LuLaRich, the Amazon docuseries on a multi-level marketing company, is a four-part dive into greed and faux-girlboss idealsRoberta Blevins first heard about the leggings in the fall of 2015, in a post by a fellow member of a motherhood-themed Facebook …
The Activist: ‘tone-deaf’ new TV show has activists compete to lobby G20 leaders
CBS programme has caused a social media storm for its crass choice of format and ill-qualified judgesProducers have billed it as an exciting new twist on reality television: an X-Factor style competition between campaigners that will give them the chan…
Norm Macdonald made you laugh by doing almost nothing | David Baddiel
The standup, most famous for Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live, could make the familiar feel strange and newNorm Macdonald, former SNL cast member, dies at 61It was Frank Skinner who first brought my attention to Norm Macdonald. Years ago – I can’t…
Edward Barnes obituary
Head of BBC television’s children’s programmes who created Newsround and made a great contribution to Blue PeterEdward Barnes’s greatest innovation as head of BBC television children’s programmes from 1978 until 1986 lay in creating Newsround. He launc…
Tan France: ‘People assume I’m older than I am’
The designer who made his name on Queer Eye, talks about his heritage, becoming a father and how to keep your eyebrows looking greatWhen I was young, my focus wasn’t on my queerness. It was more on being south Asian. I was raised in a small town in Sou…
British As Folk: three comedians in a campervan have fun with history
Hampered by a terrible name, Dave’s new travelogue investigating modern Britain is constantly entertainingHard to like a TV show with a terrible name, isn’t it? Let’s run over it again: British As Folk (Monday, 10pm, Dave). So it’s supposed to sound li…
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…