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As his new version of Lord of the Flies comes to the BBC, we count down the 20 boldest and most moving productions by the quintuple Bafta-winning scriptwriterHe has been hailed as the hardest-working writer in Britain. Looking at Jack Thorne's astonishing list of credits, it's hard to argue. The prolific playwright and screenwriter's output...
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After plundering her tearaway teens for the comedy classic, Lisa McGee is back with a Scooby-Doo-style caper. As How to Get to Heaven from Belfast hits our screens, she explains why the craic's about to get deadlyHow do you follow up a show about girls in Derry? With one about women in Belfast, obviously. That's what Lisa McGee has done. Her new...
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Jeff Bezos gives yet another powerful person an uncritical profile. The point of this one: if we'd listened to the king, there would be no climate crisis – even if some of his ideas are a bit woo-wooWe find ourselves at an interesting moment in the streaming wars; one where Amazon's programming policy has apparently shifted to simply giving a...
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Who will Elizabeth Olsen choose to spend the afterlife with – Callum Turner or Miles Teller? Plus: Daniel Craig is wonderful in Luca Guadagnino's erotic dramaDavid Freyne's lovely new film is a throwback to classic Hollywood romantic comedies such as the Cary Grant classic My Favourite Wife. Miles Teller (in the Grant role) plays Larry, who dies...
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This exclusive two-parter follows soldiers involved in military tests. Plus: Mariah Carey opens the Winter Olympics! Here's what to watch this evening8pm, Channel 4What at first seems to be an episode of SAS: Who Dares Wins is actually an exclusive and all-too-real two-part look at Nato soldiers training to defend Europe's borders against Putin –...
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Lisa McGee's follow-up to Derry Girls is beautifully sweet and sharp, while Ryan Murphy looks at the glamorous whirlwind romance between 90s It Girl Carolyn Bessette and John F Kennedy JrLisa McGee follows Derry Girls with a comedy drama that is familiar in style but subtly different in form and content. This time, beautifully rendered notes of...
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She was raised as part of a prodigy-breeding psychological experiment, took on the chess patriarchy and beat her idol Garry Kasparov. So why isn't there more depth to this documentary?Judit Polgár won her first chess tournament in 1981 when, at the age of six, she marmalised a string of middle-aged Hungarians and toddled off with a swanky Boris...
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Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don't give up on truthCarlos Hernández de Miguel was a Spanish journalist and writer. He died on 3 February 2026Dear reader, for the first time since I became a journalist, I have to tell you I wish you weren't reading what I've written. Because if you're reading this, it...
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A new retrospective celebrates the work of the cat credited with roles in Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Comedy of Terrors and RhubarbIn the midst of Oscar season, it becomes evident just how much work it takes to win an Academy Award, both in on-screen work and off-screen campaigning. Consider, however, that multiple actors have won more than one...
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In my mind, Nigella Lawson should already be spending her life where random people just prepare delicious things for her to have bites ofLast week, I was sent an exciting news story by a friend. This was a surprise for two reasons: I'm chronically online so I usually see everything first, and also there are no good news stories any more in this...
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Nearly two months after age restrictions for under-16s were introduced, we revisit five teenagers on how they're experiencing – or getting around – the banAustralian social media ban explained: everything you need to knowGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSince Australia's social media ban for under-16s began eight weeks...
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Owner of local cinema says Amazon is upset at way they marketed movie as some in US say healthy ticket sales are not reflected by empty seatsAn independent cinema in Oregon has claimed Amazon pulled screenings of their documentary about Melania Trump in protest at the cinema's marketing strategy.As reported by local newspaper the Lake Oswego...
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The broad-brush, emotive telling of the questions around the neonatal nurse's conviction uses arrest footage that her parents have said 'would likely kill us' if they watched. Did her mother's howl of distress need to be broadcast?The Investigation of Lucy Letby is at least the fifth documentary that has been produced in the wake of the neonatal...
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This troubling documentary charts the events leading up to and surrounding Jackson's 2005 trial for molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo (of which he was found not guilty) – and features newly released tapes of JacksonIn her 2019 essay Lost Boy, the Pulitzer-winning writer Margo Jefferson considered Michael Jackson's legacy in the wake of Dan...
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Growth could slow as Netflix pulls back projects to US to secure $80bn takeover of Warner Bros DiscoveryA spending spree by Hollywood studios and streamers pushed investment in film production in the UK to a record £2.8bn last year, but growth is expected to slow this year as Netflix switches investment to the US to secure an $80bn (£59bn)...
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On Wednesday, storied newspaper axed nearly one-third of company after earlier unpopular moves by owner Jeff BezosUnder Marty Baron, the Washington Post won 11 Pulitzer prizes and expanded its newsroom to house more than 1,000 journalists. The storied newspaper's future is now in question, according to its former executive editor."The aspirations...
