Culture
From Mean Girls to Masters of the Air: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Tina Fey brings her high-school clique back – with added songs – and US fighter pilots get the Band of Brothers treatment
20, Jan, 2024 @6:00 AM
TikTok’s nine-month cruise: what is it and and why can’t I stop watching?
A cruise trip advertised as the longest in the world has become its own reality show, with passengers regularly going viral for their video diaries. But is anything actually … happening?
Patrick Lenton explains it to Michael Sun
20, Jan, 2024 @3:00 AM
The Guide #122: Apple TV+ is home to some of our best and boldest drama – but is anyone watching?
From Masters of the Air and Silo to Slow Horses and Severance, the streamer is banging out star-studded original shows … to barely any buzz
Gwilym Mumford
19, Jan, 2024 @5:00 PM
David Waterhouse obituary
Other lives: British Council officer whose networking skills helped bring people together to spread British culture
Simon Nightingale
19, Jan, 2024 @4:59 PM
Wooden sauna from 1948 London Olympics gets Grade II listing
Historic wooden building wins protection after campaign involving Finland, which originally installed it
Esther Addley
19, Jan, 2024 @5:00 AM
Pulp, page-turners and pure joy: the ultimate summer reading list, picked by you
After we published our list of the best beach reads, we asked readers for their suggestions – including ‘mercifully brief’ fantasy, raucous comedy and a crime thriller that’s ‘tense as hell’
Guardian readers
18, Jan, 2024 @2:00 PM
Jimmy Kimmel on the Iowa Republican caucus: ‘The polar opposite of MLK Day’
Late-night hosts discuss Trump’s victory in the Iowa Republican caucus, Trump hemorrhaging lawyers and state Republican parties going bankrupt.
Guardian staff
17, Jan, 2024 @4:20 PM
Australia joins international call for local content quotas on streaming TV platforms
Statement from peak bodies argues independence and viability of global screen industry under threat unless mandatory quotas for non-US content introduced
Kelly Burke
17, Jan, 2024 @2:00 PM
Maggie Zhou: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
We asked the podcaster and writer to share her comedy diet. Like anyone who was online in the 2000s, her list includes fanfic
Maggie Zhou
17, Jan, 2024 @2:00 PM
‘Bowie’s teeth were bleeding’: Mott the Hoople on making All the Young Dudes with David
‘We went for a pizza after it came out, with Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust jumpsuit. He was suffering from malnutrition. Starman came on and he said, “Your song will be on soon”’
Interviews by Dave Simpson
15, Jan, 2024 @1:16 PM
The week in audio: Things Fell Apart; The Queen’s Reading Room; Who Do You Really Think You Are? – review
Jon Ronson’s state-of-the-world series returns with aplomb, a books podcast is a royal bore, and Adam Rutherford sets out to prove we’re all blue-blooded
Miranda Sawyer
13, Jan, 2024 @5:00 PM
On my radar: Marcelino Sambé’s cultural highlights
The Royal Ballet principal dancer on his favourite performance art, a surprising black comedy, and a musical that made him question everything
Killian Fox
13, Jan, 2024 @3:00 PM
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