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Ellis and her trusty sidekick uncover small-town grudges as they investigate a murder. Plus, catch the Bafta award-winning film I Swear. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 5"It's all about hiding the evidence in plain sight – it's a Godfather move.” Sharon D Clarke is back as formidable DCI Ellis, who is parachuted in to rural...
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Ban could still be introduced in future after Commons back government bid to give extra powers to secretary of stateA proposed ban on social media for under-16s has been rejected by MPs.Parliamentarians voted 307 to 173, majority 134, against the proposed change to the children's wellbeing and schools bill, which was brought forward by Conservative...
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The master of the everyman gifts us some hard-won parenting insights in this blissfully awkward show about a father and daughter relationship Humankind, as TS Eliot's bird said in Burnt Norton, cannot bear too much reality. That feels especially salient now, when we have more reality arriving in a day than we used to have to process in a year.At...
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Justice correspondent most known for his January 6 Capitol riot coverage, is latest to quit Bari Weiss-led networkSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxScott MacFarlane, the CBS News justice correspondent most known for his extensive coverage of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, surprised colleagues on...
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Katie Nicholl's name appears on many of the stories that Frost, Prince Harry and others have complained aboutA senior former Mail on Sunday journalist has denied commissioning a "blag” of sensitive medical information about Sadie Frost that the actor had not even told her own mother.At the high court, Katie Nicholl, a former diary editor and...
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After 25 years of drama, the Kyle and Jackie O Show is now off the air. Kyle Sandilands is suspended due to 'serious misconduct' and both shock jocks, Sandilands and Jackie 'O' Henderson, are said to be considering their legal options. Reged Ahmad talks to Amanda Meade about the on-air bust-up that could be the Kyle and Jackie O Show's final...
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With its meditative pace and sincere interest in moral questions, Clint Bentley's film of a rudderless man cutting down trees in Idaho's verdant vistas has the air of a Hollywood classic from another eraTrain Dreams is arguably the lowest-profile of all the Oscar best film nominees, and could have easily passed me by, destined instead to be lost in...
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Arquette says 1994 film is 'great on many levels' but she 'cannot stand that [the director] has been given a hall pass'Pulp Fiction and Desperately Seeking Susan star Rosanna Arquette has said she found Quentin Tarantino's use of the N-word in Pulp Fiction to be "racist and creepy”.In an interview with the Sunday Times, Arquette said of the film,...
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Pete Docter says Pixar will concentrate on more commercially appealing films after staff dissent over deleted scenes that implied lead character was gayPixar chief creative officer Pete Docter said that the reason why LGBTQ+ plot elements were removed from the company's 2025 film Elio was that Pixar is "not [making] therapy”.Docter was speaking...
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As a new report reveals career 'apartheid' in newsrooms, I and many others wonder if the fine promises will ever bring genuine changeThere's a generally accepted ethical requirement for news organisations to reflect society, both in terms of the content they produce and the people who produce it. Unfortunately, this is just not happening. Look, for...
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Maisie Adam and Scott Bryan talk comically and sensitively to people who found sudden tabloid and early internet fame in the 00s. Plus, Norse myths and history with Iain Glen from Game of ThronesIt's all too easy to sneer at pop culture's also-rans. This series from comic Maisie Adam and journalist Scott Bryan does the opposite, embracing people...
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He plays a novelist dad who helps his professor daughter navigate a nasty divorce. Plus: sweet adoption comedy Trying returns. Here's what to watch this evening10pm, Sky OneSteve Carell stars in this college campus comedy about a novelist father and his heartbroken professor daughter. Greg (Carell) visits the college when Katie (Charly Clive) is...
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Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein's chief enabler. Maxwell's conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she saysOn 9 September 2022, Lucia Osborne-Crowley flew from London to Miami and caught a Greyhound bus north to West Palm Beach. The writer and journalist had arranged to...
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David Morrissey stars in this tense, shrewd crime drama, as a strange headteacher whose wife has gone missing. It's a hugely taut show which will totally subvert your preconceptionsWhat is Gone? Easier, perhaps, to list the things that Gone is not, if only to give ourselves something to cling to when the more familiar trappings begin to wobble,...
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Holliday Grainger's superlative drama, and its focus on shady digital practices, has never looked more timely. Its latest series is a seriously impressive featLast month, the Guardian reported on an arrest made by police in Southampton. Automated facial recognition software had identified the likely perpetrator of a burglary 100 miles away in...
