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Full screen ahead
Streaming services are a boon but regional broadcasters are challenging the big players. In this golden age of television, the future of the small screen is a real cliffhanger.
The Ten
Thundercat's genre-bending follow-up to *Drunk* pays tribute to Mac Miller while Netflix dramatises entrepreneur Madam CJ Walker's remarkable story and Tom Stoppard potentially bows out.
Front and centre
The spotlights used in many a film classic were made by a family-run company in a tiny Bavarian town. We meet the German engineers bringing a warm glow to Hollywood.
Nothing but the truth
From skateboarding in Illinois to covert filming in the suburbs of Damascus, documentary films are enjoying mass-market appeal – and cashing in at the box office too. We meet the genre’s talents.
Southern belle
In the first of a new series looking at US cities and the people fixing them, we stop off at Albuquerque to find out why New Mexico’s most populous city is on the up.
Culture
Socially engaged art in Chicago, a televised Polish parallel universe and perusing the shelves of London’s poetry bookshop.
The opener
We sample a Chinese tipple that’s set for world domination, leave our beach towels at home (more room for flip-flops!) and clear our throats for a spot of yodelling.
