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This rivetingly tense Bafta-winning drama crackles with raw energy. Its third series is its finest yet – and is rapidly becoming one of the greatest TV series in existenceThe third time's a charm. Not many TV shows' third seasons are their best, but that is the case with the pulsating, propulsive Blue Lights. One broadsheet critic has hailed the...
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Guardian also finds a thriving trade on Telegram for retatrutide, which is still in clinical trials and illegal to sellAn online parallel market for an unlicensed weight-loss drug is being fuelled by TikTok fitness influencers and sellers on WhatsApp, a Guardian investigation can reveal.Retatrutide, which is still in clinical trials, is being...
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Company says rules similar to US 'parental guidance' film rating will be applied to teenagers' accountsInstagram is to adopt a version of the PG-13 cinema rating system to give parents stronger controls over their teenagers' use of the social media platform.Instagram, which is run by Meta, will start applying rules similar to the US "parental...
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Musicians have long criticized the streaming service's paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emergingThis month, indie musicians in Oakland, California, gathered for a series of talks called Death to Spotify, where attenders explored "what it means to decentralize music discovery, production and listening from capitalist economies”.The...
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Prof Alice Roberts joins Rylan to investigate witch trials in Chelmsford. Plus: an exposé of the international dog-fighting trade. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, Sky HistoryRylan Clark returns to his old Essex stomping ground of Chelmsford – which he calls "witchcraft ground zero” – for this three-part series in which he revisits old...
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Tim Robinson is hilarious as a man hellbent on taking down a negligent chair manufacturer in this cringe caper full of roaringly good slapstickMeet Ron Trosper, a faithful office grunt in small town Ohio. Ron works for a company that builds shopping malls, and their latest one is the first for which Ron has been made project lead, despite some of...
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It was a brutal killing spree that gripped Italy – yet so little is still known. Why were lovers murdered in their cars? Why were their sexual organs often targeted? Author Tobias Jones sifts the evidenceSome criminal cases are so vast that even the number of victims is uncertain: in the case of the unsolved "Monster of Florence” crimes that...
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After 16 years and almost 1,700 episodes, Maron is ending his show – which changed the face of podcasting. No wonder it's sparking an outpouring of sadness When I discovered Marc Maron's influential podcast WTF, I was working in a pub. It was a weird time for me. I had just left university and had absolutely no idea what I was doing with my life,...
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Even his colleague has dubbed Jesse Watters's claim about Ocasio-Cortez and Stephen Miller 'creepy'Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and United States homeland security adviser, is one of the most influential people in the Trump administration. He is also such a hate-filled little man that members of his own family...
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UK broadcasters used to rely on big audiences at 9pm, but as viewing habits change, figures are falling below the 1m markLast month something unusual happened in the television world. At 9pm, traditionally a crucial time slot for Britain's main broadcasters, none of their shows were able to attract an average audience of 1 million viewers.An ITV...
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This high-pedigree TV drama about midlife women who form a punk band is up there with Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax. It's rich, plot-packed, and perfectly seasoned with humourSally Wainwright should be prescribed on the NHS as a form of HRT. Alongside oestrogen and progesterone tablets, patches, gels and sprays to counter the myriad ills...
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Movie Week saw Thunderbird puppet Ross King left bottom of the standings. But which box office flops would be doomed for the dance-off? And which Hollywood hoofers would be sent home?Wave goodbye to Thomas Skinner, who has already wheeled his suitcase towards the Strictly taxi of doom, the same journey he made on BBC stablemate The Apprentice....
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Witnesses call arrest of video editor Debbie Brockman, a US citizen, by masked federal agents 'absolutely horrifying'A video editor and producer for Chicago's WGN television station was arrested by masked federal agents on Friday morning, and later released, during an Ice raid on the city's North Side, as shown in videos shared widely on social...
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Al Murray and Matt Forde say action over portrayal as foul-mouthed drug addict is attack on freedom of expressionA decision to sue the makers of Spitting Image over a depiction of Paddington Bear as a foul-mouthed drug addict is an attack on comedy and freedom of expression, the comedians behind the reinvention have said.StudioCanal, the production...
