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June 2024

  • Adam Lambert meets Andy Bell of Erasure.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Queen frontman Adam Lambert celebrates Freddie Mercury

  • Robots from the video to Björk’s All Is Full of Love, directed by Chris Cunningham – one of the great discoveries on music video channels.

    TV channels once championed music. Why have they given up so completely?

    Fergal Kinney

May 2024

  • ‘The most gifted musician I’ve ever met’ … Lucy Illingworth.

    ‘Musical soulmates’: the extraordinary story of The Piano sensation Lucy and her doting teacher

    Lucy Illingworth wowed audiences on the TV talent show, but her journey started as a toddler with dedicated tutor Daniel Bath. Now, a documentary shows how they did it – and the shocking moment a royal disaster almost stopped them

April 2024

  • black and white photo of syd barrett seated in lotus position

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd; Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story and more – review

  • Mods dancing at the Mod Ball in Wembley’s Empire Pool, 8 April 1964.

    From the Guardian archive
    The Ready, Steady, Go! Mod Ball reviewed – archive, April 1964

February 2024

  • Steve Brown

    ‘One-off talent’: UK comedy composer Steve Brown dies aged 69

    Hit composer scored TV and radio as well as the stage shows X-Factor and TONY!

December 2023

  • Alma Player, right, with her mother, Vera

    Other lives
    Alma Player obituary

  • Bill Bailey in 2023

    Flashback
    Bill Bailey looks back: ‘My comedy audience is similar to Strictly’s demographic – an eight-year-old next to an 80-year-old’

September 2023

  • The real Kendrick Lamar, who was imitated on Polish TV show Twoja Twarz Brzmi Znajomo.

    Outrage as Polish TV talent show contestants use blackface for Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé performances

    Singer Kuba Szmajkowski and actor Pola Gonciarz heavily darkened their skin on Your Face Sounds Familiar, with Szmajkowski also wearing cornrows and using the N-word

July 2023

  • Mick Jagger in 1977.

    Symphony for the devil: Mick Jagger’s 80 greatest moments, on his 80th birthday

    The singer who invented the very idea of the frontman has reached his ninth decade. We pick out the Jagger-iest moments of all, from killer lyrics to self-mocking sketches

May 2023

  • Katya Miasoid, who fled Ukraine to the UK a year ago, now works in Liverpool.

    ‘It’s our little Ukraine’: war-weary fans embrace Eurovision and Liverpool

    Families who once watched the song contest in Kyiv or Lviv are now watching it in the UK

February 2023

  • ‘There’s plenty to applaud and get misty-eyed about’  … Claudia Winkleman, Mika and Lang Lang with the contestants in The Piano’s second episode.

    Tinkling the ivories and tugging the heart strings: is The Piano the most uplifting TV talent show ever?

    Railway station pianists from 11 to 92 get a surprise shot at fame in this Claudia Winkleman-hosted Channel 4 hit, where even the judges find something nice to say

July 2022

  • Georgia Mann, Katie Derham and Clive Myrie present the BBC Proms

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: pump up the volume – for the First Night of the Proms

    The BBC’s eight-week classical music season kicks off with Verdi’s Requiem. Plus: the welcome return of The Last Leg. Here’s what to watch this evening

November 2021

  • The Beatles’ 1969 Savile Row rooftop show in Get Back.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Beatles: Get Back; The Princes and the Press; Escape from the Taliban; The Wheel of Time

  • Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: how a rap about female sexual desire became a global hit

October 2021

  • Robert Carlyle as Robert Sutherland in Cobra: Cyberwar

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: can Robert Carlyle save Britain in political thriller Cobra?

  • Jools Holland sitting at a grand piano, photographed from above

    A broken record: why music TV deserves more than Jools Holland

September 2021

  • Jade Thirlwall, Daisy May Cooper and Annie-Marie on Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

    TV review
    Never Mind the Buzzcocks review – Daisy May Cooper takes on the pop patriarchy

    The music quiz is back from rehab, cleaned up and on Sky. Girls are finally allowed, too – though with a show this confused, they might regret smashing this glass ceiling

June 2021

  • Simon Armitage, poet laureate

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: poet laureate Simon Armitage takes stock of the pandemic

    The poet’s words combine with people’s personal stories to provide an emotional roadmap of Covid-19. Plus Mary Beard talks to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Here’s what to watch tonight

April 2021

  • Vladislav ‘Lelush’ Ivanov performing on stage on Produce Camp 2021.

    Russian man 'trapped' on Chinese reality TV show finally voted out after three months

    Vladislav Ivanov says he regretted his decision to join Produce Camp 2021 but fans refused to vote him out
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