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YouTube Kids, BBC iPlayer Kids and more: the best TV apps for children

Video-on-demand apps competing with Sky Kids, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, DisneyLife, Hopster and PlayKids: how do they compare?

BBC’s iPlayer Kids app puts children’s TV at ‘front and centre’ of plans

Launch of family service offering more than 10,000 episodes each year does not mean cBeebies and CBBC will go online only, say bosses

Jeremy Clarkson: BBC would put brakes on us using ‘gear’ for Amazon show

Former Top Gear presenter reveals what won’t be in the title of his new series – and asks his Twitter followers for suggestions

BBC3 hails online switch a success after Thirteen proves a hit

Drama about an abduction attracts similar viewing figures to channel’s highest rated broadcast show, an episode of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood

Memo to the BBC: keep the broadcasting, cut the net

Local papers whinge about the BBC, and the BBC about the over-75 squeeze on licence fees. Clipping the corporation’s digital wings would be a neat solution

Mashable raises £10m and signs video deal with Turner

Turner’s TBS and TNT businesses will co-develop and distribute video content with the internet news provider

Game of Thrones and Star Wars star to join next series of Top of the Lake

Gwendoline Christie, who plays Brienne of Tarth in HBO’s fantasy drama, set to work with Elisabeth Moss on second instalment

Vice Media to launch in Russia and six eastern European countries

Youth brand and Greek Antenna Group partner to produce local content in ‘incredible market’

BBC and ITV in talks to launch a Netflix-style streaming service

Subscription video service is likely to focus on providing popular older, archive TV content, not the first-run of shows

Fox and Sky invest in streaming service fuboTV

US-based subscription video service offers games from leagues such as Spain’s La Liga and MLS in the US

Sky takes $45m stake in Netflix rival iflix

Streaming service, which has about 1 million subscribers, is currently available in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines

TV is opening the door to female directors – film needs to catch up

Backing women shunned by the big studios makes good business sense, says the director of BBC1’s The Night Manager

Is closing the BBC iPlayer loophole the first step towards subscriptions?

Making users sign in to watch catch-up shows will boost vital revenue for the BBC, but it may make the corporation seem more like pay-TV rivals such as Sky

Top Gear: Netflix could air new series in global battle with Amazon’s Clarkson

Streaming giant understood to be in talks with BBC for rights to revamped car show – after it passed on ex-Top Gear trio as ‘not worth the money’

Sherlock: the Abominable Bride fails to halt dip in BBC iPlayer viewing

Requests for shows on the platform fell in January despite success of Victorian special and The Rack Pack, the BBC’s most popular iPlayer-only drama to date

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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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