Meghan’s casting in The Gentlemen reportedly withdrawn

<p>Duchess of Sussex was believed to have been under consideration for season three of Guy Ritchie’s crime caper</p><p></p><p>The Duchess of Sussex’s casting in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen has been withdrawn, it was reported.</p><p>Tina Brown, the former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, wrote on Saturday: “I learned this morning that the casting of Meghan Markle in season 3 of Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen has been withdrawn. The backlash in the UK was so intense, it became untenable to go forward.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/22/meghan-markles-casting-in-the-gentlemen-reportedly-withdrawn-after-uk-backlash">Continue reading...</a>

2026/8/23
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Auntie v influencers: why YouTubers are ready for battle with the BBC

<p>Content creators are fighting proposal to boost traditional broadcasters in video platforms’ all-powerful algorithms</p><p>The millions who subscribe to the content creator Simon Squibb’s social media channels are usually delivered tips and hacks on how to turn their dream business idea into reality. But they were recently presented with something completely different.</p><p>In an Instagram post entitled “the government wants to control YOU”, Squibb issued an urgent call to arms. He asked his followers to fight against a proposal that he said could force content from the BBC and other traditional broadcasters into their social media feeds and recommendations whether they liked it or not.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/22/auntie-v-influencers-why-youtubers-are-ready-for-battle-with-the-bbc">Continue reading...</a>

2026/8/22
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‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

<p>Amid a jobs slump, award-winning writers, directors and producers taking on sometimes lucrative temp work teaching AI skills such as screenwriting and production</p><p>Hollywood creatives are taking gig work to train AI models to replicate their skills in a bid to offset tightening earnings in a trend one compared to being “handed a shovel and asked to dig the grave of my profession”.</p><p>Experienced and award-winning writers, directors and producers are being paid from $12 to $200 an hour to teach AI models the intricacies of their jobs, from writing a screenplay to devising a shooting schedule.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/the-hollywood-creatives-training-ai-to-do-their-jobs">Continue reading...</a>

2026/8/22
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Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial

<p>In trial that opened on Tuesday, California and 28 other states accused the company of designing addictive sites and violating laws protecting children’s privacy</p><p>Meta’s business can be boiled down to four words that begin with the letter H: hook, hold, harvest, hide, according to a lawyer who is prosecuting the world’s largest social media company.</p><p>The owner of Facebook and Instagram “hooks” in users, “holds” them on its platforms for as long as possible, “harvests” their data and then “hides” the truth from the public, she argued.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/meta-trial-children-privacy">Continue reading...</a>

2026/8/22
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Prince Harry and others ordered to pay interim £9.5m to Daily Mail publisher

<p>Judge orders payment within seven days towards legal costs in failed case over alleged unlawful information gathering</p><p>The Duke of Sussex and six other high-profile claimants must make a £9.54m interim payment within seven days towards the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/dailymail">Daily Mail</a> publisher’s legal costs after losing their high court case over allegations of unlawful information gathering, a judge has ruled.</p><p>Associated Newspapers Ltd strongly denied the claims made by Prince Harry and co-claimants including Doreen Lawrence and Elton John.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/21/prince-harry-and-others-ordered-to-pay-interim-legal-costs-daily-mail-publisher">Continue reading...</a>

2026/8/21
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Pentagon fires publisher and editor of US military news outlet Stars and Stripes

<p>Max Lederer and Erik Slavin receive termination notices after publication reported on crew conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln</p><p>The Pentagon has fired the publisher and the editor of Stars and Stripes, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-military">US military</a> news outlet that has clashed with the Trump administration and armed forces brass over its partly taxpayer-funded reporting.</p><p>Publisher Max Lederer and editor Erik Slavin received termination notices, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stars-and-stripes-publisher-editor-separation-notices-pentagon/">CBS News</a> reported on Friday. The cause cited was insubordination, and they have been given five days to appeal against their dismissals.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/pentagon-fires-publisher-editor-stars-stripes-uss-abraham-lincoln">Continue reading...</a>

2026/8/22
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Bernard Adams obituary

