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MediaGuardian 100: why 1 billion users put Facebook back on top

The 15th edition of the media power list finds change in the air, with digital challengers elbowing aside older moguls – but a long way to go on diversity

BBC3 switch-off decision proves the trust won’t listen to public opinion

There are better ways to generate money for the corporation than penalising young people by cutting the one distinctive television service dedicated to them

BBC3 TV channel to be switched off by February, BBC Trust confirms

Corporation’s governing body rubber-stamps decision to move youth-oriented channel online, but calls for more youth programming on BBC1 and BBC2

YouTube Kids: campaigners criticise app for its ‘junk food’ videos

US groups found promotional videos for Coca-Cola, Oreos and other products in children’s app, and want regulators to investigate

Disney hands over keys to kingdom with launch of online TV service

DisneyLife, initially launching in UK, will be first time Hollywood giant has offered such a wide range of content in one place

Marvel’s Stan Lee: ‘I’d never really thought of doing comics for a living’

The legendary comic creator on coming up with characters, his new Sky 1 series and how luck is an unexplored superpower

Twitter raids Sky for new head of UK news

Sky News senior executive Rob Owers joins Twitter to lead UK news team and develop government and industry partnerships

X Files writer Frank Spotnitz is out there again with The Man in the High Castle

Amazon Prime has snapped up the man whose sci-fi series made stars of Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny to adapt Philip K Dick’s cult classic

Top Gear China attracts 200 million viewers

English event in which three presenters race across country in vehicles that included a tank in order to attend a football match pulls in 11 million

Harry Potter producer joins with NBC Universal to make TV production firm

David Heyman, who is producing JK Rowling prequel Fantastic Beasts, says he will build ‘ambitious and varied slate of shows’ through Heyday Television

Sky launches new set-top box to take on Netflix and Apple

Sky Q service includes premium set-top box and ‘best of the web’ streaming and will enable viewers to watch shows on up to five different screens

BBC to cut entertainment and comedy but plans new Saturday night shows

TV budget to be slashed by £12m but BBC says it will use savings from dropping The Voice to fund homegrown alternatives

The BBC and Fleet Street shouldn’t be polls apart

A big Populus popularity survey has bolstered the BBC’s position in the licence fee wars – but alarmed newspapers struggling to make their way on the web

EE TV adds 25 new channels including Discovery and UKTV portfolio

Customers can pay £4.99 a month for programmes from National Geographic, British Eurosport, History, Sony and Cartoon Network

Ex-Shine chief to lead special effects firm behind Gravity and Interstellar

Alex Mahon, former CEO of Broadchurch and MasterChef production company, joins as head of The Foundry to work on Hollywood blockbusters

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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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