Adolescence co-writer criticises government inaction and calls for laws banning secret use of AI to generate scripts Jack Thorne, one of Britain’s most successful screen and stage writers, has warned that some people in his profession are using AI “to cheat”, as he called for laws banning the secret use of the technology to generate scripts.Thorne, who co-wrote the hit Netflix drama <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/10/adolescence-dominates-bafta-tv-awards">Adolescence</a> and wrote the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, said that “writers need to be squeaky clean” in the face of AI models that “steal” the creative industry’s work. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/14/jack-thorne-scriptwriters-ai-artificial-intelligence">Continue reading...</a>

Adolescence co-writer criticises government inaction and calls for laws banning secret use of AI to generate scripts

Jack Thorne warns some fellow scriptwriters are using AI ‘to cheat’

Former primetime TV host films himself eating dog biscuits, doing ‘munchie runs’ and addressing pool death caseFilming from the driver’s seat of his car, with his pet whippet, Lara, in the background, Michael Barrymore shows an array of dog treats he has collected to test to the camera. There’s a twist, though: it won’t be the dog doing the testing.In a series of quick edits, the fallen star of primetime 1990s television <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@themichaelbarrymore/video/7668687698399481110?lang=en-GB&amp;q=barrymore%20dog%20treats&amp;t=1788967533418">grimaces his way through cheese biscuits and pork sausages</a>. The lamb spaghetti is particularly challenging, though he claims to quite like the chicken sausage slices. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/12/michael-barrymore-becomes-unlikely-tiktok-star-with-nearly-5m-followers">Continue reading...</a>

Former primetime TV host films himself eating dog biscuits, doing ‘munchie runs’ and addressing pool death case

Michael Barrymore becomes unlikely TikTok star with nearly 5m followers

The 42-year-old liberal commentator regularly co-hosts the network’s 5pm talk show, taking flak from her conservative colleagues and harsh insults from the president.Jessica Tarlov is the left-leaning Fox News host that some of the network’s most conservative viewers, including Donald Trump, love to hate.The US president regularly bashes Tarlov on his Truth Social platform, in April calling her “one of the Least Attractive and Talented People on all of Television”, and demanding that Fox “GET HER OFF THE AIR.” <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/sep/14/jessica-tarlov-fox-news-liberal">Continue reading...</a>

The 42-year-old liberal commentator regularly co-hosts the network’s 5pm talk show, taking flak from her conservative colleagues and harsh insults from t...

She’s Donald Trump’s least-favorite Fox News host. But Jessica Tarlov remains undeterred

The former New York Times columnist is taking a step away from politics to focus on moral and humanistic concerns the media rarely coverDavid Brooks knows there are plenty of podcasts out there. But as the veteran commentator prepares to launch his own, he believes there is still space for someone to tackle the big moral questions facing us all.Brooks, who left the New York Times in February after 22 years and joined the Atlantic magazine full-time as a staff writer, hopes to fill that market gap with a new video podcast called The Permanent Questions, funded in part by Yale University, that will air weekly starting on Sunday. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/sep/12/david-brooks-podcast-permanent-questions">Continue reading...</a>

The former New York Times columnist is taking a step away from politics to focus on moral and humanistic concerns the media rarely cover

‘There’s a weird market failure in media’: David Brooks on how his new podcast will tackle the big questions

Her riotous weekly show had an army of devoted fans. Now Tarbuck has joined the ranks of star presenters leaving the BBC – and she’s getting her hands dirtyA tragedy. A national disaster. A loss to the cultural landscape that should be discussed in parliament. These were just a few listener reactions when Liza Tarbuck left her Radio 2 show earlier this year. “I was bereft about it, too,” sighs Tarbuck. “I miss angsting over the playlist. I miss the texts and emails. For two hours every weekend, we were a proper gang.”Tarbuck hosted her Saturday evening show for 14 years, building it into the funniest show on British radio. Her riotous mix of freewheeling chat and hand-picked tunes (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DEuyVc2oNL5/">the music could span nine decades</a> in the same show) drew an audience of 2 million, and received more messages from listeners – 50 per minute – than any other programme on the station. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/12/liza-tarbuck-radio-2-great-celebrity-pottery-throwdown">Continue reading...</a>

Her riotous weekly show had an army of devoted fans. Now Tarbuck has joined the ranks of star presenters leaving the BBC – and she’s getting her hands dirty