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Foreign Press Association joins long list of global media agencies demanding press freedom in devastated territoryThe deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war International journalists in Israel have called for reporters to be granted immediate access to Gaza after the rapidly negotiated ceasefire came into effect, joining a long list of...
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My husband, Mark Saunders, who has died aged 68, was an independent film-maker, engaged in participatory media practices since the early 1980s. In 1982 he founded the media co-operative Despite TV and in 1990 Spectacle Productions, a TV production company specialising in documentary and community-led investigative journalism on topics such as the...
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The only thing that stops you counting the cliches in this French drama about a sinister au pair is the woefully dim lighting. It's so obvious that it barely feels worth laughing at its stupidityYou wear a tightly belted beige trenchcoat and you live in a cavernous show-home bedecked with mid-century pine and fashionably inadequate lighting. You...
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Cinema used to be an accessible and affordable mass pursuit. This debate about the 'purest' format to view certain films only risks putting off movie-goersOn what sort of screen should you watch One Battle After Another? Paul Thomas Anderson's new film about revolutionary radicals in a ravaged United States comes in a plethora of slightly...
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The film-maker told his own story in Almost Famous. Now he's looking back on his younger days with Bowie and Led Zeppelin and revealing the family tragedy he's finally facing up to• 'My Led Zeppelin road trip was counted as a class credit': read an extract from Cameron Crowe's memoirCameron Crowe has a vivid memory of the day he began filming his...
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Caroline Cole reveals why she called her first daughter Harriet. Plus letters from Bob Kentridge and Jean HolmesI have yet to try any of Jilly Cooper's bonkbusters (Obituary, 6 October) but loved her column in the Sunday Times and read all her 1970s "permissive novels”, so when our first daughter was born in 1977, I knew at once that I...
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The inspirations for my BBC show have packed up and gone to uni, leaving me to rattle around on my own. At least they will be back for ChristmasHelen Serafinowicz is the writer of Motherland and AmandalandMotherhood has given me two kids and a TV show (and a spin-off). When I first entered Motherland, it was quite clear this was a mad world, and...
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His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan's. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?Ben Meiselas is a very busy man. So busy, he has to break off halfway through our interview to conduct an interview of his own, for his next broadcast....
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Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said ex-PM's son's firm had won digital ID contractThe arrival of a generation of young producers "marinated in social media” led to a false claim about Euan Blair being broadcast on Have I Got News For You, the production chief behind the show has said.The first in a new series of the...
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This engaging if slight show sees the unlikely duo reopen witch trials from 400 years ago on the hunt for justice. It's Blackadder crossed with CSI – with a sprinkling of Philomena CunkWitches of Essex is one of those television shows that could have been created working backwards from its title. "It sounds like Witches of Eastwick!” you can...
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The Irish actor started out with Shane Meadows but her career is now stratospheric. As she takes on big tech in The Iris Affair, she talks about nerves, AI nightmares – and battling a malevolent supercomputerExplosions weren't a problem, nor were the guns, fire, multiple fights and a spell underwater – but dealing with cockroaches? The line was...
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Keira Knightley cuts a more glamorous figure than most Guardian staff in her new Netflix film The Woman in Cabin 10, while Tennant is a dead ringer for star reporter Nick Davies. But how convincing are they?In The Woman in Cabin 10, Netflix's new potboiler, Keira Knightley plays a fearless justice warrior, a lone voice of dogged truth in a...
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The broadcaster's opening week of coverage was not without its gaps and glitches but it aimed high with an impressive array of expertsThere was a new look and feel to the Women's Champions League this week as live matches on Disney+ arrived. With the streaming platform embarking on a five-year deal, the tournament is in intriguing territory with a...
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Documentary maker whose programmes for the BBC's Horizon series focused on those suffering injustice and discriminationThe television documentary maker Michael Barnes, who has died aged 86 of a heart attack, opened a window on the lives of those suffering injustice, discrimination and neglect.For Navajo: The Last Red Indians (1972), which Barnes...
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Trump administration has been accused of preparing to severely limit journalists' ability to cover the departmentWith days left before journalists covering the Pentagon must sign on to a new set of guidelines to retain physical access to the department, major US news companies – and organizations representing their interests – remain concerned...
