Agatha Christie’s family welcome diversity in new BBC adaptation
Author’s great-grandson suggests she would have approved of changing lead’s ethnicity in Murder Is Easy
November 2023
‘It’s been the craziest moment of my life’: the 2023 British independent film award nominees on risk, romance, and why UK film is on fire
London romcom Rye Lane leads British independent film awards nominations
March 2023
‘I’m not really a freedom fighter’: actor David Jonsson on Tinseltown and making it on home turf
David Jonsson is being courted by Hollywood. But the star of Industry and Rye Lane prefers roles that reflect Black British life. He talks to Michael Segalov
January 2023
Rye Lane review – engagingly cartoony romcom on the streets of south London
A chance meeting between two jilted strangers leads to chaotic imposture and a vinyl rescue mission in this freewheeling feature debut from director Raine Allen Miller
August 2022
‘It’s a world that’s sometimes nasty and ugly’: Industry’s creators on the new series of the banking drama
Konrad Kay and Mickey Down created a cult TV hit in 2020 with their sex- and drug-fuelled investment bank drama. They talk about quitting banking themselves – and spilling the beans
February 2022
On my radar
On my radar: Caleb Azumah Nelson’s cultural highlights
The Costa first novel award winner on Dave, the jazz photography of Roy DeCarava, and his restaurant obsession
November 2021
And Breathe dominates Black British theatre awards
Yomi Ṣode’s one-hander and Regent’s Park production of Romeo and Juliet win four awards each
June 2021
And Breathe… review – powerful tale of family grief is poetry in motion
Industry’s David Jonsson: ‘Lena Dunham thinks British people eat scones every day’
May 2021
Saoirse Ronan to make UK stage debut in feminist Macbeth
Four-time Oscar nominee reunited with James McArdle in the Almeida theatre’s staging of the Shakespeare tragedy
November 2020
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius; The Diana Interview; His Dark Materials; Industry
A docuseries on Oscar Pistorius shamefully forgets his victim. Plus, the fallout from the BBC’s royal scoop 25 years on
TV review
Industry review – Lena Dunham directs taut drama you can bank on
Girls star helms the first episode of this thrilling HBO/BBC co-production exploring the life of duelling graduates in a London investment bank
The watcher
Industry: the Billions x Skins mashup we never knew we needed
High-stress careers and twentysomething enthusiasm meet in this Lena Dunham-directed power-play drama