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Becoming garners 47.5m minutes viewed on same weekend as current first lady's documentary released in cinemasMichelle Obama's 2020 documentary Becoming saw a major rise in views over the same weekend that Melania was released in cinemas.The film, which followed the former first lady in the wake of her hit book, saw a rise in views of more than...
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Former Post executive editor blasts owner Jeff Bezos's 'sickening efforts to curry favor' with TrumpThe Washington Post laid off hundreds of employees on Wednesday, which its former executive editor said "ranks among the darkest days” in the newspaper's history. Approximately one-third of employees were affected.Staffers at the Post have been on...
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Twenty-second adverts to fill right half of screensBroadcaster mulling over same move for World CupITV will screen in-game commercials for the first time during the Six Nations Championship opener between France and Ireland at Stade de France on Thursday night. The broadcaster's new rights deal includes the option to air two split-screen adverts...
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Former phone hacker Graham Johnson denies claims, saying payments were part of effort to draw attention to unlawful behaviour by mediaA researcher investigating lawbreaking by the media paid private investigators and ex-journalists for their testimony about alleged unlawful activity at the publisher of the Daily Mail, the high court has...
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He helps a couple restore a family cottage in Derbyshire. Plus: skincare made from waste tomato ketchup in Dragon's Den. Here's what to watch this evening8pm, Channel 4The celebrity architect returns to meet people taking on huge building projects for powerful personal reasons. He starts in Derbyshire, where married couple Lauren and Lee have...
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This camp, light and touching documentary meets the founder of Butterflies Rising Funeral Care – a glamorous funeral director who talks to the bodies and pays tribute to her mum by drinking Strongbow at her graveWhen it comes to funerals, we tend to cling to the solemn and the tasteful. We hate to think about death, so we cordon it off from all...
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One is the ultimate hun, the other is TV's most infectiously funny presence and together, they're a dream team. Their feelgood Greek Job is like a holiday with your two most outrageous matesIt might have aired on 5 January but it was instantly hailed as a contender for TV moment of the year. Egged on by his pal Amanda Holden, the reluctant Alan...
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We are witnessing a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration's attacks on the press and a clear threat to first amendment freedomsThe extraordinary arrests of the journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort last week are a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration's attacks on the press and pose a clear threat to first amendment freedoms....
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While most focused on competition issues, Josh Hawley accused Netflix of promoting trans content to childrenNetflix co-chief executive Ted Sarandos faced tough questioning over whether the streamer is "overwhelmingly woke” or killing competition on Tuesday afternoon during a congressional hearing focused on its pending acquisition of the film and...
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Moves to ban under-16s from social media should raise deeper questions about who controls democracy's digital infrastructureThe last UK general election of the 20th century was also the first to anticipate, albeit faintly, the coming technological revolution. The 1997 Labour and Conservative manifestos both included pledges to connect schools to...
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Behind the scenes in Liverpool with undertaker Hayley and her lovely team. Plus, what's the future for Reform UK? Here's what to watch this evening10pm, Channel 4Glamorous Hayley is an unlikely funeral director. But she is a wonderful one, as this touching film about her work in a Liverpool parlour shows. Her team also boasts Tom the embalmer: "If...
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Editor of groundbreaking Channel 4 show says he was shocked not to be invited to participate in new seasonThe editor of a groundbreaking Channel 4 show claims the BFI has frozen him out of an upcoming season on multicultural television and is presenting a skewed vision of the programme.Tariq Ali was part of the creative team that produced the...
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From Lord of Winterfell to lover of ornithology, the actor reveals his lifelong love of birding as host of a hugely listenable podcast. Plus, a gripping investigation into the policeOn the face of it, picking Ned Stark as the host of the new series of their podcast seems odd. But it turns out he's been a birder since childhood, who crams in...
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This starry half-hour anniversary special captures the spirit of the original TV show at points, and will delight younger viewers. But Kermit's voice takes some getting used to …The Muppet Show celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Or so it is alleged. Obviously this cannot be true, because it would mean that all of us who remember gathering...
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Live Aid, sweary punks and a kiss so romantic it never fails to make you cry … as TV turns 100, here are the things that are for ever lodged in Guardian readers' brainsTelevision turns 100 this year, so the Guardian charted our pick of the biggest TV moments from a century of television. Then we asked readers to share their own milestone TV...
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D'Amaro will take over next month from Bob Iger, who returned to lead the media company after a bungled successionDisney has unveiled Josh D'Amaro as its next CEO, drawing a line under a bungled succession at the top of the global entertainment conglomerate.Bob Iger, who led the media giant for 15 years, stepped down in 2020 – only to abruptly...
