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It takes some chutzpah to make television like this. Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn is the only US citizen immune from an alien virus that makes everyone in the world supremely happy – and it's a bleak, blackly comic watchEven with the name of Vince Gilligan attached as creator, Pluribus – neatly styled Plur1bus on screen, to evoke further...
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Ryan Murphy's glossy, star-packed new show has received some of the most shocking reviews we've seen for a long time, including many zero-star takesGiving a review zero stars sets a dreadful precedent. But here are the one-star shockers I'd downgrade – Peter BradshawIf you get a secret thrill from reading bad reviews, this week has basically been...
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'On your Marx, get set, Zo!' edition of Murdoch-owned tabloid is a hot property – with one copy selling for $355The New York Post's "On your Marx, get set, Zo!” front page published just hours after democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's win in the New York mayor's race is proving a viral hit, with one vendor on eBay selling a print copy for...
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Ahead of the hit show's final chapter, Netflix has unexpectedly dropped a clip of the opening episode – and a surprise flashback will send chills up spinesThe fifth and final series of Netflix's supernatural smash hit Stranger Things is set to be one of the biggest shows of the year. The first part airs on 27 November, but a clip of the chilling...
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After 16 years, Cave's scandalous book The Death of Bunny Munro about a sex addict on the run with his son finally lands on our screens. He and star Smith talk Kylie regrets, bad dads … and how to do a strip club scene with a nine-year-oldNick Cave claims that at least four different production companies have tried to turn his frequently...
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The heartstopping finale was so brazen it almost felt like performance art – but it certainly showed the charm and chutzpah of a true championLooking back, there was only ever really going to be one winner of The Celebrity Traitors. True, Jonathan Ross might have had all the showbiz pizazz, and Joe Marler the aggression of an unfed labrador –...
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Mark Ruffalo and Robert Pattinson star in Bong Joon-ho's follow-up to the Oscar-laden Parasite, while Belén is the moving true story of a woman's fight against a legal injustice that looks set to sweep this year's Academy Awards Continue reading...
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Claire Danes is nervily brilliant in a disturbing psychological thriller, and Caroline Flack's mother Christine fights to clear her daughter's name• 'I'd barely kissed a boy, but was making out with Adonis': Claire Danes on sex, spy camp and teen stardomThis psychological thriller stars Claire Danes as Aggie Wiggs, a prickly author traumatised by...
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Deal would exclude ITV Studios but would mark major shake-up of UK televisionThe parent company of Sky is in talks to buy ITV's broadcasting business for about £2bn, in a move that would upend the British television landscape.The US media company Comcast, which owns assets including Universal Studios and bought Rupert Murdoch's Sky for £30bn in...
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Blame is hurled when a young boy goes missing from a wealthy family. Plus: David Olusoga's epic new series about the British empire. Here's what to watch this eveningFriday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic "If someone did take Milo … why would they pretend to be you?” Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning star as wealthy American school moms in this moreish...
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The first series came to a sensational, phenomenal and genuinely mind-boggling conclusion … by ruining the greatest love story of our ageDid he play a blinder? Or did the faithfuls just play really – I mean sensationally, phenomenally, mindbogglingly badly? We will argue over this on social media feeds galore, but either way the winner of the...
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Grace Livingstone and Martin Hamilton reflect on the work and interests of the late writer and historianI was sad to read about the death of Richard Gott (Obituary, 2 November), whose reports from Chile and Argentina in the 1970s revealed the atrocities committed by the dictatorships at the time.While I was researching a book on British links to...
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Newsreader's raised eyebrows as she switched to 'women' suggested a viewpoint on trans identity, corporation saysThe BBC has upheld a complaint against the newsreader Martine Croxall after she changed the term "pregnant people” to "women” and raised her eyebrows during a news channel broadcast in the summer.The corporation said its executive...
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The final episode of the BBC's star-based reality hit is uploaded by a Canadian TV network in its entirety before airing in the UKThe finale of BBC smash hit reality TV series The Celebrity Traitors has been released online over 24 hours ahead of its UK air time. Viewers in Canada reported being able to view the episode in its entirety, before it...
