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Beyond noir: Nordic content of all shades is on its way to Netflix

Glut of new programming could make original Swedish productions a staple of UK living rooms

UK lockdowns fuel record year for home entertainment spending

Netflix, Prime and Disney+ surge 38% to £2.9bn in 2020, with Frozen 2 the biggest selling video

Channel 4 under fire for deepfake Queen’s Christmas message

Broadcaster says video, showing digitally altered monarch reflecting on Prince Harry, intended as warning about fake news

Chadwick Boseman is back in a final film. To his Black fans, he still means so much

The actor, who passed away tragically earlier this year, brought depth and empathy to the characters he played

Say that again? UK speech-dubbing pioneer secures new funding

Papercup’s AI tech automatically dubs content into foreign languages with voice ‘indistinguishable from human speech’

Joe Wicks and KFC recipes among UK’s top Google 2020 searches

The exercise guru is joined by fast food tips, the WAP lyrics and afternoon tea delivery high on the search engine’s Year in Search snapshot

Ofcom proposes radical shake-up of UK broadcasting

Streaming firms could provide public service programming in an increasingly digital world

Tech giants may face billions of pounds in fines from new UK watchdog

Competition regulator wants new Digital Markets Unit to have power to levy huge penalties if firms abuse code of conduct

Christopher Nolan leads industry fury over Warner Bros’ streaming move

Tenet director says studio’s decision to release its entire 2021 slate in the US simultaneously in cinemas and on HBO Max is ‘not how you treat film-makers’

Steve Turney obituary

Other Lives: Publicist and sales executive in the television and film industries

Baby God: how DNA testing uncovered a shocking web of fertility fraud

Quincy Fortier was once Nevada’s physician of the year. As unspooled in a new documentary, he had a dark secret: dozens of children fraudulently fathered through his fertility clinic

Ofcom: BBC services such as iPlayer an afterthought for younger audiences

Regulator says people aged 16-34 spend less than an hour a day consuming BBC content

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project review – the woman who kept the TV on for 30 years

With visionary zeal, the historian/TV producer collected 70,000 hours of television news, creating a unique archive of US life

Hollywood firm to build £300m film and TV studio in Dagenham

Production complex will create 1,200 jobs and contribute £35m a year to east London economy

BBC journalists told not to ‘virtue signal’ in social media crackdown

News staff warned against backing campaigns or giving views on controversial policies

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  • A day in the life of a dancer who went viral for pretending to be a parakeet
  • Why is the UK launching an ‘Australia plus’ social media ban and how will it work?
  • Starmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16s
  • Scientists are working on headphones that block annoying noises and allow the ones you love? I can’t wait!
  • Readers reply: Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone pin really be safer than a password?
  • Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace
  • ‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion
  • X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts
  • NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation
  • ‘I should know better’: tech expert lost £70,000 in one simple phone call
  • Make platforms that promote violent content pay towards riot costs, Streeting says
  • UK government announces £132.5m after-school clubs package
  • Pioneering UK Nerve Lab harnesses AI to map effect of children’s screen time
  • ‘Loneliness influencers’ are racking up views. After a breakup, I see the appeal
  • ‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’
  • ‘A movie for everyone, not just Drag Race fans’: stars of drag comedy Stop! That! Train! on making the summer’s funniest film
  • The Guide #246: Does World Cup fever leave you in a cold sweat? Here’s how to escape the footie
  • UK parents support an under-16 social media ban – but what do their children think?
  • From Olivia Rodrigo to The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • ‘Have you ever been around someone you just know is evil?’ Melinda French Gates on meeting Jeffrey Epstein, giving away billions, and her post-divorce peace
  • The right has created a false reality – fuelled by toxic images delivered straight to your phone
  • Palantir loses legal challenge to force Swiss magazine to publish responses
  • How much money did Elon Musk make in SpaceX’s stock market debut?
  • Elon Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX ends trading day with valuation of $2.1tn – as it happened
  • SpaceX makes largest ever stock market debut, making Elon Musk world’s first trillionaire
  • Derbyshire police officer investigated over AI-generated ‘evidential material’
  • The SpaceX IPO made Musk a trillionaire. The old rules of capitalism no longer apply
  • UK to ban under-16s from ‘high risk’ social media apps
  • David Hockney, pioneering British artist famed for his pools and portraits, dies aged 88
  • What World Cup? US celebrities get their fashion kicks from the Knicks

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