Digested week: I had Nigella down as tradwife burlesque but her Bake Off debut won me over | Emma Brockes
Plus, Prince Harry spreads his love of Marmite to his kids, and Dolly Parton’s nephew turns out to be fairly unusualIt was a big week at the UN, Buckingham Palace and the White House, but for all sentient people of Britain, the top story this week was…
Ready to knock? Play School returns as BBC pushes quality children’s programming
TV heads hope the revamped show – back after four decades – will win over parents seeking quality shows amid concerns about addictive online contentFor the generations who grew up watching Humpty, Jemima and Big Ted, the mere mention of the BBC’s Play…
Price hikes, ads and lower quality: has ‘streamflation’ ruined the TV experience?
US consumers are starting to opt out of the streaming world as several services raise prices without offering many perksIt may not be quite as politically buzzy as the price of gasoline or eggs, but another household expense is going up for millions of…
‘My first screen kiss was in a cowshed!’ Lesley Manville on her greatest roles – and why sex scenes for over-50s are booming
In the last 15 years, she has gone from respected actor to stratospheric, garlanded star. Now she is back on TV as a chic sleuth in a racy car – despite being terrible at guessing whodunnitIt is high summer and, while Lesley Manville may be suffering a…
The Real Rooneys review – at least Wayne and Coleen’s reality show proves they can laugh at themselves
This trip into the celeb couple’s Cheshire mansion is nowhere as real as they’d like you to believe. But their self-deprecation is hard not to enjoy‘There are two obvious problems here, the first being that the Rooneys’ lives feel like fiction: he was a…