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This meditative, 45-minute tale of a glamorous couple, split into three chunks for YouTube, is very far from snappy viewing. It just feels like terrestrial TVIn 1964, Andy Warhol shot the Empire State Building then turned it into an art film called Empire, which is more than eight hours long. I was reminded of this last Christmas when I let my...
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From being attacked for gentrifying New York to gen Z calling her toxic, Sarah Jessica Parker's most famous role isn't shy of controversy. As Carrie Bradshaw returns, she talks about being an antihero – and the death of fashionCarrie Bradshaw was undoubtedly not intended as a hate figure when Sex and the City first aired. But in recent years, a...
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Coverage of the three-year family 'feud' has been extraordinary, and nothing seems off the table in the mediaIf the biggest feud of the week belongs to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, then the longest running is arguably "Beckxit”.The name given to the fallout between one of the most famous couples in the world – David and Victoria Beckham – and...
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Level up and access your feminine energy, say these influencers to young women. This is self-delusion, not self-improvementAbout two years ago, a self-professed "goddess coach” called Jaelyn posted an eight hour-long "sleep affirmation” video which, according to many a satisfied viewer, has worked wonders for them. In a somewhat sultry,...
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Journalist and publisher who was editor of Smash Hits and Empire magazines and known for his lively, irreverent styleBarry McIlheney, who has died aged 67, presided over many late 20th-century media success stories. In 1989 he launched the monthly film magazine Empire as editor, and in 1999 the celebrity weekly Heat as publisher. In his first job...
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Oghenochuko Ojiri given two-and-a-half-year sentence over failure to report art sales to suspected Hezbollah funderA BBC Bargain Hunt art expert who failed to report a series of high-value art sales to a man suspected of financing the militant group Hezbollah has been jailed for two and a half years.Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, sold artworks worth a...
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An archival feast for fans of the legendary US singer-songwriter. Plus, a soft landing for Whovians as Ncuti Gatwa, Billie Piper, David Tennant and Karen Gillan feature in a documentary about the making of the show. Here's what to watch this evening8.40pm, BBC TwoIt's basically a Billy Joel night for megafans to get lost in on BBC Two, with his...
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Today foreign journalists stand on the 'hill of shame' overlooking Gaza, reliant on Palestinians for newsWatching the TV coverage of the conflict in Gaza with increasing dismay this week, my mind went back to the banks of the Suez canal in October 1973. I was filming the surrender of the entire Egyptian third army with a team from the BBC, without...
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King of the Hill actor's husband claimed killing was due to his sexual orientation, which police initially dismissedInvestigators are looking into whether the sexual orientation of King of the Hill voice actor Jonathan Joss played a role in his shooting death in Texas, authorities said on Thursday, walking back a previous statement about the...
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The franchise's last remaining connection to the original trilogy has appeared in a number of recent spinoffs. What's next, now the 73-year-old actor says he has hung up his lightsaber for good?Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker has been Star Wars' ultimate backup plan for at least half a decade. The original trilogy has faded into the distance, and the...
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Noise of phone conversations and guzzling of snacks have spoiled the experience, veteran director tells critic Peter TraversThe director Martin Scorsese has said that he no longer watches films in theatres because he's so appalled by the behaviour of his fellow cinemagoers.Speaking to US film critic Peter Travers for his blog, The Travers Take,...
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Transhumanism has long propelled films from Metropolis to The Matrix. But Jesse Armstrong's billionaire satire isn't sci-fi fantasy. Nor is the 'robotic Grampa' Disney's granddaughter so despisesFor years, the world's most perfect urban myth was this: Walt Disney's body was cryogenically frozen at the moment of death, waiting for technology to...
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A call to arms from the beloved naturalist as he passes his 99th birthday, and Sean Baker's Oscar-winning treasure about a lap dancer who falls for an oligarch's son. Plus: the controversial new Snow White! As David Attenborough passes his 99th birthday, here's another landmark documentary to add to his collection – and one that's more polemical...