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Demi Moore stars in a stunning satire about the tyranny of female beauty standards, while Keira Knightley is a journalist travelling on a luxury yacht when she witnesses someone get tossed overboardCoralie Fargeat's no-holds-barred satire about the tyranny of female beauty standards – and the perceived horrors of ageing – features an inspired...
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Now in its 34th season, Nick and his team transform a south Wales home for wheelchair user Dan. Plus: revisiting the circus of the OJ Simpson trial. Here's what to watch this evening8pm, BBC OneAfter first airing 26 years ago, Nick Knowles returned last week with the 34th series of his Bafta-winning home-transformation show – but there's still a...
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Broadcaster's acting MD says it's crucial in these 'troubling times' to be impartial. Plus: ABC's John Lyons takes on TrumpWant to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter hereAs a multicultural broadcaster, SBS is in the eye of the storm when it comes to international politics. Without a managing director...
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Rightwing pundit's request is latest in a series of appeals, both against the judgment and against sale of InfoWarsThe rightwing conspiracy fabulist Alex Jones has petitioned the US supreme court to block a massive defamation judgment imposed after he argued that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in which 20 children and six adults were killed...
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Liliane Landor says World Service journalism must not be 'linked or subordinated', as BBC explores new funding sourcesUsing Britain's defence budget to help fund the BBC World Service risks subordinating its journalism to the government's national security aims, its former controller has warned.The Guardian revealed last week that senior BBC...
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Patricia Arquette and Jason Clarke lead a perfectly timed drama about the unravelling of some rich Americans, and a giant of cinema finally gets the documentary he deserves. Plus: The Diplomat is back!A perfectly timed drama about the sense of impunity that comes with being rich, white and American. It's an adaptation of Mandy Matney's podcast,...
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Where Denmark is going, the UK must follow, says Daniel Kebede of the National Education UnionChildren in the UK should be offered the same protection from voracious social media companies that the Danish government has committed to providing (Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones 'stealing childhood', 7 October) so that...
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From pissing off Donatella Versace and 'burying her boobs in Baden-Baden', to a curious absence of kitchenware, here's what to expect from the pop star turned fashion designer's new showTwo years after David Beckham and Netflix let us into the family's sprawling Cotswolds home, offering us a glimpse into everything from his legendary football...
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My friend and mentor Felicity Oppé, who has died aged 69 of cancer, was a film and TV producer who later became a family therapist.One of her main marks in film and TV was made as development producer at Fiction Factory Films in Cardiff, where her productions garnered a number of accolades, including the BBC's Dennis Potter award for the short...
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Adolescence writer and producer Jack Thorne is behind the first TV adaptation of William Golding's beloved novelImages have been released from the first ever TV adaptation of the 1954 novel Lord of the Flies, the latest project from the writer/producer of the hit Netfix series Adolescence.Jack Thorne helped Adolescence's teenage star Owen Cooper...
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The film from disgraced director, Brett Ratner, will premiere in cinemas and follow the first lady in the 20 days before the 2025 inaugurationAmazon is set to release its Melania Trump documentary in cinemas in January 2026.The film follows the first lady in the 20 days before the 2025 inauguration and comes from director Brett Ratner. It marks the...
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Metropolitan police say Westwood, 68, has been charged with sexual offences against seven womenThe former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has been charged with sexual offences against seven women, including four counts of rape.The Metropolitan police said the 68-year-old had been charged with offences dating from 1983 to 2016. Officers said their...
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Disney or Netflix may snap up Champions League gamesMedia rights for 2027 and 2033 could see 10% increaseEurope's top clubs are aiming to secure at least €5bn (£4.3bn) annually from the sale of television rights to Champions League, Europa League and Conference League games in the next cycle, potentially sealing a 10% increase on their existing...
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Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protestsUniversities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students' chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails.One university said it would conduct "active monitoring of...
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Yet again, Adjani Salmon's masterly comedy is packed with hilarious moments that nail the hell of working in TV and the reality of Black British life. Its finale is superb – and leaves you begging for moreBack in 2018, when the first, web series of Adjani Salmon's sitcom was released, its very existence was a boon to a British film/TV industry...
