Whether you scored a ticket or not, for the next few days the world’s most famous festival is going to be a big part of your life. So let Hamish MacBain be your guide to making the most of it

This feels like a series that has said all it ever needed to say - and should stop now

For 30 years now Louis Theroux has been perhaps the UK’s best-loved interviewer, but how does he feel about being grilled himself? Hamish MacBain sits down with him to find out

In the end, after all the feverish anticipation, the show managed to stick the landing

As Succession draws to an epic close, our writers pick telly’s most gripping send-offs

This is trash television, obviously - but thanks to its likeable patriarch, it’s also eminently watchable

The latest episode is called America Decides, but the question is: does it really?

Was this the most moving two minutes of Succession ever?

‘This is about the erasure of Little Richard, and correcting that,’ says director Lisa Cortés

This is a bold, exciting episode in a show that keeps delivering

This is a show on imperial, strident, impossibly confident form

Christopher Kane and Sink the Pink founder Glyn Fussell are bringing fun and glamour back to London’s nightlife, they tell Hamish MacBain

The incredibly impressive cast of talking heads don’t have space to tell their own stories

The film follows the artist and activist in her campaign against the Sackler family and the opioid crisis

Stranger Things may be approaching its finale, but Sadie Sink’s star is about to rise even higher opposite Brendan Fraser in The Whale. Hamish MacBain talks to her about cast member WhatsApp groups and her big-screen break

‘We used to think the Twenties was sanitised, but this was the wild, wild, wild west’

The directors deserve great credit for this nuanced and even-handed account of Spector’s misdeeds

Paul McCartney’s daughter talks to us about her documentary charting the history of the world-famous music studios

We’ve spent the year talking to fascinating people - here are some of our favourite conversations

As we prepare to enter 2023, this lot really, really need to take their leave of our vocabulary, says Hamish MacBain