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In book Dream Facades, Jack Balderrama Morley examines houses from shows including Keeping Up with the Kardashians to see what we can learnHouses have always been at the center of reality TV. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous set the domestic stage in the 1980s with its quasi-documentary look into the real lives of the ultra-wealthy. It walked so...
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Social media feeds have been flooded with fake battle scenes since start of Iran conflictElon Musk's X will ban users from making money on the platform if they repeatedly post unlabelled AI-generated war videos, after social media feeds were flooded with fake battle scenes from the Iran conflict.The social media platform, which has about half a...
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An heiress helping to traffic young women to brutal billionaires: the finale of the banker drama used one of its characters to take on a huge real-life scandalJust who is Yasmin Kara-Hanani? It's a question that has dogged Industry's trauma-logged heiress since the series began in 2020. "Who have I married?” wonders Henry Muck, Yasmin's hapless...
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Exclusive: Survey suggests journalists from minority ethnic backgrounds feel excluded from influential posts and seen as 'diversity hires'Broadcast journalists from ethnic minorities are still locked out of top jobs and face a backlash after being perceived as "diversity hires”, according to a survey of UK television newsrooms.While there has...
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Radio and TV comedy writer who co-created the award-winning BBC space sitcom Red DwarfThe writer Rob Grant, who has died suddenly aged 70, created the TV space sitcom Red Dwarf with his old school friend Doug Naylor. The BBC series, starting in 1988, won a cult following with its story of a slobbish, low-ranking technician, Dave Lister, marooned on...
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From Marty Supreme to One Battle After Another, this awards run has been populated by a harder-to-love group of spiky charactersBroadly speaking, the best way to get an acting Oscar is to play someone lovable, or someone lovably hateable. Not every acting winner fits that binary, of course, but the history of all four categories is filled with...
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Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI's Sam Altman and Meta's Mark ZuckerbergNews Corp's global chief executive has described news organisations as a valuable "input” for artificial intelligence, as the media empire signs an AI content licensing deal with Meta worth up to US$50m (A$71m) a year.In an upbeat...
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West Australian was best known for calling AFL gamesHis broadcast career spanned 51 years across radio and TVDennis Cometti, one of the greats of Australian sports commentary, has died at the age of 76.The West Australian became known for his incisive calling, silky voice and sharp wit in front of a microphone over the course of a career spanning...
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The first of a three-parter that investigates the missing British photojournalist. Plus, acerbic sitcom We Might Regret This. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Two What really happened to John Cantlie? This three-part documentary builds on the acclaimed Last Man Standing podcast to investigate the British photojournalist who "went into the...
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Loud, brash and blokey, it's not nearly as fresh as the director's last take on the sleuth 15 years ago. There are flashes of fun, even if Moriarty blows the lead off the screenGuy Ritchie has made a new TV series about Sherlock Holmes and the long and the short of it is … hmm. But first, some questions. Does the eight-part mystery-drama include...
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This documentary can't help but be moving as it follows the Cam On group in Kolkata, who are creating a drama based on their experiences – even if it could do with more depthCam On is a film-making collective comprising some of the estimated 500 sex workers and their children who live in Boro Goli, the red light district in Kalighat, a...
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Chair of merged production company says move creates a 'world-class' offering across live events and programmingThe European maker of television shows ranging from Peaky Blinders to Big Brother is to merge with the UK super-indie behind hits including The Traitors to create a €4.4bn (£3.8bn) global TV production giant.Paris-headquartered Banijay...
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Television producer whose long-running partnership with Dennis Potter resulted in landmark drama serials including Pennies from Heaven and The Singing DetectiveKenith Trodd, who has died aged 90, was one of Britain's most successful television drama producers, commissioning contemporary, cutting-edge plays from writers such as Colin Welland, Jim...
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With a world-class cast that will have you constantly saying 'hey, it's that guy!', this horror drama about a doomed Royal Navy expedition is a grand treatise on colonial follyThere's an old adage that adventure is extreme discomfort remembered from an armchair. But what if there is no armchair waiting at the end of your journey? What if you never...
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Guillermo del Toro has overcome the Academy's aversion to fantasy before and with this heartfelt telling of the monster classic he should do it againGuillermo del Toro has spent his career humanising monsters, once calling them the "patron saints of our blissful imperfection”, so his adaptation of Frankenstein was always going to be a match made...
