DJ covers 135 miles in five days carrying a Pudsey Bear backpack from Kielder Forest to LeedsThe BBC presenter Sara Cox has completed her challenge to run 135 miles in five days, raising more than £9.5m for the Children in Need charity.The 50-year-old, who presents Radio 2's Teatime show on weekdays, crossed the finish line for her great...
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After a decade, the Netflix hit is bowing out. Ahead of its last episodes, the show's creators and cast talk about big 80s hair, recruiting a Terminator killer – and the birds Kate Bush sent themHow do you finish one of the biggest and most popular TV series of the last decade? Three years after season four came out, the fifth and final season of...
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Deals between media conglomerates and tech companies serve both sets of interests, while leaving artists by the waysideThe world's biggest music company is now in the AI business. Last year, Universal Music Group (UMG), alongside labels including Warner Records and Sony Music Entertainment sued two AI music startups for allegedly using their...
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After Tim Davie's resignation, the next director general will face internal strife, external noise and looming talks over the corporation's existence and purposeAs BBC senior editors arrived at its New Broadcasting House headquarters in central London on Monday, the most pressing question was what had convinced Tim Davie, the corporation's director...
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Viral plush toy is heading to big screen after a deal was signed with details still unclear over whether it would be live-action or animatedLabubus could be headed to the big screen. Sony Pictures has acquired the screen rights to the plush toy sensation and is in early development of a feature film which, if successful, would anchor a new...
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US private equity group's deal collapses amid newsroom criticism and threat of regulator interventionWhat next for the Telegraph after takeover collapses?RedBird Capital has dropped its £500m bid for the Telegraph Media Group, throwing the future of its daily and Sunday titles into further uncertainty.The private equity group founded by Gerry...
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The Guardian has no billionaire or corporate owner: funded by readers, our fierce independence is guaranteedIf you are able, please make a contribution to our year-end appealThe richest man on Earth owns X.The family of the second-richest man owns Paramount, which owns CBS, and could soon own Warner Bros, which owns CNN. Continue reading...
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Previous claims against BBC Breakfast presenter have been escalated to full investigation, according to the SunThe BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty is reportedly being formally investigated over allegations of bullying.It follows previous claims of bullying by the 50-year-old broadcaster on the programme, which have now been escalated to a...
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On Saturday, after nearly 30 years, the liberal network will officially change its name"MS NOW: don't worry, you'll get used to it,” that's how Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski put it on 11 October during an onstage appearance at MSNBC's annual live event for superfans in New York City.The event, which mostly filled up Manhattan's Hammerstein...
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A look at the editor-in-chief's Vogue covers from her first radical combination in 1988 to her final 'weird' shoot During her 37-year tenure as editor-in-chief of American Vogue, Anna Wintour has presided over more than 400 covers. December 2025's, on newsstands this week, will prove her last before she steps away to focus on roles as Vogue's...
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Culture secretary says she shares concerns that such appointments have damaged trust, amid calls for Robbie Gibb to goUK politics live – latest updatesThe BBC's charter review will examine political appointments to the broadcaster's board, Lisa Nandy has said, as they have "damaged confidence and trust”.The culture secretary was asked on BBC...
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The director has revealed suitably grand scale of his forthcoming Homeric adventure, which was shot with Imax cameras and stars Matt Damon as OdysseusChristopher Nolan says he has used over more than 2 million ft of film for his adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, which is in post-production, after the director finished shooting in August.In an...
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What prompted this change, and how has it affected you?Are you bored of AI slop dominating news feeds? Fed up of "enshittification”? Tired out by "advice pollution”? Done with polarising content? Giving up social media and rediscovering the joy of boredom?One study shows that time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has gone into decline...
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'We strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim', reads statement expressing 'sincere regrets' over Panorama episodeThe BBC has apologised to Donald Trump over the editing of a Panorama documentary that led to the resignation of its director general, Tim Davie, and the BBC News chief, Deborah Turness.However, the corporation has...
