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Sky adds 127,000 customers in UK in third quarter

Broadcaster records best third-quarter customer growth in 11 years, reporting 41% year-on-year increase

Fungus the Bogeyman adaptation to star Timothy Spall and Victoria Wood

Sky1 four-part series of Raymond Briggs creation to also feature Keeley Hawes, Andy Serkis and Marc Warren

Rooster Teeth plays the video game: ‘We’re competing with Netflix and HBO’

Digital veteran Burnie Burns talks YouTube, Lazer Team, GamerGate and why PewDiePie isn’t his main competition any more

Paul Abbott: ‘I don’t think you need damage to be a good writer but you have more experience of extremities’

Paul Abbott’s brilliant new series No Offence is a ‘comedy for a crime-addicted audience’. He talks to Simon Hattenstone about writing Shameless, his family and his battle with bipolar disorder

How to become a YouTube star: seven tips from Luzu

From avoiding trends to keeping patient when your views are in the low double-digits, Spanish vlogger’s advice: ‘The way people consume content is changing...’

‘Traditional TV viewing for teens and tweens is dead. Not dying. Dead.’

But AwesomenessTV still wants to package shows with creators like Meg DeAngelis up for traditional channels, according to chief executive Brian Robbins

BuzzFeed sees short-form videos as springboard to TV shows and films

President of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures Ze Frank sees clips as ‘a fantastic way to build affinity with shows and characters’ before spawning movie projects

Don’t press paws: how DogTV built a global TV channel for man’s best friends

No cats allowed on the first TV station for dogs, which wants to relieve separation anxiety: ‘People feel really guilty leaving their dogs at home...’

Ash Atalla on Twitter: ‘I now get personal feedback from every bastard in the whole world!’

Comedy producer loves social media really, and also relishes the fact that new online TV platforms mean he has more places to sell his shows than ever

Game of Thrones return sparks huge surge in internet piracy

Ahead of season five, more than 100,000 illegal downloads are being made per day of episodes of the hit HBO show

Venus vs Mars: how YouTube success secured a TV deal for urban drama

British production firm PurpleGeko on breaking into broadcast with its romcom: ‘It’s got a predominantly ethnic cast, but there’s no stereotypes in the show’

Hopster goes global with its app for children’s TV and learning games

British startup launching in more than 100 countries, and says it’s relishing the competition from Netflix and YouTube Kids

‘History, yes. Science, sure. Sharks, yes’ – what millennials want from factual TV

Digital natives have new viewing habits but may warm to old subjects – but only if programme makers can grab their attention quickly

TV industry faces its ‘ketchup’ moment: ‘Mobile is now the first screen’

France Télévisions’ director of future media Eric Scherer on the trends providing headaches and huge opportunities alike for television firms

French media groups to hold emergency meeting after Isis cyber-attack

Culture minister calls talks after television network TV5Monde is taken over by individuals claiming to belong to Islamic State

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  • 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
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  • The Guardian view on John Williams and Steven Spielberg: a partnership that changed cinema
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  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
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  • 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
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  • ‘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
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  • Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
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  • In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
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  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
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