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 […]
10.04 GMT Last modified on Mon 16 Nov 2020 11.56 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Where Sweden had Abba, Italy had Carrà’ … Raffaella Carrà in 1970. Photograph: Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori/Getty Images At the beginning of Explota Explota, a new Spanish-Italian jukebox musical comedy set at the tail end of the Franco dictatorship […]
11.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 16 Nov 2020 12.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Left to right: Amarah-Jae St-Aubyn, Alexander James-Blake, Kenyah Sandy and Daniel Francis-Swaby. Styling for Alexander James-Blake by Jaime Jarvis (Balenciaga at Matches Fashion, shoes Nike X). Photograph: Danika Magdelena/The Observer Amarah-Jae St Aubyn: ‘I never saw myself […]
07.29 GMT Last modified on Mon 9 Nov 2020 07.31 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Kate Mara and Nick Robinson in A Teacher. Photograph: FX There is a reason A Teacher, a limited series about the relationship between a thirtysomething female teacher and her 17-year-old student, uses the indefinite article. “A”, not […]
21.00 GMT Last modified on Sun 8 Nov 2020 21.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email John Parry/Jopari (Andrew Scott), Will Parry (Amir Wilson), Lyra Belacqua (Dafne Keen) and Mrs Coulter (Ruth Wilson) in the second series of His Dark Materials. Photograph: Charlie Surbey/Marco Grob/BBC/Bad Wolf/HBO Wearing a blood-red dress and crypto-fascist boots, […]
12.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 6 Nov 2020 11.59 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 3 / 5 stars 3 out of 5 stars. Best when most adventurous musically … Little Mix. In 2018, a few days before the release of Little Mix’s last album, the quartet announced their split from Simon […]
10.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 4 Nov 2020 15.28 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I got a glimpse of the Below Deck world while making my own show’ … Julia Stiles in Riviera. The last show you loved [The Wall Street drama] Black Monday, which is hilarious and important, as well […]
14.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 27 Oct 2020 14.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I want to defecate in front of Mike Pence next’ … Eric Andre. Photograph: Matthew Eisman/Getty Images The last show you loved Nathan for You, Nathan Fielder’s Comedy Central show. It was so brilliant, unique and high […]
15.44 BST Last modified on Thu 15 Oct 2020 17.53 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 15. Grimsby (2016) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This is one for Sacha Baron Cohen, his professional associates, his fans and all of humanity to forget. The idea is that he plays a daft football fan from Grimsby called […]
12.24 BST Last modified on Tue 13 Oct 2020 14.14 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Margaret Nolan as the masseuse Dink with Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger (1964). Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock Margaret Nolan, the actor best known for appearing in the title sequence for Goldfinger and for a string of appearances […]
07.24 BST Last modified on Fri 9 Oct 2020 16.03 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A still from Deaf U. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix When Nyle DiMarco, an actor, model and disability rights activist, attended Gallaudet University, a liberal arts college for the deaf and hard of hearing in Washington DC in […]
09.50 BST Last modified on Fri 9 Oct 2020 09.53 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Blowing them away … Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns Fifty years ago this week, all hell broke loose on Dick Cavett’s US talkshow. The host was interviewing the British actor Trevor Howard before a live studio […]