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In her memoir, Vine pins the downfall of her marriage on Brexit. But the finer details tell a story we might all be familiar withThe intrusion of politics into personal relationships has been an eagerly documented feature of the Trump-Brexit era, which this week found its perfect expression: a granular account of the end of the marriage between...
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Three years ago British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil's remote Javari valley. The Guardian's Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips investigates what happened in the first episode of a new six-part investigative podcast series. Find episode 2 – and all...
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After a flattering invite to its student journalism conference, the University of Sydney newspaper changed its tune. Plus: Michael Stutchbury's new gigAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBefore Samantha Maiden was the Gold Walkley award-winning political editor of news.com.au she...
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An intriguing mystery drama about IVF, and the return of Arnie's daft espionage comedy in which he gleefully makes fun of his own legendThis is the first original drama produced for the new Channel 4 digital platform, which will be on YouTube, alongside a broadcast on Channel 4. It packs plenty of intrigue into 45 minutes. Written by Uzo Oleh, Beth...
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Justin Spitzer's comedy drama about exhausted doctors and nurses starts. Plus: the final part of Joanna Lumley's riparian odyssey. Here's what to watch this evening10.40pm, BBC OneIf Scrubs met Abbott Elementary, you'd get something like this American hospital mockumentary series (but lower your expectations a wee bit). It's from Justin Spitzer –...
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This adaptation of the bestselling Australian crime novel is full of twists, turns and red herrings. Its focus on the terrible grief of bereaved mothers makes it a cut aboveI hope you have had enough time to recover from Robyn Malcolm's barnstorming performance as a harrowed wife and mother labouring under burdens no one should have to endure in...
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Despair, delight, utter exhaustion at the show's increasing use of nostalgia: Guardian readers' responses to the latest twist in the Timelord saga vary wildlyWhen I saw Billie Piper's face, it felt as if I had been subconsciously waiting 20 years for this moment. It was joyous and completely overwhelming. It was that same iconic Rose Tyler smile...
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Lana Estemirova promised to tell story of her mother, a renowned human rights activist. This month it is publishedLana Estemirova was 15 in 2009, when her mother, the renowned Chechen human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, was kidnapped and murdered. Bundled into a car as she walked to the bus stop on her way to work, she was driven out of town...
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Exclusive: Excitement is higher elsewhere, in global split that seems to mirror level of trust in government regulationPeople in English-speaking countries including the UK, US, Australia and Canada are more nervous about the rise of artificial intelligence than those in the largest EU economies, where excitement over its spread is higher, new...
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The Guardian journalist and the Brazilian Indigenous expert were killed while investigating the impact of deforestation. In this extract from the book Phillips was writing at the time of his death, he reflects on his encounters with the rainforest and its people – and why it is so vital to save this precious placeBy Dom Phillips. Read by Felipe...
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Advert that highlighted impact on child poverty was deemed to have breached political advertising rules Transport for London (TfL) has banned adverts from the charity Save the Children calling for the two-child limit on universal credit and child tax credit to be scrapped, deeming them in breach of its bar on "political” advertising.The adverts,...
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White House seeks to enshrine cuts Musk-led agency flagged, $8.3bn from state and USAID and $1.1bn from mediaThe Trump administration formally asked Congress to rescind $9.4bn in already approved funding from foreign aid and public broadcasters including NPR and PBS on Tuesday, seeking to enshrine spending cuts identified by Elon Musk's "department...
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Best family? Best storyline? Jane McDonald is host as the soaps battle it out. Plus: juicy drama in Marie Antoinette. Here's what to watch this evening8pm, ITV1It is a hard time for the soaps right now, so it was nice to see them get some love at the annual awards show at the weekend (after all, that live EastEnders episode was undeniably a great...