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Blockbuster adaptation of George RR Martin's fantasy world will focus on events 300 years before the HBO series' pilotA Game of Thrones film is set for the big screen, with Warner Bros officially developing a prequel set in the world of Westeros.House of Cards showrunner and Andor writer Beau Willimon has been recruited to write the script based on...
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Versant, an NBCUniversal cable spinoff, says MS NOW is growing as its stock falls about 27% in 2026The US's biggest liberal-leaning network, MS NOW, has seen double-digit viewership gains since rebranding from MSNBC, the company's CEO claimed on Tuesday."Since the rebrand to MS NOW in the fourth quarter, that momentum has not only held, it has...
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Watchdog upholds complaint it breached code with article about impact of VAT on banker who did not existThe Telegraph has been reprimanded by a press standards watchdog after it published an entirely fabricated story about a wealthy banker complaining of the impact of school fee increases.Ian Fraser, a freelance journalist and author, complained to...
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Publicly funded journal pulled poem citing writer's 'social media presence', with solicitors alleging discrimination over gender-critical viewsA poet is threatening Arts Council England (ACE) with legal action after a magazine it funds withdrew her work from publication based on her "social media presence”, which she believes refers to...
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'What should have been an evening celebrating diversity and inclusion turned into a trauma-triggering shitshow,' says host after racial epithet was left in the broadcastAlan Cumming has joined the chorus of disapproval at the BBC's failure to edit out a racial slur from their Baftas telecast, saying it turned "what should have been an evening...
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Australian Radio Network accuses Sandilands of 'serious misconduct' after Henderson says she 'cannot continue to work' with Kiis FM co-hostGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe $200m Kyle and Jackie O Show has been taken off the air and Kyle Sandilands accused of "serious misconduct” after Jackie Henderson told the...
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Rights groups and experts say situation is unclear as ruling that quashed ban faces challenge from home secretaryHuman rights organisations, academics and writers have called on Ofcom to clarify what the high court ruling that the ban on Palestine Action was unlawful will mean for online platforms pending the home secretary's appeal against the...
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David Harbour stars in a deliciously dark dating app drama that is close to the bone after his real-life Lily Allen fallout. But his performance along with Jason Bateman and Linda Cardellini's make for a wonderfully bingeable showNever trust a man who rides a recumbent bicycle. That seems to be the first lesson provided by DTF St Louis, a new...
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Channel 4's edgy new 'social experiment' cuffs strangers together in a bid to heal a divided Britain. Instead, what emerges is nasty, crass and completely abysmalAfter his brilliantly machiavellian performance on The Celebrity Traitors, Jonathan Ross was destined to pop up on our screens again soon. Cue his big post-Traitors gig, hosting Channel...
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Billionaire Paramount Skydance chief announces plan days after winning takeover battle for Warner Bros DiscoverySign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxParamount Skydance plans to combine HBO Max and Paramount+ into one streaming service, chief executive David Ellison announced during a call with investors, days...
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Rebecca English shown emails at high court trial suggesting investigator 'went out on a limb' to help herThe Daily Mail's royal editor has denied using a private investigator to "blag” information about the Duke of Sussex and his former girlfriends, as she was shown emails suggesting the investigator "went out on a limb” to help her.Rebecca...
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Actor has 'no hard feeling' towards Tourette activist John Davidson, but says BBC's failure to edit out slurs kept her awake at night and brought tears to her eyesSinners star Wunmi Mosaku, winner of the best supporting actress Bafta, said that the N-word incident at the Baftas "tainted” her celebration and "kept [her] awake at night”.Mosaku...
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The queen of children's edutainment is back after four very long months, with her most extraordinary, envelope-pushing and moving special yet. Cue absolute relief for parents the world overFor those whose cultural experiences are largely absorbed through the prism of their mewling infants' demands for the same thing 437 times in a row, it's been a...
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Exclusive: National Film and Television School introduces fully accessible accommodation and bursary scheme at its Beaconsfield campus For a long time, physically disabled students who dreamed of studying at the UK's most prestigious film and TV production school had nowhere to stay in the local area. And when they commuted, they would encounter...
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Couples are sent on a road trip around the UK with hopes of winning a big cash prize. Plus: the must-watch season finale of Industry. Here's watch to watch this evening9pm, Channel 4How would you feel being handcuffed to a man who proudly has a painting by Hitler hanging on his wall? What if it meant winning £100k? Here comes another controversial...
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Joanna Page and her Gavin & Stacey on-screen husband Mathew Horne host a foodie podcast for celebs. Plus, Love Islanders Molly Smith and Tom Clare take over the reins from Jamie Laing and Sophie HabbooOne for the Gavin & Stacey fans, as Joanna Page and her on-screen husband Mathew Horne are reunited for a foodie podcast. It's a familiar...
