'Weekend Update' among segments returning

Drag queen Aiden Zhane impersonated Patricia Quinn during the "Snatch Game" challenge

This dramatisation of the 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' coughing scandal is superbly entertaining and well constructed, and will likely make viewers rethink a story they thought they knew well

Protective gear from The Crown, The Young Pope and Vikings have also been sent to key workers

Sue Perkins presented 'The Great British Bake Off' with Mel Giedroyc from 2010 to 2016

TV presenter's idea has been compared to Gal Gadot's star-studded coronavirus singalong video, which viewers labelled 'out-of-touch'

In the apocalyptic drama series, Reedus plays the popular character Daryl Dixon

Alexis Martin was serving 21 years to life behind bars

Report suggests the series takes place in a whole new part of the Star Wars timeline

Half-hour revival will see Leslie Knope and friends contend with the struggles of social distancing

'I thought at the time it was a work of fiction,' author says

Actor's pets have made star appearances in previous videos

New York health authorities reported a spike in possible bleach exposure cases after Trump's now-infamous press briefing

Huffman served 11 days in jail in 2019 for paying to have her daughter's SAT results doctored

Adaptations will 'remain absolutely faithful to Pratchett's original, unique genius'

'Ross Kemp: On the NHS Frontline' aired on ITV

Sitcom star was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour last year

As Claire Danes puts Carrie Mathison to pasture, Jacob Stolworthy looks back at the series that justified its existence to the bitter end

Former US president described as merely 'Former Chicago Resident' in previous episodes of series

Show's creators were told 'he will never play this role – please do not bring him up ever again'

Cat trader previously said he wanted Brad Pitt to portray him

'Uber-salacious' scenes were ultimately not filmed, with star Darren Criss revealing the show chose to instead emphasise 'the heart and the hope'

US president had previously suggested he would 'take a look' at the scandalous case

Comedian made the off-colour quip after the veteran actor starred in 'Cats'

This series' great beauty is that it's about relationships in all their unpredictability – perfect for locked-down viewers who are seeking out human interaction vicariously

It's the most accurate one yet

Series is a humorous response to Trump's actual Space Force

Singer who also worked with Ted Nugent and Megadeth dies at Florida home of a heart attack

Brian Howe, the singer who fronted the British rock supergroup Bad Company for eight years, has died aged 66. He had a heart attack at his Florida home.

Howe’s manager Paul Easton said: “It is with deep and profound sadness that we announce the untimely passing of a loving father, friend and musical icon.”

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• NBA teams expected to reopen practice facilities on Friday
• My favorite game: Sixers v Lakers, Game 1, 2001 NBA finals

NBA teams are expected to get the go-ahead to reopen practice facilities for limited use as early as Friday, less than two months after the coronavirus outbreak forced the suspension of the season.

With head and assistant coaches barred and scrimmages forbidden, the workouts are unlikely to resemble business as usual for the NBA but would nonetheless be a step towards normalcy for a league whose season was upended in dramatic fashion in March.

Related: My favourite game: Iverson stuns Kobe's Lakers in the 2001 NBA finals | Bryan Armen Graham

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and sits on an axial plane tilted at a jaw-dropping 97.7-degree angle. And yes, Uranus does actually stink.

As authors from Chaucer to Hollinghurst have shown, sex reveals our emotions, instincts and morals. The question is not why write about sex, claims author Garth Greenwell, it’s why write about anything else?

There is a widely held belief, among English-language writers, that sex is impossible to write about well – or at least much harder to write about well than anything else. I once heard a wonderful writer, addressing students at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, say that her ideal of a sex scene would be the sentence: “They sat down on the sofa …” followed by white space. This is a prejudice I can’t understand. One of the glories of being a writer in English is that two of our earliest geniuses, Chaucer and Shakespeare, wrote of the sexual body so exuberantly, claiming it for literature and bringing its vocabulary – including all those wonderful four-letter words – into the texture of our literary language. This is a gift not all languages have received; a translator once complained to me that in her language there was only the diction of the doctor’s office or of pornography, neither of which felt native to poetry.

More than this, surely it is absurd to claim that a central activity of human life, a territory of feeling and drama, is off-limits to art. Sex is a uniquely useful tool for a writer, a powerful means not just of revealing character or exploring relationships, but of asking the largest questions about human beings.

Lockdown Britain has embraced the sausage, with sales up 33%. But there’s much more you can do with them than fry-ups, sandwiches and casseroles

When you Google famous quotes about sausages (say you need an opener for an article), one of the first comes from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who apparently once said: “Sausages are just funny. I don’t know why. I can’t explain it.”

Waller-Bridge is not wrong. Sausages are inherently funny. But their comedic value is also what holds them back. In the kitchen, no one takes sausages seriously. You very rarely see anyone serving sausages on Come Dine With Me; it would be an act of self-sabotage. You cannot win with sausages. They’re a culinary joke, unrefined, a bit naff.

News Corp is campaigning full-bore for the US president, with reports of a Wuhan lab ‘intelligence’ dossier being seeded across its empire

In liberal democracies, the integrity, impartiality and professionalism of intelligence agencies matters. That’s why it is essential that intelligence agencies remain aloof, not only from the political debates of the day, but also from the policy decisions that individual governments may take. The intelligence community’s core task is to provide brutally realistic analysis on the threat environments we face so that governments can then make the best-informed policy decisions possible to preserve our common security.

The failures of the intelligence community before the Iraq war, the gullibility of much of the western media, as well as the cynical manipulation of both by the political class of the day, provide us with a stark reminder of what can go radically wrong. On 8 September 2002 the New York Times published one of this century’s most consequential news articles. The front-page story, supplied by the Bush administration, claimed that Saddam Hussein had stepped up his quest for weapons of mass destruction by acquiring key components for a nuclear weapon. In the UK, the Blair government’s “dodgy dossier” compounded the error. John Howard did the same in Australia. The problem was that it just wasn’t true. These were over-egged stories designed to soften the public up for what would become a disastrous war.

The morality brigade loathed the hit teen horror on release but hockey mask-wearing villain Jason Voorhees has been with us ever since

Before production on the teen slasher A Long Night at Camp Blood had even started, before a final draft of the screenplay had even been submitted, thirtysomething writer-producer-director Sean S Cunningham decided to make an audacious statement. Not only would he use an advert in the industry paper Variety to confirm an inarguably ingenious title change but he would also use it to declare that his next film would be the most terrifying ever made, after a decade that saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Last House on the Left (which he also produced), The Exorcist and Halloween.

Related: Final Destination at 20: the bleakest teen horror film ever made?

Each Saturday we add 15 (or so) new songs to a Spotify playlist to soundtrack your physical distancing amid coronavirus – and help artists you love get paid

We’ve published a bunch of articles about how the coronavirus crisis has impacted the Australian arts industry. But there are small things you can do. It’s an imperfect solution, but streaming Australian music can help.

Each week, in partnership with Sounds Australia, Guardian Australia will add some 15 new songs to a playlist for you to put on repeat.

Scientists are cautioning that it’s still too early to know how the novel coronavirus mutates after a preliminary study in the U.S. claimed that a new strain of the virus has emerged that is more dominant and contagious than the original.

The 99-year-old is walking the length of his garden 100 times to raise funds

The comic has presented the Golden Globes five times

Oscar-nominated actress Shirley Knight has died aged 83.

Harrison Ford is under investigation following an incident at a small US airport.

Brooker says he's coping with the crisis "far better than I would have anticipated"

The singer and his girlfriend have staved away the lockdown blues by engaging in a prank war