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The first ever star-based version of the BBC smash hit has come to a thrilling conclusion. Did the faithful get their act together? Or did a traitor fool everyone?David's testimony follows the same boilerplate formula as all the others. He's had a lovely time and made a lot of friends. I do not care for this. I want to see someone driven to the...
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More so than ever before, the contestants seem unable to actually look at one another's behaviour, and I think I know whyPaul Gorton was a contestant on BBC reality show The Traitors in January 2024'Faithfuls, you are breaking my heart,” an exasperated Claudia Winkleman told the players at the sixth round table of this year's BBC Celebrity...
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The Succession actor is utterly brilliant in every moment of this punchy historical miniseries. His portrayal of the crank who killed the US president in 1881 takes his mastery to the next level'My name,” says Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen), the anti-hero of punchy four-part historical miniseries Death by Lightning, "will be known one day...
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Dodgers' win draws 51m viewers worldwideMost-watched game since 1991 World SeriesGame 7 peaks with 27m across Fox platformsThe Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in 11 innings in Game 7 of the World Series averaged 51m viewers combined across the United States, Canada and Japan. Major League Baseball said it is the...
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Creative industries are 'crucial to the economy' but film-making and tax have long had an uneasy relationship in BritainOnly the most geeky of movie buffs will have heard of him but Alan Latham is one of the UK's most prolific film producers.Credited on 81 releases dating back to 1996, according to the online film bible IMDb.com, Latham has been...
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Star will be played by the real-life singer's nephew Jaafar Jackson in a film that will 'humanise but not sanitise' himThe first trailer for the Michael Jackson biopic has landed online after reports of a troubled production.Filming on Michael had been completed in May 2024 and the film had originally been scheduled for release in April 2025, a...
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Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers apologises for invading privacy of man wrongly arrested for high-profile murderRupert Murdoch's news publisher in the UK agreed to pay "substantial damages” to a man wrongly arrested for a high-profile murder, after apologising for the invasion of his privacy.Christopher Jefferies, a retired schoolteacher...
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Anthony Hemingway, who is both director and executive producer on the legal drama, has defended the show which has been the subject of a critical pile-onThe Guardian has only ever published 15 zero-star reviews. Here they all areOne of the directors of the critically maligned legal drama All's Fair has responded to negative reviews, saying that...
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It's been one hell of a series, but will the faithfuls really win? Plus: Celebrity Race Across the World is back. Here's what to watch this evening 9pm, BBC OneWho knew a fart would make the first celebrity version of the game such a hit? Not content with breaking wind, Celia Imrie also wailed her way into Traitors history. Then there's Alan Carr,...
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Alan the assassin, Clare as Boris Johnson and of course, Celia's fart … the dynamite scenes have come thick and fast in the inaugural series. Here are the very best bitsRemember when fans feared that an all-star edition would risk ruining the hit reality game's magic? A triumphant inaugural VIP series of The Celebrity Traitors has blown such...
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Days before we ran interviews with gang leaders describing their alleged ties to Nayib Bukele's government, we left the country to avoid arrest. We fear our exile will never end• This story, republished with permission, was originally run by El Faro EnglishWe figured we would spend only a few days out of the country. We figured that within a week...
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As Kim Kardashian's All's Fair sets a new low for TV, we revisit every single thing our critics have mercilessly panned. Brace yourself for the Mount Rushmore of rubbish!Lucy Mangan's Guardian review of Kim Kardashian's new Disney+ legal drama All's Fair was something of a rarity. Not necessarily because she didn't care for it – the scorn has...
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Its subscriber-only election special, aiming to make politics fun and fresh, instead felt offbeat and out of touchCNN wanted to try something new on election night, and you can't blame them.Cable news networks – well, besides Fox News – are struggling to retain viewers, even on a night where voters were getting their first real say on Donald...
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The late-night host invites food and essential donations at his Hollywood center to support Los Angeles charitiesThe late-night TV show Jimmy Kimmel Live! is stepping up to help during the ongoing US federal government shutdown by opening a new center for food donations.The ABC program announced the program, titled "the Jimmy Kimmel Live Big,...