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This documentary was a golden opportunity to show VB at her drily entertaining best. Instead, we get three hours of platitudes. What a maddening waste of her personalityAn intimate portrait of Victoria Beckham is what we were promised by the lavish publicity surrounding the release of the three-part documentary – entitled Victoria Beckham –...
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It's everything you want from the gameshow, but with loads of famous faces. And at one point, it feels like you're witnessing the last pure moment in history. BeautifulThis review, being a review and all, contains information on a programme that has already been on television – specifically, the first episode of The Celebrity Traitors. If you...
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Four former executives say Musk falsely accused them of misconduct and fired them after he acquired the companyElon Musk and X have settled with four former top executives at Twitter, including the former CEO, who accused the billionaire of failing to pay $128m in promised severance pay after he acquired the social media company in 2022 and fired...
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Journalist who wrote column A Life Inside while jailed for murder fell into the sea in January 2024A journalist and author who wrote much-admired columns from prison drowned in a Devon marina after spending an evening in a harbourside pub, an inquest has concluded.Erwin James Monahan, who used the pen name Erwin James and wrote a regular column for...
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What goes on behind the scenes of TV's most beloved reality show? Ahead of The Celebrity Traitors, we head to Ardross Castle for the inside scoop on what it's really like to sit at the round tableAll I can hear, above my thunderous heartbeat, is the stomp … stomp … stomp of Claudia Winkleman's boots as she approaches the round table to...
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He made millions on Wall Street, moved to the Costa Rican jungle with his wife … and ended up being shot in bed. A new podcast tells the wild tale of the US couple whose dream became a nightmareThe death of John Bender mystified the world. A handsome American millionaire, Bender moved to Costa Rica with his wife, Ann, two years after they...
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Fans pay tribute to the author's escapist tales, her real-life largesse and her unexpected passionsDame Jilly Cooper obituary'She was the absolute queen': writers pay tribute to the beloved authorI was the manager of Books Etc in Oxford Street, where Jilly Cooper's novel Polo was launched in 1991, with polo-dressed senior publishers posing in the...
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The Sexy Beast star has said he was under the influence when he auditioned – unsuccessfully – for Attack of the Clones. George Lucas really missed a trickThe Star Wars prequels were not particularly enjoyable to sit through. All the matinee adventure serial action of the first three films were gone, replaced by long scenes about impenetrable...
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Michael Miller also says media must unite against second 'big steal' by tech companies seeking changes to copyright law to access content for freeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSocial media is to blame for social cohesion issues across the globe, News Corp Australia's...
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Public broadcaster failed to follow its own processes, boss says, and it was 'not a good reflection on the organisation'Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Antoinette Lattouf unlawful dismissal case had "many failings” and has cost the ABC more than $2.5m in external costs alone, ABC managing director Hugh Marks has...
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Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshowA group of conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop a rightwing version of late-night talkshows like the Tonight Show and the Late Show, leaked documents reveal, in a further indication of the right's ongoing...
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It's been 25 years since millennials fell in love with small-town coffee addicts Lorelai and Rory – and now, it's become a classic comfort-watch for generation after generationTwenty-five years ago this month, two highly caffeinated girls made their first appearance on television. Well, girl-women – one a bookish 16-year-old, the other her...
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Ryan Murphy's questionable universe of serial killer tales reaches its lowest point with a morally dubious look at a grave-robbing murdererThough the first season of the anthology series Monster, produced for Netflix by Ryan Murphy, had its lurid aspects – a hunky, lustily filmed Jeffery Dahmer (Evan Peters) doing wicked things in the night –...
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Money will aid with licensing fees and ensure artist's 'legacy continues to support' medium that made him popularThirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding.Ross, a public...
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After stadium tour success, the delusional broadcaster is back where he belongs: self-funding a series about the nation's mental health. As comedy goes, it couldn't be more pleasurableLike anyone who has grown up in the shadow of Alan Partridge's three-decade dominion over British comedy, I want only the very best for Norwich's most relentless...
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White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show LiveNot long ago, it would have been hard to believe a group of executives from a relatively small overseas broadcaster would be granted a meeting at the White House, let alone an audience with the president of the United States.Yet when a delegation from GB News – led by...
