07.00 BST Last modified on Thu 22 Sep 2022 15.42 BST Rosa-Johan Uddoh: Brown Paper Envelope Test (2021)Rosa-Johan Uddoh is an interdisciplinary artist inspired by Black feminist practice. Brown Paper Envelope Test is a sketch with a mother and daughter around the moment at which the titular envelope comes through the door. ‘I use a lot of […]
15.12 GMT Last modified on Mon 8 Mar 2021 18.23 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It could be like The Simpsons’ … from left, James Gandolfini, Michael Imperioli, Tony Sirico and Steven Van Zandt in The Sopranos. Photograph: HBO/Everett/Rex Features David Chase, creator, writer and producer I was still writing the pilot […]
09.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 5 Mar 2021 09.13 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Going Deutsch … Niels Bormann (left) and Jonas Nay in Deutschland 89. Photograph: Anika Molnar/Channel 4 Deutschland 83/86/89Walter Presents Since 2016, Channel 4’s Walter Presents portal has offered an intriguing TV window on the world. Deutschland 83 […]
08.56 GMT Last modified on Wed 3 Mar 2021 09.33 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Filiming The Mess You Leave Behind in the Galician mountains. Photograph: Jaime Olmedo/Netflix Rosa Vargas’s arrival in a small town in north-western Spain to investigate the disappearance of a young girl marked an unlikely milestone. Vargas is […]
21.00 GMT Last modified on Sun 28 Feb 2021 15.43 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Oprah Winfrey will talk to Meghan and Harry in an exclusive interview on 7 March. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP You could have forgiven the British royal family for giving primetime, tell-all interviews a wide berth for the foreseeable. […]
04.33 GMT Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 08.43 GMT Renée Zellweger announces the late Chadwick Boseman as the winner of the award for best actor in a drama award for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Photograph: Christopher Polk/NBC via Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sacha Baron Cohen, who won best actor in a motion picture musical […]
13.21 GMT Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 14.20 GMT Josh O’Connor, who won best actor for his role as Prince Charles in The Crown, looked suitably regal and just a little bit like a Romantic poet in a Loewe cream suit. Photograph: David M Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Bulgari Facebook Twitter Pinterest She might not […]
15.39 GMT Last modified on Tue 16 Feb 2021 18.30 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It was hard to work all the time to justify your being’ … Hiam Abbass. Photograph: Victoria Will/Invision/AP You would be hard pressed to find two TV characters in 2021 with less in common than Marcia Roy […]
09.34 GMT Last modified on Wed 10 Feb 2021 20.11 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Gabriel Moses regularly flicked through his family photo albums as he grew up in south London. Shot by a local photographer, the images are simple snapshots that capture his Nigerian family at home in Catford. “You could […]
07.00 GMT The ‘house float’ movement started almost as soon as a New Orleans spokesman announced that parades were cancelled. To avoid overcrowding on the day, houses were to be decorated at least two weeks before ‘Fat Tuesday’, which is 16 February this year. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock Facebook Twitter Pinterest A home decorated in honour of chef […]
17.19 GMT Last modified on Tue 26 Jan 2021 17.26 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Seth Meyers to Republicans arguing impeachment of Donald Trump for insurrection will ‘stir up’ the country: ‘You guys already did the stirring; you don’t get to pretend everything’s just fine now.’ Photograph: YouTube Seth Meyers Less than […]
14.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 21 Jan 2021 14.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Kim Lee and Christine Chiu in Bling Empire. Photograph: Netflix Netflix is proving to be a big hitter in the world of reality TV. Last year, it stole hearts with the dating series Love Is Blind and […]
08.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The actor José Garcia as himself in Call My Agent!, with Camille Cottin as Andréa. Photograph: Christophe Brachet/FTV/Monvoisin Prod/Mother Prod If you know, you know. The utterly charming Call My Agent! has become a word-of-mouth hit in the UK, five years after it first began […]
09.00 GMT Last modified on Sun 17 Jan 2021 10.12 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Phoebe Dynevor photographed in Cheshire in January 2021 by Phil Fisk for the Observer. It was the gift you never knew you needed, and might even have spurned if you had been offered it in advance: an […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 08.03 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Fantastic fun … Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany in Wandavision. Photograph: Marvel Studios For those of you not entirely au fait with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Wanda Maximoff (AKA Scarlet Witch in the original comics) and Vision […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 11 Jan 2021 20.35 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Olly Alexander: ‘You can see how easy it is for a party lifestyle to turn into something negative.’ Photograph: Hugo Yanguela; Styling: Nick Royal Olly Alexander was so certain he was destined for success that he saw […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 10.06 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It sees the Regency period through American eyes’ Lanre Bakare Christmas 1995 was one to forget. I was ill and mostly confined to the sofa, trying to keep down mince pies as my big sister made her […]
