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From dodgy VPNs in Dubai to elaborate WhatsApp spoiler-dodging in Sydney, British expats are performing digital gymnastics just to keep up with Corrie. Their desperate loyalty reveals something profound about what our telly actually means to us.
From BBC to Netflix UK, marketing departments are treating trailers like spoiler-filled highlight reels. We examine how overzealous promotion is killing the magic of surprise television.
British television's pre-watershed guidelines are a masterclass in creative interpretation, where 'bloody hell' is fine but 'damn' requires careful consideration. Welcome to the wonderfully arbitrary world of what's acceptable before 9pm.
From Dick Van Dyke's cockney carnage to modern Hollywood's latest linguistic casualties, we're ranking every American actor who dared to attempt a British accent. Spoiler alert: most of them really shouldn't have bothered.
Who knew that beneath Ken Barlow's cardigans lurked future superheroes? British soap and sitcom stars have been quietly conquering Hollywood's biggest franchises.
Britain has a long, proud, and occasionally mortifying history of television that made the nation choke on its cornflakes. But revisiting some of TV's most controversial swings, it turns out we weren't watching disasters — we were watching the future. We were just too busy being outraged to notice.
Summer is here, the multiplex is cranking the air con to arctic levels, and the release schedule is absolutely heaving with reasons to justify a large popcorn. We've gone through every major UK cinema release so you don't have to — the blockbusters, the indie gems, the ones that look better than they probably are, and the ones that look worse than they definitely will be. You're welcome.