Santiago Campos says he felt obligated to criticize the network’s direction, which ‘stains legacy of Mike Wallace’Standing in front of the most powerful and well-known people in the television news business on Wednesday night, in a glitzy New York City ballroom, 18-year-old high school student Santiago Campos shocked – but also delighted –&nbsp;many in attendance when he called out the network that funded the scholarship he received: CBS News.Campos, a graduating senior at the District of Columbia international school who had traveled to New York for the 47th annual news and documentary Emmy awards with his mother and teacher, was awarded the Mike Wallace memorial scholarship, honoring the legendary television interviewer. Campos was given the award by veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, who said: “Mike would see something of himself in this year’s recipient.” <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/29/student-cbs-scholarship-winner">Continue reading...</a>

Santiago Campos says he felt obligated to criticize the network’s direction, which ‘stains legacy of Mike Wallace’

Student awarded CBS News scholarship explains why he called out network at event: ‘I had to do it’

Speaking at Amazon’s AI on the Lot event, the Rogue One film-maker Gareth Edwards said ‘it’ll do anything you ask’ and ‘it’s going to be better than CGI’Jurassic World Rebirth and Rogue One director Gareth Edwards has enthusiastically endorsed the use of generative AI in film-making, saying “it is a fucking genius at helping you” and “it’s going to be better than CGI”.Edwards was speaking at AI on the Lot, an event in Culver City, California, organised by Amazon, and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/gareth-edwards-excited-ai-filmmaking-1236608376/">in remarks reported by the Hollywood Reporter</a> said: “I can’t see a reason why you wouldn’t become interested in this stuff as a film-maker. It’s so clearly a tool that might be up there with the camera. It’s going to be better than CGI.” <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/29/star-wars-rogue-one-director-gareth-edwards-praises-ai-film-making">Continue reading...</a>

Speaking at Amazon’s AI on the Lot event, the Rogue One film-maker Gareth Edwards said ‘it’ll do anything you ask’ and ‘it’s going to be better than CGI’

‘Like a billionaire on acid’: Star Wars director Gareth Edwards comes out in favour of AI

The actor’s alleged clashes with colleagues have sparked rumours about his future on the hit show – which others dispute. But these aren’t the first accusations of him being a tricky colleagueIf you’re at all familiar with the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/30/mobland-review-tom-hardy-guy-ritchie">Paramount+ series MobLand</a>, these past few days will have come as an absolute revelation. At long last, just when everyone thought it wouldn’t ever be possible, something exciting has happened. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen onscreen.Instead, rumours are swirling that Tom Hardy has been fired. Almost a week ago, Puck reported that Hardy had departed the MobLand set after clashing with cast and crew. As things currently stand, that has been walked back a little – partly because Paramount has yet to greenlight a third series at all – but the takeaway remains the same: Tom Hardy sounds like an absolute nightmare to work with. 
 According to the Hollywood Reporter, his MobLand behaviour has involved a greater insistence on creative control – delivering script notes to producer Jez Butterworth and creator Ronan Bennett – while generally arriving late and locking himself in his trailer for hours on end. “He kept the cast waiting, [which is] a power play,” a source told the outlet. “Keeping Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and others waiting is career suicide, I would wager.” This appears to be a wager that the source has lost, given that Mirren posted a photo of Hardy’s face on Instagram last night, captioned “Love you now and always”. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/29/has-tom-hardy-been-fired-from-mobland-paramount">Continue reading...</a>

The actor’s alleged clashes with colleagues have sparked rumours about his future on the hit show – which others dispute. But these aren’t the first accu...

Turning up late and making Helen Mirren wait: has Tom Hardy been fired from MobLand?

The creator of It’s a Sin is back – and he’s furious. His new series, Tip Toe, explores the rise of homophobia through a feud between two Manchester neighbours. He and stars Alan Cumming and David Morrissey talk death, fear and ‘joy as a form of protest’Late at night on Manchester’s Canal Street, the heart of the city’s famous queer scene, two neighbours are at war. An escalating feud between gay bar manager Leo (Alan Cumming) and reserved, judgmental neighbour Clive (David Morrissey) shows no sign of abating. Yells from Leo are so loud they echo down the canal. The street is not closed to the public as their altercation plays out, so you can’t tell who in the background is an employee at Leo’s bar, Spit &amp; Polish, who is a regular, and who is a member of the public out for their midweek pint. In the background, an ambulance’s lights flash while unflappable drag queens continue to flyer for their neighbouring bars.Russell T Davies’s Tip Toe, a new Channel 4 drama, looks at how political rhetoric, toxic online bullying and misinformation can add jet fuel to a feud between neighbours. The location of the series won’t be lost on viewers of Queer As Folk. The 1999 classic, which regularly featured scenes shot in Canal Street, followed the lives of three gay men, in a way that not only made being gay seem cool, it also reflected a new era of tolerance. Viewers took from it that the future could only be bright. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/29/inside-russell-t-davies-tip-top-drama-alan-cumming-david-morrissey">Continue reading...</a>

The creator of It’s a Sin is back – and he’s furious. His new series, Tip Toe, explores the rise of homophobia through a feud between two Manchester neig...