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Exclusive: Goldsmith and brother Ben the major investors in trkradio, which is due to go to air next monthThe former Conservative minister Zac Goldsmith is launching a new sports radio station, trkradio, in the run-up to the men's football World Cup this summer.The Track Radio Corporation is understood to have been granted a licence by Ofcom last...
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Conservative outlet aired footage of president saluting at similar ceremony in December for at least three broadcastsSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxFox News used old video of Donald Trump in multiple reports on Saturday and Sunday, concealing from viewers that the commander-in-chief wore a golf hat...
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Lake, whom Trump appointed without Senate confirmation to run Voice of America parent agency, cut over 1,000 jobsA federal judge ruled Saturday that Kari Lake unlawfully led the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for several months last year and voided mass layoffs and other actions taken during that period to dismantle the agency.The US Agency for...
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As the Oscar-winning Coen brothers classic reaches its three decade anniversary, stars of the film discuss the stories behind its productionWilliam H Macy was originally slated for the modest role of a detective in Fargo. Then the film's directors, Joel and Ethan Coen, asked if he would like to read for the lead part of Jerry Lundegaard. "I said:...
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From Gates to Musk and Altman, today's ultra-rich steer AI and tech, raising questions about who decides the futureWhen Bill Gates became the first modern IT mogul to reach the apex of wealth and power in 1992, the world was a very different place. Gates joined the top 10 on Forbes magazine's billionaires list alongside Japanese, German, Canadian,...
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My friend Ardan Fisher, who has died aged 79, was a film editor for the BBC during its creative heyday. While working in the music and arts department he edited documentaries such as The Orson Welles Story (1982) and Artists and Models (1986), working alongside BBC stalwarts including Alan Yentob and Leslie Megahey. He then moved into television...
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Her YA classic was inspired by racism in 1990s Britain. A quarter of a century later, she talks about success, death threats and getting shoutouts from Tinie Tempah and Stormzy'I'm useless at this bit,” Malorie Blackman laughs, shifting awkwardly in a plum-coloured jacket and smart black trousers. It is a gloomy February evening in the back room...
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He's television's most daring documentary-maker, known for asking questions others wouldn't. But Theroux doesn't seem to like it when the tables are turnedOn the pavement outside the Netflix office, I stand in the rain, confused. Was that interview a little off? Louis Theroux seemed not to like my questions, which were typical interview questions,...
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Publishing has failed to deliver on its promises after Black Lives Matter. True diversity requires a lasting shiftA World Book Day question: which children's author is name-checked in Stormzy's song Superheroes (and appears in the video for Mel Made Me Do It) and Tinie Tempah's Written in the Stars? The answer, as a generation of readers will know,...
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Presenter who entertained children with his sharp-witted, furry puppet Agro Vation, remembered for his brash and unapologetic humourGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJamie Dunn, a veteran radio personality who unleashed the puppet Agro on Australia, entertaining children and adults alike for decades, has died aged 76.Dunn,...
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This sophisticated, character-driven sitcom from the creators of Scrubs and Ted Lasso is very funny. And it's proof that all that drama hasn't blunted Carrell's comic edgeHere's a funny thing. When comically gifted actors go "straight”, taking on dramatic roles with zero laughs, the world falls over its feet to give them flowers. You might not...
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Announcing the InterPositive deal, the actor says he was moved from being scared of the technology to embracing itBen Affleck has sold his artificial intelligence company to Netflix in a surprise deal, saying he had been driven to embrace a technology that had initially "really scared” him.Netflix has acquired the postproduction startup...
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From dipping biscuits in mugs filled with baked beans to singing about eating custard, Look Mum No Computer's Eins, Zwei, Drei is trying to win through novelty value. Will it backfire?What is to be done about Britain's lowly standing in the Eurovision song contest? It's a question to which the obvious answer is: who cares? We're led to believe...
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The actor says he had only 'a nanosecond' to process the racial slur shouted during the Baftas as the BBC described the errors that led to its broadcastSinners star Delroy Lindo has spoken in more detail about the N-word controversy at the Baftas, which saw the BBC and Bafta apologise after a racial slur shouted by Tourette syndrome (TS) activist...
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The Scandal star made history as the first Black woman to lead a TV show in 40 years. Now, she's back in the hot seat with starry thriller Imperfect Women, and she's determined to keep shaking up the industryAs double entendres go, to say Kerry Washington acts with teeth isn't a bad one. There's the literal meaning: Washington's dramatic facial...
