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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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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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Deborah Cohen says she is not aware of any attempts within corporation to stop or shape her reporting on trans issuesA reporter at the heart of the BBC's coverage of gender dysphoria has questioned claims that the corporation shows "systemic bias” on trans issues, saying it ran a series of reports without any interference.Claims that the BBC had...
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There's an investigation into a child sex trafficking ring, plus the US president and his deputy engage in some of the most disturbing scenes the show has ever put on screen. It's quite the episodeThis week's episode of South Park opens with Santa Claus peeing in the face of a fourth-grade girl. It turns out to be an AI-generated video created by...
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Michael Miller tells Senate misinformation inquiry platforming climate deniers and net zero critics part of 'great democracy and healthy debate'Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesSign up for Guardian Australia's free weekly media newsletter hereA senior News Corp Australia executive has defended the company's platforming of...
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This taut psychological two-hander between Danes and Matthew Rhys will surely win awards. You cannot look awayIt comes as a great surprise to learn that The Beast in Me is its creator, writer and executive producer Gabe Rotter's first major work for the screen. Because it is, simply put, so very, very good. Even without two astonishing performances...
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The BBC's classic strand Play for Today finds a new home on Channel 5. Plus: it's the reliably bizarre Taskmaster final. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 5"Of all the retirement villages, she walks into mine.” In the first of this drama anthology inspired by the classic BBC strand, Anita Dobson plays quick-witted septuagenarian...
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When dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was imprisoned, her husband went on hunger strike – to force Britain to act. Narges Rashidi and Joseph Fiennes reveal how they brought their nightmare to the small screenWhen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in Iran in 2016, it wasn't immediately obvious what had happened – but within 100 days,...
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The Riverdance creator's feet blew away a century of tradition, yet he's oddly absent from this docuseries about young dancers preparing for the World Championships. Why?'Irish dancing was completely different back in the day,” sighs veteran dance impresario Carole Scanlon, flipping wistfully through photos of tremulous adolescents clutching...
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This celebratory trawl through the actor's life is severely lacking in thoughtfulness. But it's certainly no stranger to salty terms for his looks. 'Incredible masculine grandeur', anyone?The problem with any biography of Richard Burton is that he is quite easily explicable. He was pursued only by the most obvious demons, conflicted only in the...
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The US president has threatened the BBC with a lawsuit over the editing of a Trump speech in an edition of PanoramaThe BBC is prepared to formally apologise to Donald Trump as part of its efforts to resolve his billion-dollar legal threat over its editing of one of his speeches, the Guardian understands.However, figures at the corporation are also...
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Broadcaster suspended presenter last month over Facebook post he said happened after account was hackedThe presenter Mike Graham has been dismissed from Rupert Murdoch's digital channel TalkTV, after the company said he had failed to cooperate with an investigation into a racist post that appeared on one of his social media accounts.Graham, 65, was...
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The singer will star alongside Adolescence breakout Owen Cooper, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Colin Firth, Thandiwe Newton and Nicholas Hoult in an Anne Rice adaptationAdele is set to make her acting debut in the new film from Tom Ford.According to Deadline, the fashion designer and film-maker's third feature will be an adaptation of Anne Rice's 1982...
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From a Dustin Hoffman performance less witty than a stunned mollusc to the worst piece of garbage ever inflicted on TV viewers, here are Guardian readers' most atrocious watching experiences ever• Our roundup of all 18 of the Guardian's past zero-star reviews• Peter Bradshaw picks three films that deserved the big 0Playmobil: The Movie (2019)...
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Readers react to the resignation of director general Tim Davie, and Donald Trump's threat to sue the corporation for $1bnThe BBC is adept at turning minor crises into major ones (Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of 'serious and systemic' bias in coverage, 9 November). Thanks to a cumbersome, top-heavy structure, in the...
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Their mini romcom is a classy move both for the star and the upmarket supermarket. But how many times will you be able to watch it before you start gagging? It has been a big couple of months for Keira Knightley. In October she starred (as a Guardian journalist, no less) in Netflix's thriller The Woman in Cabin 10. Two weeks later she published her...
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Marion county agrees to apologize over 2023 raid that led to national outcry over press freedom, said newspaper's editorA rural county in Kansas has agreed to pay more than $3m and apologize over a raid by police on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked a national outcry over press freedom, the paper's editor said on...
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A documentary for the Welsh icon's centenary year also has contributions from his wife and daughter. Plus: Irish dancing and Scottish crime-solving. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC TwoWelsh actors Matthew Rhys, Michael Sheen and Iwan Rheon join the centenary celebrations of Richard Burton – the son of a miner in Pontrhydyfen who went on...
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Gavin Burrows says signature on alleged statement is 'not mine' and denies carrying out illegal activity on behalf of Associated NewspapersA private investigator central to the legal action by the Duke of Sussex and others against the publisher of the Daily Mail has claimed that his signature on an earlier witness statement was a "forgery”, the...
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Celebs read out fan fiction about themselves, while fuzzy lookalikes graphically act it out. If Giedroyc weren't host, this would be unbearableIs there no format that can't be made to work by hiring Mel Giedroyc to host it? With or without Sue Perkins alongside her, the presence of Giedroyc makes any kind of chat/quiz/contest caper watchable. You...
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Chris Eubank Jnr hadn't spoken to his father in four years. This documentary about his fight with Conor Benn – the son of his dad's great rival – charts a reunion. It's heart-pulverising stuffYou do not, I would hazard, expect to be moved to tears by a documentary about the Eubank family. But I suspect I am not the only one to find myself...