‘How often I’m called a paedophile online is shocking’: inside Russell T Davies’s horrifying drama about rising hatred

Changes are part of sweeping shake-up by Victoria Easton Riley, BBC Scotland’s new head of audio and eventsThere is a “deep sense of unease” among staff at BBC Radio Scotland after a succession of respected arts presenters, more than half of them women, were dropped from schedules.The changes have prompted questions about diversity of coverage amid an apparent shift to a “more commercial sensibility” for the public broadcaster. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/28/bbc-radio-scotland-axed-presenters-women">Continue reading...</a>

Changes are part of sweeping shake-up by Victoria Easton Riley, BBC Scotland’s new head of audio and events

‘Deep unease’ at BBC Radio Scotland as majority of axed presenters are women

Staff members claim hit Channel 4 show’s culture was ‘toxic from the top down’ amid allegations of rape by female cast membersMarried at First Sight UK had an “unhealthy” focus on whether cast members were having sex, former and current workers on the show have said.One former crew member said the culture on the hit Channel 4 show was “toxic from the top down”. The claims from crew members were reported by the BBC, which previously broadcast allegations from two female cast members that they were raped by their on-screen partners. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/28/marrried-at-first-sight-uk-unhealthy-focus-sex-insiders-channel-4">Continue reading...</a>

Staff members claim hit Channel 4 show’s culture was ‘toxic from the top down’ amid allegations of rape by female cast members

Married at First Sight UK had ‘unhealthy’ focus on sex, say show’s insiders

<ul><li>Paramount+ will air 183 matches per season</li><li>Deal is major uplift in valuation of TV rights</li></ul>CBS Sports has signed a four-year deal to acquire the rights to broadcast the Women’s Super League live in the US from next season until the end of the 2029-30 campaign.The new deal will see the Paramount+ streaming service air 183 WSL matches a season, while the CBS Sports Network will show one live match a week, with select matches also airing on CBS Sports Golazo Network. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/may/28/wsl-cbs-record-tv-deal-us">Continue reading...</a>

Paramount+ will air 183 matches per season

WSL lands record four-year deal with CBS Sports to broadcast games in the US

The Irish singer-songwriter says her rise has been increasingly ‘tarnished by the fact that I would be allowed to enjoy it so much more if I was thin’The Irish singer-songwriter CMAT has responded to ongoing abuse she has received about her body and her weight following an appearance last week at BBC’s Radio 1 Big Weekend.The musician, whose real name is Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, wrote on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DY5OkGLDJ1o/?igsh=NDZlMDQwc2liYWFp&amp;img_index=4">Instagram</a> on Thursday that she had felt “compelled to wade in and speak for myself” after learning of the abuse being directed at photos taken of her on stage at the Sunderland festival on 24 May. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/29/cmat-shares-deep-sadness-over-body-shaming-bbc-radio-1-big-weekend">Continue reading...</a>

The Irish singer-songwriter says her rise has been increasingly ‘tarnished by the fact that I would be allowed to enjoy it so much more if I was thin’

CMAT shares ‘deep sadness’ over body-shaming after BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend performance

<ul><li>Tim Payne identified as least-known player by Argentinian influencer</li><li>Campaign launched to make defender a ‘hero’ before tournament </li></ul>New Zealand defender Tim Payne has become an unlikely star after an influencer from Argentina called on his followers to unite and make the little-known 32-year-old a “hero” of the upcoming World Cup.El Scarso, a football influencer also known as Valen Scarsini, identified Payne as the least-known player at the World Cup in Canada, the United States and Mexico based on his small social media following. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/may/29/tim-payne-new-zealand-player-world-cup-2026-social-media">Continue reading...</a>

Tim Payne identified as least-known player by Argentinian influencer

From 5,000 followers to over a million: New Zealand World Cup player Tim Payne finds social media fame

The Department of Justice’s blatant disregard for the constitution and attempt to hide the law is disturbingOn Tuesday, a federal judge unsealed records showing that the Department of Justice tried and failed to get search warrants targeting journalists <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/02/don-lemon-georgia-fort-arrest-first-amendment">Don Lemon and Georgia Fort</a>, as well as three protesters involved in the Cities church demonstration in St Paul, Minnesota, last winter.A court rejected the search warrants – twice. In strikingly blunt opinions, magistrate judge John Docherty said officials <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.232141/gov.uscourts.mnd.232141.1.0_2.pdf">didn’t meet basic legal standards</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.232141/gov.uscourts.mnd.232141.4.0_1.pdf">chastised them</a> for failing to mention a federal law that may have made some of the warrants illegal. The Department of Justice later <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.232141/gov.uscourts.mnd.232141.9.0_1.pdf">withdrew</a> the requests. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/29/journalists-search-warrants-justice-department">Continue reading...</a>

