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Sky Arts Awards: Mr Bates v Post Office and comedian Fern Brady among winners at inaugural event

Audiences were treated to performances by The Darkness and Lemn Sissay

The Independent UK

Art Matters With Melvyn Bragg review – a shallow, unenlightening waste of time and money

This chummy, ineffective look at the arts crisis offers no solutions. And by featuring only one contributor aged under 50, it is itself part of the problem

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd; Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story and more – review

In a bumper week for rock-related programmes, a long-gestating profile of Syd Barrett offers little that’s new, Bon Jovi get the show they don’t quite deserve – and there are glaring gaps in a history of Gary Glitter’s crimes

The Guardian - UK

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TV tonight: the trippy story of Pink Floyd’s lost member Syd Barrett

An immersive documentary about the band’s founder, who left the group to live in solitude. Plus: more explosive drama in Traces. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

£10,000 Cass Art Prize launched by the London family who championed Monet and Van Gogh

The competition is open to visual artists from every discipline across the UK

Evening Standard

TV tonight: aspiring artists capture the sights of Liverpool

Painters go head to head in an effort to win the title of landscape artist of the year. Plus: the finale of the detectorist drama we all needed. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Sophie Rundle stars in action-packed thriller After the Flood

A police officer becomes obsessed with what happened to a man carried away by flood waters. Plus, what are store cards doing with our data? Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

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“The guitar riff is dying out”: New survey suggests the ‘majority’ of music fans believe the riff is on its way out

A new research piece has concluded the humble riff may be on its deathbed – and identified Prince's Purple Rain as the second greatest riff of all time

Guitar World

Is Prince's Purple Rain really the second-greatest guitar riff of all time? A new survey says 'yes'

And Seven Nation Army is the only riff recorded after the '80s to make the top 20

MusicRadar

Guns N’ Roses’ ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ Voted Best Guitar Riff Of All Time

Poll of music fans reveals iconic rock classics and modern hits in the top rankings.

Zenger

TV tonight: David Tennant and Catherine Tate finally reunite in the Tardis

Doctor Who is back with three special episodes for its 60th anniversary. Plus: devastating new documentary Lockerbie. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Nitin Sawhney’s cultural highlights

The musician on Bradley Cooper’s new Leonard Bernstein biopic, how his mum cultivated his love of dance, and the restaurant that changed his mind about aubergines

The Guardian - UK

Joan Bakewell on love, fun and ambition at 90: ‘I’ve been pleased not to be married these last 20 years’

Still nowhere near ready to retire, the arts presenter talks about her six decades in TV, her affair with Harold Pinter and why David Attenborough was a terrific boss

The Guardian - UK

Winners of Portrait Artist of the Year to paint Judi Dench for Sky Arts special

The Portrait Artist Of The Decade episode will delve into the stories of previous winners.

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Woman in the Wall; David Hockney: A Celebration; The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies; Starstruck – review

A blazing Ruth Wilson elevates a turbulent drama about Ireland’s Magdalene laundries; Hockney and Bragg make a classy double act; and a female revenge fantasy goes to the dark side

Evening Standard

David Hockney says he is ‘just getting going’ in Melvyn Bragg’s new Sky Arts documentary

Bragg is concluding 45 years of The South Bank Show with four-part series Celebrating David Hockney

The Guardian - UK

Melvyn Bragg to step down from South Bank Show after 45 years

Broadcaster says ‘it’s about time’ after launching series in 1978

WhatToWatch

TV tonight: Our highlights for Thursday, August 10, 2023

The Hidden World of Hospitality is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

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TV tonight: Our highlights for Tuesday, July 25

Bake Off: The Professionals is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

The Independent UK

Bill Bailey reflects on ‘tough’ Covid stories from NHS workers in new BBC show

Bailey is the host of Extraordinary Portraits, which pairs NHS workers with portrait artists.

The Independent UK

Joan Bakewell reassures fans after saying she’d been ‘dropped’ from Portrait Artist of the Year

She blamed ‘carelessness and the mistakes of old age’

The Independent UK

Sir Salman Rushdie and Prima Facie among winners of South Bank Sky Arts Awards

The awards celebrate a range of artistic genres including dance, theatre, music, TV and film.

Los Angeles Times

Joseph Fiennes admits it was 'wrong' for him to play Michael Jackson: 'A bad mistake'

Joseph Fiennes says "people are absolutely right to be upset" that he played Michael Jackson for a British comedy sketch in 2016.

The Independent UK

Joseph Fiennes says playing Michael Jackson was a ‘bad mistake’

Actor said he asked Sky not to broadcast the controversial 2017 episode of ‘Urban Myths’

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: a gorgeous documentary about ‘first lady of song’ Ella Fitzgerald

Laura Mvula and Jamie Cullum help celebrate the singer. Plus: on the hunt for Tutankhamun. Here’s everything to watch this evening.

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