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Black Mirror review: Two standout episodes in a largely dreary and predictable new season
Television: Charlie Brooker’s future-shock science fiction may be surplus to requirements. Could any future be any more shocking than our present reality?
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Black Mirror season six: Skip the underwhelming first instalment and head straight for the best episodes
Television: Forget AI or killer robots. For this series of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian series, the true threat to the world is human wickedness
Charlie Brooker on hitting the reset button in the new Black Mirror series and ChatGPT
Television: Black Mirror has cracked, and something new and different has poured through
Black Mirror’s Charlie Brooker on gaming, nuclear war and creating dystopia
The acclaimed screenwriter is at the frontier of interactive entertainment
Ben Whishaw: ‘I don’t find acting helps my social anxiety’
The actor talks about his off-stage shyness and his latest role in This Is Going to Hurt
New priorities, Big Brother weirdness and Covid-19 in Westminster
Planet Business: There’s only one story
How coronavirus turned Big Brother into a house of horrors
Big Brother contestants from Germany to Brazil know little about the Covid-19 devastation – and some will be told on live TV
The Goop Lab: One episode is about the vulva. I’ll probably watch that with my parents
In Gwyneth Paltrow’s new Netflix series, Goop HQ could be straight out of Black Mirror
‘I thought the end of the music industry would be amazing’
Barry McCormack looks beyond Dublin for his brilliant, almost-concept album Mean Time
Black Mirror makes a bold and surprising return to form
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