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The multiple Bafta, Emmy, Globe and Oscar-winning actor will receive the film prize in recognition of her 'transcendent performances and commitment to her craft'Helen Mirren, the British actor who is already the winner of awards including an Oscar, four Baftas, three Golden Globes, five Emmys and a Tony is to add another to the shelf: the Cecil B...
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Broadcaster says he varied his movements after the former footballer accused him of being a 'nonce' on social mediaThe broadcaster Jeremy Vine has told a court that social media posts made by Joey Barton, the former footballer, alleging that he was a paedophile put him in "physical danger”.Vine, 60, was accused of being a "nonce” by Barton on X...
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Alan Carr achieved national treasure status, the hierarchies of fame were laid bare and Celia Imrie proved an accomplished banshee. Why were they all so useless at the round table, though? Read on …'Why is it always me? I've always got to do the dirty work for these traitors. I'm surprised they haven't got me up in that turret with a hoover!”...
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Jordan Schwarzenberger says BBC is becoming irrelevant to gen Z and risks crashing unless it attracts younger viewersThe BBC risks becoming the Titanic of the media world and culturally irrelevant to gen Z unless it embraces a "radical shift” towards reaching young audiences, the manager of one of the most successful YouTube collectives has...
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After side-splitting viral videos led to breakout films Bottoms and Shiva Baby, the star gets frank about the darker side of 'making it' with I Love LA – a show so funny that choosing a best gag is impossibleRachel Sennott hops on to our Zoom call and immediately launches into an apology. "Oh my God – I'm sorry!” she says, sounding pained....
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The actor, whose forthcoming directorial debut The Chronology of Water spent eight years in development, said women in the industry should 'print our own currency'Kristen Stewart has spoken out against "the violence of silencing” female directors in the film industry, which she described as being "in a state of emergency”.Speaking at the...
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Fourth in the series will be directed by horror-comedy specialists Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, AKA Radio SilenceBrendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are to reunite for a new Mummy movie, the fourth in the series of films featuring Fraser as adventurer Rick O'Connell that are part of what has become known as Universal Studio's Monsters...
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Blikk, a tabloid with about 3 million online monthly readers, bought by pro-Orbán media group IndamediaJournalists at Hungary's most-read newspaper have expressed shock after a media group seen as close to nationalist prime minister Viktor Orbán's party, Fidesz, bought the tabloid from its previous Swiss owners.The purchase, which comes as...
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A child going into an actual shop and buying a vinyl record? It will make you feel old and decrepit, and it'll utterly bamboozle young people … but shut up – it's Christmas!The weird thing about tradition is that it has a tendency to long outlive its usefulness. Bonfire Night, once a way for the government to remind the public of its capacity...
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A company called Strike 3, owner of Vixen and Tushy, has clogged US courts with lawsuits, mostly against porn watchers who feel shamed into settling privatelyWhen 73-year-old Tom Brown*, a retired police officer from Seattle, received a letter from Comcast, he might have mistaken it for a broadband bill. Instead, it was a subpoena. He had been sued...
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Ruling in case brought by Getty Images against Stability AI is seen as a blow to copyright ownersA London-based artificial intelligence firm has won a landmark high court case examining the legality of AI models using vast troves of copyrighted data without permission.Stability AI, whose directors include the Oscar-winning film-maker behind Avatar,...
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DI Ruth Calder investigates the killing of a retired social worker. Plus: the final episode of scandal drama The Hack. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC OneOne minute you're moaning to your colleague about a rubbish first date, the next you're sifting through frozen fish for illegal drugs. It's all in a day's work for DI Ruth Calder (Ashley...
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Popular platform added to list of companies required to restrict access for children, along with video streaming site KickFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEven more online services could be added to the federal government's social media ban for under 16s, including...
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After a colleague had the bright idea of a workplace version of the hit BBC show, I lied and cheated with impunity. Then the strain began to showThere aren't many people who understand the stress that the celebrity Traitors Cat Burns and Alan Carr have been feeling as their stint wearing that famous green cloak draws to an end – but I do. I spent...
