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Features

<p>Television is increasingly being tailored to the brain’s shortening attention span</p>

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TV brain rot: The real reason shows are getting stupider

It’s crazy for streamers to prioritise ‘second-screen viewing’, writes Louis Chilton – but that’s not the only way TV seems to have lost faith in its audience

<p>Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel jump and grin and siiiiing in the artwork for Disney’s ‘High School Musical’</p>

Flashbacks

12-year-old girls were never the same after High School Musical

<p>Peter Claffey: ‘I got a decent bit of bullying when I was a kid. I was sort of weird-looking; wobbly; uncoordinated’</p>

Interview

Peter Claffey on going from pro rugby to the Game of Thrones spinoff

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Why this year’s messy Traitors are the only ones I’m rooting for

Features & Reviews

<p>Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in ‘The Rip’</p>

What were Ben Affleck and Matt Damon thinking with charmless The Rip?

<p>Williams’s voice is on top form here, rich and sonorous with the grit that added some much-needed danger to Take That’s otherwise squeaky-clean sound</p>

Robbie Williams’s Britpop is an unabashed joyride

<p>Madison Beer</p>

Madison Beer offers some real depth beneath the pop sheen of Locket

<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

The Saturday Interview

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

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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>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’

<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’

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

Disney Channel star returns to stage for first time in almost 20 years

Vogue Williams reacts to Brooklyn Beckham’s attack on parents

<p>Ben Affleck on The Joe Rogan Experience</p>

Ben Affleck says AI ‘very unlikely’ to make meaningful films

John Barrowman in tears as he reveals death of ‘loyal friend’

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Discover Orlando’s hidden treasures beyond the parks

Entertainment deals

<p>Bag discounts on 4K, OLED and smart TVs</p>

Best TV deals for November 2025, from Sony, Samsung and more

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Best iPad deals for November 2025, selected by an expert

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politics

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'

politics

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

politics

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

gaming

Most downloaded PS5 and PS4 games of 2025 revealed - the winners may surprise you

tv

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

science-tech

An 'AI cover' is 'highest new entry' on the Global Spotify chart and people are concerned

gaming

GTA 6 LIVE: Release date update imminent

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