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Jeremy Clarkson’s Amazon show won’t get a big UK audience, says Piers Morgan

Former Top Gear trio ‘won’t be getting mobbed’ in their home country after their move to ‘Amazon Past Their Prime’, claims journalist and ex-CNN presenter

EE TV to launch new features as streaming battle hots up

Service’s first major update since its rollout offers personalisation, improved search, a second screen experience and more

BBC’s British Vogue documentary to be made by Oscar-winning producer

Series offering ‘unprecedented access’ to magazine will be produced by Simon Chinn, who won Academy awards for Man on Wire and Searching for Sugar Man

Sky adds features to movies service to keep up with Netflix

Sky+ provides watch list, ‘more like this’ recommendations and Rotten Tomato ratings as pay-TV service feels pressure from web-only rivals

NBC Universal invests $200m in BuzzFeed

Rio de Janeiro Olympics among events companies may work together to cover following deal that values news and media site at $1.5bn

Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson finale takes pole position on BBC iPlayer

Final episode before Chris Evans takes over attracted 50% more requests than the next most popular show in June

NBC Universal invests $200m in Vox Media

Digital media business with brands including sport, tech and news valued at $1bn, with NBC said to be close to investing further $200m into BuzzFeed

Could virtual reality revolutionise crisis-response filmmaking ?

Welcome to Aleppo pushes back at ‘deafening apathy’ to the impact of the civil war in Syria, but its maker wants action not just empathy

BBC3 ad spend to triple as TV channel set to close

Corporation will spend nearly half its advertising budget for paid-for media on promoting launch of online-only channel

Shameless actor signs up for next series of Amazon’s Ripper Street

David Threlfall to take regular spot as Abel Croker in period crime drama after two more series are commissioned

ITV buys share of YouTube network Channel Mum

Broadcaster takes minority share as part of strategy of investing beyond TV production companies

Toca Boca revenues show baby steps for children’s apps market

Most prominent independent kid-apps developer reports £6.1m for 2014, as it prepares for video expansion in 2015

HBO lines up 70s rock romp Vinyl with drugs and sex-filled trailer

The Wolf of Wall Street meets Goodfellas in teaser for the Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger-produced TV series set to air in 2016

Two-thirds of UK’s Netflix and Amazon users don’t watch their original shows

More British online TV subscribers say they view films or US shows than exclusive programmes such as House of Cards or Orange Is the New Black

Smartphone now most popular way to browse internet – Ofcom report

Study finds third of all internet access is via smartphones, after stark increase in use of 4G fuels rise of mobile surfing

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  • Push for electrification finally takes centre stage in pre-Cop31 climate talks
  • 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

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