Splinter Cell is being adapted in the format of…
Meanwhile, Last of Us is getting a big-budget series on HBO, Metal Gear Solid is being made into a movie, and Ubisoft’s long-dormant stealth series Splinter Cell…
Prince Charles and Camilla visit BBC World Service on its 90th anniversary
5 hours ago The BBC News Russian Service app is available for IOS and Android . You can also subscribe to our Telegram channel. image copyrightReuters photo…
Proms 2022: everything you need to know
The one that shows the triumph of art over adversity Prom number TBC, July 31 Canadian-Ukrainian musician Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the newly formed Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra whose…
What’s on TV tonight: Man City v Real Madrid, Noughts + Crosses and more
Tuesday 26 April Football: Man City v Real MadridTue, BT Sport 2, 7pmHaving seen off Atlético Madrid in the quarter-final, Manchester City now turn their attentions to…
Modern-day celebrities could learn a thing or two from outrageous octogenarian Miriam Margolyes
The latest Imagine… film, Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs (BBC One), was a quietly revealing portrait. That doesn’t seem very apposite for an actress who delights in…
Peacock, review: gym sitcom skewers the hollow masculinity behind the pecs and the posers
After the enjoyable period caper of Channel 4’s The Curse, in which most of the team behind the magnificent pirate-radio mock-doc People Just Do Nothing reassembled for…
What’s on TV tonight: Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist, Piers Morgan and Donald Trump, and more
Football: Man City v Real MadridTue, BT Sport 2, 7pmHaving seen off Atlético Madrid in the quarter-final, Manchester City now turn their attentions to Real Madrid in…
BBC to invest in tech start-ups to counter licence fee threat
The BBC is poised to become a tech investor by taking bets on risky start-ups as part of a wider push to wean itself off licence fee…
BBC’s ‘most ambitious environmental series yet’ looks more like a travel jolly
It doesn’t take long to identify the main problem with Our Changing Planet (BBC One), the latest series from the BBC’s Natural History Unit. It starts in…
Double-barrelled surnames aren’t just for toffs any more
I’m sorry to tell you that I recently became obsessed with the wedding of Brooklyn Beckham and his bride, Nicola Peltz. Given the highbrow topics I discuss…
What’s on TV tonight: Rugby Union: England v Ireland, Our Changing Planet, Grace and more
Sunday 24 April Rugby Union: England v IrelandBBC Two, 11.45amEngland, one eye firmly on October’s World Cup, have been imperious so far as they bid for their…
Heaven help the blasphemers against the sacred cow of the BBC
If Boris Johnson falls it will not be because of Partygate, or the cost of living crisis, or the Rwanda migrant policy. It will be because he…
What’s on TV tonight: Snooker World Championship, Killing Eve, Britain’s Got Talent and more
Saturday 23 April Snooker World ChampionshipSat-Fri, BBC Two, 10amThe second-round matches should be completed this weekend as we begin the march to the May Bank Holiday finale…
Is there anything Zadie Smith can’t do?
What other surprises is Zadie Smith keeping back? In this evening of words and music, she became the latest in a conga line of authors to be…
Conversations with Friends star Jemima Kirke: ‘I thought, this is marriage written by a 22-year-old’
Since she first hit the spotlight, Kirke has been branded a wild child by the media. While that may have been the case in earlier years, today…
What’s on TV tonight: The Rising, Earth Day, Heartstopper and more
Snooker: World ChampionshipSat-Fri, BBC Two, 10amThe second-round matches should be completed this weekend as we begin the march to the May Bank Holiday finale at the Crucible….
Every Inside No 9 episode ranked
Game of cat and mouse, anyone? When a hirsute homeless man returns a lost wallet to primary school-teacher Tom, the mysterious tramp ends up moving in with…
What’s on TV tonight: Chivalry, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe: The Real Story, and more
Snooker: World ChampionshipSat-Fri, BBC Two, 10amThe second-round matches should be completed this weekend as we begin the march to the May Bank Holiday finale at the Crucible….
Sir Keir Starmer told to retract claims Boris Johnson criticised BBC’s Ukraine coverage
On Wednesday night, Mr Johnson claimed Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, agreed that the BBC and the clergy had “misconstrued” the Rwanda deal. “It’s a sensible…
What’s on TV tonight: Inside No 9, Russian Doll, and more
The RisingSky Max, 9pmGhost. DOA. Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). The high-concept idea of investigating one’s own death has been around a while, and this adaptation of the…
What’s on TV tonight: Inside No 9, Russian Doll, and more
The RisingSky Max, 9pmGhost. DOA. Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). The high-concept idea of investigating one’s own death has been around a while, and this adaptation of the…
BBC questions if Boris Johnson would ‘put his life on the line for truth’ after he criticises coverage
The Prime Minister’s comments about the BBC and the Church of England came as he tried to rally Tory backbenchers at a private meeting ahead of a…
Life After Life, review: a Groundhog Day period drama that makes you care about its characters
It’s BBC period drama time. Adopt the brace position. What crimes against historical accuracy are we about to witness? Which 21st-century preoccupations will be shoehorned into the…
As a former English teacher I’m shocked at the BBC reading list
“Put that book down, you’ll ruin your eyes!” Or so my mother warned me every day of my childhood (at night, I used to read secretly in…
Not even the Queen’s Jubilee is safe from BBC preaching
BBC Arts and The Reading Agency have produced “The Big Jubilee Read”. They have selected 70 works of British and Commonwealth fiction to honour the Queen’s Platinum…