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When good TV goes bad: how Soccer AM dropped the ball

Sky’s flagship football show lost its way when it swapped shaggy appeal for slick professionalism

Sam Richards

05, Mar, 2018 @12:59 PM

From Alden Ehrenreich to Zazie Beetz: the 40 rising film stars of 2018

From the first black woman to win an comedy Emmy to the trans actor tipped for Oscars glory, these are the 40 names virtually assured of success in the coming 12 months

Gwilym Mumford and Sam Richards

28, Dec, 2017 @12:00 PM

My best winter photograph

A polar limousine, ice skyscrapers in China, a New York snowstorm, Sitting Bull’s descendant at a pipeline protest, and a flying figure-skater … top photographers pick their coolest shot

Tom Graham, Edward Siddons, Eiko Soga, Dale Berning Sawa, Mischa Frankl-Duval, Amy Fleming and Sam Richards

26, Dec, 2017 @6:00 AM

Keith Chegwin – a career in clips

Whether he was chasing hovercrafts, doorstepping celebrities or standing up to Katie Hopkins, the late TV legend always remained irrepressibly upbeat

Sam Richards

11, Dec, 2017 @5:33 PM

Danny Rampling: how we made acid house club Shoom

‘We filled the room full of flavoured smoke and decorated it with painted banners and smiley face logos. It was a free state of hedonism’

Interviews by Sam Richards

28, Nov, 2017 @6:00 AM

‘Like running a marathon – with 100 sharks on your tail’: behind the scenes of Blue Planet II

Cannibal squid, submarine leaks at 450 metres and a poisonous stonefish sting … the producers of David Attenborough’s new series share stories of life and death underwater

Interviews by Kate Abbott, Andrew Gilchrist , Tim Jonze and Sam Richards

24, Oct, 2017 @7:20 AM

Organ Reframed review – kitsch, rapture and white-knuckle intensity

Indie rockers join doyens of the electronic avant garde for a festival of new music exploring the otherworldly sounds of the pipe organ

Sam Richards

15, Oct, 2017 @11:26 AM

King Krule’s Dum Surfer: a sludgy Monster Mash for 2017

Also this week: Fergie teams up with Nicki Minaj, while Charlotte Gainsbourg delivers a breathless slice of meh

Sam Richards

22, Sep, 2017 @1:00 PM

Wolf Alice’s Yuk Foo: a ball-busting slice of kick-ass

Also this week, Dizzee’s back and he’s still got bars, while Calvin Harris brings another slice of flimsy awful

Sam Richards

23, Jun, 2017 @1:00 PM

Todd Terje’s Jungelknugen: Four Tet's remix has the greatest drop of all time

Also this week, Alt-J try something different (again), while Nicki Minaj’s Young Money dream team are back in business

Sam Richards

17, Mar, 2017 @2:00 PM

These are the songs that never end: 10 of music's most rewarding long cuts

Father John Misty just debuted Leaving LA, a 13-minute, chorus-free track off his upcoming album. Here are the most brilliant and bewitching songs to have gotten the long-form treatment

Sam Richards

08, Feb, 2017 @3:43 PM