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Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticonOver the past year, more than two dozen countries around the world have proposed bans on social media use for vast swathes of their public. These laws, often proposed under the...
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The star of the gay hockey superhit shows a penchant for physical comedy in an episode scrambling to cover the events in IranSaturday Night Live returns from a short hiatus to find the US newly at war with Iran. From behind the presidential podium, Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) wishes "happy world war three to all who celebrate.” After...
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Strikes on Iran by the US and Israel, as well as Donald Trump's announcement that the supreme leader Ali Khamenei had been killed lead the news pagesUS-Israel war on Iran: latest updatesFull report: Trump claims Khamenei is deadAt a glance: what we know so far on day twoHow the US-Israeli bid for regime change unfoldedThe US and Israeli attacks on...
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The beloved comedian, musician and Strictly winner would rather stick to the landscapes and culture. Luckily, his reluctance to chat is saved by the sheer charisma of his intervieweesThere was a time when the only celebrity travel presenter on offer was Michael Palin – and if watching that charming so-and-so sweet talk his way on to ships wasn't...
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Makerfield MP had been under pressure concerning thinktank's commissioning of PR firm to investigate reportersThe Labour minister Josh Simons has resigned from the government after the Guardian revealed that he falsely linked reporters to a "pro-Kremlin” network in emails to GCHQ despite having claimed to be "surprised” and "furious” about a...
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With David Ellison's Paramount Skydance poised to buy Warner Bros Discovery, the president is tightening his grip on the US mediaGet Margaret Sullivan's latest columns delivered straight to your inbox by signing up hereFor many years, Donald Trump has trashed CNN and has taught his loyal followers to do the same.During the 2016 presidential...
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As the director general prepares to stand down, potential candidates have fallen away amid a series of crisesThere is an impressive shortlist circulating in Britain's media circles, comprising some of the most talented executives in the business. Unfortunately for the BBC, it contains the names of figures no longer in the running to become its next...
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Steve Conrad's dark comedy is full of twists and sad laughs. As for the fate of Harbour's character, does Lily Allen have an alibi? Last October, Lily Allen released a jaw-dropping album about the sexual politics of her marriage to actor David Harbour. It was a musical assassination – reportedly written in the wake of her personal sleuthing into...
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Attorney general says $111bn deal will be investigated amid concerns over monopoly power and job lossesSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxRob Bonta, California's attorney general, said his office will investigate a possible merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery, hours after Netflix...
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Pauline Hanson, Barnaby Joyce and Anthony Albanese have appeared on news host's breakaway podcast, which has climbed to No 2 in Australian chartsBy the time the prime minister sat down at the Lodge for a live chat on the Karl Stefanovic Show, Nine's highest-paid journalist had amassed more than 50,000 YouTube subscribers on his new independent...
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Ofcom says that after provisional ruling it could apply to courts to demand internet providers stop access to siteA suicide forum linked to deaths in Britain has been ruled provisionally in breach of the Online Safety Act after it failed to properly block access to UK users when ordered to do so last year.Ofcom, the online regulator, said it could...
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As the actor's hi-tech conspiracy thriller returns for a third series, she spills the beans on her worst stunt injury – and why the police are now 'dressing like the cops on the telly'You'll never wheel your suitcase through an airport in the same way again. Hit techno-conspiracy drama The Capture makes its long-awaited comeback with a chilling,...
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The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Media Matters over critical coverage. It's just one example of the administration's approachThe Trump administration is embracing an intimidation strategy to silence critical media coverage. Here's how it works: a federal agency launches a pretextual investigation into a perceived enemy, keeps the...
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The fourth season of TV's once underrated drama has maxed out on everything – sex, nastiness, nihilism – and it's been a major miscalculationThere's a lot of talk about growth on Industry, the hit HBO/BBC drama concerning the ruthless world of London finance. Characters wax poetic and soothingly incoherent (to the layperson) about stocks and...
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Sally Hawkins will give you the heebie-jeebies in a grisly horror, plus Marc Silver's tragic documentary is an absolute must-watchDanny and Michael Philippou's grisly follow-up to their hit horror debut Talk to Me features a performance of malign nervous energy from Sally Hawkins that will give you the heebie-jeebies. Not to mention a scene...
