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Weed? Moss tied in thread. Crack? Organic shea butter. Cocaine bricks? Shrink-wrapped foam blocks. Designers reveal the secrets of faking drugs onscreen – from popping sugar pills to snorting vitamin D'Suitcases of drugs are not exactly something you'd expect to bring to work,” says Paul Cross, who was the production designer of Supacell, the...
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This story about a child with cerebral palsy is badly misleading – and a slap in the face for families like oursAmazing news from Netflix: there is an extraordinary treatment available for children with very severe neurological disabilities, one that, given the appropriate level of parental gumption, will grant kids written off as hopeless cases...
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Former police officer had revealed last year he had been diagnosed with an unspecified terminal illnessThe TV writer Nigel McCrery – creator of the series Silent Witness – has died aged 71, his agent has confirmed.The former police officer, who also devised the cold case show New Tricks, revealed last year that he had been diagnosed with an...
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Storyville goes inside San Quentin jail to investigate a transformative fitness programme. Plus: a frog-phobic gardener faces his fear. Here's what to watch this evening10pm, BBC FourThe 1,000 Mile Club is a running group inside San Quentin state prison, California, in which inmates serving life sentences are coached by a group of volunteer elite...
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Can a small-screen spin-off ever better the original? From Daria to Endeavour, here are the 10 that came closest – and a few that actually managed itSometimes on TV, the second time's a charm. If the broadcasting stars align, a spin-off can breathe new life into familiar intellectual property and become beloved in its own right. Or else it can be...
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Letter between two media heavyweights revealed on day six of the journalist's unlawful termination claim against broadcasterGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastABC's chief political correspondent Laura Tingle wrote to the then chair Ita Buttrose to express her "deep concern” that someone senior had leaked information about...
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Exclusive: Paramount+ blames international feed for 8Xbet advertisements as regulator considers actionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe streaming giant Paramount+ broadcast ads for an offshore gambling company known for its bikini-clad croupiers during an A-League...
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You will have a wild ride watching this ineffably cool Bradford-based cop thriller. But it's also surprisingly moving – and may well leave you in tearsIf Virdee is what we get to mark the naming of Bradford as this year's city of culture (congratulations, Bradford!) then I'm going to need it to be so anointed until at least 2029. The six-part...
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v-Fluence halts operations after widespread backlash over private portal profiling environmental health advocatesA US company that was secretly profiling hundreds of food and environmental health advocates in a private web portal has said it has halted the operations in the face of widespread backlash, after its actions were revealed by the...
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The star of TV drama The Split joins Sandi Toksvig, Richard Madeley and more in Radio 4 sitcom based on the fictional tropical isleAs the latest Desert Island Discs castaway this Sunday morning the actor Stephen Mangan is happy to confess that his first big theatrical role was as Beauty in an infant production of Beauty and the Beast. The star of...
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State TV has started broadcasting matches, albeit with heavy-handed intervention of Pyongyang regime's censorsTV viewers in North Korea have to endure more than their fair share of war films – in which there can be only one victor, news reports delivered with revolutionary gusto and breathless Kim dynasty propaganda.But even for a country as wary...
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Letter says many of works being sold by Christie's are made by AI models trained on pieces by human artists, without a licenceThousands of artists are urging the auction house Christie's to cancel a sale of art created with artificial intelligence, claiming the technology behind the works is committing "mass theft”.The Augmented Intelligence...
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Danette Colbert was known to police before meeting Adan Manzano, who died last week in a New Orleans-area hotelThree years before she was linked to the death of a journalist covering Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, Danette Colbert reportedly faced charges of drugging a man as well as stealing $100,000 in cash, jewelry, upscale luggage and casino...
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Labour's bold new idea is video of people being rounded up and ejected from the country. A less dehumanising approach would actually be more effectiveThe images are striking, deliberately so. They show men being taken off a bus and up the stairway of a charter jet to be deported from the UK. One has his hands shackled, escorted by numerous Border...
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ITV News investigation finds allegations of 'unacceptable' and 'distressing' behaviour on shows TV chef worked onThe TV chef Gino D'Acampo has denied accusations of inappropriate behaviour including using sexualised and aggressive language over a period of 12 years.An investigation by ITV News found "dozens” of allegations of misconduct against...
