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This Is Not a Murder Mystery 8pm, U&DramaA period crime drama set in West Sussex, 1936: a stately home is playing host to the hottest artists of the day, including Salvador Dalí, Man Ray and René Magritte. After a party fuelled by cocaine, opium and professional jealousy, a body is found, staged like Magritte’s The…
Federal regulators on Tuesday ordered a review of all station licenses owned by ABC, an extraordinary move to pressure a major television network whose programming has frequently angered President Trump. The agency overseeing the review, the Federal Communications Commission, said in a filing that the action was related to an investigation into ABC’s diversity and…
In a community centre in London, a ping pong table, a treadmill and a row of computers hug the edges of the room. It all feels familiar, apart from the towering green structure with dangling multicoloured ribbons: a maypole, and we’re here to dance around it. Our group of six circle it and get ready,…
Published on 28/04/2026 – 15:26 GMT+2 What a difference a few hours make… ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Following calls for his firing from The White House and Melania Trump, US talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel has defended a joke he made, in which he called the First Lady an “expectant widow” just days before the recent shooting incident…
Published on 28/04/2026 – 13:52 GMT+2 Tony Wilson, who was best known as one of the founding members of the British soul band Hot Chocolate, has died aged 89. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Wilson’s family confirmed that the songwriter and bassist died on Friday (24 April) at his home in Trinidad. “He left a lot of music…
Fade in with the dark synth tunes. Cue the DeLorean-ish flying car with the winged doors, the body splicers, the street gang and the crooked cops. Spotlight the nefarious multinational corporation pulling the strings. Arrange these elements around a ghostly buddy story about a sentient A.I. and its creator. Punctuate the completion of story beats…
Half Man 10.40pm, BBC OneRichard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer comes to regular telly, having premiered on iPlayer last week. Mitchell Robertson and Stuart Campbell are both superb as weak Niall and violent Ruben, a duo of 1980s schoolboys. We flash forward to glimpse Jamie Bell and Gadd himself playing them as adults – who…
Luis Puenzo, an Argentine film director whose “The Official Story,” based on the yearslong “dirty war” in which Argentina’s military regime killed and disappeared thousands of people it perceived as its enemies, brought his country its first Academy Award for best foreign language film, died on Tuesday in Buenos Aires. He was 80. His death…
‘It’s magical,” says Loie Hollowell. “It’s such good timing!” The artist, speaking via Zoom from her studio in Queens, New York, is referring to the Artemis II moon mission. Little did she know, when she named her latest painting series Overview Effect, after the term used by astronauts to describe the experience of seeing Earth…
Lifting an earthenware mortar above your head to protect yourself from the rain of fire. It’s an instinctive, desperate, almost primordial gesture. It was one of the last acts performed by a man fleeing during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, now reconstructed thanks to new excavations in the Porta Stabia necropolis in Pompeii….