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Music executive claims defamation in suit seeking $20m from the film-makers and distributors of On the RecordRussell Simmons is suing HBO and the film-makers of a 2020 documentary detailing allegations against the music mogul of sexual abuse, claiming that together they defamed him and ignored his version of events.On the Record, directed by Amy...
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As Trump press secretary says BBC takes 'word of Hamas with total truth', corporation accuses Karoline Leavitt of political point-scoringMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe BBC has defended its reporting on the war in Gaza and accused the White House of misrepresenting its journalism after Donald Trump's administration criticised its coverage of...
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An Austrian newspaper ran an interview with the cinema legend which he denied ever giving. What actually happens in the world of movie reporting can be yet more murkyIt is no surprise that Austrian newspaper Kurier's Clint Eastwood interview went viral over the weekend. An audience with a 95-year-old film legend containing stern words about the...
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BBC says 'sharp and deeply troubling escalation' this year of Iran targeting families of UK-based BBC Persian journalistsBBC staff in London say their families are being "targeted and punished” by the Iranian regime as it intensifies a campaign of intimidation against journalists and media outlets.There have been more than 20 "threat-to-life”...
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To commemorate 30 years of Jaws, ITV made one of its worst ever shows. Now, for the movie's 50th, it's doing it again … but with a Lord of the Rings Harfoot. Brace yourself for SHARK! Celebrity Infested WatersJaws turns 50 this year – a momentous occasion for arguably the most influential movie ever made. After all, we are talking about a piece...
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We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2016: For decades, Alan Yentob was the dominant creative force at the BBC – behind everything from Adam Curtis to Strictly Come Dancing. He was a towering figure in British culture – so why did...
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Kurier editor says Q&A that was picked up by other outlets contained old quotes from round-table eventsOne of Austria's leading newspapers has severed ties with a Hollywood reporter after admitting she repackaged old comments by Clint Eastwood and presented them as a supposedly exclusive interview.In an apparent journalistic coup, the...
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One-off £100,000 prize awarded to Girl, Women, Other writer for entire body of work and 'dedication to uplifting under-represented voices'Bernardine Evaristo is to receive £100,000 after being announced as the winner of the Women's prize outstanding contribution award, a one-off prize to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Women's prize for...
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Group of international reporters stopped on way to Masafer Yatta, which features in documentary No Other LandMasked Israeli soldiers have blocked an international group of reporters from visiting Palestinian villages on the West Bank that have been under sustained attack by Jewish settlers, and which were the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary...
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The rapper gives a taster from her new album along with some old favourites. Plus: tension mounts on the low-budget race of a lifetime. Here's what to watch this evening11.40pm, BBC OneBefore she sets off on a European tour and curates this year's Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre in London, multi-award-winning Little Simz gives us a taster...
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This solid comedy-drama features the ever-watchable Hollywood star as a washed-up pro given a shot at redemption when he mentors a teen prodigy. It's pleasant, feelgood TVI've never met a golfer in real life. I've always assumed I'm the wrong demographic – perhaps in terms of age, or class or at least tax bracket – or perhaps my lack of...
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Family fallout. Two feuding brothers. An ambitious American actor wife … the Beckhams certainly seem to have a lot in common with the SussexesSo long, and thanks for all the jam. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and queen of Montecito, recently announced that she is reimagining As Ever, her raspberry spread and "flower sprinkle” business. In an...
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An exclusive interview with the former most wanted man in the world is rambling, creepy and self-aggrandising. He comes across like an uncle female guests avoid at a wedding discoWe in the west love to hate a terrorist bogeyman. When our opponent isn't a state, it's easier to rationalise our failure to stop them causing us pain if there's...
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When social media first exploded, we missed our chance to protect women and girls. Now history is repeating itselfSociety is sleepwalking into a nightmare. The rate of global investment in AI is rocketing, as companies and countries invest in what has been described as a new arms race. The Californian company Nvidia, which dominates the market in...
