Television

TV switch-off date could cut access for 10m UK viewers

Plans to move to internet-only streaming by 2035 may be moving too fast

Bill Nighy’s rules for a happier life

Bill Nighy has strong opinions on the art of living. And now he is imparting his wisdom as an agony uncle

Spitting Image hits back over Paddington filmmakers’ lawsuit

Satirical show makers post video of bear using a lawyers’ letter as toilet paper

Did Spitting Image have to turn Paddington into a coke-addled wreck?

The show is hilarious when it skewers those who deserve it. But a kindly toy? It just makes me sad

Last call for the phone-hacking scandal – but is anyone still listening?

ITV’s The Hack tells how Rupert Murdoch’s reporters intercepted voicemails. Will the story’s loose ends ever be tied up?

I’d make a terrible traitor, says TV historian – but is he bluffing?

Writer David Olusoga will vie with fellow personalities in a celebrity version of the hit show that rewards treachery

‘What you choose to participate in is always a political decision’

After a string of ‘good guy’ roles, the Detectorists star returns to the stage as Shakespeare’s toxic villain Iago

The emotional ‘journey’ to Strictly’s glitterball begins

The stars come out once more on Saturday nights. But the BBC's enduringly popular show has lost some of its lustre for me

Liberal Hollywood is naked and afraid

Cheers may have greeted Stephen Colbert’s win but the awards show bore many reminders of the industry’s fragile state

Harris’s memoir will be a rude awakening for Sleepy Joe

How women are doing in politics, Hollywood and prime-time television

‘Drama without humour is bad art’

In Fulham, Brett Goldstein is renovating a house; in Hollywood, a career. For the standup who became a leading man, both are works in progress

The summer that teen dramas turned back the clock for adults

The young adult screen revival is under way – and millennials are hooked

Olivia Cooke: ‘There aren’t a lot of working-class actors’

The star actor talks about Hollywood and home, and refusing to be typecast as a ‘northern actress’

How Taskmaster took over television

Taskmaster is about to air its 20th UK series and has spawned versions the world over. So what is its secret?

Cat Cohen’s cultural highlights

Beehive hairdos, reality TV and ‘grotesque’ art – just some of the US comedian’s favourite things

Paramount merger is the biggest US media shakeup in years

The $8bn merger proceeded after owner of CBS settled a lawsuit with Trump

‘Never trust anyone who puts the milk in second’

The actor on losing his parents, finding his husband and putting the milk in first

Will Sharpe: ‘Writing was a way of making myself feel I belonged’

The actor, writer and director on The White Lotus, his leading role in Lena Dunham’s Too Much, and his own multi-hyphenate career