<p>My friend Bernard Adams, who has died aged 86, produced more than 20 serialised television documentaries for the BBC from the 1960s to the 1990s, mainly for schools and continuing education programmes. These included Better Badminton (1979), a look at a sport in which he had excelled as a national junior champion, and Berliners (1990), on the fall of the Berlin Wall.</p><p>Following retirement from the BBC he went on to write five books and two plays including Fierce Love (2022), a biography of Mary O’ Malley, the founder-director of the Lyric Players theatre, Belfast, and The Fall (2013), a play commemorating the 150th anniversary of his local church, Christ Church, East Sheen, in south-west London.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/23/bernard-adams-obituary">Continue reading...</a>

2026/8/23
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Abusers coercing or duping women to post explicit OnlyFans content, UK court cases reveal

<p>Separate criminal convictions come as domestic violence charities warn of tech-facilitated abuse and coercion</p><p>Two men have been convicted this week in separate criminal cases that revealed they had posted explicit content on OnlyFans without the full consent of the women whose images were uploaded.</p><p>In the first case, Alexander Tang, 37, took and uploaded 47 intimate images and four videos of a woman to OnlyFans without her consent, and was paid money for the material he posted to the website.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/22/two-uk-men-convicted-explicit-content-onlyfans-without-consent">Continue reading...</a>

2026/8/22
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‘Embryonic’: lost novel by French film-maker Éric Rohmer is republished

<p>English translation of Élisabeth, the New Wave director’s 1946 book about young lovers in prewar Paris, receives rave reviews as precursor to auteur’s cinematic work</p><p>In the dog days of the second world war, 24-year-old Maurice Schérer wrote a tale of young lovers in prewar small-town France. He described lazy August swims in the Marne River east of Paris. He wrote about age-gap affairs and semi-incestuous flirtations. Schérer gallantly used a nom de plume, Gilbert Cordier, to shield his Catholic family from scandal, but he needn’t have bothered as his concerns were unfounded. The finished novel, Élisabeth, barely made a ripple and quickly slipped out of print. Undeterred, Scherer adopted a second pseudonym – Éric Rohmer – and decided to try his luck as a film-maker instead.</p><p>Now – eight decades on from its first publication, 16 years on from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/jan/11/eric-rohmer-film-peter-bradshaw">its author’s death</a> – Élisabeth belatedly returns from the cold. Republished in an English-language translation by Aaron Kerner, Rohmer’s book has been greeted with glowing reviews, hailed as a lost modernist classic and a crucial origin story for the award-winning director of Claire’s Knee, The Green Ray and My Night at Maud’s. “It would be a rewarding, exciting read even if the identity of its author were unfamiliar,” wrote Richard Brody in the New Yorker. The fact that it’s by Rohmer? That’s the icing on the cake.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/22/elisabeth-lost-novel-by-french-film-maker-eric-rohmer-is-republished">Continue reading...</a>

2026/8/22
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Dog Park: a delightful sitcom that will fill the Colin from Accounts shaped hole in your life

<p>This snort-aloud Australian comedy is sweet, hilarious – and a surprising examination of male loneliness and mid-life crisis. Who’s a good show then?!</p><p>Whenever I’m watching a programme that features an animal and I realise I’m expected to have a specific reaction to that animal, I run into a problem. I call it the Cuteness Assumptive Theory: Subjectivity in Television issue (CATSIT for short). It boils down to this: if the success of your show relies on my finding your lead actor scrumptious-wumptious, you’ve already failed. We all like different things.</p><p>The theory applies equally to humans. We all know that moment when some interchangeable heartthrob walks into the scene on a US sitcom. All the characters lose their minds, this being apparently the hottest person on Earth, while you’re sitting thinking, ‘Huh?’ It happens with child stars too. Casting directors have a narrow spectrum of children they think will elicit an “awww” response from audiences. The response usually elicited in me is “Couldn’t they find a better actor?” I’m not trying to be liked here! Anyway, it’s the animal version that came to mind this week, watching Dog Park.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/aug/22/dog-park-a-delightful-sitcom-that-will-fill-the-colin-from-accounts-shaped-hole-in-your-life">Continue reading...</a>

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