The Department of Justice’s blatant disregard for the constitution and attempt to hide the law is disturbing

Why are journalists being subjected to search warrants in the US? | Caitlin Vogus

After the politically incisive late-night host said his final goodnight last week, Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed offered a grim look at where TV is headingThe applause, dear God, the applause. It has you bracing against the headboard and groping for the remote when Comics Unleashed detonates onto the screen just before midnight. A soulless barrage of whoops, cheers and apparatchik-grade terror clapping, it hits like a jet engine at takeoff, swallowing the show’s disembodied announcer in a silo of his own manufactured zaniness.The applause snuffs out introductions to the guests, all stand-up comics – a who’s who of who’s that – and upstages a modest studio audience that appears to have been rounded up from pamphlet-clutching LA tourists. It even leaves the host himself, 65-year-old Byron Allen, limply shuffling to reclaim the frame as the show’s cameras whip around him from every conceivable angle. In the reverse shots, you can already see the night’s guests parked in the makeshift waiting-room setup at stage left, apparently settled in for Allen’s monologue. But there is no monologue. Comics Unleashed has no writers, no comic sensibility, no discernible point of view – because CBS bent the knee to Donald Trump, and Allen makes Jimmy Fallon look like Eugene Debs. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/29/stephen-colbert-late-show-replacement-byron-allen">Continue reading...</a>

After the politically incisive late-night host said his final goodnight last week, Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed offered a grim look at where TV is heading

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show replacement is a depressing sign of the times

Was the resignation of Justin Stevens leaked to the press? Plus: 7.30 is safe despite speculation it faces axe<ul><li>Want to get this in your inbox every Friday?<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/28/weekly-beast-email-austrailan-media-diary-free-newsletter-subscribe-sign-up?CMP=cvau_sfl"> Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter here</a></li></ul>The ABC managing director Hugh Marks, appearing at Senate estimates after losing his news director a day earlier, gave a master class in sending a strong message by not saying anything.Justin Stevens <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/27/justin-stevens-resigns-abc-director-of-news">resigned after four years in the role</a>, citing personal and professional reasons. His exit was immediate, and the fact his successor had already been chosen did raise questions. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/29/weekly-beast-abc-boss-hugh-marks-scrutiny-on-head-of-news-justin-stevens-resignation">Continue reading...</a>

Was the resignation of Justin Stevens leaked to the press? Plus: 7.30 is safe despite speculation it faces axe

ABC boss a master of silence amid scrutiny on news chief’s departure | Weekly Beast

Cinema’s great maximalist going full pumpkin-bomb pantomime in the 2002 film might have dragged it into an even more operatically deranged dimensionThere are numerous sliding doors moments in Hollywood that, had they actually happened, would have fractured the space-time continuum like a DeLorean hitting potholes at 88mph. Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones, Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly, Sean Connery as Gandalf, Bill Murray as a distinctly sardonic Batman. And yet, if there has ever been a more deliciously unhinged alternate timeline than Nicolas Cage as the Green Goblin/Norman Osborn in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man from 2002, it has probably already been confiscated by the time police for crimes against narrative stability.This is not the first time we’ve heard about Cage’s potential involvement in the film - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://ew.com/movies/2002/04/26/swing-time/?srsltid=AfmBOoqkH5hhsLTrCawV_nM0jl_hR0Et-yGhBHG9sqEU45tTZuLaMoac&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com">Entertainment Weekly’s feature from 24 years ago</a> noted that Cage, John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe (who eventually got the role) were all “up for the Green Goblin”. But it appears to be the first time Cage himself has spoken about it in any detail. While promoting the new series Spider-Noir, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nicolas-cage-spider-noir-watching-breaking-bad-true-detective-1236758915/">Cage told Variety</a>: “Sam and I had a great lunch, and I did say during the lunch, ‘Listen: whoever plays Spider-Man, let them do one scene where they’re crawling around like a spider when they’re alone,’ and it didn’t happen … He wanted me to do the Green Goblin. I liked the idea of Sam Raimi, because of Evil Dead 1 and 2, and I wanted to work with him.” <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/29/nicolas-cage-green-goblin-spider-man-sam-raimi">Continue reading...</a>

Cinema’s great maximalist going full pumpkin-bomb pantomime in the 2002 film might have dragged it into an even more operatically deranged dimension

Nicolas Cage as the Green Goblin? It will always be one of Hollywood’s great might-have-beens

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