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  • Netflix ready: the Empire actor in a scene from The Truth About Jussie Smollett?

    The Truth About Jussie Smollett? – this TV show is bold, shocking … and utter nonsense

    This flimsy documentary from the makers of The Tinder Swindler looks at the alleged white supremacist attack on an actor – who was accused of faking the whole thing, before charges were dropped. It’s icky, irresponsible television
  • Taylor Kitsch.

    ‘I’d rather be in the wild chasing animals than going to Hollywood parties’: Taylor Kitsch on fame, flops and Friday Night Lights

  • Incredible cast … (from left) Lisa Edelstein as Naomi Schwartz, Max Greenfield as Yoshi Schwooper and Paul Reiser as Elliot Cooper in Long Story Short

    Long Story Short – TV so funny and clever it could run for ever

  • Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi.

    Stranger Things actor Millie Bobby Brown adopts ‘sweet baby girl’

  • Jodie Whittaker and Ncuti Gatwa on the set of Doctor Who

    Doctor Who will continue, BBC reassures fans

Late night comedy

  • man in suit and glasses speaks at desk with hands gestured, a graphic saying 'trump vs higher education' on screen

    John Oliver recap
    John Oliver on Trump’s attack on higher education: ‘No capitulation will be enough’

  • Seth Meyers on Maga: “They don’t care about policy or improving people’s lives. They want to go on Fox News and whine about woke.”

    Late-night TV roundup
    Seth Meyers on Trump’s Kennedy Center fixation: ‘This is what the right really cares about’

  • woman wearing pink shirt smiles and looks up

    Saturday Night Live recap
    Saturday Night Live: Scarlett Johansson breaks record in season finale

  • John Oliver on Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement: “It is about laundering the reputation of an administration that is doing the exact opposite.”

    John Oliver recap
    John Oliver on ‘Make America healthy again’: ‘A bleak time to be involved in public health’

Reviews

  • Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy in Netflix thriller, Hostage.

    Hostage – five hours of fast, furious fun, featuring Suranne Jones as prime minister

  • Grace Van Patten as the American student wrongly convicted of murder in The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.

    The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox – shockingly tense TV from Knox and Monica Lewinsky

  • Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser. Danny Cahill in Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025

    Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser – how did television ever sink so low?

  • ‘The woman realised she wasn’t lonely – she was on her own’ … Carrie Bradshaw’s coda.

    And Just Like That finale – a sad, heavy-handed and far too faecal farewell

  • ‘A humourless cyborg’ … Babou Ceesay as Morrow in Alien: Earth.

    Alien: Earth – TV that bristles with bone-deep dread

  • Jamie Roy as Brian Fraser and Harriet Slater as Ellen MacKenzie

    Outlander: Blood of My Blood – this time-hopping romantic prequel is atrocious … and very watchable

Podcasts

  • Kate Moss hosts Music Uncovered: David Bowie – Changeling.

    Hear here
    Kate Moss takes on David Bowie in her first ever podcast: best listens of the week

  • TRAIL Culture 25 Podcast From left to right; Katherine Ryan and Nova Reid

    The best podcasts of 2025 in the UK so far

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    Satire at its finest: South Park takes on Trump’s martial takeover, AI and tech bros

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    Can a Netflix documentary explain what really happened to Jussie Smollett?

  3. Alyson Stoner poses during San Diego Comic-Con.

    The secret life of a child star: how Alyson Stoner survived stalkers, starvation and sexualisation

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