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<p>Dead or alive? Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) was bleeding out as the series two finale concluded</p>

The Night Manager writer and director reveal all about that big finale

SPOILERS AHEAD: David Farr and Georgi Banks-Davies tell Patrick Smith how the BBC series had to earn its blockbuster ending and talk about the fate of all its characters

<p>‘I’ve got some kind of dysmorphia’: Jonathan Pryce stars in new Sky crime series ‘Under Salt Marsh’</p>

Interview

Jonathan Pryce: ‘Does Ricky Gervais watch his own work? He shouldn’t’

<p>Making us swoon: Olivia Dean is bewitching on her second album, ‘The Art of Falling in Love’</p>

Comment

Why Olivia Dean is Britain’s big hope at the Grammy Awards

<p>James Meek, Kate Pickett, and Mark Haddon deliver three superb books to sink your teeth into this February</p>

Books of the Month

What to read this month, including a guide to fixing a broken society

Features & Reviews

The Night Manager’s grand finale was merciless, and often implausible

<p>Laura Dern and Andra Day: ‘Bradley Cooper said: What are we missing? You inform us about these female characters. You help us build them, and this sisterhood’</p>

The Saturday Interview

Laura Dern: ‘David Lynch saw things in me that I didn’t see in myself’

<p>Catherine O’Hara has died after a brief illness</p>

Tribute

Catherine O’Hara made flawed characters not just bearable but beloved

<p>Presenter Carol Kirkwood, who is 63, sparked speculation with her resignation after more than two decades that she was being forced out to make way for younger talent</p>

In Focus

Carol Kirkwood and the BBC’s token woman problem

<p>The first lady in her new documentary, ‘Melania’, for which Amazon paid $40m</p>

Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her new film

<p>Marvel-lous work: Yahya Adbul-Mateen II in 'Wonder Man'</p>

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Wonder Man is Marvel’s best in years – sadly, it no longer matters

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Who will, and who should, win at the 2026 Grammys tonight

<p>‘Mine own king’: Faizal Abdullah as Caliban in ‘The Tempest’</p>

There’s not a Shakespearean rule the Globe’s Tempest won’t break

<p>Realism is not Freida McFadden’s strong suit, but nor is it her goal</p>

In Focus

How The Housemaid’s Freida McFadden took over the bestseller lists

<p>Sugar snappy: ‘The Apprentice’ boss remains a curmudgeon on the reality show’s 20th series</p>

On The Apprentice, Lord Sugar’s whole routine is becoming preposterous

<p>‘Atys’ is an opera that shows Jean-Baptiste Lully at his best</p>

In Focus

The wrenching beauty of Lully at the Palace of Versailles

Bridgerton season 4 feels like AI slop but is somehow still enjoyable

The Saturday Interview

<p>The story of a 17-year-old in love and lust with her teacher, Jennette McCurdy’s debut novel, ‘Half His Age’, is full of pathos and rage</p>

The Saturday Interview

Jennette McCurdy: ‘Do we ever grow out of wanting to feel special?’

<p>‘I had become very tired of the trope of the toxic father’: Brendan Gleeson stars in ‘H is for Hawk</p>

The Saturday Interview

Brendan Gleeson: ‘I’m more into enjoying life than being pretty’

Rising Stars

<p>Éanna Hardwicke by Pip. Styling: Tom O’Dell. Grooming: Alexis Day.</p>

Interview

Meet the man playing Roy Keane: ‘He wasn’t afraid to p*** people off’

<p>Rising star Alfie Williams, who returns to the world of ‘28 Years Later’ with ‘The Bone Temple’</p>

Interview

Meet 28 Years Later’s 14-year-old star: ‘It’s so gory but so awesome!’

<p>Josh Finan: ‘There’s a certain amount of pressure that builds up in your body over the days’</p>

Interview

Josh Finan on his searing prison drama Waiting for the Out

<p>‘It was awful timing. It was the biggest opportunity I’d had in my career. And we weren’t allowed to talk about it’</p>

Interview

Archie Madekwe: ‘It’s easy to get lost in the bigger picture – that’s when you fall into narcissism’

Roisin O’Connor’s Good Vibrations podcast

Jill Scott appeared as a guest on 'Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations' podcast

Jill Scott: ‘I love seeing a confident woman, in any shape or size’

Good Vibrations with KT Tunstall

KT Tunstall reflects on the ‘unwelcome side’ of her early fame

Ella Eyre is a guest on Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations podcast

Ella Eyre: ‘I’ve had to unlearn what I was shown early in my career’

Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi: ‘There have been days where I thought I was done’

News

The Countdown

<p>Tom Cruise and Michelle Monaghan in ‘Mission: Impossible III’</p>

The Countdown

15 times a director walked away from a blockbuster

<p>Overrated?: Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘There Will Be Blood’ and Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’</p>

The most overrated films of the 21st century

<p>Glast from the past: A snapshot of the famous festival from 1982</p>

17 of the weirdest things we’ve seen at Glastonbury

<p>Not even music’s greats are immune to writing absolutely terrible songs</p>

13 worst songs by brilliant artists, from The Beatles to Taylor Swift

Independent TV

Robbie Williams contacts fan decades after she gave him her number

<p>The Masked Singer: Red Panda revealed as comedy legend</p>

The Masked Singer’s Red Panda revealed to be comedy legend

John Leguizamo issues stern warning to ICE-supporting fans

<p>Liam Neeson praises Cold Storage co-star Joe Keery - before dropping Stranger Things confession.</p>

Liam Neeson forced to make Stranger Things confession

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Is Monster Hunter Wilds on PC finally fixed? New patch releases and verdict is in

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