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Omar Ashtawy, 20, from Gaza, has won this year's Ian Parry photojournalism grant, while Laura Riis, 23, from Denmark, Jordan Tovin, 21, from the US, and Armina Ahmadinia, 36, from Iran, were highly commended. The grant's partner, Save the Children, selected Ashtawy for a special commission. Here is a selection of the work of the recipients Continue...
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Tracing the author's life from bohemian Melbourne in the 70s to the breakdown of her marriage in the 90s, How to End a Story was praised by judges for 'taking the diary form to new heights'Australian author Helen Garner has been named the winner of the 2025 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction for How to End a Story, becoming the first writer to...
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Former footballer on trial over 'offensive' social media posts about broadcastersBroadcaster and former footballer Lucy Ward was left "intimidated” and "physically scared” by social media posts made by Joey Barton, a jury has heard.Ward, 51, was giving evidence to Liverpool crown court on Tuesday in a case against former footballer and manager...
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Julianne Moore, David Beckham, Dr Dre … the Gavin & Stacey creator's new pod isn't short of massive names spilling the beans. Plus, Stacey Dooley and Ben Zand unpick the headlines with chutzpahJames Corden has jumped on the celebrity podcast bandwagon, and what he lacks in speed he makes up for in star power: guests include Julianne Moore,...
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Bombs on trains, coke-fuelled gambling sprees and canine barbecues … from Bodyguard to Industry, here are your most horrific, heart-in-mouth TV momentsThe episode starts with the Spooks team locked down while undergoing a drill relating to a hypothetical terrorist attack, overseen by two Home Office officials, but as things progress it appears...
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Department store chain banks on nostalgia to get customers into festive mood with Where Love LivesJohn Lewis is hoping that a dash of nostalgia will get consumers into the festive mood this year as it officially kickstarts the countdown to Christmas with the launch of its 2025 advert to the tune of the 1990s club classic Where Love Lives.The...
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Not even Glenn Close can save this Ryan Murphy disaster from its dismal plots, clueless characters – and the worst kissing scenes ever filmedI did not know it was still possible to make television this bad. I assumed that there was some sort of baseline, some inescapable bedrock knowledge of how to do it that now prevents any entry into the art...
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UK government alerted after RedBird Capital's boss allegedly threatened to 'go to war' with the title's newsroom The boss of the US private equity group bidding for the Daily Telegraph has been reported to the UK government for potentially breaching rules protecting the newspaper's editorial independence, after allegedly threatening to "go to...
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The 22-year-old history student spent almost two years on a popular French quiz show – becoming a multimillionaire in the process. He discusses the importance of curiosity, frugality and 10-11 hours sleep a nightBeing a TV general-knowledge quiz champion is a funny kind of fame, because random strangers want to test you on all sorts of trivia....
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Cash-strapped people forced to do shameful things because they're desperate for money? How can this rot be real? If I recreated the idea in my local park, I'd surely end up in prisonThere's missing the point, and then there's Netflix making its capitalism-skewing Korean hit about a ruthless contest into an actual gameshow. The producers of Squid...
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Claim that elections were cancelled because ministers were 'terrified of Reform' given rare rebuke by regulatorTalkTV, the online channel owned by Rupert Murdoch's news empire, breached impartiality rules in a show that repeatedly accused the government of cancelling local elections out of fear of Reform UK.The media regulator, Ofcom, issued the...
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Jasmine, Aaron and Tom compete for the ultimate prize. Plus: huge news for the church lavatory in Murder Before Evensong. Here's what to watch this evening8pm, Channel 4Jasmine, Aaron and Tom have made it to the final week. And while Bake Off might not have the same pull on the nation it once had, there's still plenty of joy (and many nail-biting...
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New David Attenborough show's use of drones and moving cameras creates immersive experience like Adolescence David Attenborough's new BBC series Kingdom has broken ground by using elements from TV dramas, such as cliffhangers and drone and moving-camera shots, to immerse viewers "into the action” like the hit Netflix drama Adolescence did.Since...
