She has an army of super-fans, a record-breaking back catalogue, and knows how to throw some serious shade. On the eve of her Christmas concert, Louis Staples re-examines the Mimi legacy

Programme for 2019 features array of Welsh artists amid accusations of English bias National Theatre Wales, which has been

Young says he had 'no idea' the announcement was coming

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London

Photographer Andrew Moisey uncovered ritual hazing, extreme drunkenness and toxic masculinity on one college campus – from men destined to be America’s future leaders Last year in the US,

From romantic comedies to animated fare, including Kurt Russell as Santa Claus and the sequel to A Christmas Prince

Traditional song based on Robert Burns' poem used to mark passing of old year around the world

Man Booker and Waterstones awards winners up against high-profile memoirs and favourite pulp writers in battle for festive sales

Ubiquity of seasonal standards throughout December suggests artists responsible must be snowed under with cash

The new season will arrive on Netflix in 2019

The streaming service plans to invest in more African content

The frontman wrote on Instagram: 'I'm writing new songs for gd now'

The BBC has revealed the 10 rising stars in its annual tastemaker poll, previously won by artists including Adele and Years & Years Women dominate the BBC’s list of rising artists tipped for success in its annual tastemaker poll. Flamenco star

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Emily Blunt will step into Julie Andrews's formidable shoes as the magical nanny, set for a brand new adventure

From Gina Prince-Bythewood's directorial debut Love & Basketball, to Todd Haynes' achingly romantic Carol

After her public downfall, the former teen actor is back on Twitter and thinking about making films again. Is the celebrity spotlight the right place to return to? Remember Amanda Bynes? You might do from such teen comedies as What a Girl Wants, in which she discovers her dad is Colin Firth and comes to England to de-Englishize him. Or She’s the Man, in which she masqueraded as a boy to play soccer and charm Channing Tatum. Or before that, Nickelodeon’s The Amanda Show. Alternatively, you might remember Bynes for her subsequent, very

From Christmas comedies to awards favourites

From new characters to a new location, plus the most special effects-laden season yet

Streaming giant offers some scary classics among its eclectic mix of titles including Christine, From Beyond and Under the Shadow

An elite group of Special Forces operatives decide to use their skills for their own benefit

Rose Macaulay’s What Not, which features a sinister Ministry of Brains, is little known, but there are claims it influenced both Aldous Huxley and George Orwell A forgotten feminist dystopian novel, a story of eugenics and newspaper manipulation that is believed to have influenced Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, is coming back into print for the first time in a century, complete with pages that were suppressed in 1918. Rose Macaulay’s

Tried and failed to explore the online back catalogues of the late Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci recently? You’re not alone… Just as the death of famous musicians tends to send their albums soaring back up the charts, you’d expect a spike in demand for the work of major film-makers when they pass on. The recent one-two loss of

ITV reality series was one of the most watched series to date

After the environmentalist and writer moved to Poplar, east London, he set out to discover both the area’s natural diversity and where modern life goes wrong In his essay The Parish and the Universe the poet

The cryptic titles tease trouble ahead for the residents of Hawkins, Indiana

This collection of woozy retro-futurist miniatures flew the flag for all album-kind in its cogent unity of time, place and ideas A perplexing Alex Turner solo turn, or one of the best records in

In a busy 2018 for Donald Glover, arguably his most impressive feat was the surreal second season of this ambitious examination of African-American life Donald Glover had a busy 2018. He starred as

Increasing the sense of impending horror to almost unbearable intensity, Ari Aster’s terrifying debut caused convulsions – without a jump-scare in sight

Based on deaths so far, Australian health academics say those with the best prognosis have previously switched allegiance

Holly Willoughby and Dec Donnelly make for utterly bland presenters

An upbeat ending comes only as the mildest of reliefs

The football manager beat John Barrowman and Emily Atack

The documentary is put together with all the usual supreme craft that the BBC and Attenborough have been deploying for six decades and more

Jodie Whittaker has proven herself a capable and convincing Time Lord

Could John Barrowman or Emily Atack steal the football manager's thunder?

The former Pussycat Doll has been in the dance-off for three consecutive weeks

From Victorian penury to Caribbean party music, new productions at Leeds Playhouse and Northern Stage in Newcastle revisit Dickens’s festive favourite It isn’t only the ghosts of Christmases past, present and future that haunt Robert Pickavance’s irritable Scrooge. In Deborah McAndrew’s adaptation (★★★★☆), reworked at Leeds Playhouse after last year’s run at Hull Truck, he is also bothered by a band of cheeky poltergeists. With delighted giggles, they hide his slippers, shift his table and swap his nightcap for a Santa hat. In Amy Leach’s vigorous production, it brings a note of humour to rub up against the Victorian penury, disturbing apparitions and grouchy misanthropy. Alongside the songs by John Biddle, given gutsy ensemble renditions, it adds variety to a show with narrative clout. Broodingly lit by Josh Carr, the candles flickering in intensity as the unearthly smoke bellows, Hayley Grindle’s set transfers the business of Scrooge and Marley to a gloomy Leeds warehouse where the labour is tough and relentless. Here, Pickavance’s Scrooge morphs from a cranky taskmaster, his voice prone to shrill outbursts as his shoulders give neurotic shrugs, into a sonorous humanitarian, instantly humbled by the visions before him.

Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gil and Tosin Cole are set to reprise their roles

With just one grand piano in the whole of Gaza, and a dwindling number of teachers, young Palestinian musicians fight 11-year-long blockade to keep music alive in times of war

The gallery, priced out of New Bond Street after 142 years, is auctioning more than 300 works An art gallery that pioneered the idea of solo exhibitions and staged the first “white cube” show is to sell more than 300 works to mark its relocation after 142 years on New Bond Street in London. The Fine Art Society (FAS) left the five-storey Mayfair townhouse it had occupied since 1876 earlier this year,

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Lauren Steadman struggles with two dances as she tumbles to the bottom

'I couldn't get up and just couldn't pick myself up at all that next year'

'We put all of our past experiences in here'

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From pies at Bury market to gluten-free brownies in the Northern Quarter, photographer Martin Parr finds signs of change amid the ephemeral and the mundane. William Cook catches up with him in his Bristol studio

He went to film school in Greece, expecting a career making commercials. Now, he’s made an award-winning period drama starring Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone Thirteen years ago,

The Good Place actor and ocean activist speaks to Emily Heil about the Trump administration, being married to Mary Steenburgen, and whether climate change deniers go to the Bad Place

It's been reported that Academy organisers are struggling to find a good fit for the job

'Interesting I wonder if there was any backlash here'

'It's just me, Robert Mueller, your dad's friend from work'

Lauren Steadman struggles with two dances as she tumbles to the bottom

The team behind 'The Jungle' tell Michael Paulson that their success both illuminates the new obstacles for artists from restricted countries, as well as the possibility that those obstacles can be surmounted

A likable loser takes cold calling to a new level in Riley’s gleefully anarchic directorial debut that tackles race and class with the flair of peak Woody Allen “Stick to the script!” That’s the motto that’s drummed into the beleaguered telesales operatives at the heart of this savagely surreal dystopian satire from writer-director