11.33 GMT Last modified on Mon 4 Jan 2021 11.49 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Tanya Roberts in A View to a Kill with Roger Moore and Grace Jones. Photograph: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock Tanya Roberts, the glamorous actor who starred opposite Roger Moore in the 1985 Bond film A View to A Kill as […]
08.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Twice the Sabrina, twice the Kiernan Shipka. Photograph: Courtesy Of Netflix/Netflix It is the end of the road for this enjoyably baroque revival of the teenage witch, as The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix) bows out with a fourth and final season. Some would argue […]
11.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘What couldn’t I get on with? The news’ … Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones. Photograph: Enda Bowe/BBC/Element Pictures/Hulu Was there a show this year that everyone else loved but you just couldn’t get on with?Daisy: That’s a hard one. I honestly think I watched every […]
18.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Courttia Newland in West Ham Park, east London, December 2020 Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer Courttia Newland, 47, grew up in west London and published his first novel, The Scholar: A West-Side Story, aged 23, earning critical praise for his portrayal of a teenager’s life in […]
11.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Surreal dream’ … multiple Emmy winner Dan Levy. Photograph: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for MTV Was there a show that everyone else loved this year that you just couldn’t get on with? Tiger King. I couldn’t do it. Something about it felt a little too exploitative […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 08.07 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Dead-on verisimilitude … Billie Piper in I Hate Suzie. Photograph: Photographer: Des Willie/Sky There’s a scene in I Hate Suzie that is one of the best depictions of drug use I have ever seen on screen. Suzie […]
16.59 GMT Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 17.01 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The man to save swords-and-sorcery? … Chris Pine in Star Trek. Photograph: Paramount/Bad Robot/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock It is hard to believe that Peter Jackson’s first Lord of the Rings movie, The Fellowship of the Ring, is now almost 20 […]
17.00 GMT Dan Leno as Widow Twankey in Aladdin at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1896 Photograph: Wikipedia / Public domain Facebook Twitter Pinterest Buttons (Will Evans) and one of the ugly sisters (Stanley Empire) in Cinderella at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1919 Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Derek Roy as the nursemaid in […]
10.12 GMT Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 10.14 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Unique talent’ … Shirley Jackson, author of The Haunting of Hill House, pictured in 1951. Photograph: AP A “lost” story by Shirley Jackson, in which the author of The Haunting of Hill House shows a microcosm of […]
10.03 GMT Last modified on Fri 4 Dec 2020 10.42 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Nadine Shah at the BBC Radio 6 music festival at the Roundhouse, north London, 8 March 2020. Photograph: Jim Dyson/Getty Images Musicians are revolting. They’re rising up around the world to draw attention to the microscopic earnings […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 2 Dec 2020 15.41 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email “Shame on you! How could you bring that up? You wanna see a grown man cry?” Joel Grey is berating me on Zoom. All I wanted to know was how he got the nickname Mr Porno when […]
15.38 GMT Last modified on Thu 3 Dec 2020 18.35 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Upending the way we watch? … Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman 1984. Photograph: Allstar/DC/Warner Bros/Clay Enos Wonder Woman’s origin myth is well known: Princess Diana of Themyscira quits her beloved fantasy island of Amazonian warrior women and […]
10.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 25 Nov 2020 15.05 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Rachel Bloom: ‘I would have had to get my boobs out more if we were on Showtime, and I was fully prepared to.’ Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP On the day in April that Rachel Bloom finally took her […]