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Axel Springer, owner of Bild and Die Welt, agrees all-cash deal for one of UK's oldest newspapersThe European media group Axel Springer is to acquire the Telegraph after tabling a £575m deal that has scuppered a rival deal from the owner of the Daily Mail.Axel Springer, which owns Europe's biggest newspaper, Bild, and the daily Die Welt, has...
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Investigation finds three were hacked by Paragon spyware at same time, potentially fuelling questions for governmentItalian prosecutors investigating a domestic spying scandal say they have independently confirmed that two immigration activists and a journalist were hacked at the same time in late 2024, suggesting all three were part of the same...
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Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin are all trading blows over US involvement – while Sean Hannity says he's staying out of itSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe stars of the conservative media movement have been duking it out – in extremely personal terms – over Donald Trump's...
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The Swedish flight tracking tool, spun out of a price comparison portal, is tracking the travel chaos sparked by the US-Israel war on Iran in real timeMikael Robertsson and Olov Lindberg did not set out to build one of the pre-eminent monitors of global airspace. In a bid to draw more eyes to their Swedish flight price comparison portal, the...
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As the public consultation on the BBC nears its end, the right will be out in force to undermine it. But its supporters can do their bit – with this guidanceThe BBC may have more than one and a half years before its charter expires in December 2027, but the public consultation on its renewal closes next week. All those who care about the BBC's...
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Yes, there are plenty of big-budget visual effects of prehistoric creatures in Steven Spielberg's natural history show. But the voiceover is the real drawIt's difficult these days to make a nature documentary that isn't like all the others. Spectacular landscapes, crisp closeup photography, tales of predation and survival, birth and death: whether...
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Slow-burn office crushes that left you weeping, sitcoms that made you fall in love and vampire shows that changed you for ever: Guardian readers pick their ultimate television romancesA mark of a true romance is that the couple are closer than anyone else in the world. As Emily Brontë said, "whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the...
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This adaptation of the 2022 novel – starring Weisz, Leo Woodall and John Slattery – fits it perfectly to television. It's a proper show for proper grownupsVladimir is that rare visitor to the screen – proper television for proper grownups. The eight-part adaptation of Julia May Jonas's provocative 2022 debut novel of the same name has not...
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Louis delves into the controversial world of hypermasculine influencers at last, while Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis light up a fun thriller about a crime-solving forensic pathologistIt was inevitable that Louis Theroux would collide with the manosphere: his diffidence is a perfect counterpoint to the empty bravado that defines the assorted...
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The opening ceremony kicks off with hosts including GB's most decorated Paralympian, Sarah Storey. Plus: Steve Backshall's on Hippo Watch. Here's what to watch this evening6.30pm, Channel 4The high drama of snowy sports isn't over just yet! It's now the turn of the Winter Paralympics, with its opening ceremony at the Arena di Verona. Look out for...
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The brilliant film about Tourette syndrome that got lost in the recent Baftas fallout, and Dakota Johnson gets caught up in a love triangle between Chris Evans and Pedro PascalOne thing that has been lost in the furore surrounding John Davidson's outbursts at the Baftas is the film itself. As a plea for tolerance and understanding, Kirk Jones's...
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Meta CEO, grilled about children's safety, says in taped deposition a user pool of billions will include bad actorsHarms to children, such as sexual exploitation and detriments to mental health, are inevitable on Meta's platforms, the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram leader Adam Mosseri said in taped depositions played at a trial in New...
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The 10th season of Netflix's reality TV show has given us old-fashioned gender roles, bad behavior and a dark look at what dating looks like in 2026In this rotted year that is 2026, there is no shortage of things to depress us: domestic terrorism by federal agents, war, the predominance of AI and sports-betting ads at the Super Bowl. The Epstein...
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All World Cup matches to break after 22 minutes of each halfAdverts can be either normal breaks or split-screen version ITV is in talks with its commercial partners about showing adverts during the mid-half drinks stoppages that will take place in every match at this summer's World Cup.Global broadcasters have been briefed on Fifa's stipulations...
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It's not simply that kids' culture has improved since I was young. Across stage, screen and cinema, grownup offerings pale in comparison to those aimed at my sonWorld Book Day dawns once more, with its morning chorus of swearing and sticky tape. This year, it falls shortly before we're throwing a Harry Potter birthday party, so the living room has...
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The 114-page document backs licence fee but suggests its funding model is being tested to breaking pointIt's that time again. The BBC has published its opening salvo in the talks over its royal charter. The tortuous negotiations with the government, which take place every 10 years, are often accompanied by tough talk about radical change.This time...