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He has the chance to be the steward of a national treasure, but he's blowing itWould you inherit a rare Stradivarius violin, polish it up for a few years, and then decide to take a hammer to it?Would you somehow acquire the Hope diamond, set it in a blue velvet case, and then toss the whole thing into the Potomac River? Continue reading...
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The president and his supporters joining forces to decide what audiences read and see seems straight from a fascism playbookTwo events, juxtaposed, tell us a great deal about what is rapidly taking shape in the US. In one, Melania Trump releases a glossy documentary, Melania, an account of her return to the White House. Amazon outbid others to...
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Bezos has not publicly responded to several letters sent by Post staffers urging him to curb potential layoffsWhile Washington Post employees remain in the dark about an impending round of cuts that could dramatically reshape the publication, the man that many hoped could soften or stop the blow, owner Jeff Bezos, has remained silent.So far, three...
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A lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm 'can access virtually all' private communications, a claim the company has deniedUS authorities have reportedly investigated claims that Meta can read users' encrypted chats on the WhatsApp messaging platform, which it owns.The reports follow a lawsuit filed last week, which claimed Meta "can access...
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'I need to focus on getting better, on being with family and friends and making sure that I'm giving my health my best shot', Afternoons host saysFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBroadcaster and saxophonist James Valentine is retiring from the ABC after almost 40 years,...
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The professor attempts to solve the 2,000-year-old mystery of the legendary artefact. Plus: behind the bright lights of Las Vegas. Here's what to watch this evening 9pm, Sky HistoryAlice Roberts, professor of public engagement in science, tries to solve the 2,000-year-old mystery of the holy grail - and asks if the relic was really brought to...
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Lady Lawrence tells high court she is 'a victim all over again' owing to alleged unlawful information gatheringThe mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has said she felt she had been "taken for a fool” by the publisher of the Daily Mail, after she was told about allegations it had targeted her with unlawful information gathering...
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This documentary about four women, victimised as teenagers by the same man, is an instant rebuttal to that most unsympathetic question: why don't women just leave their abuser? Last year I began a review of the BBC documentary To Catch a Stalker with the words "Welcome to part 86,747,398,464 of the continuing cataloguing via television documentary...
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Melania, however, cost significantly more than a typical documentary, at $40m to make and $35m to promoteAmazon's Melania Trump documentary has reportedly beaten box office expectations and recorded the strongest start of any documentary in over a decade, taking $7m at the US box office during its lavishly promoted opening weekend. But it also cost...
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'Christians complained about the stuffed buzzard wearing a crucifix round its neck. Birds can't be Christians, they said. It's the most complaints we ever got'The first time I saw what was to become Shooting Stars was Vic Reeves – AKA Jim Moir – doing The Big Quiz during Vic Reeves Big Night Out live. I'd never seen anything like it. It was...
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Survey shows public want more free-to-air coverageNick Webborn has had 'positive conversations' with BBCThe chair of UK Sport has called on the BBC to show more of Team GB's "fantastic athletes” between Olympic Games and says there is significant public appetite for more coverage on free-to-air TV.Nick Webborn said he expected millions to tune...
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App endured a major outage and user backlash over perceived censorship. Now it's facing an inquiry by the California governor and an ascendant competitorA little more than one week ago, TikTok stepped on to US shores as a naturalized citizen. Ever since, the video app has been fighting for its life.TikTok's calamitous emigration began on 22 January...
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They helped to jail the man who physically and emotionally abused them. Plus, is this the most chaotic episode of Industry yet? Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Two"He was the sun; I just, like, revolved round him.” In a sensitive documentary, four incredibly brave young women – Jenni, Natalie, Shannon and Robyn – talk about a man...
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There are estimated to be a million undiscovered geniuses in the UK, and this show is out to find one. It's a stressful, heartwarming, shocking watch – which raises big questions about the UKThis, then, is what Alan Carr did next. Fresh from his victory as the last traitor standing in The Celebrity Traitors, and elevation to national treasure...
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Without a weighty Le Carré novel behind it, there were fears the steamy, stylish spy series would feel phoned in. We needn't have worried – it's been a delightThis article contains spoilers for the season finale of The Night ManagerWhat a pleasure it is to be seduced – and The Night Manager is just about the most seductive show on television....
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Susan and John Letby question use of arrest footage filmed at their house in programme about daughter's crimesThe parents of Lucy Letby have criticised the use of footage due to be aired in a new Netflix documentary about their daughter's crimes as a "complete invasion of privacy” and said watching it would "likely kill us”.Susan and John Letby...
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When bubbles burst, what comes next can be better, if we build it differentlyIt was December 1999. Tech investors were riding high, convinced that a website and a Super Bowl ad were all it took to get rich quick. Spending was mistaken for growth; marketing was mistaken for a business model. In just a few months, the dot-com boom would go bust:...
