Selling Sunset's Christine Quinn: 'Carole Baskin and I were the TV villains of the year'
With her bitchy quips, the Hollywood realtor had viewers hooked to the Netflix reality smash this year. She talks about her own favourite TV, and the difficult world of social media
We went down a YouTube rabbit hole, Alan Partridge made a triumphant return and a singular look at cold war espionage came with an irresistible earworm. Plus more of the year’s best pods
The 10 best contemporary music albums of 2020
We survey the best albums from the experimental edges of classical, jazz and more, from ambient sludge to blissful electronica
'Exactly the show we needed in 2020': readers' favourite theatre of the year
With theatres dark for much of the year, readers found imaginative alternatives online as well as treasurable shows on stage
A queer coming-of-age story charmed us, a balletic shoot-em-up raised our adrenaline and the star game of lockdown provided a desert-island escape from real life
The 10 best global albums of 2020
Away from the English-language mainstream was a world of mindblowing sound from Indian raga to Malian mayhem, and Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela’s final work
A dramatic year: the 10 best theatre shows of 2020
As the industry faced turmoil, there were triumphant stagings of classics by Sarah Kane, David Mamet and Alan Bennett – and bold new experiments