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Doyenne of children's publishing who promoted Beatrix Potter and nurtured Maurice Sendak's talentThe writer and publisher Judy Taylor, who has died aged 93, had a long and distinguished career in the field of children's books. Her second career as an expert on Beatrix Potter developed only after her retirement from publishing: in her 30 years at...
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Six network employees expressed a mix of emotions over the appointment in conversations with the GuardianWho is Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News?CBS News staffers are coming to terms with the news that controversial commentator Bari Weiss is their new editor in chief, as the storied network's owner Paramount Skydance acquires her...
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Fayaz Khan, 26, is on trial at Southwark crown court accused of threatening to shoot Reform UK leaderNigel Farage felt "genuinely worried” after a man allegedly posted a TikTok video threatening to come to Britain and shoot him, a court has heard.The Reform UK leader was giving evidence at the trial of Fayaz Khan, 26, who has been charged with...
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Channel 4's age-gap reality travel show pairs two strangers – one young, one older – and it's so gorgeously wholesome that you wish everyone could win. If only it didn't end in such a cruel way …With niceness in short global supply, a little bit on TV can go a long way. Reality competitions thrive on it: a large part of the joy of The Great...
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Wood and Nabhaan Rizwan are impeccably cast in this cute and deeply intelligent comedy about two film buff friends with unspoken feelings. It's quietly confident TV that brims with insightAimee Lou Wood made her screen debut, as the endearingly unfiltered Aimee in Sex Education, in 2019. It's been a deservedly busy six years since then for the...
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StudioCanal and author's estate taking action over video depicting Paddington with South American accent snorting powderFor the millions who adore Paddington Bear, Michael Bond's marmalade-loving character is the epitome of English politeness and understatement – so a new depiction as a drug-taking, potty-mouthed podcast host was always going to...
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Legislation was written by lawmaker whose aide had complained about ad breaks startling his newborn daughterCalifornia ordered its powerful entertainment industry to turn down the volume on Monday, with a new law that requires streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and YouTube to ensure that audio levels do not suddenly skyrocket...
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Six network employees expressed a mix of emotions over the appointment in conversations with the GuardianWho is Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News?CBS News staffers are coming to terms with the news that controversial commentator Bari Weiss is their new editor-in-chief, as the storied network's owner Paramount Skydance acquires her...
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The author of 18 'bonkbuster' novels including Riders, Rivals and Bella has died following a fallShare your memories of Jilly CooperDame Jilly Cooper obituary'Jilly Cooper was the absolute queen': writers pay tribute to the beloved authorJilly Cooper, who captured millions of readers with her raunchy tales set amid horse-loving high society, has...
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The White Lotus actor is a young woman whose world is shaken when her 'movie' friend tells her he's moving away. Plus: the US librarians fighting rightwing attempts to ban books. Here's what to watch this evening10pm, BBC ThreeFriday night is film club night for Evie (Aimee Lou Wood) and her mate Noa (Nabhaan Rizwan). It's now their 198th meeting...
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Economist and YouGov poll finds president had a 16-point deficit in terms of popularity compared with late-night hostJimmy Kimmel emerged as more popular than Donald Trump after a spat with the president's administration temporarily left the talkshow host off the air in September, according to a recent poll.The survey, published by the Economist...
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Commentator to lead storied US news network, five years after acrimonious exit from New York TimesWho is Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News?The CBS News owner Paramount will acquire the Free Press, a media startup founded by Bari Weiss, and has appointed her editor-in-chief of the storied US news network.Weiss, 41, has no experience...
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The lockdown star pulls a Jamie Oliver and gets political, creating a 'killer' snack bar that's as harmful as possible ... to show up how hellish some of those on the market are. It's frightening viewing that refuses to hold backWell, that's me never eating a protein bar again. Bars, shakes, powders and snack balls that promise a short-cut to a...
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Film and art critic and cultural historian who wrote an authorised biography of Alfred HitchcockJohn Russell Taylor, who has died aged 90, was a critic, biographer and cultural historian whose work helped to shape the understanding of theatre and cinema in postwar Britain.As a theatre, film and art critic for the Times for more than four decades...
