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No Netflix films at Cannes for second year running, reports suggest

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and The Laundromat, starring Meryl Streep, among releases unlikely to get festival screenings

BBC chair: UK media regulation is no longer fit for modern age

David Clementi to argue against limiting time iPlayer can make shows available for

BBC must prepare for a digital future, says director general

Tony Hall admits iPlayer has lost its advantage against rivals such as Netflix

BBC Scotland drops shows featuring maker of dog Nazi salute video

Mark Meechan had recorded two editions of discussion show The Collective

Richard Gere conquered theatre and cinema … can he now score a TV hit?

Writer Tom Rob Smith tells of ‘wooing’ actor for state-of-the-nation BBC series MotherFatherSon

How Film4 became a pint-sized Oscars powerhouse

The channel’s cinema wing has 13 nominations at this year’s Academy Awards, only two fewer than Netflix. A blip in the system or a new phase for the British film industry?

Hollywood outraged by plan to present Oscars in TV ad breaks

Stars lambast ‘insulting’ bid to cut Academy Awards’ running time by presenting cinematography and other awards during commercials

Baftas TV audience falls to 3.5m

BBC showed awards ceremony on a time delay, meaning some viewers knew results

Is video killing the TV star? VidCon London heralds a YouTube revolution

The arrival of the popular US festival for vloggers in the UK is a reminder of the powerful forces changing children’s television

Oscars 2019: Frances McDormand and Gary Oldman to hand out awards after all

AMPAS backtracks on plan to break with tradition and belatedly invites last year’s acting winners to present trophies

Oscars 2019: problems mount as Academy aims to reboot TV show

The lack of a host, trimming the running time and breaking with tradition is proving a difficult act to pull off

Disney superheroes join battle of the streaming services

Fans of the Marvel and Star Wars franchises will be a key audience in the media group’s challenge to Netflix

Is the end of Netflix’s golden age in sight?

The streaming pioneer is facing competition from content suppliers, not to mention Apple and Amazon

Google and Facebook to push hard against proposal for regulatory body

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission considers market position of Google and Facebook justifies greater oversight

Les Misérables with ‘contemporary relevance’ to air on BBC

Victor Hugo’s historical novel brought up to date in Andrew Davies adaptation

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  • Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure
  • Social media to be banned in UK for under-16s, Starmer announces
  • Starmer confirms social media ban for under-16s, saying this is a ‘big moment for our country’ – UK politics live
  • The problem with ‘loneliness influencers’ isn’t their friendlessness – it’s the air of cosy defeatism
  • Dry Leaf review – three-hour amble around the football pitches of Georgia in search of a daughter
  • ‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist
  • ‘Distressingly beautiful and disorienting’: the Willem Dafoe film that only one person can see at a time
  • Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook
  • Starmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16s
  • 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?
  • 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

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