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IN FOCUS: On paper, BBC One’s weeknight light entertainment show should be one of the broadcaster’s most tedious programmes – but its jarring tonal shifts and random guest list often make for brilliantly bizarre viewing. Katie Rosseinsky explores the endearingly strange appeal of ‘The One Show’

David Lynch’s death marks the passing of a true instinctive genius who stood apart from the rest of Hollywood

4/5 Patrick Marber directs a crowd-pleasing new revival of Mel Brooks’s timeless musical at the Menier Chocolate Factory

The second remake of FW Murnau’s unofficial Dracula adaptation is handsomely shot and stylised, with a forbiddingly gruesome monster, but walks the line between self-conscious and scary

Gene Wilder’s giddy brilliance is backed by a tremendous supporting cast and only a few gags lumber as the film is re-released for its 50th anniversary

Mel Brooks made one of the greatest satires of all time. But is its belated follow-up biting off more than it can chew?

Gad is set to reprise the role in two further sequels

Transforming robots, cyborg cops, and desert planets defined pop culture's coolest decade

This week, ‘La La Land’ and ‘Only Murders in the Building’ songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul became the twentieth and twenty-first people to take home an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. Kevin E G Perry looks back at their fellow winners and how a ‘Miami Vice’…