カテゴリー: Television & radio
Osel Hita Torres joined a monastery after the Dalai Lama declared him a reincarnated spiritual leader, but at 18 he broke free and moved to Ibiza. A new TV series tells his storyAt the age of 14 months, Osel Hita Torres was recognised by the Dalai Lama…
Kyoko Kimura claims the reality TV programme triggered cyber bullying that led to her daughter’s deathThe mother of Hana Kimura, a former professional wrestler who killed herself after appearing in the Japanese reality TV show Terrace House, has sued t…
We have been seen as caricatures, but never as rich, nuanced and fully human. Which is why it’s time to show the world what it’s been missingTo say I have an obsessive relationship with television would be to undersell the truth. As far back as I can r…
From music to movies, technology to food, the world has fallen in love with everything South Korean. Ahead of a big London exhibition, Tim Adams visits Seoul in search of the origins of hallyu – the Korean waveOur critics on where to start with Korean …
The popularity of ‘boy-love’ series sends fans from home and abroad flocking to filming locations across the countryThere is a table in Soontaree Thiprat’s Phuket cafe that is always fully booked. Most of her customers at the Dibuk restaurant want to s…
The soap, which marks its 30th anniversary this week, has become part of New Zealand’s cultural fabric – what does it mean to you?New Zealand’s longest running soap opera, Shortland Street, celebrates 30 years on screen this week. The hospital drama w…
Fans who had seen the programme before were quick to notice the absence of several scenes, including those relating to Ross’s ex-wife, Carol, who is gayFriends has been stripped of its lesbian storyline for the Chinese re-release of the sitcom, prompti…
More than 250 newspapers, radio and TV stations have closed in first 100 days of militants’ ruleThe romantic serials have gone after the Taliban warned against racy content, the popular women’s call-in shows were axed after the militants said they didn…
Documentary-maker who captured East Timor atrocities on film and left behind his earlier career as a Blue Peter presenterThe documentary-maker Max Stahl, who has died of throat cancer aged 66, exposed the atrocities of the Indonesian government in East…
Entertainment industry told to uphold ‘truth, goodness and beauty’ and remove vulgar and violent contentChina’s broadcasting regulator said it will encourage online producers to create “healthy” cartoons and clamp down on violent, vulgar or pornographi…
Broadcasters ordered not to promote ‘sissy’ men in attempt to reshape country’s entertainment industryChina has banned some reality talent shows and ordered broadcasters not to promote “sissy” men, in the latest attempt to reshape the culture of the co…
U-turn over those who worked for British media follows outcry from newspapers and broadcastersThe foreign secretary has agreed to consider allowing Afghan journalists who worked for the British to flee to the UK if their lives are endangered by the res…
Viewers say scenes featuring Lady Gaga, boyband BTS and Justin Bieber are missing from Chinese versionFor many Chinese millennials, the US sitcom Friends was a window to the American way of life. Teachers would use the show to help students learn Engli…
After being abducted on assignment in Afghanistan, journalist Mellissa Fung shares an intense bond with the teenage girls who were held captive by Boko HaramThe journalist and filmmaker Mellissa Fung is showing me her wound – or to be precise, the scar…
Vladislav Ivanov says he regretted his decision to join Produce Camp 2021 but fans refused to vote him outThe reality TV ordeal of a Russian who joined a Chinese boy band show by accident – and made it to the final despite urging fans to vote him off –…