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Joanna Miller said her grandfather would hate the mechanical replica to be debuted at Disneyland in JulyWalt Disney's granddaughter has condemned the entertainment giant he founded for re-creating the late entrepreneur as a soulless "robotic grampa” for the 70th anniversary celebration of California's Disneyland theme park in July.Disney, who...
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Feminist writer and activist whose 1975 book Against Our Will revolutionised attitudes to rapeWhen she published Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape in 1975, Susan Brownmiller, who has died aged 90, could not have imagined how controversial her book would be across the political spectrum. Against Our Will revolutionised attitudes to rape, and...
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Our wildlife series Young Country Diary is looking for articles written by children, about their summer encounters with natureOnce again, the Young Country Diary series is open for submissions! Every three months, as the UK enters a new season, we ask you to send us an article written by a child aged 8-14.The article needs to be about a recent...
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US actor drops claims of infliction of emotional distress related to co-star in It Ends With UsBlake Lively has withdrawn two of the claims she made about the actor and director Justin Baldoni, who worked with her on the 2024 romantic drama It Ends With Us.It was reported on Tuesday afternoon by Variety that Lewis Liman, the judge who is who...
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The critically acclaimed UK drama has knocked off the fourth season of Stranger Things with 141.2m viewsAdolescence has become Netflix's second biggest ever English language TV series.The critically acclaimed UK drama series knocked off Stranger Things after it reached a total of 141.2m views since its launch in March. The fourth season of the...
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After nearly 16 years the veteran standup comic is calling time on the show that redefined podcastingIt's the end of an era: Marc Maron has announced that he's ending his popular and influential podcast WTF with Marc Maron after nearly 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes. The final episode will be released later this year."Sixteen years we've...
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Young, beautiful and queer, the first Black man to hold the sonic screwdriver made waves before his shock regeneration – but his time in the Whoniverse was the shortest in 20 years. What next for him … and the show?At the weekend, Doctor Who attempted to pull off the holy grail of a surprise regeneration, with Billie Piper appearing to step...
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Facebook and Instagram parent's deal follows other big tech companies signing agreements with power companiesMeta on Tuesday said it had struck an agreement to keep one nuclear reactor of a US utility company in Illinois operating for 20 years.Meta's deal with Constellation Energy is the social networking company's first with a nuclear power plant....
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Paramilitaries and organised crime gangs make it UK's most dangerous place to be a reporter, rights group saysJournalists in Northern Ireland routinely face attacks and death threats from paramilitary and organised crime groups that act with impunity, according to Amnesty International.Reporters have been physically assaulted and told they will be...
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This extraordinary adaptation of Paris Lees' memoir follows wild, witty teen Byron as they go from cottaging for cash aged 15 to finding solace in a raucous gang of trans and queer pals. You'll never look at a loo brush the same wayThe title suggests a generic experience of nascent womanhood, but What It Feels Like for a Girl is miles from your...
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Cinematographer who won an Oscar for Gandhi but did his most adventurous work on Ken Russell's Women in LoveThe cinematographer Billy Williams, who has died aged 95, was Oscar-nominated for Ken Russell's adaptation of Women in Love (1969) and the sentimental tearjerker On Golden Pond (1982), which starred two generations of Fondas, Henry and his...
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Correspondent for far-right outlet was fired after accusing defense secretary of clamping down on press accessA pro-Donald Trump journalist says she was fired from her job after criticizing the president's secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, over his attempts to restrict media access at the Pentagon.Gabrielle Cuccia, the former chief Pentagon...
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Demis Hassabis, head of Google DeepMind, says he wants AI to clear inboxes by making 'some of the easier decisions'The march of artificial intelligence is predicted to bring monumental changes on a par with the advent of the internet or even the Industrial Revolution. But before all that, one of the technology's leading figures wants it to solve a...
