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EE mobile subscribers to get free BT Sport access

Offer, which last for six months, means phone and tablet users can watch Premier League and European club football

Ray Winstone joins cast of new series of The Wombles

Bet365 ads actor to voice Tobermory, joining Bernard Cribbins in a computer animated series

BBC to open Toronto news bureau in north American expansion

Corporation also plans to increase Canadian content on its world website

ITV to reload Lethal Weapon in primetime slot

Reboot of 1980s Mel Gibson and Danny Glover classic marks broadcaster’s return to heyday of LA Law and the Equalizer

Media Monkey: Jeremy Paxman, Robert Peston and Brexit

ITV’s political editor feels a bit of a tweet, TV referendum banana skins round-up, and Mail Online has a huge float for Cannes Lions

Star Wars leads charge as Sky gears up for an attack on its empire

Sky Cinema and eSports projects launched to counter threats from entertainment rivals Netflix, Amazon and BT

No holding back from networks on Rogerson but Alan Jones lies low

Guilty verdict prompts TV’s take on bad cops; Coffs Coast Advocate misses its Shott; and cartoonist Bill Leak offends the ‘offenderati’

Sky Movies rebrand to feature one premiere a day

Service to become Sky Cinema from 8 July, offering more releases including Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Facebook’s rise as news source hits publishers’ revenues

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism report also finds importance of TV news is waning among young people

Dennis the Menace to get CGI makeover as Beano targets YouTube generation

New TV series and movie in the pipeline as 78-year-old magazine launches digital hub for seven- to-10-year-olds

Channel 4 takes stake in YouTube channel owner Barcroft

Broadcaster invests in production business that has made programming including Bear Grylls: Man vs Everest

We long to watch disabled characters like us. Instead we get Me Before You

The new film is another wearying example of cliched representation. We have real stories, and long to tell them• Warning: spoiler alert

Lukewarm reception greets Chris Evans’s revamped Top Gear

New incarnation of BBC2 show attracts mixed reviews and fewer viewers than hoped as airs on bank holiday weekend

Netflix and Amazon must guarantee 20% of content is European

Shake-up of broadcasting rules aims to bring digital on-demand services in-line with traditional TV broadcasters

Sky News to close US version of website

News organisation to focus on serving core UK site, which attracts more than 20 million visits a month

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  • The Guardian view on John Williams and Steven Spielberg: a partnership that changed cinema
  • The Rev Michael Humphreys obituary
  • 45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • The best 4K wireless TV streamers for more choice – with no aerial required
  • The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
  • Read a book? Join a club? Stare at a wall? Social media alternatives for under-16s
  • ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
  • Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation
  • Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need
  • Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories
  • On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake
  • Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app
  • In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
  • The Crunch: Climate refugees, visualising Elon Musk’s wealth, and the many ways to analyse the World Cup
  • California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls
  • Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
  • The Guardian view on OnlyFans: revelations of abusive middlemen merit MPs’ attention
  • Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns
  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
  • Don’t wait for Prime Day. We found the 31 best early deals from Amazon and its competitors
  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
  • Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype

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