24 h. ago Ben Fogle pays tribute to late castaway 'who found joy after losing millions'

David Glasheen, one of the original castaways who featured in the Channel 5 documentary series New Lives in the Wild, has passed away at the age of 81

Economics

27 h. ago John Cleese to feature in new documentary film about his life on tour

The 85-year old actor, best known for Fawlty Towers, will take audiences behind the scenes of his European tour in John Cleese Packs It In.

Culture

45 h. ago Paramedic who drugged lover with abortion pills to kill their unborn baby starred on BBC show about 'frontline heroes and their life

Stephen Doohan, 33, who has been sentenced to a decade behind bars, previously featured in a BBC documentary series called Paramedics on Scene.

Events

50 h. ago Twisted paramedic jailed for forcing abortion drugs into woman during sex

Stephen Doohan, who previously featured in BBC documentary Paramedics on Scene, researched which drug to insert into a woman he was having an affair with after she told him she was pregnant

Events

52 h. ago The Zola Experience review – life follows art as stage relationship spills into real

When actor-director Anne Barbot embarks on an adaptation of a Zola novel with her neighbour, the gap between theatre and reality appears to collapse entirelyArt and life fuse deliriously in Gianluca Matarrese’s hybrid film, which alternates between documentary and fiction, theatre and cinema. Recently divorced from her husband, actor-director Anne Barbot throws herself into preparing a stage adaptation of Emile Zola’s classic novel L’Assommoir. In Gervaise, the working-class heroine of the book, Barbot finds echoes of her current situation: both are women who struggle to reclaim professional autonomy in the aftermath of broken relationships. Barbot’s production becomes more complicated when she casts Benoît Dallongeville, a neighbour who is also an actor, in the role of her love interest in the play. Soon, passion and tension begin to spill from personal relationships on to the page, and vice versa.Matarrese’s film keeps the camera strikingly close to Barbot and Dallongeville as the...

Politics

4 d. ago Lisa Nandy asked BBC why no one was fired for airing Gaza documentary featuring son of Hamas official

Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone was originally aired in February but it was pulled by the broadcaster after it emerged the son of a Hamas minister featured prominently.

Politics

4 d. ago Lisa Nandy questions lack of BBC sackings over Gaza war documentary

Culture secretary says BBC must ‘get a grip’ after Bob Vylan Glastonbury row and film featuring son of Hamas officialThe culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has demanded to know why no one at the BBC has lost their job over the airing of a documentary on Gaza that featured the son of a Hamas official.A review looking into the broadcast of Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone is reportedly due to be published next week. The programme first aired in February, but was pulled by the broadcaster after the link between its 13-year-old narrator and Hamas emerged. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Libertines rocker 'turned into Basil Fawlty' while running seaside hotel due to stress

Carl Barat, who performs in The Libertines alongside Pete Doherty, said he was "so stressed" while running the Albion Rooms in Margate, Kent that he became like John Cleese's character from Fawlty Towers

Politics

1 week ago Inside Phyllis Logan's life from tragic loss to famous film star husband

Ahead of Murder Most Puzzling's latest episode on Channel 5, let's take a look at the life of actress Phyllis Logan, who is best known for playing Mrs Hughes in Downton Abbey.

Events

1 week ago Infamous 2013 cruise that got stuck at sea without plumbing features in new Netflix documentary

Over 4,000 passengers and crew were stranded on the 14-storey Carnival Triumph liner

Politics

2 w. ago Henley Literary Festival announces partnership with The Independent for third year running

Guest speakers will include Graham Norton, Joanna Lumley and Michael Morpurgo

Politics

2 w. ago Noel Edmonds' 'true personality' revealed by New Zealand neighbour

The former Deal or No Deal presenter now owns an estate with a vineyard in New Zealand, which will be featured in a new ITV documentary series.

Politics

2 w. ago British wingsuit champion featured in BBC documentary is killed during a jump in the Swiss Alps

Liam Byrne, 24, was critically injured on the Gitschen mountain in Switzerland on Saturday.

Events

2 w. ago The ‘most underrated’ thriller of the 1990s taking Netflix by storm

Intense film is finding a new lease of life 30 years on

Events

2 w. ago How many people died in Grenfell Tower fire and who were the victims?

Netflix's documentary Grenfell: Uncovered features interviews from survivors and those who lost loved ones in the tragedy

Events

2 w. ago ‘I don’t want my brother to just be a number’: How Netflix’s powerful Grenfell film sheds new light on the tragedy

As Netflix releases a powerful new documentary about the blaze that took 72 lives at Grenfell Tower in 2017, Hannah J Davies speaks to a man who lost a close relative in the fire, as well as the film’s director and a journalist who’s spent years reporting on the failures that led to the catastrophe

Politics

2 w. ago Disney Pixar artist brings kids' alien visions to life ahead of new film Elio

The children's vision of an alien has been brought to life by Disney Pixar artists, to celebrate the release of new animated movie, Elio

Culture

3 w. ago ‘Most underrated’ thriller of the 1990s takes Netflix by storm

Intense film is finding a new lease of life 30 years on

Events

3 w. ago Downton Abbey creator says he 'has to use a wheelchair' in candid health update

Fans are preparing for the third film following the rich family's hectic life

Society

3 w. ago Confessions of a Parent Killer review – a grisly tale of the murderer who lived with her mum and dad’s corpses

This look at Virginia McCullough tells a deeply strange story. Unfortunately, it also leaves the viewer in suspense about her motive for so long it feels horrifically manipulativeWell, what do you think a 90-minute documentary entitled Confessions of a Parent Killer is going to be about? That’s right, well done! It’s the story of a murder by an (adult) child of her parents. Virginia – Ginny – McCullough killed her mother, Lois, and father, John, and confessed immediately to police when they raided her home in 2023 that she had done so four years previously. The twist was that she had been living with their bodies ever since. “She was weird at school,” says a childhood friend. “But not ‘kill your parents and hide the bodies’ weird.”You can probably tell from such unimpeachably phlegmatic commentary that this case occurred in England. Great Baddow, Essex, to be exact, and the film paints a portrait of quintessential small-town, almost-rural life in these sceptred isles that has gone u...

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