The Tyneside rocker on his favourite bath time podcast, a second world war memoir and where to get the best breakfast kippersSam Fender was born in 1994 and raised in North Shields. He began writing songs aged 14, building on an affinity with Bruce Spr…
The rise of ‘citizen sleuths’: the true crime buffs trying to solve cases
Inspired by hit podcasts and documentaries, ordinary people are trying to track down fugitives and reopen cold cases. But should they be?Although the story you are about to read involves a fugitive, law enforcement and a six-month chase across Mexico, …
‘His rage, his pain, his shame, they’re all mine’: Jeremy Strong on playing Succession’s Kendall Roy
Strong’s role as the self-destructive media heir takes commitment – and the actor goes all in• Plus: inside the Succession writers’ roomEarlier this year, Jeremy Strong left his apartment in Brooklyn, walked across the bridge to Manhattan and headed to…
Sexy Beasts to Acapulco: the seven best shows to stream this week
TV’s most ludicrous dating show returns, a pioneering American woman is recognised, and there’s a feelgood new coming-of-age comedy to tuck into Continue reading…
TV tonight: Jack O’Connell’s Arctic agonies escalate
The North Water nears its chilling climax. Plus, Tina Fey’s and Robert Carlock’s amiable sitcom, Mr Mayor, provides lighter relief Continue reading…
Amazon introduces Amazon Glow, an interactive, video calling device for kids and families
Amazon today introduced Amazon Glow, a new, interactive device aimed at families that allows kids to interact with family members and other remote loved ones over video calls. While something of a competitor to Facebook’s line of Portal devices, which are also largely aimed at connecting families over video, Amazon Glow differentiates itself by providing […]
Colbert on Arizona audit: ‘They hired Maga fans, and even they couldn’t say No 45 won’
Late-night hosts talk Arizona’s GOP-led election ‘audit’, which reaffirmed Biden’s win, and Rudy Giuliani’s Fox News issuesStephen Colbert mocked the humiliating conclusion of a partisan effort to overturn the 2020 election in Arizona, which concluded …
‘So different’: how the millennials of 28 Up are coping with changing times
As a new chapter of the landmark series begins, life isn’t the same as it was for their baby boomer forbearsIt was a groundbreaking documentary series that became a TV institution as it followed the lives of 14 Britons of vastly different backgrounds f…
Why is Hollywood still denying Black queer love stories?
The success of Moonlight remains an outlier in major film and TV representation so it’s been left to smaller web series to pick up the slackOn 12 May, screenwriter Kirk A Moore took to his Twitter page calling for his Black gay followers to share image…
‘He drains my bad habits!’ Comedians on why they need an alter ego
For character comics such as Zach Zucker, Bilal Zafar and Jay Bennett, performing as other people is a way to both escape from – and confront – their personal livesAfter an eventful 18 months away, Zach Zucker is back on a London stage, and making a me…