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Jack Rooke's zinger-packed comedy channels the classics as it plumbs loss, friendship and Britishness. Be warned, though: Jon Pointing's performance will shred your heartIn the street yesterday, a man asked me if I'd heard the Good News. Happily, I had: Big Boys is back on Channel 4 this Sunday! Now, it turns out we were talking about different...
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The award-winning journalist helps a victim of horrific cyber-harassment campaign to fight back, plus a hilarious look at one of the funniest writers everThis terrifying tale of a cyber-harassment campaign against Hannah Mossman Moore sees her and her family hacked after a meeting with a high-flying fashion insider. It's a gripping, immersive tale,...
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Billions in EU Covid funding have gone unaccounted for. By hiding its business behind personal messaging, Brussels is dodging public scrutinyFor weeks during the height of the Covid pandemic in early 2021, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, personally exchanged calls and texts with Albert Bourla, the CEO of the pharmaceutical...
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Family of Daphne Caruana Galizia condemn delays in bringing Yorgen Fenech to trial after arrest in 2019A millionaire businessman charged with the 2017 murder of the Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been released on bail with no date set for his trial.Yorgen Fenech, the heir to a casino and hotels group, was arrested and...
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Kerr's mother, Dawn Searle, and her partner Andrew were found dead at their rural home in south-west France on ThursdayA former Hollyoaks actor has said he is "grieving the tragic loss” of his mother after she was found dead alongside her husband in France.The bodies of Andrew Searle, a retired fraud investigator, and his wife, Dawn, a project...
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From jokes about Tesco meal deals to depictions of life's most precious moments, Jack Rooke's semi-fictionalisation of his student years is back for the final time. It's a beautiful, heartbreaking watchThe last episode of Big Boys finished on a note of almost transcendent devastation. From the very beginning, this tale of male bonding and sexual...
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This beloved cold-case drama still has a dry sense of humour, but its attempt to wade into the culture wars was not a good idea. Its tackling of politics is starting to feel very ham-fistedFor five series, Unforgotten was my go-to comfort television. Yes, the crime drama is always about a grisly murder, and every season begins with the gruesome...
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Staz Nair plays a British Asian detective in the BBC's new crime series. Plus: tears flow in the season finale of Bump. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC OneA full-throttle opening sequence throws you into the high-octane world of detective Harry Virdee (Staz Nair) in this crime thriller based on Amit Dhand's novels. But it's not just...
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The stage and screen actor on her two, vastly different new roles – with Celia Imrie in a radical play about a woman caring for her mother after a stroke, and in a Sally Wainwright TV drama about five women who form a punk bandNot many interviews begin with your subject telling you, gently and warmly, how they've mastered being unapproachable....
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When Covid hit, people were anxious and frightened. So Catherine Barrett started a page – the Kindness Pandemic – to let them know they weren't aloneGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailNaomi Colville said panic quickly set in when her neurodivergent daughter didn't come home after her first day of high school."My heart rate went up and I...
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Police arrest woman caught fraudulently using Adan Manzano's credit card after being seen leaving Louisiana hotel room where his body was foundA woman who has previously been accused of drugging men and stealing has been arrested amid an investigation into the death of a journalist who was covering Sunday's Super Bowl in New Orleans – and whose...
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Our brave victim writer sits through the film site's 0%ers to see what makes a bad movie. Will she emerge with her sanity intact – and are all these flops really so bad?I have seen horrors so limp and lifeless they have turned into comedies. I have seen comedies so dedicated to killing every last one of your brain cells that they have become...
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Let's see if AI can take the faff – the actual writing bit – out of penning a Shakespearean thriller with a Scottish villainThe monsters of artificial intelligence are coming for you. They will cast you out on the street like a Dickensian mill owner and laugh as they do it – at least they will if you work in any sort of creative industry....
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The film legend's Netflix political conspiracy drama Zero Day is his first major TV gig, and it's extremely well timed. He talks about his greatest roles – and playing a leader people can actually trustArt mirrors life on the Netflix show Zero Day, a tense political thriller for Donald Trump's second term. There are mobs on the street and...
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Broadcaster to show 41 rounds from 41 tournamentsThe 2025 LIV season has just started in Saudi ArabiaLIV Golf has struck its latest blow to the sport's establishment by securing a free-to-air television deal in the UK. ITV will screen 41 rounds from 41 tournaments of the Saudi Arabian-backed rebel tour in what marks a stark change for golf in the...
