The TV presenter on embracing baldness, girl bands and The Real HousewivesBorn in Texas, Karamo Brown, 40, trained as a social worker and psychotherapist. Since 2018 he has been an expert on the Netflix show Queer Eye, which will return for a sixth ser…
Samantha Bee brands supreme court ‘gutless monsters’ for Texas abortion decision
Late-night hosts discuss Texas’s six-week abortion ban, flooding in New York and Covid’s new Mu variantSamantha Bee tore into the new abortion law in Texas, the most restrictive in the nation, on Wednesday evening – a week after the supreme court, in a…
Garbage’s Shirley Manson: ‘Grange Hill was my best friend – it saved my life’
Ahead of a reissue of her band’s classic Beautiful Garbage, the Scottish frontwoman remembers her teenage passions, from the fiction that terrified her to the Edinburgh nightclub that set her freeAround 1980 this book was in the window of every booksho…
Don’t stay another day: why TV doesn’t need a 24 revival
Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer was a mainstay of the golden age of television, but reboots of the franchise have been witless. Worse still, there’s now talk of anotherIn two months, 24 will be 20 years old. This presents the world with two options. The…
Time Trumpet: the savage cult comedy that ‘predicted’ the future
From a guilt-ridden Tony Blair to plastic surgery for kids, Armando Iannucci’s series deftly spoofed our love of nostalgic TV. 15 years on it’s still brilliant – and a true hidden gem“The airwaves were infected with them,” says Armando Iannucci of earl…
‘I want to show intimacy between men’: how Murray Bartlett became a breakout star at 50
After years in US soaps, he landed the part of Armond in The White Lotus – a ‘dreamy’ role that involved defecating in a suitcase. He discusses making it in middle age, coming out to his parents and losing his front teethIt was in the middle of the pan…
Grenfell: The Untold Story review – first-hand accounts of dire devastation
People who lived – and even some of those who died – in Grenfell Tower have their voices heard in this singular documentary featuring footage shot before the fireGrenfell: The Untold Story (Channel 4) is a beautiful film about the most awful of subject…
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto by Michaela Coel review – a remarkable talent
An outsider perspective on the TV industry exposes its sexism, racism and complacencyIn 2018, the actor and screenwriter Michaela Coel addressed the bigwigs of the television industry at the Edinburgh festival. She had been invited to deliver the 43rd …
‘I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase’ – how The Wire’s Omar changed TV
He was the terrifying stick-up man who loved his gran, shopped in his pyjamas and tenderly kissed his boyfriend. We remember Omar’s great scenes – and pay tribute to Michael K Williams, the actor who brought him to lifePlaying stick-up man Omar Little …
Rise and shine: the Big Breakfast returns – with a mission
The anarchic 90s morning TV show is back for a one-off episode, fronted by Mo Gilligan and AJ Odudu, as part of Channel 4’s Black to Front diversity initiativeThe anaemic state of UK breakfast telly in 2021 might lead some to feel nostalgic for the 90s…