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Byron is a working-class teenager desperate for a different life. Plus: a great art series continues with Lubaina Himid. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Three Millennials, prepare for a nostalgia rush as this rollicking adaptation of Paris Lees' memoir takes us back to the time of Nokias, Zombie Nation and total hedonism. Life is "one...
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Social media is rife with hacks that claim to help you sleep better and deeper. From melatonin, feeding your baby butter and taping your mouth shut, the solutions range from obvious to unexpected.In conversation with Nour Haydar, anti-viral columnist Donna Lu breaks down the viral hacks the internet claims will help you get better sleepYou can...
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Writer and film-maker at the heart of the African Dawn group who directed the critically acclaimed 1991 feature AmaThe author and film-maker Kwesi Owusu, who has died aged 70, wrote several notable books on Black culture in Britain, and was a founder member of the influential performance group African Dawn, which emerged from the vibrant creative...
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The actor, best know for voicing John Redcorn in the long-running animated series, was killed on Saturday in TexasThe actor Jonathan Joss, best known for voicing John Redcorn in King of the Hill, has died in a shooting.San Antonio police confirmed to Variety that the 59-year-old died on Saturday after an incident. Officers were reportedly...
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Writers bemoaned Inter's 'climax of suffering' in Munich but saved their harshest words for Simone InzaghiOn the front pages of Italy's newspapers, the Champions League final was told as a "nightmare”, a "humiliation”, and a "rout”. Tuttosport at least found room for humour with a "DisIntergrated” pun. La Stampa, in deference to the victors...
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It's easy to forget the Hollywood star is also an Oscar-nominated writer and highly subtle actor. He's perfect in this gentle, humane tale of a washed-up sportsman trying to regain his mojo as a mentorGolf is – apologies to fans, the ground is gonna get a little rough – inert material for TV and film. It's not explosively combative like say...
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Like Border Force meets Inside the Factory, this documentary is basic comfort viewing that doesn't ask much of you – but does flow freely with absolutely wild stats (and may even help out some spies along the way)This documentary is a meat-and-two-veg slice of British television, comfortable and familiar and sturdy. It's the sort of TV that...
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The word has lost all meaning, we are told. Could my favourite dad-jectives replace it?Vogue has spoken: chic is dead. Not being it, but the word. Chic has, Lauren O'Neill argues, lost its essence, co-opted to cover whatever glazed-doughnut-skinned influencers on TikTok decide it should, from monogrammed lip balm to iced matchas. "Chic has come to...
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Do sharks have best pals? Can cute-seeming animals be vicious? And does ancestry matter any more? The answers lie in this week's finest listens"Who really gives a shit about roots any more,” asks Dashon (Caleb McLaughlin), a Detroit teenager who, in this audio drama, is begrudgingly in Zimbabwe with his family. He is indifferent towards their...
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Actor who played Rose Tyler pops up at a pivotal time for the series as Ncuti Gatwa bows out, creating a vacancyNearly two decades since she first appeared on Doctor Who, Billie Piper made a spectacular return to the show on Saturday night, in the latest season's finale, The Reality War. After just two series, Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor regenerated into...
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Lawsuit challenges president's move to cut federal funding as station says it is 'matter of necessity and principle'In the Trump administration's unprecedented war on the American media, a lawsuit brought by public broadcasters could mark a much-needed strike back for press freedom.The lawsuit, brought by NPR and three Colorado-based public radio...
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Emmy award-winning TV, stage and film actor also known for her role in Young Sheldon died of cancerValerie Mahaffey, the Emmy-award winning actor known for her roles on Northern Exposure, Desperate Housewives and Young Sheldon, died on Friday. She was 71.Her husband, actor Joseph Kell, said in a statement to Variety: "I have lost the love of my...
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Alan Yentob did another great service to the BBC and to British culture by giving the final imprimatur to the siting of Martin Jennings's statue of George Orwell, promoted by my late husband, Ben Whitaker, outside the BBC HQ, and by choosing the best quotation to be inscribed beside it: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell...
