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Autumn arts preview 2022

Guardian critics pick the best in UK arts and entertainment to look forward to this season

  • Clockwise from bottom left: The English, Happy Valley, Inside Man, Riches, Funny Woman, The Crown.

    The 10 best TV dramas coming this autumn

    From the return of Happy Valley and The Crown to new shows starring Gemma Arterton, Kenneth Branagh and Guy Pearce, there’s a lot to stay in for
  • Oliver Sim.

    Oliver Sim: ‘The way I dealt with shame in the past hasn’t worked at all’

  • James IV: Queen of the Fight.

    Blues, Jews and Ukrainian ballet: the best theatre, dance and comedy of autumn 2022

  • Gotham Knights.

    From women’s football to monster slaying: the most exciting video games for autumn 2022

    Restore law to Gotham, explore medieval Bavaria or skateboard like a pro… it’s all to play for in these new titles
  • Stormy waters … Triangle of Sadness.

    Shipwrecks and reality checks: the films setting out to skewer the rich

    Wealth, corruption and immorality are under intense scrutiny in a clutch of films being released this autumn
  • Avatar: The Way of Water.

    From Wakanda Forever to Don’t Worry Darling: the best films to see in autumn 2022

    The Avatar sequel arrives, Michael Flatley’s secret agent struts in, Marvel returns to Black Panther territory – and Harry Styles teams up with Florence Pugh in a horror-thriller
  • Bathers, 1874-5, by Paul Cézanne.

    Winslow Homer, Cézanne and Zaha Hadid: the best art and architecture of autumn 2022

    The exhibition of the year is here, plus we have South Korean pop culture, a Sudanese women’s champion, decoded Egyptian hieroglyphs, Zaha Hadid’s ‘yonic stadium’ and a rare showing for the ‘American Turner’
  • Jeremy Allen White, Lionel Boyce and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in The Bear.

    Sexy, stressful, thrilling: how fictional chefs are about to take over TV

    From US smash-hit kitchen drama The Bear to James Corden starring as a chef in Jez Butterworth’s forthcoming “relationship whodunnit”, you’re going to be watching a lot of ovens
  • Christine and the Queens.

    From Clairo to Sugababes, and a bunch of Yeah Yeah Yeahs: autumn 2022’s essential music

    Kid Cudi promises next-level treats, Lindsey Buckingham does trap, Benghazi synthpop hits the road, and the CBSO celebrates evolution with a Brett Dean premiere – here is the unmissable music of the next few months
  • Megan Richards and Markella Kavenagh in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

    The Rings of Power, the Clintons’ heroes and Planet Sex: the must-see TV of autumn 2022

    Middle-earth springs into TV life, Hillary and Chelsea interview gutsy women, Cara Delevingne explores sexuality, plus hellish hotels, pop cults and feuding royals … here is all the unmissable TV coming soon
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