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Former footballer on trial over social media posts about pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko and broadcaster Jeremy VineThe former footballer Joey Barton "crossed the line between free speech and a crime” with social media posts aimed at female pundits, a jury has been told.Barton, 43, is accused of 12 counts of sending a grossly offensive electronic...
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In a new interview, the late-night host opened up about the end of his late-night series calling it 'the first number one show to ever get cancelled'Stephen Colbert has opened up about the shock cancellation of The Late Show in a new interview, calling it: "The first number one show to ever get cancelled.”In a GQ interview, the 61-year-old host...
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'Impressively professional journalist' with a commitment to social justice was also European business editorDavid Gow obituaryDavid Gow, a former Germany correspondent and European business editor of the Guardian whose strong commitment to social justice and to the EU project continued long after he left the paper, has died of a heart attack aged...
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Panorama spliced together clips to make it appear clearer president encouraged attack, former external adviser saysThe BBC has been accused of selectively editing a Donald Trump speech to make it appear clearer that he encouraged the US Capitol attack, according to a former external adviser to the corporation.An edition of Panorama, broadcast a...
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Trump said Paramount's sale to David and Larry Ellison was 'greatest thing that's happened in a long time' for free pressThe CBS News program 60 Minutes heavily edited down an interview with Donald Trump that aired on Sunday night, his first sit-down with the show in five years.Trump sat down with correspondent Norah O'Donnell for 90 minutes, but...
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After Guardian writers shared their scariest Halloween watches, readers respond with their picks, from Jaws to The Blair Witch ProjectMy parents took me to see it in the theatre, under the impression that it would be appropriate for a seven-year-old. Princess Mombi's macabre wardrobe of disembodied heads; the psychopathic laughter of the...
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In films such as The War Game, Culloden and Punishment Park, Watkins pioneered the mock-documentary form and used it to make his historical dramas and up-to-the-minute dystopias all equally immediate and real• Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90• Peter Watkins obituaryDystopian, post-apocalyptic, mockumentary:...
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Halloween weekend failed to make numbers jump, adding up to the weakest monthly performance – other than during the pandemic – for three decadesBox office earnings in October have crashed to levels not seen since the late 1990s, with Halloween weekend becoming the worst of the year so far.According to a report in Variety, cinema takings for...
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The Shiva Baby and Bottoms star gets her own glossy sitcom which offers us a bumpy ride until it begins to take shape in the final stretchFor most of its public existence, I Love LA, HBO's new comedy series created by Rachel Sennott, was known online as Untitled Rachel Sennott Project. One wonders if they should have kept the temporary moniker,...
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Charismatic figure of the left is remembered as one of the most informed commentators on Latin American affairsThe former Guardian journalist and historian Richard Gott has died aged 87.Gott's career at the Guardian began in 1964 and included spells as foreign correspondent, leader writer, features editor and literary editor. Continue reading...
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The Bottoms creator deals with ambition, friendships and love in LA. Plus: a brilliant season finale for Blue Lights. Here's watch to watch this evening10.25pm, Sky ComedyFollowing her hit film Bottoms, Rachel Sennott created and stars in an audacious new comedy about twentysomething life in Los Angeles. She plays ambitious Maia who, after finding...
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The Halloween Spooktacular saw Lewis Cope notch this year's first perfect 40. Four pairs were left clustered down the bottom of the scoreboard. But in a closely fought dance-off, who would go to their glittery grave?Five of the male celebs have bowed out already, via a combo of elimination and injury. Who's next on the night bus home from...
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The ex-diver is so fantastic that this needle-based Bake Off wannabe is 80% better every time he's on screen. He absolutely makes this show'A new generation of knitters is taking the world by storm,” says Tom Daley, striding towards us in his ankle-length woollen poncho. "With just two needles, they are testing the limits of creativity.”And so...
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Journalist, historian and author who served as a foreign correspondent and features editor of the GuardianAfter the Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara was executed in October 1967, his body was placed on display to the press by the US-supported Bolivian army in the remote town of Vallegrande. The event was watched over by a CIA agent, who in turn was...
