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Television

  • Thursday, 19 February, 2026
    Film
    Bafta to reward ‘human creativity’ as film and TV grapples with AI

    Chair Sara Putt acknowledges concerns in production sector about artificial intelligence taking jobs

    Sara Putt stands in front of a table with multiple Bafta trophy masks.
  • Wednesday, 18 February, 2026
    Review
    Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence becomes an awkward Netflix series

    The Nobel-winner’s 2008 novel about a man’s obsessive affair with a much younger women gets lost in translation

    A woman in a peach dress and a man in a white shirt and tie face each other indoors, holding opposite ends of a plaid umbrella.
  • Tuesday, 17 February, 2026
    Review
    The Tony Blair Story — former PM gets a grilling in a gripping docuseries

    Channel 4’s astute three-parter examines his domestic legacy and Iraq, with candid contributions from Jeremy Corbyn — and Cherie Blair

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  • Tuesday, 17 February, 2026
    CBS Broadcasting
    CBS turmoil deepens as Cooper quits and Colbert defies lawyers

    Journalist’s exit comes as Bari Weiss seeks to revive Paramount-owned television network

    Anderson Cooper walks outdoors, holding a folder and wearing a name badge.
  • Monday, 16 February, 2026
    Review
    Inside America’s Next Top Model — a grisly reckoning with 2000s reality television

    A Netflix documentary on the controversial modelling competition suggests its creators have learnt little

    Mercedes Scelba-Shorte, Jay Manuel, Tyra Banks, and Yoanna House, partially hidden, smiling and laughing with two shirtless male models in the foreground.
  • Monday, 16 February, 2026
    Review
    The best of TV and streaming this week

    ‘How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’ is an entertaining ride from the Derry Girls creator; Ryan Murphy’s ‘Love Story’ turns its gaze on JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette; ITV spy thriller ‘Betrayal’ boasts star turns by Romola Garai and Shaun Evans; ‘Lord of the Flies’ gets its first-ever TV adaptation on BBC1; ‘The Muppet Show’ returns for a delightful one-off special; Mackenzie Crook’s new comedy ‘Small Prophets’ follows a lonely man railing against modernity — reviews by Rebecca Nicholson

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  • Sunday, 15 February, 2026
    Northern Ireland
    How to get to TV heaven? From Belfast

    Lisa McGee’s new Netflix drama comes as Northern Ireland enjoys a film and TV boom

    Lisa McGee stands indoors, smiling, with one hand in her pocket, wearing a blue blouse with ruffled sleeves and a burgundy vest.
  • Saturday, 14 February, 2026
    ObituaryJames Van Der Beek
    James Van Der Beek, actor, 1977-2026

    As the star of the television drama ‘Dawson’s Creek’, he captured the hearts of teenagers the world over

    James Van Der Beek in 2018. With his tousled golden hair and Disney prince looks, the actor rocketed to heart-throb status
  • Friday, 13 February, 2026
    ReviewTheatre
    Yes Minister update I’m Sorry, Prime Minister shows that politics may be beyond a joke

    Stage version of the beloved sitcom relies on jokes about social progress and cancel culture rather than Westminster machinations

    A scene from a stage play in which a middle-aged man with grey hair and in shirt and tie talks to an elderly man with white hair seated next to him on a sofa placed behind a coffee table with cups and a cafetiere.
  • Thursday, 12 February, 2026
    Economic statistics
    The ONS vs Industry

    The stats agency / prestige television beef we didn’t know we needed

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  • Thursday, 12 February, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Love Story — JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette saga is a glossy and gossipy US version of The Crown

    Ryan Murphy turns his gaze on the Kennedys and their place at the heart of American society

    Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Paul Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr. share a slow dance under string lights and paper lanterns.
  • Thursday, 12 February, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    How to Get to Heaven from Belfast — Derry Girls creator returns with a wild and gag-laden Netflix show

    Lisa McGee’s genre-defying Netflix series centres on three friends who become embroiled in a murder mystery

    Sinead Keenan as Robyn, Caoilfhionn Dunne as Dara, and Roisin Gallagher as Saoirse crouch together near stacked luggage, appearing tense or conspiratorial.
  • Thursday, 12 February, 2026
    Interview
    How Walter Iuzzolino sold the UK on subtitled TV