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The latest rush of docudramas seems to suggest that anyone in the public eye must expect a degree of intrusion. But where does that end?Was that really Peter Mandelson getting into a police car on Monday? Was it really the same Mandelson who had supposedly been about to flee to the British Virgin Islands, the man called "a traitor” to his country...
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The anger toward John Davidson's racist Baftas outburst is understandable. But I've had to ask what I owe to others with the conditionI cover Canada for the Guardian, a country spanning six time zones and more than 40 million people, whose stories I get to tell for a living.I've had a successful career but at times, I worry that my work suffers...
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Rachel Weisz becomes obsessed with a charming Leo Woodall in a dangerously sexy midlife crisis drama, while Guy Ritchie takes on Arthur Conan DoyleRachel Weisz's literature professor M is struggling with middle age and worried she may never be "the cause of a spontaneous erection” ever again. Worse still, her academic husband John (John Slattery)...
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Brave film-makers follow big cats in Botswana. Plus: struggling to sleep? Denise Van Outen has some tips for you. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC TwoBack to Botswana's Okavango delta, as gutsy film-makers rejoin the growing Xudum lion pride – in fact, it's now the largest recorded in the world. But the males are missing and the females...
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With poor Sam Claflin virtually banished from screen, it's up to the Big Bang Theory star to keep this woefully formulaic show afloat – and it's a losing battleBuckle up, buttercups! Three hours of overstuffed nonsense split into four 45-minute bursts is about to come atcha, and fast.Vanished stars Kaley Cuoco, who found fame in The Big Bang...
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Based on footage made by a devastated father in the aftermath of the school shooting, this heartbreaking documentary speaks to those still dealing with the loss. You wonder how some are still standingThirty years on, the Dunblane massacre remains almost unbelievable and the grief of the families unfathomable. In a terrible way, it is almost harder...
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When Arlene went missing, suspicion fell on her abusive husband. This documentary is a sober reflection on violence against women, and a gripping whodunnit where some questions remain unansweredWhen the police arrived at Arlene Fraser's house in Elgin, Moray in April 1998, they found a place where time had stopped suddenly, like a needle lifted...
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Readers respond to an article by an anonymous 15-year-old girl about hateful comments against women and girls on social mediaThe disturbing account from a 15‑year‑old girl describing the misogyny she faces online (I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day, 23 February) will come as no...
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Liz Kendall to launch consultation next week that will also explore alternatives such as curbs on infinite scrollingMinisters will take another step towards banning social media for under-16s next week as they launch a consultation on the policy, with government insiders increasingly certain Keir Starmer will back the idea.Liz Kendall, the...
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'Dynasty: The Murdochs' will debut on the streamer on 13 MarchThe real-world drama that is said to have inspired the hit HBO show Succession is set for its own four-part series when Netflix debuts Dynasty: The Murdochs on 13 March.The docuseries, based on thousands of pages of documents, emails and text messages, presents an exhaustive history of...
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Late-night hosts discussed the response to the long-winded speech and suspicious redactions from the Epstein filesLate-night hosts tore into Donald Trump's extremely long State of the Union address and a bombshell new report on redactions from the Jeffrey Epstein files. Continue reading...
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Some on the right portray this TikTok phenomenon as tantamount to treason. That says more about them than the fans of Chinese cultureAs it's Chinese lunar new year, it would not be surprising if you've found yourself scrolling through some China-inspired content. But before you click the heart on a TikTok of paper lanterns or mouthwatering noodles,...
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Station will no longer be working with journalist after pianist makes email publicPianist Yuja Wang today made public an email sent to her by writer, critic and Radio 3 presenter Norman LeBrecht, and her response that accuses the journalist of "derogatory misogynistic bullying”.Lebrecht had written to the musician querying her decision to...
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Tilda Swinton among those to sign petition supporting Tricia Tuttle, who reportedly faces sack after pro-Palestine speeches at galaProminent directors and actors have rallied in support of the American head of the Berlin film festival in response to reports she could be sacked over comments by award-winners criticising the war in Gaza and the...
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With tech bros investing in vast underground homes to shield them from future horrors, a slew of 'bunker-buster' dramas like Paradise and Silo are asking: do they know something we don't?Sam Altman's got one – although Mark Zuckerberg's is, apparently, bigger. Peter Thiel's is described as "mega” and located in New Zealand. These days, a...
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Fans of the hit noughties series will be delighted to see the original cast back at Sacred Heart hospital. But this reboot isn't afraid to move with the times Bill Lawrence is on a tear. This is the man who gave us Ted Lasso and Shrinking, and who is days away from launching Rooster, the Steve Carell sitcom that HBO already sees as the anchor to...
