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Conspiracies, costume changes, and three-hour deep dives: inside the wild west of YouTube video essays

Mixing dense political ideas with allusions to Twilight and Donald Duck, these films have become a thrilling DIY artform – one entirely conceived, written, filmed and performed by their stars

The Guardian - UK

Documentarian Adam Curtis: 70, encyclopaedic and the BBC’s coolest asset

INTERVIEW: The cult documentary maker tells Hannah Ewens why he’ll never use words like ‘neoliberal’ in his films, how money has burrowed its way into our consciousness and why the real self has disappeared deep within our minds and we’ll never find it

The Independent UK

The targeting of Iran: inside the 20 June Guardian Weekly

What Israel really wants. Plus: How does woke start winning again?

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Shifty review – Adam Curtis’s new show is an utter rarity: stylish, intelligent TV with something to say

The celebrated documentarian’s five-part series charts the decline of Britain’s democracy with a witty, kaleidoscopic selection of archive footage. It begins, of course, with Margaret Thatcher

The Guardian - UK

Thatcher, Farage and toe-sucking: Adam Curtis on how Britain came to the brink of civil war

Chaos, distrust and so many sex scandals … Ahead of his epic new series Shifty, the great documentarian charts the UK’s slide towards Whitehall’s worst nightmare

The Guardian - UK

Shifty to The Waterfront: the seven best shows to stream this week

Adam Curtis offers up another startling deep dive into recent British history – and the new show from the creator of Dawson’s Creek is like Succession … for a fishing dynasty

The Guardian - UK

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

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Jon Ronson: ‘Elon Musk epitomises despicability’

The author and journalist behind ‘The Psychopath Test’ is about to kick off a UK tour revisiting his 2011 bestseller. He talks to Daniel Dylan Wray about Trump, Musk, and how aspects of psychopathic behaviour are becoming more and more acceptable in our society

The Independent UK

‘Kick in the teeth’: Pub landlords say Starmer’s garden smoking ban would hit industry hard

Smoking will be banned in pub gardens, and outside football stadiums, restaurants and hospitals under new government plans

The Independent UK

The week in TV: The Way; Breathtaking; Boarders; Joe Lycett vs Sewage – review

Michael Sheen, James Graham and Adam Curtis create a chaotic vision of Welsh revolution; ITV’s Covid three-parter favours realism over drama; and race, class and privilege collide in the BBC’s cracking new public school satire

The Guardian - UK

The Way review – Michael Sheen’s thrilling new drama is like nothing else on TV

The power and ambition of this Adam Curtis-directed, James Graham-written series about Welsh revolution is utterly innovative. It’s so fresh and different you have to take notice

The Guardian - UK

‘Destroying your home town is quite satisfying’: inside Michael Sheen’s explosive Welsh revolution thriller

New TV series The Way sees Sheen team up with documentary legend Adam Curtis and Sherwood writer James Graham – to start a rebellion. The team talk dirt, destruction and civil war

The Guardian - UK

‘Esther, the singing dog won’t sing!’ Rantzen and team on the joy of That’s Life!

It mixed performing pets and suggestive parsnips with bold exposés – and hooked 20m viewers. Fifty years after That’s Life! launched, its proud presenters recall their favourite moments

The Guardian - UK

Meera Syal calls for more diversity in TV industry as she wins Bafta award

Star of Goodness Gracious Me thanked Bafta for ‘seeing us’ as she accepted lifetime achievement award

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The Traitors to The Crown: who will win the 2023 TV Baftas – and who deserves to?

From Claudia Winkleman’s cunning new hit to Paddington Bear’s tea with the Queen, the biggest night in British TV is nearly here … and it’s all to play for. Here’s who should (and who will) win

The Guardian - UK

Riotsville, USA review – disquieting study of police tactics to deal with social unrest

Echoing the work of Adam Curtis, film-maker Sierra Pettengill curates archive footage from riot-torn 60s America to create an unsettling picture of the authorities’ response

Wales Online

Michael Sheen to direct new BBC drama The Way and it's being filmed in his home town

The new drama series will be filmed in Port Talbot, where Michael grew up, later this year

The Guardian - UK

‘No one had seen anything like it’: how video game Pong changed the world

It started as a trick played on a young IT engineer, and has inspired art installations and even social experiments. Its creators – and those they influenced – hail the bleeping genius of a coin-op classic

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A Dead Body in Taos review – a spiritual exploration of what it means to be really free

Set in the New Mexico desert, David Farr’s unusual play dips into virtual reality in order to raise questions of love, life and what constitutes the human essence

The Guardian - UK

The Love Box in Your Living Room review – spectacular silliness from Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse

The comics’ spoof Adam Curtis-style documentary celebrating 100 years of the BBC is full of deft satire, sharp insight and moments of utter oddness. It’s very clever – and very funny

The Guardian - UK

Andy Ferguson of Bicep’s listening diary: ‘I tend to let the algorithm start me off down a little wormhole’

One half of the electronic duo takes us through a weekend’s discoveries, from the Latin American music on Huey Morgan’s 6 Music show to the eclectic soundtracks of Adam Curtis films

The Guardian - UK

‘Our whole show is complete bollocks!’ Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield on their BBC mockumentary

Gloriously spoofing Downton, Peaky Blinders, Jackanory and much, much more, the comedy legends reveal all about their riotous sketch show for the Beeb’s centenary

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #56: From Britbox to Shudder, the best niche streaming services

In this week’s newsletter: Whether you’re after horror, arthouse, reality TV or teatime crime, don’t be afraid to look past the ‘big five’

The Guardian - UK

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review – ingenious, essential viewing from Adam Curtis

Showing everyone from reindeer herders to scientists wrapping themselves in sticky tape to head into Chernobyl, this fine series traces the latterday Russian revolution that brought in a kleptocracy and paved the way for Putin

The Guardian - UK

Candy to Shantaram: the seven best TV shows to stream this week

Jessica Biel and Melanie Lynskey are excellent in a small-town tale of axe murder, while Charlie Hunnam plays a bank robber on the run

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