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Anti-immigration activist is contesting poll in borough where he previously researched far-right extremismUK politics live – latest updatesIt was the autumn of 2011 and Dr Matt Goodwin was documenting the potential reach of the racist far-right in Tameside, a borough in east Manchester that is part of the parliamentary constituency of Gorton and...
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Lemon and three others charged with civil rights crimes, says DoJ, as White House celebrates arrest on social mediaDon Lemon, the former CNN anchor, was released on Friday after being arrested late on Thursday on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in Minnesota earlier this month.Outside a federal courthouse in...
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Sabrina Carpenter fangirling Miss Piggy, Beaker losing his eyes … yes, Kermit and co are back for a trip down memory lane – and it's a perfect, saucy joyThe Muppet Show is back! We need this, don't we? We need them. The TV show ended in 1981, yet decades later, memes of Kermit, Miss Piggy, Animal et al still circulate. We give their movies...
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Kieran Clifton of the BBC responds to concerns about plans which would make UK television available only via the internetThe BBC is committed to universal public service and we would never have a plan – or support one – that excluded any audience (Letters, 28 January).What we have said, jointly with the other public-service media organisations,...
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It's not what we can or cannot say that matters – rather, it's whether what we say can get any visibility at all under the US-specific algorithmWe tend to think of censorship as the direct suppression of speech. We conjure images of mouths taped shut, courts seizing books and films, and journalists or activists thrown in jail to silence their...
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The network's editor-in-chief unveiled a curious list of 19 people to be paid contributors across different platformsA focus on wellness, nutrition, longevity and cosmology, mixed with more than a sprinkling of conservative ideology, appears to represent Bari Weiss's vision to revitalize CBS News, and regain the trust of the network's lost viewers...
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This carefully plotted tale of the investigation into a small boy's death is a compelling, psychologically astute watch – which constantly pulls the rug out from under youBy 'eck – it's grim out west. Such is the overriding impression wrought by Under Salt Marsh, a six-part crime drama set in the fictional Welsh town of Morfa Halen. As the...
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Kelly Reilly and Rafe Spall investigate the murder of a child in Under Salt Marsh. Plus, David Baddiel concludes his mission to celebrate cats. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, Sky AtlanticAn engrossing crime drama that makes the most of its rugged Welsh coastal backdrop, complete with sheep running through the pub and cosy cardigans aplenty....
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After a very hard landing into fame in the 00s, he decided to take a softer approach – and hit on a winning formula for classic comedy. The star talks about his fantastical new show Small Prophets, his obsession with middle-age and being 'weird-looking'In Small Prophets, BBC Two's new six-parter, Mackenzie Crook plays Gordon, the manager of a...
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Former chief was sounded out about applying for his old job but said he was committed to CNN, it is understoodThe former BBC director general Mark Thompson was sounded out about applying for a second stint leading the corporation, the Guardian understands.The BBC is in the process of searching for a new leader after the resignation of Tim Davie in...
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Older men seen as 'gaining wisdom' but women must keep looking younger or be 'idiosyncratic', review hearsOlder women disappear from presenting roles across the BBC while older men are regarded as "gaining gravitas and wisdom”, according to an independent review of the broadcaster's record on representation.A "noticeable mismatch” in the number...
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The AI-led robot is back in a fun, Mission: Impossible style sequel, and Emma Mackey and Jamie Lee Curtis's sharp-tongued comedy is a cause for celebrationLike Chucky in the Child's Play films, you can't keep an evil doll down for long. So here's a sequel to the 2022 horror about an AI-led robot that will do anything, including murder, to protect...
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Top-tier nostalgia as Miss Piggy, Kermit and co are back with new friends Sabrina Carpenter and Seth Rogen. Plus! The moreish cake or fake competition comes over all gooey and heart-shapedThe Muppet Show is top-tier nostalgia: it's likely that the parents of this one-off revival's target audience will be more excited about it than the kids of 2026....
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Be it The Night Manager's Richard Roper or Blue Lights's Gerry, classic TV characters are increasingly finding it hard to stay in the grave. Here are the 10 greatest televisual resurrectionsOn TV, you're never really dead. When a beloved character is killed off on your favourite show, you can be forgiven some scepticism. Who's to say they won't be...
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Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributorAmong the new hires at CBS announced by Bari Weiss is a doctor who has claimed that he has reduced his biological age by 20 years with therapies including cold plunges; that cod liver oil can treat autism and that conditions like Alzheimer's and...
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The aerial-accessed service has a fast-dwindling audience but when exactly to switch the platform off is proving highly divisiveFor almost quarter of a century Freeview has enabled viewers to access television from the nation's biggest broadcasters almost anywhere in the UK for no charge.Despite it still being the UK's largest TV platform, used in...
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