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The notoriously private Manchester painter agreed in 1972 to be recorded by a young fan. The results, broadcast here for the first time, are tender, revealing – and desperately movingIn 1972 a young woman pitched up at an artist's home to meet her idol. Angela Barratt was 27, with no experience in journalism, art criticism or interviewing blunt...
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Filmed last summer as the government sought to cut disability benefits, this groundbreaking show about an artist and her best friend is laugh-out-loud funny As a rule, I don't chat about the Equality Act when I'm watching TV. But as I sat down to the new series of We Might Regret This – the BBC's groundbreaking comedy about a disabled artist and...
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Jailed, beaten, executed … this BBC documentary gives voice to Russian dissidents and conscripts trapped in a system of violence, fear and punishment. The result is devastatingIn the dying days of the Soviet Union, there was much talk of "Afghan syndrome” within Russia. Thousands of veterans of the ill-fated war in Afghanistan were traumatised,...
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How parents campaigned to ban handguns after the 1996 shooting. Plus, a coffin arrives in Dragons' Den. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 4March marks the 30th anniversary of the murders of 16 children and one teacher at Dunblane primary school. This moving documentary explores the day and its aftermath, when parents campaigned for the...
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BBC and Financial Times among those calling for frameworks to help publishers gain control over their content being 'scraped and copied'A coalition of UK media companies including the Guardian has urged industry peers to back global frameworks ensuring AI firms pay for the journalism they use.The news providers are calling on leaders across...
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Murderous governments and armed groups always considered reporters like Marie Colvin a nuisance – now they see them as legitimate targetsA friend wrote to me last week to tell me that my name appeared in the Epstein files. "But it's for a good cause,” he wrote. "Nothing sinister.”In 2012, shortly after my friend and colleague Marie Colvin was...
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The ongoing battle over for the iconic film studio is set to have a major impact on what we, the viewers, get to watchIt's not unusual for a corporate merger to take months and months to actually finalize, but even by those standards, the bidding for ownership of Warner Bros Discovery has been drawn out. Netflix made a deal to buy the Warner Bros...
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Corporation says broadcasting of N-word by Tourette syndrome campaigner was 'serious mistake' as anger at error risesThe BBC is to undertake a fast-track investigation into how a racial slur broadcast during its coverage of the Bafta film awards was not edited out, amid rising anger inside the corporation over the error.Tim Davie, the outgoing...
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Appellate court quashes convictions linked to lease violations but Lai may still spend rest of his life in prisonA Hong Kong appellate court on Thursday overturned fraud convictions against the media mogul Jimmy Lai, a rare victory in the prominent pro-democracy activist's legal battles.Lai, 78, an outspoken critic of China's ruling Communist party...
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By failing to remove John Davidson's tic from the broadcast, editors let down both black and disabled peopleI attended the Bafta awards on Sunday. And I arrived early enough to hear the Tourette syndrome (TS) campaigner John Davidson, on whom the biographical film I Swear is based, be introduced. He stood up to wave and take in the applause, and we...
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The ability to conduct polite debate on social media, without amplifying menaces and lies, is a basic qualification for public officeThe impulse to post on social media often overwhelms judgment of what is appropriate to share. Knowing when not to succumb to that urge, exercising due diligence before passing on material that is flatly false or...
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The BBC is under fire over its failure to remove a racial slur shouted by John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome, from its broadcast of the Bafta awards. Davidson was heard shouting the N-word while two stars of the film Sinners, Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan, were on stage. He said controversy over the incident had left him "distraught”...
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Move comes after 35% of sector workers surveyed described their mental health as 'poor' or 'very poor'The Film and TV Charity has unveiled a landmark set of principles for safeguarding mental health in what's been called a "watershed moment” for the UK creative sector's duty of care to its production community.The principles are the result of a...
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Group aims to be 'simpler, lower-cost, AI-enabled business' and achieve £500m of annual savings by 2028The beleaguered UK advertising group WPP has announced a radical restructure to counter the threat posed by the growth of artificial intelligence, including plans to sell assets and job cuts.Aiming to be "a simpler, lower-cost, AI-enabled...
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Former Northern Ireland correspondent Vincent Kearney subjected to 'unprecedented' surveillance, says lawyerPolice and MI5 subjected a BBC journalist to a "long and consistent campaign of unlawful interference” by obtaining communications data from his mobile phone, a tribunal has heard.The surveillance was targeted at Vincent Kearney, who was...
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