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  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Review
    The best of TV and streaming this week

    Batman spin-off ‘The Penguin’ stars Colin Farrell as the arch-villain; in ‘Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos’ the showrunner looks back at the hit TV drama he created 25 years ago; ‘The Grand Tour: One for the Road’ brings the Top Gear trio together for one last adventure; more slick, squalid spycraft in ‘Slow Horses’; Nicole Kidman plays Nantucket royalty in ‘The Perfect Couple’; the journey from comedian to wartime leader in ‘The Zelensky Story’ — reviews by Dan Einav

  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
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    ‘This is not about rooting out a few bad apples’: how bullying became a big issue in film and TV

    Scandals at broadcasters show how unacceptable behaviour can breed in pressured work environments

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  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Why GB News is angrier than ever

    How Britain’s insurgent right-wing broadcaster scrambled to cover a tumultuous summer

  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Penguin — Colin Farrell mines vulnerability from his villain in Batman spin-off

    The HBO/Sky Atlantic series focuses on mafia footsoldier Oz Cobbleport as he tries to take over Gotham City

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  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Grand Tour: One for the Road — a misty-eyed final adventure

    Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May bid farewell to two decades of vehicular high jinks with a last journey through Zimbabwe

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  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Nicole Kidman spits venom in The Perfect Couple on Netflix

    She plays a matriarch presiding over a family rich in secrets and lies in this murder-mystery

    A man in a blue linen shirt kisses the hand of a blonde woman in a white suit at an outdoors table
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Slow Horses season 4 — Hugo Weaving joins Apple’s slick spy series as a cult leader

    The actor is terrifically sinister, while Kristin Scott Thomas continues to shine as a devastatingly dry MI5 deputy

    A dishevelled man with a beard in a suit looks harried or worried on the phone in a London street
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Zelensky Story, BBC — from actor to Ukraine’s war-tested leader

    A new three-part documentary has first-hand access to the president and his wife, Olena

    A blond woman in a smart black jacket and a man with a short beard in a black top and casual coat walk along a hall
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
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    Disney’s latest pay TV bust-up comes at desperate moment Premium content

    The media group and DirecTV are accusing each other of being unreasonable

    A 3D printed Disney logo is placed in front of a blue background, with the ESPN+ logo visible in the background.
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    Bad movies prove profit can be a force for good in film

    The new Alien movie shows the mess that can occur when studios stop thinking about the bottom line

    Illustration of a billboard poster being changed with a movie poster being pasted over a giant $100 bill
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Venice Film Festival 2024: what to see
    Disclaimer — Cate Blanchett has a dark secret in frothy but moreish miniseries

    Director Alfonso Cuarón assembles a cast of big names in a compelling mystery

    A blond woman in a dressing gown burns a book above a sink
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Jo Ellison
    What’s the story? Oasis glory

    The band’s getting back together. But what does it all mean?

    A black-and-white photo of four young white males in casual coats posing confidently for the camera.
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Review
    Kaos — Jeff Goldblum is a tracksuit-wearing Zeus in Netflix’s Greek myth series

    The actor brings his zany charisma to a dark comedy that gives ancient stories a contemporary twist

    Jeff Goldblum in a purple tracksuit leans and stares over a table in an opulently furnished room
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Review
    The Rings of Power — Lord of the Rings prequel ups the action

    With bigger stars and a lighter tone, the new series has more to offer viewers

    A woman in chainmail leans upwards while lying on the ground to shoot an arrow
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Review
    Only Murders in the Building season four — delightful crime-podcast caper heads for Hollywood

    Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez reunite as the trio investigating a spate of killings on their doorstep

    Two older men in suit jackets sitting either side of a younger woman drinking from a large cup look concerned out of a car window
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast21 min listen
    How ‘The Body Next Door’ gets true crime storytelling right

    The series’ director Gareth Johnson speaks to guest host Jo Ellison about what it takes to make a true crime show that goes beyond the tropes

  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Interview
    Sherwood actor David Morrissey: ‘What’s it like to be someone else?’

    He discusses hits, flops and empathy in acting as the drama about the 1980s miners’ strike returns for a second series

    A man in a shirt and chinos stands against a wall
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Mark C O’Flaherty
    Robot sex, murder and inspiring interiors: the dystopian allure of TV’s Sunny

    The sci-fi show is deliciously dark, but its Japanese architecture and design are rays of inspiration

  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Review
    Pachinko — era-spanning family saga returns for an exquisite second series

    The Apple drama continues to chronicle the life of Sunja, a resilient Korean matriarch, across two interlaced timelines

    A small group of Korean men and women stand in a field staring apprehensively up at the sky. One of the women hugs a young boy to her protectively.
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Review
    Faye — Faye Dunaway gets her close-up in candid documentary

    A bittersweet portrait tries to get at the truth about this ‘difficult’ star and her psychological struggles

    Faye Dunaway sitting poolside on a table  covered with newspapers, leaning her elbow on top of an Oscar.
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Review
    Machiavellian portrait of Mohammed bin Salman in new BBC documentary

    ‘The Kingdom: The World’s Most Powerful Prince’ charts the rise of the formidable, controversial MBS

    Three men from middle age to older wearing gold-trimmed black robes and red and white checked keffiyehs
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Review
    Stags — a high-speed montage of every bachelor party movie ever made

    The new comedy from the producers of ‘Sex Education’ starts by embracing a familiar premise

    Three men in yellow prison jumpsuits sit together in a cramped space where sunlight streams through metal bars
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Review
    Klitschko: More Than a Fight — in the ring with Kyiv’s wartime mayor

    The boxer-turned-politician is the subject of an unflinching new documentary from Kevin Macdonald

    Two tall, muscular men sit side-by-side on chairs in a partially destroyed building with debris and glass windows showing the view of a city behind them.
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Review
    Bad Monkey, Apple TV+ — Vince Vaughn charms in comic detective series

    The actor plays a demoted policeman in this entertaining yarn involving a primate and a severed arm

    A man in a Hawaiian shirt and a woman in a black dress look serious and are lit in red as they lean against a police car
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Media
    TV groups slash cable network valuations

    $15bn in impairment charges from Paramount and WBD highlight collapse of lucrative business model

    People walk by the Nickelodeon booth during Comic-Con International in San Diego,
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