Best British Box Sets 2026: A Banker and a Gamble on Every Platform You Already Pay For
Two million people are about to spend the bank holiday dancing down Ladbroke Grove in the rain. Carnival is free,
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Wednesday, September 23, 2026
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- Turner Prize 2026 Opens in Middlesbrough on Saturday: Free Entry, a Six-Month Run and the Best Case Yet for Keeping It Out of London
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- Dulux Colour of the Year 2027 Is Soulful Sage, the Colour Britain Never Stopped Painting: What a Room Costs From £48, and Where It Turns Grey
- Mariah Carey UK Tour 2026 Tickets: A £60 Seat, Three Arenas and the Song That Took 26 Years to Reach Number One
Author: Marcus Webb
Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2026 Shortlist: Six Shows, £10,000, and Three Days to Catch Them
Three of the six comedians on the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2026 shortlist have been nominated before. That’s the most interesting
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Ludwig Series 2 Review: David Mitchell Brings Back the Safest Hit of 2026 – and the BBC Will Only Let You Binge Half of It
The most reassuring thing on British television this week is a man refusing to own a smartphone. This Ludwig series
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Kids Week 2026: 60 London Shows, a Free Child Seat, and 14 Days Left to Use It
Kids Week 2026 puts a child in a West End seat for nothing at 60 London shows, but the offer closes on 31 August and the good dates go first.
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Edinburgh Book Festival 2026: 604 Events, a £21 Ceiling, and the August Ticket the Fringe Can’t Match
Nothing at the Edinburgh Book Festival 2026 costs more than £21. Not John Grisham. Not Gordon Brown, not the former
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UK Box Office 2026: The Record £178m July That Killed Britain’s ‘Cinema Is Dying’ Story
Forty thousand people stood in an online queue last month for the chance to watch a three-hour adaptation of Homer.
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The Rapture BBC Review: Ruth Madeley and India Amarteifio Hand the BBC Its Most Unnervingly Timed Drama of 2026
Somewhere in Britain last Sunday night, someone watched a drama about a country cooking in 40-degree heat while their own
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Best British Audiobooks 2026: Nine Listens Worth Your August, from a 200-Actor Hogwarts to One Man and a Microphone
The most ambitious British production of 2026 isn’t on television. It’s an audiobook – a Deathly Hallows with more than
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Netflix Overtakes the BBC: The 2026 TV Headline That Falls Apart in a Footnote
“Netflix overtakes the BBC” made an irresistible headline this week, and most of the press ran some version of it
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Booker Prize 2026 Longlist: A Man in a Black Bag, a Magic Prison and the Strangest Booker Dozen in Years
One of the novels on the Booker Prize 2026 longlist is about an actor who spends a university term zipped
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