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Civil case brought by former England forward Eni AlukoBarton faces potentially massive bill over guilty verdict last week Joey Barton is facing another court case and a potential defamation and harassment bill for hundreds of thousands of pounds after being found guilty last week at Liverpool crown court of six counts of sending grossly offensive...
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US president has said he will bring proceedings if the documentary containing an edited speech from 6 January 2021 is not retractedDonald Trump has grabbed the headlines after threatening to sue the BBC for $1bn (£760m) for what the corporation has accepted was a misleading edit of his speech on 6 January 2021 during the Capitol Hill insurrection....
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US president's latest media target comes from across the pond as he continues to scrutinize coverage he does not likeUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump has, for years, used legal threats and lawsuits to pressure news companies who put out coverage he does not like. After his return to power, a string of US broadcasters and tech firms...
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Outgoing director general tells staff 'we have to be very clear and stand up for our journalism'UK politics live – latest updatesTim Davie has hit out at the "weaponisation” of criticisms of the BBC, as he addressed staff after his shock resignation as its director general.Thanking staff for their support, Davie reassured them that the...
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The corporation is again being put to the test. Now is its chance to double down on reporting that serves the people of the UKRoger Mosey is a former head of BBC TV NewsThe BBC is battered and sprawling on the canvas again. As a corporation executive, I lived through a number of these episodes: the Hutton report into coverage of Iraq, which...
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Motoring journalist and presenter of the BBC's Top Gear and Channel 5's Fifth Gear who became an advocate of electric carsQuentin Willson, who has died aged 68 after suffering from lung cancer, was a secondhand car dealer in business with his twin brother Ashley when he was chosen in 1991 to join the presenting team on BBC television's motoring...
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Nimble, open-minded outfits such as Nina Protocol, Cantilever and Subvert are looking to bring more money to artists, and a richer experience for listenersThe noise around Spotify this year has been louder than ever, from Liz Pelly's book Mood Machine – a biting indictment of the company and its alleged practices, described as "error-riddled...
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Pugh says she also has worked with 'fantastic' people who helped her 'find the story' of sex scenesFlorence Pugh has had both positive and negative experiences with intimacy coordinators, saying some were "fantastic” and "effective”, while others were "shit” and "weird”.Pugh was speaking on the Louis Theroux Podcast and was asked by Theroux...
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Head of entertainment Kalpna Patel-Knight says hit show 'promises to be just as unmissable as the first'The Celebrity Traitors will return for a second series in 2026 after a phenomenal debut that broke audience records, the BBC has said.Ardross Castle in Scotland and the host, Claudia Winkleman, will welcome a new crop of stars in TV's ultimate...
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Woman requests help to support 'mental leave' after incident in which Darren Lucas, 59, was struck and killedA social media creator who allegedly hit and killed a pedestrian as she hosted a livestream while simultaneously driving through a Chicago suburb has been met with backlash after apparently soliciting donations she said were meant to support...
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Leaked BBC report said film had 'completely misled' viewers by splicing two parts of January 6 speech togetherDonald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC and welcomed the resignations of two of its most senior figures after a campaign against the broadcaster that reached fever pitch over criticism that its flagship documentary...
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This is far from the first new version the cooking show's attempted. But it might just be its most dullIf there is one tried and true formula when it comes to television, it is this: when you run out of ideas, bring the kids in. This formula is why everything from MasterChef to The Great British Bake Off to Taskmaster has, at some point, bitten the...
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Sami Hamdi's visa was revoked in what appeared to be retaliation for criticism of Israel while touring the USThe family of British political commentator Sami Hamdi, who was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in late October while on a speaking tour in the US, say he is set to be released and will be able to "return home...
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The whirlwind that started when Deborah Turness came under attack at a board meeting is part of a wider political story, some sayWhen Deborah Turness, the now departed BBC News chief, was first invited to a meeting with the corporation's board a few weeks ago, there was little to suggest it would be a particularly significant encounter.But instead...
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Replacing the TV licence with a means-tested alternative may help disarm the right of one of its most effective weaponsGotcha! The BBC's enemies have taken two scalps and inflicted maximum damage. The shock resignation of the director general, Tim Davie, and the head of news, Deborah Turness, make it look as if the BBC accepts that it does indeed...
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The boxers open up in a documentary about masculinity, rivalry and rebuilding relationships. Plus: Mary Berry and Jamie Oliver team up. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC ThreeA documentary that goes beyond the boxing, and follows Chris Eubank and his son Chris Eubank Jr in behind-the-scenes footage and candid interviews filmed over the...
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With Donald Trump circling and Labour ministers wavering, defending the corporation's independence is now a test of national willThe chair of the BBC, Samir Shah, struck a defensive tone in his interview to explain the mess the broadcaster has found itself in. The impression was of an organisation under siege rather than one confidently...
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BBC chair Samir Shah apologises for way in which speech from US president was edited after corporation's two most senior executives resignWe have heard from Culture, Media and Sport committee chair Caroline Dinenage, who has suggested that the outgoing BBC director Tim Davie ignored an internal dossier into bias at the BBC (see post at 09.06 for...
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Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss the resignations of the BBC's director general, Tim Davie, and its head of news, Deborah Turness. Plus, the growing unease within Labour about Keir Starmer's leadership and what MPs might do about it Continue reading...
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