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It ticks every box you could wish for in your olde worlde trash: Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham, faerie smut … and not a bad wig in sight! Hurrah!Autumn is entering the home straight. Winter is coming. We are more than due, therefore, a piece of fantasy/folkloric tomfoolery set in the days of yore – which is further back than yesteryear...
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With big reveals from All Saints, Sugababes, Eternal and more, this funny and sometimes horrifically frank documentary is super juicy … especially when they slate Spice GirlsAs a pop-cultural moment, the turn-of-the-millennium girl group boom hasn't exactly been flooded with solemn appraisal and analysis. Wisely, this fantastically entertaining...
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A special haunted episode conjures supernatural forces, including the ghost of Melania, for another attack on the president and his croniesThe second episode of South Park's abrupt 28th season was meant to air this past Wednesday (the immediately preceding season 27 was just five episodes) but ended up being pushed back to Friday. This worked in...
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The BBC have confirmed that the long-running sci-fi show will return to our screens. But with ratings falling and its Disney partnership ending, questions hang over its futureSometimes the answer to one mystery only prompts more questions. That may well be the case with this week's announcement from the BBC that Doctor Who will return to BBC One...
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A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: 'We should have been on our guard'It was "humiliating” for a Times reporter to have quoted someone the journalist erroneously believed was former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, an editor for the London outlet reportedly said in an email to staff."We should...
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Strap in for a nostalgia-stuffed jaunt through musical classics, featuring honest interviews with stars – the details of which make the record industry look appalling Girlbands, then. Shimmering icons of empowerment or Pygmalion projects for middle-aged A&R men? Here's a radical idea – they're both. Two become one, baby. That's the sense...
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Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is back with a gripping, funny, head-spinner of a show, while Kim Kardashian stars in a blazingly camp drama about divorce lawyers. Plus, the thrilling return of Squid Game: The Challenge Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan returns with a gripping, funny, bleak, bewildering head-spinner of a series.It begins with...
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Leopard print and corduroy? Top Gun jumpsuits? Wossy's wardrobe reveals had as much drama as the round tableSpoiler alert: this article discusses Celebrity Traitors and reveals events contained in episodes one to sixThe most exciting moment on each episode of the reality TV show Celebrity Traitors is when the ornate door of the breakfast room...
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The Homeland star is back in explosive thriller The Beast in Me. She opens up about politics, monsters – and whether her teen romance scenes would be acceptable todayIn the new thriller The Beast in Me, a memoirist takes on a sinister property developer who may or may not have killed his first wife, and it's not entirely clear which of the two is...
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Under shake-up affecting about 4,000 roles, officials will run more of hiring process but ministers can have final sayMinisters are planning to speed up public appointments to bodies such as Ofcom, the Environment Agency and BBC by allowing more of the hiring process to be delegated to senior officials.In the biggest shake-up of the public...
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French magazine publishes judicial notice after using paparazzi images of family holiday in AlpsThe Prince and Princess of Wales have won a privacy case against a French magazine after it published paparazzi photographs of them and their children on a private family ski holiday, Kensington Palace said.William and Catherine launched legal action...
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The Times thought they were interviewing ex-NYC mayor Bill de Blasio. They were actually talking to a wine importerIt was a hell of a scoop.Here was Bill de Blasio, the progressive former mayor of New York who has been an enthusiastic supporter of Zohran Mamdani, suddenly turning on the man whom many expect to be elected as the next mayor next...
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With John Dickerson heading out and show's ratings struggling, new CBS editor-in-chief is looking at several anchors at rival networksFor more than half a century, CBS Evening News has been synonymous with the network's reputation for journalistic excellence, with anchors such as Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather holding court on a nightly basis. Now,...
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Soumaya Hamdi says she has barely spoken to Sami Hamdi since he was taken over his pro-Palestinian advocacyThe wife of a British political commentator who was detained by immigration authorities while on a speaking tour of the US said she had only been able to speak with him for "30 seconds” since he was taken into custody on Sunday over his...
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