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<p>Play dumb: ‘The Traitors’ is officially the game where intelligence is a weakness</p>

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The latest Traitors drama exposes the show’s central flaw

Until her dramatic explosion at the breakfast table, Harriet was perhaps the best player we’ve seen on ‘The Traitors’ so far. That’s why she could never win, writes Ellie Harrison

<p>Amol Rajan is setting up his own content company</p>

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Why Amol Rajan had to say goodbye to the Today programme

<p>Paying homage: Aubry Dullin and Zoey Deutch as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’</p>

In Focus

How Nouvelle Vague recaptures Breathless and its role in a revolution

<p>Why do the remaining male Traitors contestants all look the same?</p>

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The Traitors’ ‘man-merge’ is the real problem with this year’s series

Features & Reviews

<p>Best of Bond: The stars of the 007 franchise so far </p>

The Countdown

Every James Bond film ranked from worst to best

<p>The fact the 70m embroidered cloth, which depicts the 1066 Norman invasion and Battle of Hastings, has survived this long is a miracle, writes David Hockney</p>

Comment

Why it’s madness to move the Bayeux Tapestry to Britain

<p>Doomed: Gerry Wade (Corey Mylchreest) and Lady Eileen ‘Bundle’ Brent (Mia McKenna-Bruce)</p>

Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials crackles with wit and escapist glamour

<p>‘K-Pop?’: DiCaprio in his viral moment at the 2026 Golden Globes</p>

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DiCaprio’s ‘personality reveal’ wasn’t the mask-slip everybody thinks

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

Rising Stars

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

<p>Peter Claffey as Ser Duncan the Tall in 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'</p>

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is an odd, crass Thrones spin-off

<p>Bone appetite: Jack O'Connell plays a sinister cult leader in ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’</p>

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple goes even further than its predecessor

<p>Tom Hiddleston plays the lead role in BBC series ‘The Night Manager’</p>

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It doesn’t feel like le Carré but The Night Manager needed a big twist

<p>Jessie Buckley and Joe Alwyn in Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’</p>

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Ignore the awards – Hamnet is manipulative Shakespeare fan fiction

<p>Unpredictable shark: Myha’la in ‘Industry’</p>

Industry season four is unflinching, merciless five-star television

<p>Absolutely: ‘I’m a boss when I’m in the studio’</p>

new sensations

The next big star in UK pop? Absolutely

<p>Billy Crudup in ‘High Noon’</p>

High Noon is a thoughtful Western with vital moments missing

The Saturday Interview

<p>Malachi Kirby: ‘Most of the characters that I’ve played have been traumatised. Weirdly, that is my comfort zone’</p>

the saturday interview

Malachi Kirby: ‘The cameras were off at this point, but I was shaking’

<p>Mika is preparing to release his first English-language album in six years</p>

The Saturday Interview

Mika: ‘Scrutiny over my sexuality was kind of brutal’

Rising Stars

<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’

<p>Petticrew stars in a classic tale of forbidden love set against the backdrop of the Troubles</p>

Interview

Lola Petticrew: ‘Calling it the Troubles minimises what it really was’

Tom Blyth

Interview

Tom Blyth: ‘The Hunger Games taught me I don’t act to get attention’

<p>Sadler won the Best Scripted Comedy Bafta for her show</p>

Interview

Kat Sadler: ‘I don’t care if Such Brave Girls makes you uncomfortable’

Roisin O’Connor’s Good Vibrations podcast

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’

Zara Larsson is the latest guest on Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations podcast

Zara Larsson ‘didn’t expect’ reaction to support slot for Tate McRae

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

Rod Stewart crashes pub karaoke session - much to delight of locals

Harry Styles drops new music teaser in cryptic voice note

Traitors star Harriet discovers whether shock sacrifice was worth it

Helena Bonham Carter teases Seven Dials’ killer twist

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Trump gets petty with reporter over Greenland: 'You don't know what I'm going to do'

Trump gets petty with reporter over Greenland: 'You don't know what I'm going to do'

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Donald Trump accused of 'snoozing on the job again' in the Oval Office

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Trump has milk explained to him by a first grader: 'I didn't know that'

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Zendaya quietly reunites with on-screen dad from 10 years ago in Euphoria

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Zendaya quietly reunites with on-screen dad from 10 years ago in Euphoria

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