The historic allegations, which Brand has denied, date back to 2006-13 when he was a radio and TV presenter Detectives investigating historic allegations of sexual assault against Russell Brand have asked prosecutors to consider bringing...
A production slump across the TV industry has left comedians struggling to get ideas off the ground, but Radio 4’s Julia McKenzie believes audio is the answer Radio can fill the gap left by a slump in TV production to champion new...
Posts lauding anything from running in the rain to tiredness and a comfy bed are springing up on Instagram and TikTok “What a privilege it is to run in the rain. What a privilege it is to have a house I need to clean.” Social media is...
A vote for Donald Trump next week is also a vote for Elon Musk. The tech boss will have a springboard to greater power even than the US presidency This is what happens when successive US governments fail to tackle inequality. While...
Japanese character said to be second-highest grossing media franchise after Pokémon is also a TikTok superstar She sports a signature red bow, her hobbies are travelling, reading and baking, and – despite celebrating her 50th birthday –...
Trump lashed out after interview featured more concise version of Harris’s answer to question on war in Gaza than had appeared in trailer US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump has sued CBS News for $10bn, alleging an interview...
The candidates have raised an extraordinary amount of money in an election awash with cash on an unprecedented scale It was one of the most striking images of the final full week of the presidential election campaign: a giant projection...
Warnings are not enough. After Victoria Roshchyna’s death, we need zero tolerance of the detention and brutal treatment of female reporters Last summer I began receiving messages about the disappearance of 26-year-old Victoria Roshchyna,...
Moscow trying to force tech firm to lift YouTube ban on pro-Kremlin media with fines totalling astronomical sum The Kremlin has said that Russia’s huge fines imposed on Google were largely symbolic and designed to spur the US tech...
The chancellor, on the morning-after media round, just scraped a no-score draw despite a pervasive sense of unkept promises The morning after the day and night before. Traditionally the time by which any budget that is going to unravel...
TV, radio and mailboxes in Saginaw, Michigan, and any place likely to decide next week’s election, are being bombarded There is almost no escape. One minute, you’re watching the spin of a wheel on a game show and a few seconds later,...
GB News to challenge decision and watchdog will not enforce sanction until proceedings are concluded Politics live – latest updates Ofcom has fined the rightwing broadcaster GB News £100,000 for “breaking due impartiality rules” after an...
Headlines featured numerous ‘nightmare’ allusions for budget delivered the day before Halloween Politics live – latest updates After Rachel Reeves’s first budget as chancellor, which included £40bn in tax rises, newspaper headlines in...
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Star-Ledger’s owner said decision was due to rising costs, decreasing circulation and reduced demand for print copies The owner of New Jersey’s largest newspaper says it will stop publishing a daily print version of the paper early next...
My father-in-law, Christopher Penfold, who has died aged 83, was an influential writer and script editor in British film and television. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he wrote or script-edited more than 300 hours of primetime...
When Margaret Howard left BBC Radio 4’s Pick of the Week in 1991, it fell to me, as the programme’s chief producer, to propose Chris Serle as her successor. All went well until 1994, when the actor Ian McKellen, speaking on Nick Ross’s...
The ads come and go so fast you have to speed up to watch them – and before you can see them properly they vanish I glimpse them in the distance just as the M4 readies itself to peter out into west London. They are now to be found along...
America’s most prominent soccer broadcaster leaves no doubt about his political affiliation. That risks alienating a large swathe of fans in the US As the US men’s national team prepared to kick off against Panama earlier this month,...
Kim Williams says funding local news and public interest journalism is crucial in a world where ‘the distortion of culture poses such a grave threat to democracy’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The tech...
Speaking at the FT Digital Media 2016 conference, Jimmy Maymann, executive vice president at AOL, explains how his company is preparing to update its output to match changing audience habits