Outing, written by Rod Serling, holds mirror to quarantine life

Presenter deemed president the 'moron-in-chief'

The Euros, Olympics and Wimbledon have all been postponed or cancelled, and finding things to replace them for viewers is a big problem. Sport's reliance on unknown outcomes, live atmosphere and shared excitement makes it almost impossible to replace, but the TV companies are trying. Alex Pattle reports on their plans

Alexis Martin was serving 21 years to life behind bars

'One foot wrong and you don't know what could happen'

While plenty of young drama is played for shock or laughs, the anticipated BBC3 adaptation of Sally Rooney's best-selling book lingers on what goes unsaid between its adolescent lovebirds. And there is lots of humping, says arts columnist Fiona Sturges

The 84-year-old star of 'M*A*S*H' is working harder now than ever before. Ellen McCarthy spoke to him about his life, his acting career and his new work to get the world communicating more clearly

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

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal inhabit lovers Marianne and Connell so utterly that it is instantly impossible to imagine them being played by anyone else

Actor's pets have made star appearances in previous videos

'Oh, what's occurring? Not a lot other than a global pandemic'

The TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's endlessly talked-about novel promises a modern take on romance, and lots of sex, but its heartbreaking tale of love divided by class is only too real, most of us have lived it, says Annie Lord

Adaptation of Sally Rooney's love story stars Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones

The former assistant to the jailed producer talks to Olivia Petter about her attempted rape allegation against Harvey Weinstein, why his lawyers must be held to account, and the damaging myths we attach to rape survivors and perpetrators

British singer previously performed during a Drag Race tour of Australia

It's unknown which of its many stars will play show's iconic figure

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

'What do I know of Carole Baskin – or any of these people – aside from what I've seen in this documentary?'

US vice president was condemned for ignoring strict rules about protective gear put in place to slow the spread of coronavirus

Parsons stars in Ryan Murphy's new Netflix series, Hollywood

Programme was announced at the Edinburgh Television Festival

Surreal reality series will unveil remaining celebrities in a matter of weeks

Show has been praised for its representation of consensual sex

Actor said she did not make her accusations public at first for fear of being labelled a 'troublemaker'

BBC series has been widely praised for its depiction of consensual sex between main characters Marianne and Connell

Actor was struck by vehicle during family walk

TV chef is said to have been seen 'multiple times in several places'

The actor bringing Sally Rooney's smash-hit novel to life talks to Ellie Harrison about experiencing tragedy at a young age, how Normal People's depiction of sex is the antidote to porn and Hollywood, and what it's like to promote the biggest role of his life in lockdown

News comes as Ellen DeGeneres allegedly leaves 'distressed' staff members in the dark

'We worked very hard to make it feel like it was a real, accurate and truthful representation of sex amongst young people today,' said the actor

'I'd love to do a millennium one'

21.8 million people requested the show on BBC iPlayer in its opening week

Character's fate was famously left ambiguous at the end of the seminal gangster drama

Trump took time away from coronavirus crisis to call Kimmel 'wacko' in a social media rant

The advert will air during Friday's 'Gogglebox'

Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks have contributed to the programme remotely

The 'Normal People' star played an Irish teenager whose sausage inspires him to travel the world

Actor is famous for making her opinions known during interviews

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The indie maverick is a purveyor of all styles on his studiously eclectic 12th album

There’s a strange psychological cross-pollination going on behind the mask that Will Toledo, the artist mostly known as Car Seat Headrest, sports on the cover of his 12th album. Indulging an alter ego called Trait, Making a Door Less Open seeks out deliberately eclectic hybrids of his wry, lo-fi indie rock style (heir to the likes of Beck, Lou Barlow and Eels) and the satirical EDM he and his drummer Andrew Katz make as 1 Trait Danger. The result is much better than anyone who’s heard the latter, who often veer perilously close to a Bloodhound Gang remix project, might expect: Can’t Cool Me Down has a sultry 80s electropop feel, while the roil of self-deprecation and naked emotion on There Must Be More Than Blood underlines Toledo’s debt to LCD Soundsystem.

The new styles don’t all gel. The sleazy, fuzzy synth-rocker Hollywood is pleasingly punchy, but brought down by facile lyrics (apparently Tinsel Town isn’t the dreamland it’s cracked up to be – who knew?). Two sister songs – the lumpen alt-rock Deadlines (Hostile) and the Hot Chip-with-extra-dour Deadlines (Thoughtful) – fail to charm, while What’s With You Lately is a wan, mopey strum that seems to have wandered in from an entirely different, very bad record. But on the likes of the pulsing, uplifting Famous and Life Worth Missing, Toledo finds new energy.

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Angélique Kidjo, Jeff Mills, Sébastien Tellier and more remember the late drummer: his humility, his brilliance, and his awesome sportswear

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With this long-awaited fourth album, the former teen idol has finally arrived as the kind of artist she was always meant to be

‘Look at me now” is a fitting opening line for Good to Know, the fourth studio album from R&B singer JoJo. The artist has been on a storied journey through the music industry and the public eye: first emerging as the 13-year-old singer of Leave (Get Out), she then spent years mired in legal disputes with her label that prevented her releasing music. After reigniting her passionate fanbase with a string of independent, darker-sounding mixtapes (and one viral Drake cover), she released Mad Love, her long-delayed third album, in 2016. But Good to Know, released on her own imprint Clover Music, with its themes of independence and self-knowledge, carries with it a sense that she has finally arrived as the kind of artist she was always meant to be.

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Since his last outing, the south London musician and producer has eased up and moved to Margate. Yet this atmospheric return still carries the weight of the world

Ghostpoet – the brooding alias of south London-born Obaro Ejimiwe – is roughly a decade old this year. This dour bard has long been an artist ahead of his time. A track such as Cash and Carry Me Home, one of the highlights of his eclectic, jazz-inflected debut album – 2011’s Peanut Butter Blue and Melancholy Jam – defied genre as it mourned the self-inflicted pain of one drink too many. It now locates Ghostpoet as roughly adjacent to the south London jazz renaissance of the past few years – a multi-hyphenate scene in which most things go. Were it to be released today, its languorous, self-aware aperçus would find an even more receptive audience.

The Welsh nurse-turned-indie rocker is now one of electronic music’s best exponents. She talks proving herself, the NHS and climate-crisis bangers

Kelly Lee Owens is showing me her crumpled bed, pixelated on the screen. It is five weeks into quarantine and this has quickly become the norm: an interview with an artist in their close quarters; ambivalent levels of grooming. Neither of us is wearing makeup, and neither of us care. “You know what I read?” begins the electronic musician, incredulously. “This is bullshit. There’s a [Daily Mail] headline saying that women’s breasts will be sagging because they’re not going to be wearing bras during this lockdown. So what?! Leave me to my saggy breasts.”

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