What the Dickens! Do we really need another TV Great Expectations?
The literary classic is getting the Tom Hardy and Steven Knight treatment for BBC One. Great if you’re a newcomer – not so great if you’ve seen it a trillion times before
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Inaction! Film companies await clear guidance before rolling cameras
While production has already restarted in Iceland and Sweden, British filmmakers fear UK is ‘behind the curve’
Condemn Tyra Banks if you will, but we still love cruelty on TV
The America’s Next Top Model host has faced criticism for past misdemeanours, but the rapturous reception for Love Is Blind shows that reality TV still trades on nastiness
Kate Bush: where to start in her back catalogue
In Listener’s digest, our writers help you explore the work of great musicians. Next up: the singer who was first underestimated, then finally revered as a visionary
Charlie Brooker: ‘I assumed I would end up stumbling through rubble eating rats. This confirms it’
The master of dystopian TV is returning for a coronavirus-themed Wipe. How has the current global catastrophe compared with those in his imagination?
My favourite film aged 12: Mrs Doubtfire
Robin Williams was catnip to me as a kid and I loved his cross-dressing nanny in this bizarre and heartfelt tale of family love
Inua Ellams: ‘Barber shops are a safe, sacred place for British black men’
The poet and playwright on Barber Shop Chronicles – and his lockdown locks – ahead of the play’s streaming by National Theatre
‘It’s uniting people’: why 11 million are playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Nintendo’s record-breaking new game has been embraced by a world in isolation. Its creators talk about how it was made for sharing
UK live music and festival sector at risk of collapse due to coronavirus
Independent festivals group says 98% of its members are uninsured for outbreak-related cancellations
Velvet wonderlands: the plush pleasure palaces of Frank ‘Matchless’ Matcham
He was our ‘greatest theatrical architect’, the creator of 150 magnificent buildings that delighted crowds from Glasgow to Blackpool to London. On the centenary of his death, we celebrate a stage visionary
Too black, too queer, too holy: why Little Richard never truly got his dues
How did a turbaned drag queen from the sexual underground of America’s deep south ignite rock’n’roll? We unravel the mystery behind Little Richard’s subversive genius
Netflix to adapt Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults
The streaming giant’s announcement precedes the English-language publication of the acclaimed author’s latest work