    The brains behind Channel 4’s Walter Presents on tracking down the world’s best shows — and moving to a new city each year

    Montage of TV stills.
  • Wednesday, 11 February, 2026
    Turkish economy
    High inflation punctures Turkey’s TV soap bubble

    Dizi television dramas popular across the world are a parable of country’s broader economic woes

    A man in a suit and a woman in a blue dress hold hands while walking through a crowded street, surrounded by bystanders and market stalls.
  • Tuesday, 10 February, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Betrayal — Romola Garai and Shaun Evans bring star quality to new spy thriller

    The ITV series about an intelligence officer focuses on the emotional cost of secrecy

    Shaun Evans as John Hughes and Romola Garai as Claire sit in armchairs, engaged in conversation.
  • Monday, 9 February, 2026
    Media
    Warner streaming boss defends HBO Max UK launch ahead of Netflix takeover

    JB Perrette claims ‘last mover advantage’ in crowded market ahead of its debut next month

    Teyana Taylor as Perfidia in ‘One Battle After Another’
  • Monday, 9 February, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Small Prophets — Mackenzie Crook’s new BBC series is unexpected and very charming

    The ‘Detectorists’ creator returns with an idiosyncratic comedy with a folkloric twist

    Michael (Pearce Quigley) and Kacey (Lauren Patel) clink bottles while sitting outdoors by a fire pit, surrounded by greenery.
  • Saturday, 7 February, 2026
    Rebecca Watson
    The treacherous business of screen-to-stage

    A theatrical adaptation for ‘The Traitors’ shows how audiences are being kept in the comfort zone

    A person in a red cloak holds a lit lantern in a dark, misty forest at night.
  • Saturday, 7 February, 2026
    Film
    ‘Handmade, instinctive, intimate’: behind the scenes at Aardman animation studio

    At 50, the company behind stop-motion superstars Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep is the subject of a major exhibition in London’s Young V&A

    Wallace and Gromit models stand on a patterned floor inside the Young V&A, with a "DESIGN" sign visible in the background.
  • Friday, 6 February, 2026
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    Lord of the Flies — a beautiful, haunting and confusing adaptation

    Written by Jack Thorne, the first TV take on William Golding’s classic prizes artfulness over clarity

    Roger (Thomas Connor), Ralph (Winston Sawyers), Piggy (David McKenna), Littlun (Lake Coleman), and Simon (Ike Talbut) gather with other boys on a beach, some seated and some standing.
  • Friday, 30 January, 2026
    Lunch with the FT
    Actor Riz Ahmed: ‘I want to tell my own stories’

    The Oscar winner on the liberating power of film, what Hollywood still has to offer — and realising his 20-year ambition to produce and star in his own ‘Hamlet’

    An illustration of a man wearing a black jacket and cap
  • Thursday, 29 January, 2026
    Review
    Bridgerton series 4 — yet more forbidden love, finery and heavy breathing

    The rumour mills of Regency romance keep on churning as the Netflix hit continues to stick to what it knows

    Luke Thompson as Benedict Bridgerton lounges in a leather armchair, adjusting his collar with a relaxed expression.
  • Wednesday, 28 January, 2026
    Digital media
    Google scuppers service comparing YouTube viewing with TV and streaming audiences

    ‘Cease and desist’ letter forces Barb and Kantar Media to halt measurement service just months after its launch

    MrBeast waves and smiles onstage at YouTube Brandcast 2025, standing beside a large illustrated logo.
  • Tuesday, 27 January, 2026
    Review
    Take That — the rise, fall and rise again of one of Britain’s biggest boy bands

    A new Netflix documentary offers a heady dose of nostalgia as it traces the group’s journey to pop stardom

    Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen, Robbie Williams and Jason Orange of Take That pose together in studded black jackets, some bare-chested, against a plain background.
  • Monday, 26 January, 2026
    Review
    Wonder Man — Marvel series is more indie buddy comedy than superhero story

    Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley star in an eight-parter that favours 1970s cinema references over big blowouts

    Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley smiling with arms around each other in a colorful costume shop.
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