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Nearly 8,000 below-the-line Hollywood workers were in evacuation areas with over 300 losing their homes, a further blow to an industry already strugglingWhen Sandra French returned to her beloved 1930s apartment, she found the building reduced to rubble and ash. "It was so weird,” she recalls. "Out of the rubble, there was a little bright object....
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I've seen how dance can transform lives. I urge the government to put it back where it belongs – at the heart of the curriculumShirley Ballas is president of the Imperial Society of Teachers of DancingThe government has promised to put creativity back at the heart of school life, and people across the arts sector who have been campaigning for...
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Analysts warn streaming service needs to tread carefully as its standard subscription rate goes up by 18%Whether you are binging The Night Agent or American Primeval, getting a Netflix fix has become pricier in the UK as the streaming giant increased subscription costs despite a record audience.The streaming service has upped the cost of its most...
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Dr Tom McClelland on the consequences of AI consciousness, Michael Webb on protecting creative industries, and Prof Virginia Dignum and Prof Wendy Hall on the need for a global regulatory frameworkThe recent open letter regarding AI consciousness on which you report (AI systems could be 'caused to suffer' if consciousness achieved, says research, 3...
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The high drama of José Carlos Montoya's meltdown after watching his girlfriend cheat with another man is breathtaking, if ethically horrific. And it's just raised the stakes for its entire genreIt's alarming to see just how quickly your sense of superiority can be undone. Just a few weeks ago, British viewers were quietly congratulating themselves...
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The entrepreneurial reality show has just turned 20 … and it's never been worse. It's almost impossible to believe any of the bragging, soundbite-spewing chancers are even good at businessThe opening scenes of The Apprentice – Lord Alan Sugar's search for a new business partner – have become a yearly tradition on British TV. We meet a squad...
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London-based Vanya Gaberova, 30, tells Old Bailey she was lied to and manipulated by alleged spy ringAn alleged Russian spy tearfully told the Old Bailey she knew nothing of plans to deploy her as a "honeytrap” and claimed she was "lied to, manipulated, used, and exposed”.London-based Vanya Gaberova, 30, is accused of being part of a spy ring...
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The fourth instalment, Mad About the Boy, on course to become biggest homegrown hit of the year in the UK, but will only be available on streamers statesideAs the Oscars loom, cinemas are bracing themselves for a particular surge of interest in one hotly anticipated title. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the fourth instalment in the misadventures...
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Nine-hour film will not be seen, after 'mutual agreement' between estate and Netflix, with estate announcing plans for its own filmThe estate of the late funk superstar Prince has successfully blocked the release of a nine-hour Netflix documentary about him, made by the Oscar-winning creator of OJ: Made in America.Netflix said in a statement to the...
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President also makes baseless claim that USAid money has been illicitly funding news organisationsDonald Trump has called for the "termination” of 60 Minutes, a long-established fixture of US journalism, in a fresh onslaught against the media that also included baseless claims that money from the country's beleaguered foreign aid body had been...
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Some see 'tipping point' as BBC and others are priced out of high-end dramas, as others say industry must simply adaptBBC and ITV slash big-budget TV spend as US streamers pour money into UKFrom the star of the Golden Globe-winning series Wolf Hall taking a major pay cut, to the BBC shelving premium TV projects due to a lack of funds, UK...
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A strange, tender romance starring Bel Powley, and Anthony Mackie fights the 'giant murder bugs' who won't go above 8,000ft in a satisfying end-times thrillerJoy (Bel Powley) and her partner William (Nick Robinson) live in a closed community run by the faintly sinister Our Friends organisation. All of them take pills that dull the emotions and...
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Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder return at long last with the third season of the hilarious odd-couple comedy, plus more from the berserk drama about a female football team forced to survive in the wildernessIt has been an age since we've been in the company of Deborah Vance and Ava Daniels, but absence has made the heart grow fonder. Finally,...
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Potential six-point penalty for speeding at 97mph reduced to five points after actor wrote to magistrates courtThe actor and comedian Steve Coogan has avoided a six-month driving ban after being caught speeding at 97mph, arguing it would prevent him from filming a new series of his TV show The Trip.Coogan, 59, was captured travelling over the 70mph...
