She got gross-out laughs in Fresh Meat, died superbly in Call the Midwife – and now she’s back communing with spirits in Ghosts. Is Charlotte Ritchie getting too famous to buy her own leggings?Charlotte Ritchie is video calling from her London flat, wh…
Love Island has filled the pandemic-sized hole in my social life | Imogen West-Knights
TV’s guiltiest pleasure is a reminder of just how much we love – and have missed – being nosy and judgmentalThere are very few things that I dedicate as much time to as watching Love Island during the summer. For two months it’s on six nights a week, f…
TV tonight: Jon Richardson has a snigger at horrifying foreign telly
The comic lines up a sample of international TV titbits. Plus: how to save £1,000 in a day. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading…
Jessie Cave on body image, bereavement and being relentless: ‘I don’t have any secrets’
The actor, comic and writer talks about her bestselling debut novel, the cruelty of costume fittings, how it felt to be in the Harry Potter franchise – and finding hope in small thingsAs a compulsive diary writer – she has kept one since she was eight …
Blind Ambition review – a candid, charming take on sight and artistry
This stunt-filled documentary sees TV producer Jamie O’Leary and comic Jamie MacDonald consider how creatives with low vision and blindness both survive and thriveBlind Ambition (BBC Two) takes the tried and trusted format of putting two grumpy men tog…
Shailene Woodley: ‘Authenticity is my love language’
Despite being only 29, Shailene Woodley already has 25 years’ acting experience under her belt. Here, the star of Big Little Lies and Divergent talks about being free-willed, her hippy passions and her late-night calls with Kate WinsletThe one and only…
Pop maestro Simon Cowell finally bows to the public’s resounding ‘no’ vote | Rebecca Nicholson
The X Factor won’t be returning to our screens. It had long outstayed its welcomeLike a knackered old cruise singer who has finally decided that this cover of Make You Feel My Love will be, must be, their last, The X Factor has slunk offstage for good….
The week in audio: Tokyo Olympics coverage; The Hundred; Passenger List; Fully Amplified
BBC radio and podcasts have all aspects of the Games covered, while a new take on cricket proved a bit too zippy for the airwavesTokyo Olympics coverage BBC Sounds/Radio 5 liveThe Hundred – BBC 5 live | BBC SoundsPassenger List BBC Radio 4 | BBC Sounds…
Send us your questions for Michaela Coel
The actor, writer and director is about to publish her first book – let us know what you’d like to ask herIn September, the acclaimed actor, screenwriter and director Michaela Coel will publish her debut book, Misfits: A Personal Manifesto (Ebury Press…
The Suicide Squad review – eyeball-blitzing supervillain reboot
Guardians of the Galaxy’s James Gunn is a good directorial fit for the humour and freaky violence of DC’s bad-guy jamboree DC’s new Suicide Squad movie announces itself as different from the coolly received first film from 2016 simply by adding “The” t…