The Best of Guardian TV
10+ most popular Guardian TV articles, as voted by our community.
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Guardian TV on Computer Graphics
‘The sprites clearly do not look like actual lemmings’: the inside story of an iconic video game
Dodgy graphics, mysteriously sourced computers and a bemused artist: a new Youtube documentary celebrates 30 years since the release of computing classic Lemmings
Guardian TV on Culture
Overloaded: is there simply too much culture?
With so much film, TV, music, books, streaming, games and podcasts easily available and vying for our attention, how can we absorb it all? And should we even try, asks Anne Helen Petersen
Channel 4’s 40 best shows
From a prime minister violating a pig to a pre-watershed lesbian kiss, Catastrophe to, er, Countdown, Channel 4 has been at the forefront of cutting-edge programming. As the station turns 40, we rate…
Guardian TV on Gaming
The Last of Us: TV finally has the perfect video game adaptation
Inspired casting, excellent acting, hugely inventive storytelling … no console-to-screen journey has ever been this good. And it’s one of the year’s best television shows to boot
Guardian TV on Podcasts
'I almost wet myself laughing': 50 funny podcasts to make you feel much better
Has your daily walk become an endless trudge to nowhere? These podcasts, chosen by comedians, podcasters, Guardian writers and readers, are guaranteed to bring a smile to your face
«THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST Adam Buxton is the king of podcasts and each episode of this is guaranteed to make me laugh at least half a dozen times. While listening to the podcast on a run, I have found myself having to stop to catch my breath; it’s not easy running and cracking up with laughter at the same time. Edith Bowman, broadcaster and host of Soundtracking»
Guardian TV on TV
Mumbling actors, bad speakers or lazy listeners? Why everyone is watching TV with subtitles on
Subtitles aren’t just for the hard of hearing, with Netflix reporting 40% of its viewers regularly use them. But do we just enjoy them or is there a more annoying reason?
From horrific jokes about dog sex to ruining Succession: AI’s terrible attempt to write TV
We ask ChatGPT to recreate scenes from recent TV classics – and the results are hilariously dreadful. Hollywood execs may want to rethink that plan to have AI start writing our television…
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‘I’m completely devoted to one person’: David Hyde Pierce on love, death and the Frasier reboot
Nearly 30 years since he wowed the world as Niles in Frasier, David Hyde Pierce has been lured back to TV as chef Julia Child’s adoring husband. He talks about food, sex – and whether he’ll soon be…
Keeping mum: TV’s problem with women who don’t want kids
Nearly 25 years after Sex and the City, TV still has a hard time accepting child-free women. Post-Roe v Wade, that needs to change
The cult of Bluey: how a kids’ cartoon became a bible for modern parenting
Ryan Gosling and Natalie Portman adore it, critics rave about it and a podcast dissects every episode: why does a series about a six-year-old dog and her family inspire so much devotion among grown…
Angels and demons: exposing the dark side of Victoria’s Secret
A new docuseries details the rise and fall of the high street lingerie brand with alarming links to Jeffrey Epstein
‘We’ll still be watching in 50 years’: how Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman changed Christmas
When the film version of Briggs’s melancholy masterpiece was first screened in 1982, Britons clutched it to their hearts – where it has stayed ever since
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