‘I love a bit of mischief!’ Liza Tarbuck on why she’s swapping her Radio 2 mic for a potter’s wheel

May el-Toukhy becomes eighth female director to take Golden Lion as Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love and Guardian-produced exposé of Israel’s Gaza killings also awarded<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/12/bold-bravura-choices-venice-film-festival-woman-unknown-possible-love-naza">Bold and bravura choices as Venice celebrates A Woman Unknown, Possible Love – and NAZA</a></li></ul>May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown has scooped the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, at an awards ceremony that also saw the Gaza documentary NAZA win the jury prize.Set in the immediate aftermath of Danish liberation from Nazi occupation, the Egyptian-Danish director’s film tells the story of a young housemaid, Marie (Mathilde Arcel), who is about to marry her widowed employer but anxious about him discovering a shameful secret in her past: during the war, Marie had an intimate relationship with a German soldier. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/12/woman-unknown-wins-venice-film-festival-as-naza-takes-special-jury-prize">Continue reading...</a>

May el-Toukhy becomes eighth female director to take Golden Lion as Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love and Guardian-produced exposé of Israel’s Gaza killings...

Woman Unknown wins Venice film festival as NAZA takes special jury prize

An outstanding figure in the UK film industry, Thomas was noted for collaborations with directors including Bernardo Bertolucci and David CronenbergJeremy Thomas, the distinguished British producer of films including Sexy Beast, High-Rise and the multi-Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, has died aged 77.A representative for Thomas said he died on Friday “peacefully, at his country home in Oxfordshire, surrounded by his family and loved ones”. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/12/jeremy-thomas-producer-the-last-emperor-sexy-beast-dies">Continue reading...</a>

An outstanding figure in the UK film industry, Thomas was noted for collaborations with directors including Bernardo Bertolucci and David Cronenberg

Jeremy Thomas, British producer of The Last Emperor and Sexy Beast, dies aged 77

Labour’s Catherine Atkinson says she will give students £5,000 paid to her by paper that falsely accused her of concealing private school educationA new scholarship supporting state-educated students will be inadvertently funded by the Mail on Sunday (MoS), using a payout it made after being threatened with legal action by the Labour MP Catherine Atkinson.The Derby North MP says she will use the proceeds of about £5,000 from the newspaper to fund scholarships for local law students at the University of Derby who – like her – attended state schools. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/sep/11/mail-on-sunday-funds-state-school-scholarship-via-payout-to-mp">Continue reading...</a>

Labour’s Catherine Atkinson says she will give students £5,000 paid to her by  paper that falsely accused her of concealing private school education

Mail on Sunday ends up funding state school scholarship via payout to MP

The year’s biggest night in television includes plenty of nominations for Pluribus, The Pitt and Hacks – but who will win?And just like that, the summer of catching up on TV is over. The Emmys are back, this year on a (non-football competing) Monday night with a healthy mix of lauded veterans and buzzy newcomers. Will <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/the-pitt">The Pitt</a>, leading the night with 25 nominations, once again sweep the drama awards? Will breakout horror-comedy <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/29/widows-bay-review-matthew-rhys-intoxicating-comedy-horror-is-an-absolute-blast">Widow’s Bay</a> spoil the party for the fifth and final season of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/hacks">Hacks</a>? Here are our picks for the night: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/12/emmys-2026-predictions-winners-pluribus-hacks-the-pitt">Continue reading...</a>

The year’s biggest night in television includes plenty of nominations for Pluribus, The Pitt and Hacks – but who will win?

Emmys 2026 predictions: who will win and who should win?

The man behind The Last Emperor had the confidence of an old-fashioned studio boss along with the soul of a cineasteTo say that movie producer Jeremy Thomas was British cinema royalty did not quite do justice to his meritocratic, democratic instincts. A brilliant and inexhaustibly creative man, self-effacingly charming and quietly spoken in a world of loudmouths and show-offs, and hypervigilant for new talent, was more like a cross between an entrepreneur, an enigmatically clever and kindly Cambridge don and the movie world’s favourite cool uncle, or maybe cool great-uncle.Respectively son and nephew of directors Ralph Thomas and Gerald Thomas (of Doctor in the House and Carry On fame), he was born into the industry and as an independent producer combined the confidence of an old-fashioned studio boss with the soul of a cineaste, backing his own instincts and passions, befriending film-makers and doggedly pursuing projects over years. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/12/jeremy-thomas-film-producer-kindly-cambridge-don-cool-uncle">Continue reading...</a>