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The historian heads to Australia to unearth the fallout of the American revolution. Plus: the mother of medieval smackdowns. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC TwoBy the 1770s, Britain was transporting 45,000 Africans into slavery every year. David Olusoga visits Bunce Island, where captured Africans were sold, to continue his epic series...
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Ted Danson is still irresistible in the delightful detective caper, while Demi Moore and Billy Bob Thornton are back as terrifying big oil tycoonsMichael Schur's delightful retirement home detective comedy was originally based on a true story. While that source material was soon exhausted, it was clear the show had legs. Sure enough, this second...
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This revival of the classic BBC drama strand is utterly lacking in the innovative spirit of the original. The next Dennis Potter might be out there somewhere … but they certainly aren't hereFantastic news! Channel 5 has revived the BBC's wildly influential and much romanticised drama strand Play for Today. Well, it seemed like fantastic news...
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The actor and the director of Train Dreams – a quietly powerful tale of a logger in 1900s Idaho – on the slog of getting it made, the joy of motel living and why human-made things will always beat AIAmerica was built by men like Robert Grainier, the stoical lumberjack at the heart of Train Dreams. Grainier cuts the trees and tames the forest...
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Streaming service charged an additional feeLeague is in Year 3 of 10-year $2.5bn media rights dealApple TV subscribers will be able to watch all Major League Soccer matches without an additional subscription beginning next year.During the first three years of MLS' 10-year, $2.5bn agreement with Apple, a stand-alone Season Pass subscription was...
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The X-Files star is at his charismatic best as a ruthless multimillionaire who hires Jack Whitehall as a sinister nanny. It's like The White Lotus meets The Talented Mr RipleyI can't say I had "Jack Whitehall stars with David 'The X Files/ Californication' Duchovny in glossy TV thriller” on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are, and a good time...
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The revered BBC strand that gave us Abigail's Party and The Black Stuff makes a return … on Channel 5. Will it be as successful as in its heyday?In March 1977, BBC One screened Spend, Spend, Spend, a single drama about a woman whose husband won the pools, a weekly competition to guess football scores. This week, Channel 5 will show Big Winners, a...
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Prunella Scales, my neighbour in Barnes, south-west London, in the 1960s, was gifted as a superb reader of poetry. Together with Michael Hordern, Richard Pasco and Janet Suzman, she read the poems in John Betjeman's 1977 BBC TV "aerial anthology” of film, poetry and music, The Queen's Realm: A Prospect of England. Betjeman, himself an...
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Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi lead the Saltburn writer-director's Charli xcx-soundtracked take on Emily Brontë's novel, referred to as 'the greatest love story of all time'Emerald Fennell's vision for Wuthering Heights is coming into focus.The first full-length trailer for the Saltburn writer-director's already controversial adaptation of Emily...
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Actor, 48, who revealed colorectal cancer diagnosis last year, to also auction memorabilia from Varsity BluesActor James Van Der Beek will once again be selling collector's items from some of his beloved films and TV shows, including Dawson's Creek, to help pay for his treatment for colorectal cancer. "I've been storing these treasures for years,...
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Former Liberal staffer accused a reporter of stalking him in Tasmania, with her story's headline describing him as a 'despised party boy hiding at the end of the Earth'Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFormer Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann's bid to take out a restraining...
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Figures show none of US 'big four' – CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox – appear to have sent teams to cover summit in BelémThousands of media professionals are at the United Nations climate talks in Brazil. Almost none of them appear to be from the four major US broadcasters.Nearly 4,000 members of the media registered to attend the global climate...
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BBC show accused of editing speech to make it appear as if Trump made a more explicit call for violence from his supportersBBC's Newsnight has been accused of editing a Donald Trump speech in a way that made it appear that he made a more explicit call for violent protest ahead of the Capitol riots.The corporation is already reeling from the...
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