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The third outing of this dysfunctional love story has taken nine months to get a UK release, but the winner of the Emmy for outstanding comedy series is here – and it's hugely compelling TVTo get a handle on the US sitcom's evolution over the past few decades, look no further than the artform's highest accolade: the Emmy award for outstanding...
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Plan called 'mad', 'ethnic cleansing', and a possible crime against humanity in most outlets – but The Australian says it reflects Trump's 'inherently benign' worldview. Plus: Mr Murdoch goes to WashingtonWant to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter hereWhen news broke of new US president Donald...
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Neither home secretary nor presenter seemed willing to admit we live in an imperfect world we can't fully controlThis was more like it. The kind of slow day when the government more or less looked like it was going to set the news agenda. Not be derailed by some catastrophe or cock-up. Or Donald Trump declaring war on Greenland and turning Gaza...
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ABC union members say legal argument around existence of Lebanese race 'destroys any hope' that broadcaster intends to address alleged systemic racismGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastABC staff say they are "disgusted” by the way the public broadcaster is managing its federal court case with journalist Antoinette Lattouf...
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Exclusive: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative workers express concern, as recent changes there similar to those at MetaThe for-profit charity organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan told employees last month that its commitment to corporate diversity is not changing even after Meta eliminated its diversity, equity and inclusion...
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The monarch's new doc raises many questions. Why Amazon? Will it compete with Harry and Meghan – or Clarkson's Farm?So King Charles is working on a feature-length documentary for Amazon Prime Video, which will apparently detail his philosophy on how to "transform people, places and ultimately the planet”. Times have changed. Before, you waited...
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The Sandman spin-off Death: DC Compact Comics Edition was due to be released later this yearDC Comics has pulled a Neil Gaiman title that was due to be published later this year.Death: DC Compact Comics Edition was meant to come out on 2 September, but listings have been scrubbed from online bookshops and Amazon, reported Bleeding Cool. Continue...
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Résumé of pop singer and RNC co-chair will now include hosting a show focusing on 'the Golden Age of America'Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of the president, will host a new show on Fox News, the network announced, in a further sign of the fluidity between the rightwing news channel and the Trump administration.My View With Lara Trump will air...
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Meta's Yann LeCun says current systems too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated carsOne of the "godfathers” of modern artificial intelligence has predicted a further revolution in the technology by the end of the decade, and says current systems are too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated cars.Yann LeCun, the...
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Cox and co-star George Wallace have wonderful chemistry as a trans woman and her dad in this warm sitcom. It's sweet, cosy and very funnyPosthumous work can be tricky to assess, but Clean Slate, executive produced by the late great television icon Norman Lear, radiates his signature warmth and intelligence. The creator of American TV comedies that...
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Kaitlyn Dever gives a masterly performance in this fast, witty and furious dramatisation of the life of influencer and fake health guru Belle GibsonWe may have a budding Netflix microgenre on our hands. First came Inventing Anna, the story of super-scam artist Anna Sorokin (AKA Anna Delvey, brilliantly played in all her many incarnations by Julia...
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Treatment of Gerald Flynn, who writes for the outlet Mongabay, condemned as attack on independent media A British environmental and investigative journalist has been banned from entering Cambodia, in what press groups have condemned as yet another attack on independent media by the country's authoritarian leaders.Gerald Flynn, who writes for the...
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Revenue slowdown reflects 'challenging year' firm has had and 2025 may be year it loses competitive edge, say analystsShares of Google's parent company Alphabet fell more than 6% after the company reported a slight miss in expected revenue on Tuesday. The company reported $96.5bn, compared with analyst expectations of $96.67 bn. The company...
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The worst Motherland mother of all gets her own spin-off – and the gag rate is so high it fizzes with the hysterical energy of perimenopause. It's good to be back in hellAmandaland begins, in time-honoured Motherland fashion, under pressure on the school run. Except we're not in Chiswick – we're now in south Harlesden, Amanda is driving a Tesla...
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This heartstoppingly tense thriller will leave your jaw on the floor – while having a script that never wastes a chance to be howlingly funny. It's absolutely grippingHas a living nightmare ever been so howlingly funny? After mainlining the second series of Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli's deeply unsettling dramedy about a woman in the throes...
