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Sky Broadband customers targeted for allegedly pirating Robert Redford film

US firm TCYK, apparently named after film The Company You Keep, made Sky hand over details of customers accused of downloading movie

Comic-Con: Hannibal teases final episodes – and a possible film

Both Netflix and Amazon have passed on keeping Hannibal alive, but that didn’t stop Comic-Con from warmly embracing NBC’s canceled series

William Hurt: ‘My competition these days isn’t another actor. It’s a computer-generated image at Pixar’

The American star of Humans likes computer science, but hates autocorrect. As for owning a robot, he’s really not sure…

The Weekly Beast: Ray Martin still Mr TV with Q&A audit and SBS show

Along with the Q&A audit, Martin will also star on SBS. Plus a damning tweet from NZ, Marion Ives at peace with SBS and Dawn Fraser’s bad hair day

YouTube star PewDiePie responds to ‘haters’ over $7.4m annual earnings

‘It seems like the whole world cares more about how much money I make than I do myself,’ says online gaming star in video posted for fans

BBC considering move to make news channel online only

Corporation understood to be looking into future of £66.2m TV channel and how live news is covered, with final decision yet to be made

BBC licence fee deal – the FT v the Times, Sun and Daily Mail

How the national newspapers read George Osborne’s attack on the corporatiobn’s funding

David Attenborough and producer dive deep into potential of VR

TV veteran’s latest venture with pioneer Atlantic Productions for the Natural History Museum breaks new ground in storytelling

Facebook steps up competition with YouTube with ad-supported videos

Social network already has 4bn views a day of its native clips, but helping their creators to make money is its next ambition

BBC3 set to go online only as trust backs plans to scrap TV channel

Rona Fairhead says long-term future of broadcasting is online in move to save corporation around £30m a year, with proposal for BBC1+1 channel rejected

Sky teams up with Monument Valley game-maker for kids TV app

Broadcaster to challenge YouTube kids, allowing children to watch The Cartoon Network, Disney and Nickelodeon on mobiles and tablets

Daily Mail signs deal with Dr Phil for news and entertainment show

US talk show host to make daily programme with tabloid’s website, syndicated by CBS

Entourage’s Adrian Grenier: “I’m not a tool of greenwash”

Star of TV show and film says he is cautious about signing deals to be spokesperson for brands

Time is running out for the 30-second TV commercial

Interruptive television ads are the eight-track of advertising. Today, viewers want to engage with commercials on their own terms, and in their own time

BBC must increase appeal for younger audience, says James Purnell

Corporation risks becoming service for over-35s only if viewing trends among young people continue, according to director of strategy

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  • From Toy Story 5 to The Bear: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • I dived into my digital past to revisit my most cringe teenage moments – and realised how lucky I am to not be young and online today
  • Can we electrify the world? Ambition moves from nerdish backwater to centre stage
  • 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
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  • 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

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