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  • Red Dwarf cast in costume

    Roll up, smegheads! It’s the ultimate Red Dwarf quiz

    From hologram destruction techniques to the very point of existence itself: how good is your knowledge of the sci-fi comedy classic?
  • Lea Drinda in Where’s Wanda?

    Where’s Wanda – this knotty crime thriller has all the dark humour of Bad Sisters

  • a man points his fingers and raises his eyebrows while a woman smiles behind him

    John Amos, father in groundbreaking sitcom Good Times, dies at 84

  • Kristen Bell and Adam Brody in Nobody Wants This

    Hello Hot Rabbi! Why Nobody Wants This is the TV romcom we can’t stop watching

  • Barack Obama, then a senator, with host Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's The Daily Show, 22 August 2007, New York.

    Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed

    Zach Schonfeld
  • close up of a man's face

    Scott Bakula on playing Lincoln: ‘The timing made a lot of sense to me’

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What to watch

  • Sophie Turner as Joan and Franke Dillane as Boisie in Joan

    Joan – Sophie Turner sparkles in this wild true story of a rags-to-riches jewel thief

    The former Game of Thrones star is so glam in this tale of the 80s criminal known as the Godmother that she wears more furs than even Sansa Stark. It’s a hefty slice of fun
  • Micaela Diamond as Sister Megan and Niecy Nash as Lois Tryon in the Disney+ show.

    Grotesquerie – horror as gorily unsubtle as you’d expect from Ryan Murphy

  • Something special … Kristen Bell as Joanne and Adam Brody as Noah in Nobody Wants This

    Nobody Wants This – Kristen Bell and Adam Brody’s joyous romcom is as funny as When Harry Met Sally

  • Agatha All Along – the perfect show for Halloween season

  • American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez – bleakly compelling tragedy

  • The Perfect Couple – Nicole Kidman’s gorgeous murder mystery is ludicrously good

  • Slow Horses season four – Gary Oldman roars like a bear dipped in chip fat

  • English Teacher – promising high school comedy has work to do

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 – needs to remember it’s a drama

Episode recaps

  • This image released by NBC shows Jean Smart during promos for "Saturday Night Live" on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, at Studio 8H in New York. (Rosalind O'Connor/NBC via AP)

    Saturday Night Live
    Saturday Night Live: Jean Smart can’t save a lazy, light-on-laughs season opening

  • John Oliver: ‘The only way of undoing some of the harm that’s been done and preventing even more happening is by keeping Trump out of the White House and Republicans out of Congress in November.’

    Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: episode by episode
    John Oliver on Trump: ‘He’s reshaped the judiciary from top to bottom’

    The Last Week Tonight host looks into how Trump’s presidency shifted the US judiciary far rightward – and what could happen if he’s elected again
  • man in a suit on a stage

    Late-night TV roundup
    Jimmy Kimmel on the vice-presidential debate: ‘I like these better with Trump’

    Late-night hosts discuss the face-off between Tim Walz and JD Vance and Trump’s appearance at a college football game
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Videos

  • Carl Weathers' most memorable film and TV roles – video obituary

  • The Canadian-American actor best known for playing Chandler Bing in the international hit series Friends has died at the age of 54

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    Matthew Perry's best moments on screen – video obituary

    The Canadian-American actor best known for playing Chandler Bing in the international hit series Friends has died at the age of 54
  • The TV host will be remembered for his role as the host of The Jerry Springer Show

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    A look back at the career of TV host Jerry Springer – video obituary

    The TV host will be remembered for his role as the host of The Jerry Springer Show
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Opinion

  • Graham Hancock, left, explains his unique insights into lost civilisations to Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves.

    Any ice-age telepaths out there? Please explain why Netflix is revisiting Ancient Apocalypse

    Catherine Bennett
  • Maggie Smith in an Observer portrait in 1970.

    Dame Maggie Smith: ‘the complete actor’

    The former cabaret star, who died on Friday aged 89, dazzled in everything from Shakespeare to Harry Potter
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    Price hikes, terrible adverts, customer crackdowns: how the joy in streaming TV died

    Disney+ is the latest platform to stop people sharing their password for free. It’s yet another step in an industry meltdown that puts pressure on customers – and leads to genuinely bad television
  • ‘Celebrate good times, come on!’ Ross learns the bagpipes in Friends.

    Ross’s bagpipes to Monica’s proposal: your all-time favourite Friends moments

  • The cast of the West Wing, season four.

    To watch is to yearn for a different world: how The West Wing made politics feel glorious

  • Drew Barrymore and Demi Lovato smile and hug each other

    Demi Lovato’s starry documentary Child Star offers hard truths

    Adrian Horton
  • Perfect Couple … woeful credits.

    ‘We set up a WhatsApp group to veto it’ – does The Perfect Couple have TV’s most terrible credits?

You may have missed

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    ‘That’s a career killer’: the brutally high stakes of bringing The Office to Australia

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    ‘Incestuous fantasy’: Netflix hit crime drama rekindles debate over Menendez murders

    Thousands, many born after the 1989 murders, have sprung to defence of Lyle and Erik Menendez since broadcast of Monsters
  • Harry Lawtey shot for OM

    ‘It has felt so bizarre’: Industry’s Harry Lawtey on coping with sudden fame

    It’s quite a leap for a ‘fragile, sensitive kid’ to find himself starring in a Hollywood action movie. After the huge success of Industry and his new part in Joker, Harry Lawtey reveals why being in denial is the only way he can make sense of it
  • Maggie Smith as the dowager countess in Downton Abbey

    ‘She found the truth of the character’: Downton Abbey’s executive producer on Maggie Smith

  • Kit Connor and Joe Locke in Heartstopper.

    ‘There was just this beautiful openness’: behind the scenes of Heartstopper’s steamiest season yet

  • Three men stand outside and look at each other

    Menendez family criticises Netflix’s Monsters: a ‘grotesque shockadrama’

  • Kathryn Hahn in Agatha All Along.

    ‘There’s a little witch in all of us’: how TV fell in love with wild women of magic

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