London-based Culture Journalist @collider writing on TV, comedy, streaming & the media industry across UK & US. Host of Beyond the Screen on Apple and Spotify.
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#SNLUK made history by welcoming its first American cast member, so why didn’t #SNL return the favor? With George Fouracres already in New York, the timing couldn’t have been better. @greerstorm and I explore why this was a missed opportunity.
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There is an obvious second half to that sentence. We know the convention well enough to wait for the “but” — yet it never comes. Young moves straight to the next story, about the Chagos Islands, and the audience descends into hysterics. Weekend Update has trained its audience to
visible awareness of what he has just done. He does not turn the discomfort into a second joke — the line is allowed to remain linked to Netanyahu. Jost and Che make similar topical jokes in the U.S., but they often create distance from the subject afterwards by acknowledging how
In the first half of the season, SNL UK’s Weekend Update said the quiet part out loud, making the gap between what can and cannot be said part of the joke. By highlighting that Ed Sheeran supports “causes that are allowed,” the series pointed out a hypocrisy real news anchors
Recently I teamed up with Collider's Executive Editor, Tania Hussain, to compare the US and UK versions of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update and examined why one news desk is making headlines more than the other... 📰
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#SNLUK #SaturdayNightLiveUK
Bringing John Steinbeck’s classic East of Eden to Netflix comes with the challenge of making a story that has already existed in culture and classrooms for decades feel fresh for 2026.
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- Adam (Christopher Abbott) and Charles (Mike Faist). Lee’s character Lee brings light to the darkness of East of Eden where he shows an unmatched devotion to the Trask family despite not being a blood relative. Speaking about their characters to Collider, Eden’s second
generation revealed how much of the series’ emotional connection comes from the relationships they developed both on and off screen.
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All episodes of East of Eden are available on Netflix now.
Could a Saturday Night Live UK Weekend Update joke swap be too dirty for TV? 💀
👤 Ania Magliano, George Fouracres, Larry Dean
#SNLUK #SaturdayNightLiveUK #SNL #SaturdayNightLive @Collider
“We just made a film about a robot who happened to be, like, more human than the family that she got bought by,” he says. “And, you know, I wanted to just make something that was just a really human story about a sort of sweet robot.”
Recently I spoke with Jenna Ortega and Taika Waititi for Collider about Klara and the Sun, the new adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 dystopian sci-fi novel - in theaters now!☀️
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One of the film’s most unsettling sequences sees Klara examine a sequence of photographs and decide whether they depict something good or bad, including her human companion, Josie.
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#KlaraAndTheSun #JennaOrtega #TaikaWaititi
The scene touches on how AI systems are trained through machine learning to recognise patterns in images, raising questions about how AI learns to make judgements and what happens when those judgements are flawed and have real-world consequences 🤖
I spoke with Jenna Ortega & Taika Waititi for @Collider about Klara and the Sun, the new adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 dystopian sci-fi novel 🤖☀️
🔗 Read and watch in full on the Collider website.
#TaikaWaititi #JennaOrtega #KlaraAndTheSun #KazuoIshiguro