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Ncuti Gatwa regenerated with joy and ended his time piloting the Tardis in the weirdest possible way. Oh, hello! And just like that, he was gone, and the Ncuti Gatwa era is over. It was the shortest tenure in the role since Christopher Eccleston did just one series in 2005, and even within his brief run there was more than one episode where Gatwa...
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Photographer whose work for Picture Post in the 1940s and 50s documented a period of social change in BritainThe documentary photographer John Chillingworth, who has died aged 97, was one of the stable of famous photographic names who worked for the pioneering weekly magazine Picture Post in the 1940s and 50s. Picture Post's unique characteristic...
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Twist ending to this year's series sees star leaving role and return of Billie PiperNcuti Gatwa is leaving Doctor Who, with the character regenerating as Billie Piper during the finale of the science-fiction series.The Doctor Who show runner, Russell T Davies, said: "What a Doctor! Thank you, Ncuti! As his final words say, this has been an absolute...
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The surviving editions of the world's oldest, continuously published English-language daily can now be accessed freeThere was a packed news agenda on 3 October 1738. The father of the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin had been arrested after being found with a stolen horse. Cannon fire rang out in St Petersburg to mark a Russian victory over the...
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Almost half of young people would prefer a world without the internet. We are haunted by the feeling that it has robbed us of something vitalA video went viral on X a few months ago that I can't stop watching. It's 2003: the band that later becomes MGMT are performing their song Kids to their peers, years before they become a pop sensation, in a...
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This complex, precise German true crime drama about the real-life killing of two young women is painstaking in its detail. Its pleasure lies in watching the detectives slowly reveal the truthIt's never a good sign, is it, to see a young woman going for a run in the woods at the start of a gritty European crime drama? The Black Forest Murders takes...
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Harvard's lawyers are using the president's Truth Social posts in their case against his administration, and they've been cited in other recent casesDonald Trump's social media posts have emerged as a factor in legal cases brought against his administration by institutions and law firms resisting his attempts to force them to submit to his...
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Paris Lees has turned her hit memoir of growing up as a working-class trans kid into a vivid, joyful drama. Its team talks teenage sex work, nostalgia for Tony Blair, and why TV drama is so posh it's like Jane AustenWhen the BBC was casting its adaptation of Paris Lees's autobiography, What It Feels Like for a Girl, it wasn't the only one wrestling...
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S4C has bought rights but only two Welshmen in squadHopes of deal in England alive but only three weeks to goThe British and Irish Lions' tour to Australia will be available to watch free-to-air on TV this summer – but for now only in Welsh. The Guardian has learned that the Lions have agreed a deal for a highlights package with Welsh language...
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Dozens of child actors will feature in HBO's new Harry Potter series, all of them needing on-set tuition to be conjured up between scenesHarry Potter may have been overjoyed at going to Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, but the children playing Harry, Ron and Hermione in the forthcoming HBO TV series will vanish from their own schools for...
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Media quoted unnamed distributors who said they could not obtain copies of the magazine or that it had been bannedThe latest print edition of the Economist, which features Vietnam's top leader on its cover, has been banned in the country, the latest instance of media censorship in the communist, one-party state.The magazine carried an image of the...
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Former Sinn Féin leader sued broadcaster over allegation in documentary that he sanctioned murder of MI5 informantGerry Adams has won a defamation action against the BBC over a documentary that carried a claim he sanctioned the murder of an MI5 informant in 2006.A jury at Dublin's high court on Friday found that the BBC had not acted in good faith...
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Police announce allegations against Christian Anderson, 33, after body of Adan Manzano, 27, found on 5 FebruaryAuthorities investigating the apparent drugging death and robbery of a Telemundo reporter who was covering February's Super Bowl have arrested a third suspect in the case.On Friday, the Kenner police department in Louisiana announced the...
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