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The Guide #214: Sleep-inducing songs and tranquilising TV – the culture that sends us to sleep (in a good way)

In this week’s newsletter: Inspired by a Guardian series, the sights and sounds our culture critics turn to for help when the sandman is asleep on the job

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The Guide #213: Should we mourn the demise of TV channels?

In this week’s newsletter: As they chase the streamers, our national broadcasters’ once-distinct identities have melded into faceless programming punchbowls

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The Guide #212: The Taylor Swift backlash has me asking: how much good music can one artist really produce?

In this week’s newsletter: The mixed response to The Life of a Showgirl is proof that even the biggest star isn’t immune to creative burnout

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The Guide #211: What the world is watching, from Brazilian telenovelas to superheroes made of red bean paste

In this week’s newsletter: Guardian writers spotlight the much-loved shows in the country they live, including Jamaican breakfast telly, Big Brother Naija and X Factor for Polish pianists

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The Guide #209: Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel and the battle for the future of late-night TV

In this week’s newsletter: Once the preserve of backslapping celebrity interviews and inoffensive segments, late-night TV is now in Trump’s sights – giving its hosts unprecedented political weight

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The Guide #208: How theatre is holding its own in the age of artificial intelligence

In this week’s newsletter: Live performances offering authentic human connection are drawing crowds to the stage, as AI-driven drivel worms its way into other creative industries

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The Guide #207: How Britain embraced The Simpsons, America’s true first family

In this week’s newsletter: First shown in the UK 35 years ago, the landmark cartoon has wormed its way into our culture, from parliament put-downs to Bartman mania

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The Guide #206: Indie bands are quitting Spotify, what could it mean for the future of music streaming?

The biggest streaming platform has shaped how music is consumed and how it is valued. But recent controversies suggest the bargain may no longer feel worth it

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The Guide #205: In an age of streaming clutter, why not rediscover Britain’s rich documentary past?

From Molly Dineen’s humane portraits to Channel 4’s wild experiments, the golden age of British TV documentaries offers more than the streamers’ endless banal choice

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The Guide #204: The local dystopian TV shows captivating global audiences

A new wave of post-apocalyptic dramas are serving up disaster tales shaped by the cultures they come from, and the results are fascinating

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The Guide #202: Awol headliners to rampaging deer: how festivals survive the worst-case scenarios

The British festival season is a logistical minefield. One veteran promoter walks us through the thrills, threats and total meltdowns and what to do when it all goes wrong

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The Guide #201: our readers’ 21st-century pantheon: the culture you loved (that we missed)

In this week’s newsletter: Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, Nina Conti and Sabrina Carpenter all make the cut in your passionate picks from the past 25 years

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The Guide #199: Such Brave Girls shows that grown-up gross-out comedy is thriving

Kat Sadler’s brilliantly bilious BBC sitcom doesn’t disgust and offend for the sake of it, but follows the likes of Always Sunny in making a deeper point through its off-colour gags

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The Guide #198: Finally, Superman meets his match

In this week’s newsletter: It’s the villains, not the heroes, that make a superhero film, and this week’s impending blockbuster looks to have enough of them to reboot the legendary franchise

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The Guide #197: Your front-row pass to who the performers will be watching at Glastonbury

From punk trios to folk icons, performers share their Glastonbury picks – and it’s not who you might expect

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The Guide #196: How blockbusters, streaming and risk-averse studios shaped the last 25 years of cinema

In the last of our miniseries, we look at how Hollywood has become a franchise machine. But in a sea of superheroes and sequels, there is still room for cinematic artistry

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The Guide #195: How Reddit made nerds of us all

In this week’s newsletter: Happy 20th birthday to the forum that reshaped fandom and is one of the internet’s most eccentric collaborative spaces

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The Guide #193: Meet Ernesto, the viral America’s Got Talent contestant … who doesn’t exist

In this week’s newsletter: Millions have watched the AI-generated singer’s sob story on social media – even weirder, many don’t even mind if it’s fake

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The Guide #192: How reality TV and streaming has shaped 21st-century TV

In the second of our new miniseries looking back at the last quarter-century of pop culture, we chart the transformation of television since 2000

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The Guide #191: After three decades, Tom Cruise is done with Mission: Impossible – so what’s next?

In this week’s newsletter: In retiring his messianic action hero schtick, a return to challenging, messy roles could lead to a late-era flowering of his career

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The Guide #189: Your new celebrity best friend? It’s just a deepfake trying to con you

AI impostors are charming fans out of fortunes – here’s how TV’s Scam Interceptors catch the criminals

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The Guide #188: How 25 years of music has shaped the charts from monoculture to mass playlists

In the first in a new miniseries, we look back at the biggest songs of the 21st century to trace how music – and the way we consume it – has evolved

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The Guide #187: The Pitt, the medical drama that’s the best show you can’t watch

This gripping ER successor has been a slow-burn sensation in the US – why isn’t it available anywhere in the UK?

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The Guide #186: Five rules to keep your podcast feed Marie Kondo tidy

In this week’s newsletter: with so many compelling podcasts out there, how do we manage the audio oversupply?

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The Guide #184: Is Seth Rogen’s The Studio one last hurrah for the A-list cameo?

In this week’s newsletter: Apple TV+’s Hollywood satire skewers the industry’s obsession with brand IP and awards while serving up outrageous star turns

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