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NBC confirmed the host will return but 'remains focused' on the search for her missing mother, Nancy GuthrieSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxSavannah Guthrie, the Today show host whose elderly mother has been missing from her Arizona home for more than a month, visited NBC's studios in New York on...
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In opening response to charter review, corporation points to 'mismatch' between TV licence rules and viewing habitsFrom subscription models to 'Britflix': key takeaways from BBC response to charter reviewThe BBC has said it is facing "permanent and irreversible” trends that mean it cannot survive without a major overhaul, as it revealed a stark...
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Alireza Mohebbi was stripped of tournament credentials on Monday Reporter accused of carrying prohibited flags into stadiumThe Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has reinstated the accreditation of a veteran Iranian-Australian journalist three days after it had been removed while he was covering Iran's national team at the Women's Asian Cup.Alireza...
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This documentary about British war correspondent John Cantlie – who was kidnapped by IS and is believed to have died in an airstrike – is full of remarkable yarnsWe need reporters on the ground to help us see through the fog of war, but that is always a messy task. In asymmetric early 21st-century conflicts in north Africa and the Middle East,...
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The morning show host's contract extension is a victory for the Bari Weiss-led network news divisionSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxCBS News has signed a new deal with Gayle King after intense speculation about the future of the CBS Mornings co-host's role at the network.King has been the centerpiece of...
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From hefty literary magazines to thriving newspaper kiosks and book sales, the French publishing industry refuses to let printed matter dieIt took me nine months of 20-hours-a-week French language instruction, and the mycelial network of a year spent in Strasbourg, to feel courageous enough to walk into a bookshop to buy something more challenging...
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In book Dream Facades, Jack Balderrama Morley examines houses from shows including Keeping Up with the Kardashians to see what we can learnHouses have always been at the center of reality TV. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous set the domestic stage in the 1980s with its quasi-documentary look into the real lives of the ultra-wealthy. It walked so...
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Social media feeds have been flooded with fake battle scenes since start of Iran conflictElon Musk's X will ban users from making money on the platform if they repeatedly post unlabelled AI-generated war videos, after social media feeds were flooded with fake battle scenes from the Iran conflict.The social media platform, which has about half a...
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Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan GavalasSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxLast August, Jonathan Gavalas became entirely consumed with his Google Gemini chatbot. The 36-year-old Florida resident had started casually using the...
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An heiress helping to traffic young women to brutal billionaires: the finale of the banker drama used one of its characters to take on a huge real-life scandalJust who is Yasmin Kara-Hanani? It's a question that has dogged Industry's trauma-logged heiress since the series began in 2020. "Who have I married?” wonders Henry Muck, Yasmin's hapless...
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Exclusive: Survey suggests journalists from minority ethnic backgrounds feel excluded from influential posts and seen as 'diversity hires'Broadcast journalists from ethnic minorities are still locked out of top jobs and face a backlash after being perceived as "diversity hires”, according to a survey of UK television newsrooms.While there has...
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Radio and TV comedy writer who co-created the award-winning BBC space sitcom Red DwarfThe writer Rob Grant, who has died suddenly aged 70, created the TV space sitcom Red Dwarf with his old school friend Doug Naylor. The BBC series, starting in 1988, won a cult following with its story of a slobbish, low-ranking technician, Dave Lister, marooned on...
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From Marty Supreme to One Battle After Another, this awards run has been populated by a harder-to-love group of spiky charactersBroadly speaking, the best way to get an acting Oscar is to play someone lovable, or someone lovably hateable. Not every acting winner fits that binary, of course, but the history of all four categories is filled with...
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Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI's Sam Altman and Meta's Mark ZuckerbergNews Corp's global chief executive has described news organisations as a valuable "input” for artificial intelligence, as the media empire signs an AI content licensing deal with Meta worth up to US$50m (A$71m) a year.In an upbeat...
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West Australian was best known for calling AFL gamesHis broadcast career spanned 51 years across radio and TVDennis Cometti, one of the greats of Australian sports commentary, has died at the age of 76.The West Australian became known for his incisive calling, silky voice and sharp wit in front of a microphone over the course of a career spanning...
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The first of a three-parter that investigates the missing British photojournalist. Plus, acerbic sitcom We Might Regret This. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Two What really happened to John Cantlie? This three-part documentary builds on the acclaimed Last Man Standing podcast to investigate the British photojournalist who "went into the...
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As a historian, I've studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon ValleyOpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it "screwed up” an element of the product. All it takes to...
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