The actor, 65, on growing up in a loving family, recognising her partner, and getting more interesting while the parts she is offered get less interestingMy earliest memory is jumping off a little stone wall in the garden in Australia. I called it my j…
Degrees of separation: what connects Seinfeld to Steve Bannon?
From the US sitcom to the far-right rabble rouser, we go down the rabbit hole, thanks to the arrival of Jerry’s show on NetflixSeinfeldAll 180 episodes of the 90s’ most misanthropic sitcom have arrived on Netflix, but not everyone is happy. Some viewer…
Aisling Bea: ‘I was completely burnt out – I definitely became less nice’
Irish actor Aisling Bea on writing This Way Up in lockdown while filming the new Home Alone movie reboot, women’s inner lives and her abiding love of potato wafflesWhen it comes to comedy, there is little Aisling Bea can’t turn her hand to. After train…
Jamie Laing on privilege and panic attacks: ‘I’d tell my younger self: don’t change’
The TV personality and Made in Chelsea star recreates a childhood photo and reflects on what he’s learnedBorn in Oxfordshire in 1988, Jamie Laing is best known for his role as chief mischief-maker on Made in Chelsea, the structured reality series he le…
Original Observer Photography
A succession of actors, environmental activists and some live music – the best photographs commissioned by the Observer in October 2021 Continue reading…
The Great British Bake Off 2021: episode six – live
It’s Pastry Week in the tent, and time for the bakers to take on choux buns, a sticky, tricky technical – and a Showstopper that just might have them eating humble pieThis reminds me of the chaos during Lockdown 2.0 when the internet was vibrating with…
All In The Game Yo, All In The Game
Why The Wire is the greatest TV series of the 21st Century out of The 100 greatest TV series of the 21st Century [BBC] While in no way definitive, the answers we have collated are fascinating – and, we hope, will inspire TV lovers everywhere to both se…
The Weeping Angels are as terrifying as ever in Doctor Who: Flux trailer
“There’s no use being squeamish, we’ve got the future to save.”
‘A story people need to know’: behind a shocking new TV series about the opioid crisis
In the revealing new drama Dopesick, starring Michael Keaton, the horrifying story of the painkillers and the company that created them is brought to a wide audienceThey have been described as the most evil family in America – not by hyperbolic headlin…
‘There was always an excuse to take a drink’: Succession’s Alan Ruck on Ferris Bueller, booze and bouncing back
After a decades-long slump, the actor’s career came roaring back with the role of Connor Roy. He talks about his 80s success, his ‘attitude problems’ and his excitement about Succession’s new seriesAlan Ruck is talking to me by video about the present,…