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Lawsuit says its definition of 'harmful materials' forbidden to under 18s is 'vague and overbroad' and puts librarians at riskA group of major publishers in the US are suing the state of Idaho over a book-banning law.HB 710, enacted last July, forbids anyone under the age of 18 from accessing books deemed "harmful to minors”, including those...
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Company saw 'strong start to the fiscal year' according to its CEO, partly due to higher profits from streaming businessWalt Disney sharply outperformed Wall Street's quarterly earnings estimates on Wednesday, with results buoyed by the strong holiday box office performance of the animated sequel Moana 2 and higher profits at the company's...
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David Anderson tells court Tingle's public comments were a 'different matter and that was dealt with at the time' Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe managing director of the ABC has told a court he believes "Australia is a racist country” during questions about...
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Breakfast host joined channel when it started in 1989 and became known for blunt questions and gaffesKay Burley, the face of Sky News known for her tenacious interviewing but also some high-profile gaffes, has announced her retirement.The veteran broadcaster, who has been with Sky News since it began in 1989, bowed out after hosting her last Sky...
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The boyband will sing their 2008 hit Greatest Day, which features in nominated drama Anora, while Wicked star Goldblum will play piano for the in memoriam sectionTake That will perform the single Greatest Day at the Bafta film awards later this month, while the actor Jeff Goldblum will play piano during the in memoriam section.The British boyband...
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Advertising Standards Authority said promotion, which ran in ad break of Amazing Spaces, was likely to mislead viewers, who would think it was part of showA TV advertisement for Scottish Power featuring the architect George Clarke has been banned for misleading viewers into thinking they were watching his Channel 4 show Amazing Spaces.The promotion...
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Veteran Peter Lalor taken off air by SEN during first Test in Sri Lanka'Standing up for the people of Gaza is not antisemitic,' says KhawajaThe Australian opener Usman Khawaja has said the cricket writer Peter Lalor "deserves better” after he was dropped from radio coverage of Australia's tour of Sri Lanka for his social media posts relating to...
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Less than two weeks ago, the movie was flying high, with 13 Academy Award nods. Then came a social media scandal and a serious backlashYou can generally tell when awards season is going well for a movie because its stars are everywhere, attending galas, treading red carpets, doing as many interviews as they can, and repeating the same bland...
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Actor who became a TV star in the 1970s as George Roper in Man About the House and a spin-off series, George and MildredThe comedy actor Brian Murphy was the mainstay of several hit television shows in which he was constantly outmanoeuvred by contemptuous and implacable women: Mildred Roper, Kitty McShane and Nora Batty were three of them.The...
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The star also appeared in sitcoms such as Last of the Summer Wine and Man About the HouseActor Brian Murphy, best known for starring in sitcoms Man About the House and George and Mildred, has died aged 92.He died at his home in Kent on Sunday morning with his wife, Hi-de-Hi! actor Linda Regan, by his side, his agent Thomas Bowington told the PA...
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Not since Ant and Dec's early days in Australia has a TV competition been this enjoyable. The likes of Mel B, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Boris Becker are excellent value – and hugely funnyBear Grylls. It's Bear Grylls of course, not a real bear. I mention that upfront just in case, like me, your heart leapt in anticipation when the title...
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Messages falsely claim young people can make up to £800 a day liking videos on platformFraudsters are increasingly posing as TikTok employees in attempts to defraud teenagers with nonexistent jobs, according to research.Virgin Media O2 said that in the past month there had been a sharp increase in the number of fraudulent text messages from...
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Joe Wright's portrayal of the rise of a ridiculous loser features a magnificently disgusting take on the titular fascist and is packed with lavish visuals – even if it does drag a tadBefore the real horrors of 20th-century fascism arrived, the long speeches were a sign that something was badly wrong: thousands of ordinary people at rallies, who...
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Don't give in to moral panic, fellas! Here are some tips from my own bumpy literary journeyIf you really want to make a name for yourself, publish comment insisting you've been silenced.It happened again last week in a nationwide publication. Under a byline accompanied by a headshot and the covers of two of his books, an Australian author counted...
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Canada's most lucrative literary award has cut ties with its 20-year partner Scotiabank after author boycotts, disrupted events and an open letterThe Giller prize, a prestigious Canadian literary award, has cut ties with a controversial sponsor after more than a year of pushback from the literary community.The prize, which awards C$100,000...
