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The Guide #223: From surprise TV hits to year-defining records – what floated your boats this year

We’ve had our say; now it’s your turn. From overlooked telly gems to unforgettable gigs and albums on repeat – readers share the cultural moments that made their year

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The Guide #220: The best things we watched, read and listened to this year – that weren’t from 2025

We revisit forgotten noirs, rediscovered albums and retro games that stole the year

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The Guide #219: Don’t panic! Revisiting the millennium’s wildest cultural predictions

The turn-of-the-2000s produced a frenzy of cultural crystal-ball gazing. Two decades on those bold forecasts reveal as much about us as they do about the era itself

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The Guide #218: For gen Zers like me, YouTube isn’t an app or a website – it’s the backdrop to our waking lives

When the video-sharing site launched in 2005, there were fears it would replace terrestrial television. It didn’t just replace it – it invented entirely new forms of content. ASMR, anyone?

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The Guide #217: The Louvre heist seems straight out of a screenplay – no wonder on-screen capers have us gripped

From the drama of the Paris break-in to Josh O’Connor’s mud-splattered turn in Kelly Reichardt’s latest, escapades – messy and cinematic – always seem to pull us in

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The Guide #216: Celebrity Traitors was a watercooler-moment smash-hit – but how long will audiences stay faithful?

Last night’s superb finale (no spoilers here!) was a fitting conclusion to a show that’s had the whole country talking. Can it avoid the fate of other once-mighty reality juggernauts?

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The Guide #215: Why we can’t get enough of Bohemian Rhapsody

In this week’s newsletter: Fifty years after its release, the Queen classic shows no signs of biting the dust. So what makes it such a timeless tune?

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The Guide #214: Sleep-inducing songs and tranquilising TV – the culture that sends us to sleep (in a good way)

In this week’s newsletter: Inspired by a Guardian series, the sights and sounds our culture critics turn to for help when the sandman is asleep on the job

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The Guide #213: Should we mourn the demise of TV channels?

In this week’s newsletter: As they chase the streamers, our national broadcasters’ once-distinct identities have melded into faceless programming punchbowls

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The Guide #212: The Taylor Swift backlash has me asking: how much good music can one artist really produce?

In this week’s newsletter: The mixed response to The Life of a Showgirl is proof that even the biggest star isn’t immune to creative burnout

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The Guide #211: What the world is watching, from Brazilian telenovelas to superheroes made of red bean paste

In this week’s newsletter: Guardian writers spotlight the much-loved shows in the country they live, including Jamaican breakfast telly, Big Brother Naija and X Factor for Polish pianists

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The Guide #209: Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel and the battle for the future of late-night TV

In this week’s newsletter: Once the preserve of backslapping celebrity interviews and inoffensive segments, late-night TV is now in Trump’s sights – giving its hosts unprecedented political weight

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The Guide #208: How theatre is holding its own in the age of artificial intelligence

In this week’s newsletter: Live performances offering authentic human connection are drawing crowds to the stage, as AI-driven drivel worms its way into other creative industries

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The Guide #207: How Britain embraced The Simpsons, America’s true first family

In this week’s newsletter: First shown in the UK 35 years ago, the landmark cartoon has wormed its way into our culture, from parliament put-downs to Bartman mania

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The Guide #206: Indie bands are quitting Spotify, what could it mean for the future of music streaming?

The biggest streaming platform has shaped how music is consumed and how it is valued. But recent controversies suggest the bargain may no longer feel worth it

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The Guide #205: In an age of streaming clutter, why not rediscover Britain’s rich documentary past?

From Molly Dineen’s humane portraits to Channel 4’s wild experiments, the golden age of British TV documentaries offers more than the streamers’ endless banal choice

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The Guide #204: The local dystopian TV shows captivating global audiences

A new wave of post-apocalyptic dramas are serving up disaster tales shaped by the cultures they come from, and the results are fascinating

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The Guide #202: Awol headliners to rampaging deer: how festivals survive the worst-case scenarios

The British festival season is a logistical minefield. One veteran promoter walks us through the thrills, threats and total meltdowns and what to do when it all goes wrong

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The Guide #201: our readers’ 21st-century pantheon: the culture you loved (that we missed)

In this week’s newsletter: Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, Nina Conti and Sabrina Carpenter all make the cut in your passionate picks from the past 25 years

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The Guide #199: Such Brave Girls shows that grown-up gross-out comedy is thriving

Kat Sadler’s brilliantly bilious BBC sitcom doesn’t disgust and offend for the sake of it, but follows the likes of Always Sunny in making a deeper point through its off-colour gags

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The Guide #198: Finally, Superman meets his match

In this week’s newsletter: It’s the villains, not the heroes, that make a superhero film, and this week’s impending blockbuster looks to have enough of them to reboot the legendary franchise

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The Guide #197: Your front-row pass to who the performers will be watching at Glastonbury

From punk trios to folk icons, performers share their Glastonbury picks – and it’s not who you might expect

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The Guide #196: How blockbusters, streaming and risk-averse studios shaped the last 25 years of cinema

In the last of our miniseries, we look at how Hollywood has become a franchise machine. But in a sea of superheroes and sequels, there is still room for cinematic artistry

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The Guide #195: How Reddit made nerds of us all

In this week’s newsletter: Happy 20th birthday to the forum that reshaped fandom and is one of the internet’s most eccentric collaborative spaces

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The Guide #193: Meet Ernesto, the viral America’s Got Talent contestant … who doesn’t exist

In this week’s newsletter: Millions have watched the AI-generated singer’s sob story on social media – even weirder, many don’t even mind if it’s fake

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