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Motion impossible: Tom Cruise declares war on TV frame interpolation

It’s over. Now Tom Cruise has set his sights on ‘motion smoothing’ – the TV effect that makes films look like soap operas – it’s only a matter of time before you tweak the settings

Sandra Bland: behind a poignant documentary of her life and death

In Say Her Name, the tragic death of a woman stopped by police in 2015 is examined with troubling and frustrating results

Festive advertisers dump TV for online media

TV ad spend expected to fall by almost £44m in final quarter, despite overall rise

Wallace & Gromit producers hand stake in business to staff

Founders of the UK’s biggest animation company giving up 75% of Aardman to employees to ‘safeguard independence’

Breaking Bad: The Movie? Why it could be Vince Gilligan’s worst idea

Deadwood, The Walking Dead and now Breaking Bad have all announced possible movie spin-offs, but history shows they’re a terrible, cynical ploy

Being a Big Brother contestant was life-changing. But so was watching it

The show exposed audiences to people who didn’t look or sound like them, says former contestant Jon Tickle

Give tax breaks to more diverse production firms, say actors

Show business figures call for more women and BAME and disabled people behind camera

BBC to reboot Tomorrow’s World for one-off live special

Much-loved technology show returns, updated for modern viewers

Julia Roberts joins rush by top actors to big-budget TV streaming

Star is latest A-lister on the small screen as Amazon and YouTube launch new series

BBC and Sky call for EU crackdown on Saudi pirate TV service

Broadcasters highlight ‘threat’ from BeoutQ, which provides illegal access to content such as Premier League games

From intern on The Crown to writer of YouTube’s Origin

Welsh screenwriter Mika Watkins, 29, goes from unknown to taking charge of big-budget series

From goats to the Gulch: a day in the life of Atlanta – as it happened

The Guardian Cities team reported from the streets of Georgia’s capital to kick off a week of in-depth coverage

The Bodyguard sets record as BBC’s most popular box set

Drama’s 35m iPlayer requests tops Killing Eve and Taboo to become biggest streaming hit

Amazon signs major deals with Neil Gaiman and Bear Grylls

Deals with author and adventurer are part of strategy to take battle to Netflix

The return of Pls Like: the comedy that catches YouTube’s dark side

Liam Williams’s well-observed mockumentary digs into the real-life furores surrounding vloggers like PewDiePie and Logan Paul in its daring second series

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  • Disclosure Day: alien conspiracies, car chases and a jaw-dropping climax – discuss with spoilers
  • Familiar Touch review – Kathleen Chalfant is wonderful in subtle, sensual memory loss drama
  • Starmer says he hopes social media ban for under-16s will come into force next spring – UK politics live
  • UK under-16s social media ban: which apps will be blocked and how will it work?
  • 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
  • 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

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