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The Guide #193: Meet Ernesto, the viral America’s Got Talent contestant … who doesn’t exist

In this week’s newsletter: Millions have watched the AI-generated singer’s sob story on social media – even weirder, many don’t even mind if it’s fake

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The Guide #192: How reality TV and streaming has shaped 21st-century TV

In the second of our new miniseries looking back at the last quarter-century of pop culture, we chart the transformation of television since 2000

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The Guide #191: After three decades, Tom Cruise is done with Mission: Impossible – so what’s next?

In this week’s newsletter: In retiring his messianic action hero schtick, a return to challenging, messy roles could lead to a late-era flowering of his career

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The Guide #189: Your new celebrity best friend? It’s just a deepfake trying to con you

AI impostors are charming fans out of fortunes – here’s how TV’s Scam Interceptors catch the criminals

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The Guide #188: How 25 years of music has shaped the charts from monoculture to mass playlists

In the first in a new miniseries, we look back at the biggest songs of the 21st century to trace how music – and the way we consume it – has evolved

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The Guide #187: The Pitt, the medical drama that’s the best show you can’t watch

This gripping ER successor has been a slow-burn sensation in the US – why isn’t it available anywhere in the UK?

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The Guide #186: Five rules to keep your podcast feed Marie Kondo tidy

In this week’s newsletter: with so many compelling podcasts out there, how do we manage the audio oversupply?

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The Guide #184: Is Seth Rogen’s The Studio one last hurrah for the A-list cameo?

In this week’s newsletter: Apple TV+’s Hollywood satire skewers the industry’s obsession with brand IP and awards while serving up outrageous star turns

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The Guide #183: How cinemas are shifting from multiplex to miniplex

In this week’s newsletter: Mainstream movie theatres are struggling, so independent film clubs in local venues are stepping up to fill the gap, and they need our support

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The Guide #182: Is Severance one of the most unlikely TV hits ever?

In this week’s newsletter: Despite its huge budget, Apple’s series has all the hallmarks of an offbeat, slow-burn cult show – not the cultural juggernaut it’s become

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The Guide #181: TV has given up on live music – but social media won’t let it die

In this week’s newsletter: The days of Top of the Pops every week and MTV Unplugged are long gone, but a slew of archive gold is now coursing through the internet

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The Guide #179: How National Theatre Live brought the magic of the stage to the cinema

The project bringing live-capture versions of the theatre’s shows to international audiences has been a resounding success. We talk to those who translate the immediacy of the stage to the big screen

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The Guide #178: How AI took over the commercial break

In this week’s newsletter: Usually, we’d rather make a cup of tea when the ads come on, but the Super Bowl slew of A-listers flogging AI products smacks of desperate PR

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The Guide #177: Son of a Century is a gripping, timely series – and maybe the end of the antihero drama

In this week’s newsletter: Joe Wright’s show on the rise of Mussolini feels like the last of a breed centring morally dubious men

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The Guide #176: Seas of smartphones and bulky backpacks: the worst things about going to gigs

This week, our inbox filled up with critics’ and readers’ least favourite things about live music, from the death of the cloakroom to two-day drum solos

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The Guide #172: Will Severance be worth the wait, and seven more culture storylines in 2025

In this week’s newsletter: From the return of Apple’s hit thriller to the most open Oscar race I can remember, this year has so much in store for us culture vultures

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The Guide #175: The Traitors – terrific escapism or flawed format?

In this week’s newsletter: As the series reaches its finale we ponder who is going to win, who deserves to win – and if anyone really listens to ‘Traitor pop’

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The Guide #173: In praise of The Brutalist’s bladder-friendly intermission

Brady Corbet’s three-hour American epic has a helpful 15-minute break – with Hollywood’s ever-escalating runtimes, shouldn’t this be the norm?

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The Guide #173: Why Netflix and Spotify don’t seem to care if we are paying attention

In this week’s newsletter: From Spotify’s bland ghost artists to Netflix’s ‘will this do?’ roster of movies, have audiences succumbed to the age of distraction?

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The Guide #168: What does my true crime obsession say about me?

In this week’s newsletter: From Dahmer to Sweet Bobby, the commodification of suffering is big business. I’ve looked into why we can’t get enough of other people’s misery

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The Guide #167: Could Kendrick Lamar’s GNX jumpstart a new wave of surprise releases?

In this week’s newsletter: Just when it seemed there was nothing shocking about an unexpected album drop, Lamar made a truly transgressive move

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The Guide #166: If 2024 is the year of the podcast, here’s what still sucks about the medium

In today’s newsletter: As Joe Rogan’s three-hour ramble with Donald Trump vindicates lengthy runtimes, here are our biggest grievances from the last 12 months

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The Guide #164: The quit list – when to give up on that book, TV show and more

They say quitters never prosper, but then what do ‘they’ really know? When we’re inundated with things to read, watch, hear and play, don’t be afraid to throw in the towel

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The Guide #163: Insult comedy and the right wing’s budding bromance

In this week’s newsletter: The roast can be a brilliant medium – but as Tony Hinchcliffe found out when he insulted Puerto Rico, a political rally really isn’t the place for slinging slurs

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The Guide #162: Terrifier 3’s ultraviolence is too much for me but IMDb offers salvation for the squeamish

In this week’s newsletter: An axe-wielding clown has had gorehounds flocking to cinemas. The rest of us can enjoy it thanks to a Wikipedia for wusses

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