The man behind The Last Emperor had the confidence of an old-fashioned studio boss along with the soul of a cineaste

Film producer Jeremy Thomas was a cross between a kindly Cambridge don and the movie world’s cool uncle

I’ll miss Monty Don, and I know I’m not alone in finding the show a balm for the soul. But this is the perfect opportunity for a shake-upIt’s finally happened. National treasure Monty Don is hanging up his TV garden shears <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/08/monty-don-steps-down-bbc-gardeners-world">and saying goodbye</a> to Gardeners’ World after more than 20 years as the BBC show’s lead presenter. I’ve been a grower for more than a decade myself, and Monty has been a steady and wise omnipresence throughout my journey – especially as he’s been on the right side of contemporary gardening debates over the environment and wildlife, and the use of chemicals and peat in horticulture.That is where the overlap between our worlds of growing end, though. My modest patch of a few veg beds at the end of a small, chaotic and mostly gravelled garden is a universe away from the two-acre dreamscape that is Longmeadow, Don’s garden at his home in Herefordshire. I suspect I’m one of millions who’ve looked longingly at Monty’s remarkable space and the impressive infrastructure (not to mention hired hands!) that make it so special, and cursed the fact that such an ideal garden will never be within reach of us ordinary folk. That’s not to say that it hasn’t been a glorious setting for Monty to share his abundance of plant wisdom from, but now that the search for his replacement is presumably on, perhaps this is an opportunity for a little reimagining.Claire Ratinon is an organic food grower and writer <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/11/gardeners-world-monty-don-reflect-britain-gardens">Continue reading...</a>

I’ll miss Monty Don, and I know I’m not alone in finding the show a balm for the soul. But this is the perfect opportunity for a shake-up

It’s time for a Gardeners' World that reflects Britain’s gardens in all their messy, realistic chaos | Claire Ratinon

Hating The Apprentice? Bored silly of House of the Dragon? Given up on your favourite soap opera after 50 years? Guardian readers share the shows they can’t bear to watchWe loved this show for the first four or five seasons. It had a really good mix of candidates, different ages and walks of life. I think it was after season nine that we started to feel the programme was losing its authenticity. Contestants started to look like homogenous Love Islanders, all the same demographic – 20-30 age bracket, highly polished body image, eye on a post-show influencer career, etc. It lost its uniqueness and became just another reality show. Ngaire Vine, 56, Derbyshire <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/11/tv-shows-you-cant-stomach-any-more">Continue reading...</a>

Hating The Apprentice? Bored silly of House of the Dragon? Given up on your favourite soap opera after 50 years? Guardian readers share the shows they ca...

‘You’re fired!’ The TV shows you can’t stomach any more

Geeks, toffs and biceps go to war in a wild survival experiment that answers that eternal question: if society collapsed, could you cope? This is going to be huge!Have you ever wondered how Cormac McCarthy’s wasteland novel <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/04/featuresreviews.guardianreview4">The Road</a> could be made into a reality show? No? Well someone who works in TV has, so here we are. Who knows if they experienced a follow-up thought: that the instinct to package the end of the world as entertainment might be the most dystopian aspect of the whole enterprise, but hey. Apocalypse (Sunday 13 September, 9pm, Channel 4) launches this week, and people are buzzing!It’s a slam dunk for a show, because we’ve all run the thought experiment. If society collapsed, how would you get food and find shelter? Would you hunker down or forge alliances? To what depravities might you stoop without the rule of law? Apocalypse puts this empty talk to the test. Seven strangers are dropped at the edge of an abandoned town. They have no access to phones, light, electricity or infrastructure. They do have access to boarded-up supermarkets, desolate buildings, broken vehicles. How soon until they eat each other?Apocalypse starts on Channel 4 in the UK on 13 September and Binge in Australia on 16 September <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/12/apocalypse-this-end-of-days-survival-show-is-an-absolute-slam-dunk">Continue reading...</a>

Geeks, toffs and biceps go to war in a wild survival experiment that answers that eternal question: if society collapsed, could you cope? This is going t...

Apocalypse: this end-of-days survival show is an absolute slam dunk

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Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.

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Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying diversified.

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