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After a backlash from fans and media outlets branding Bond 'woke' the offending artwork has been removed from sites and replaced with stills – that are also 'gunless'Amazon has dropped a set of "gunless” James Bond posters from its Prime Video streaming platform after protests that it was sanitising the brand that its studio arm, Amazon MGM...
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Ex-NYT writer who launched 'anti-woke commentary' website will report directly to Paramount Skydance head David EllisonParamount Skydance has appointed Bari Weiss, a former New York Times opinion writer who launched an "anti-woke” commentary website, as editor-in-chief of CBS News.Five years after an acrimonious exit from the New York Times,...
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My friend Steve Smith, who has died aged 68 of prostate cancer, was a successful advertising copywriter. Imaginative and funny, in the late 1980s and early 90s he created many of the scripts for the classic Time for a Sharp Exit campaign for Harp lager, which was his concept. His stories all had blokes in awkward situations, such as in the "Randy...
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Composed almost entirely of footage filmed by police, The Perfect Neighbor is a harrowing documentary about a black woman shot by her white neighbour in Florida. The director reveals how she made it'To this day,” says Geeta Gandbhir, "I'm devastated.” The film-maker is talking about the killing of Ajike "AJ” Owens, a black woman shot dead by...
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US media giants have bowed before Maga after Trump's many lawsuits and the Jimmy Kimmel firestormParamount Skydance, the newly merged conglomerate which owns CBS News, has hired the journalist Bari Weiss as the network's editor-in-chief – and acquired the Free Press, the publication Weiss co-founded in 2021 as a challenger to the establishment...
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Hat Trick pays out interim dividend of £1m, £900,000 of which goes to founder Jimmy Mulville and wifeThe production company behind Have I Got News For You has bounced back into the black after launching the hit panel show in the US for the first time.Hat Trick, which also makes Mastermind, Derry Girls and Whose Line is it Anyway?, reported...
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The US president's recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferencesTo many observers, both in the US and abroad, Donald Trump has been behaving strangely recently. Especially online.As a government shutdown loomed in the US last week, the president posted an AI video which...
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Average audience of 4.46 million tuned in to watch Broncos v StormBrisbane's win draws biggest viewer numbers for any 2025 programAn entertaining, nail-biting NRL grand final featuring ratings drawcards Melbourne and Brisbane has drawn the highest average television audience for any program in 2025, eclipsing the AFL decider for the first time in a...
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The way we see the world can change in a few hundredths of a second. That's the time it takes to capture a photograph. Reuters has published more than 14 million photographs over the past four decades, a new book, In the Moment, looks back over 40 years of photojournalism Continue reading...
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Over 25 episodes the screen legend is an absolute delight as the narrator of Pride & Prejudice. Plus, Kevin McCloud take us behind the scenes of his long-running property showWho better to retell Jane Austen's most beloved story than her royal highness Julie Andrews? It may lack Colin Firth in a wet shirt, but the Hollywood great is a wonderful...
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The lovable health coach makes a curious move in his first TV series. Plus: Prof Jim Al-Khalili on how to become more intelligent. Here's what to watch this evening8pm, Channel 4Love him or loathe him (how could you?!), Joe Wicks has got his first TV series – and, in an unexpected twist, he's creating a "killer” snack bar for it. Wicks grew up...
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Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan's podcast I've Had It has risen up the charts and created a community with 'a brand of fuck-you politics'When Donald Trump scheduled a press conference after a weekend in which rumors about his health swirled, two women in red-state Oklahoma launched a livestream for their more than 1 million followers on YouTube...
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As a genocide continues, the road to audiences has been smoother for Israeli films while Palestinians must get inventivePalestinian film-makers on their favorite Palestinian movies: 'I felt like I was watching my own story'This March, two documentaries on the aftermath of the 7 October 2023 attacks reached theaters within days of each other. One,...
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The genial Welshman marks the 100th anniversary of country music by dressing like a cowboy, and driving 2,000 miles across the US. He's a great fit for this breezy show, which is definitely not The TripWhile the Euro-hopping reality competition Destination X might not have been the Traitors-rivalling summer smash the BBC were hoping for, it did...
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