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Tara Conlan

Tara Conlan is a freelance writer for the Guardian and the Observer

May 2026

  • Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan on stage presenting a Bafta prize in February.

    Bafta doubles down on preparations for Sunday TV awards after N-word fallout

  • John Worboys wearing handcuffs is escorted through a doorway by an official

    Officer who cracked serial rapist Worboys case says justice system ‘close to exploding’

April 2026

  • Jeff Pope

    Violence against women is at ‘breaking point’, says writer of John Worboys drama

    Jeff Pope, whose ITV drama Believe Me tells the story of survivors of the ‘black-cab rapist,’ says police must change how sexual assault cases are dealt with

March 2026

  • Photomontage of David Attenborough surrounded by garden animals such as a robin, badger and squirrel

    ‘We didn’t want to be preachy’: David Attenborough’s unexpected new show – which might enrage cat lovers

  • Martin Clunes as Huw Edwards and Osian Morgan as ‘Ryan’ in Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards

    Channel 5 defends Huw Edwards drama and says it gives voice to alleged victim

February 2026

  • Danny Dyer in Priory Hill & Nutts Farm Holiday Park in Kent.

    ‘I love being around other peasants like me!’ … Dani and Danny Dyer’s battle to save British seaside holidays

    Mopping floors, dressing up as kids’ entertainers and fishing unmentionable things from swimming pools: the Dyers’ new TV show sees them investing in a caravan park. Can they revive the UK’s love of them?

December 2025

  • Claudia Winkleman leaning on a table with gold coins on it

    New series of The Traitors is really, really brutal, says Claudia Winkleman

  • Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley in character pulling a Christmas cracker

    TV comedy is back – starting with a festive Ab Fab reunion in Amandaland

November 2025

  • External view of BBC building

    BBC apologises to Trump over edited speech but rejects compensation claim

  • A leopard in a tree canopy looking out for prey and rival predators.

    BBC’s Kingdom series gets viewers ‘into the action’ with TV drama techniques

October 2025

  • Three people look in anticipation at a tray of cash

    ‘It brings people together’: Global hit Come Dine With Me celebrates 20 years

    Show’s narrator Dave Lamb thought ‘no one would ever see it’. Now there are 50 versions worldwide

September 2025

  • Steve Coogan in character as Alan Partridge. He stands in front of a flipchart, wearing a checked shirt, with this hands on his hips

    Alan Partridge is conduit to talk about ‘taboo’ subjects, says Steve Coogan

    As TV character returns to BBC, Coogan says new series is a kind of ‘Trojan horse’ to air issues people feel anxious about bringing up

August 2025

  • Current and previous TV presenters

    ‘I’m the first Blue Peter presenter who can’t blink’: inside the revamp of TV’s oldest kids’ show

    They’ve hired a puppet as a host, moved set and are targeting the TikTok generation. Stars old and new line up to explain why it’s time for the television classic to evolve or die
  • Press image of a couple kissing in shallow waters in front of an idyllic island

    ‘If you survive this, you’ll survive anything’: new UK reality show that strands ‘newlyweds’ on honeymoon

    BBC’s Stranded on Honeymoon Island tests whether love can flourish ‘in toughest of conditions’, says Davina McCall
  • Alison Steadman and Tim Stern smiling as they sit on an armchair in Abigail's Party

    Channel 5 revives BBC’s Play for Today to ‘help shape future of British drama’

    Series aims to follow original in tackling ‘thornier issues’, and to support talent from lower-income backgrounds

July 2025

  • African social spider nest.

    Mother-eating spiders ‘will chill parents to the bone’ in new David Attenborough series

    African social spiders’ sinister game of ‘grandmother’s footsteps’ could be breakout moment in BBC’s Parenthood
  • Gary Lineker, wearing a striped tie and smart jacket, in the Royal Box at Wimbledon.

    Gary Lineker says BBC should ‘hold its head in shame’ for dropping Gaza film

    Ex-BBC presenter criticises failure to show documentary, accusing people at ‘the very top’ of failing over the conflict
  • BBC HQ costs<br>File photo dated 16/7/2013 of employees arriving at Broadcasting House, London. The running costs of the BBC's prestigious new headquarters are almost three-times as high as for other comparable buildings in the UK, the Whitehall spending watchdog has disclosed.

    More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza

    Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle and Mike Leigh among signatories to letter criticising Jewish Chronicle ties

May 2025

  • A portrait shot of Ben de Pear, the founder of Basement Films.

    Doctors and whistleblowers in delayed Gaza film threaten to pull out

  • ‘Many people now believe dinosaurs, like dragons, did not actually exist’ … an Albertosaurus from Walking With Dinosaurs.

    A T-rex with lips? Predators with pink eyebrows? Walking with Dinosaurs is back to challenge everything you know

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