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A rewilding project is sending residents of Ambridge silly – and they must be unique in the English-speaking world for not giggling whenever the rodent's name is uttered. Please stop it now – us listeners can't cope!'Stop. Saying. Beaver.” This was the despairing text message I received from an Archers-listening friend. His anguish during...
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The subgenre helped increase the market share by 41.3% last year aided by bestseller Fourth Wing from Rebecca Yarros while food and drink topped nonfiction salesSales of science fiction and fantasy books rocketed last year, with their value increasing by 41.3% between 2023 and 2024.The booming popularity of romantasy – the subgenre blending...
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Journalist tells federal court her drinking habits had gone from social to heavier in the year since she left the broadcasterFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAntoinette Lattouf has revealed she suffered from paranoia and sleeplessness in the year since she was removed...
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The actor, who played the Facebook founder in The Social Network, criticised Meta's decision to scrap factcheckersJesse Eisenberg, who received widespread recognition for his role as the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, has said he no longer wants to be "associated with someone like that”.Eisenberg received his first...
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Oscar-winning director – and longtime Buffy fan – Chloé Zhao is onboard to direct, with Dolly Parton as executive producerA sequel reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is reportedly in the works, with Sarah Michelle Gellar expected to return to the titular role and the Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao to direct the pilot episode.On Tuesday...
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Resources for contraception, gender-affirming care, STIs and HIV flicker in and out of existence or vanish completelySeveral federal government websites and databases dedicated to public health have gone dark in recent days, sparking fears about the Trump administration's plans to remove, alter or otherwise censor vital health information...
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As the coming-out, coming-of-age hit student sitcom returns for a charged final season, the actor who plays super-straight bestie Danny reveals how his unique brand of blokeyness gets him hugs and thank-yous in gay clubsOn the morning Jon Pointing is due to videocall, I make the mistake of starting to watch the last ever episode of Big Boys. Within...
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Exclusive: Paywall to return after a decade with new Sun Club offering also featuring Royal Exclusive video showSun readers will have to pay £2 a month to access columns by star writers including Jeremy Clarkson, popular content such as from the agony aunt Dear Deidre and some exclusive stories and investigations, as the UK's biggest tabloid...
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Some US business leaders reacted neutrally, while JP Morgan CEO says tariff threats can be used effectivelyUS business leaders are offering a mixed reaction to the steep trade tariffs that Donald Trump's administration has imposed on Canada, Mexico and China, as the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal called it "the dumbest trade war in...
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The backlash to the reality series misses a key point: if this was an educational documentary, would anyone watch it?Gareth Benest is advocacy director for the charity International Broadcasting TrustChannel 4's new reality series Go Back to Where You Came From may not please either side of the debate around refugees and irregular migration, but...
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The BBC said Apple Intelligence's weirdly wrong output sullied its reputation. Apple eventually paused the tool – but its reaction was deeply worryingMy first mistake at the Guardian came, agonisingly enough, in my first article as a member of staff, and remains memorialised on the internet to this day. My subject was not a theoretical physician,...
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Journalist was cross-examined for five gruelling hours over two days, recounting heavier drinking habits and tearful conversationsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAntoinette Lattouf's alleged unfair dismissal case against the ABC began this week in the federal court in Sydney.Lattouf was the first witness to give evidence...
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The BBC's boarding school satire is back and brimming with sex, laughs, super-cringe slam poetry and superstar performances – proof that it's up there with the finest British coming-of-age showsStanding on stage at the St Gilbert's School showcase, acting headteacher Carol Watlington-Geese (Niky Wardley) has some words of encouragement for the...
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In this immigration reality show, six Britons with 'strong opinions' are taken to Syria and Somalia and put on the perilous migrant route to the UK. Controversial TV to say the least – but if it enlightens anyone, will it have been worth it?I'm afraid it's time for another of Channel 4's "social experiments”. That's...
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Participants in Channel 4's new show recreate the journeys made by refugees for entertainment. It's awkward watching, and feels like a pointless endeavourChannel 4 is often criticised for not being the bold and ballsy network it once was. That may be true – but where else on British TV would you find a reality docuseries in which participants...
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