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Jodie Ounsley: “Sometimes your biggest strength is admitting when you’re struggling”

Hard Feelings — Fury from the latest generation of Gladiators joins our column on masculinity, speaking to Robert Kazandjian about her new book, her close relationship with her late father, and being a role model for both young boys and girls.

  • Sport
  • Robert Kazandjian
England football supporters celebrating in stadium stands wearing white jerseys, red and white hats, and face paint whilst cheering.

Lionesses Euro final win draws the UK’s most watched 2025 TV moment

Bringing it home again — 12.2 million people tuned in to watch England women’s football team beat out Spain on the BBC, with a strong showing from young fans.

  • Sport
  • Ella Glossop

The cost of living crisis is not a game

By turning a real-life crisis into daytime television fodder, TV bosses have once again shown themselves to be completely out of touch with audiences.

  • TV
  • Sarah Woolley

Derry Girls taught me the joy of feeling seen

As Lisa McGee’s beloved sitcom approaches its final episode, writer Seaneen Molloy reflects on how the show sought to give an honest portrayal of teenagehood during the Troubles in the ‘90s.

  • TV
  • Seaneen Molloy

GB News: the rise of UK’s new rightwing media isn’t over yet

Fighting Foxification — The channel may be in crisis already, but its eerie similarity to the context in which its US-counterpart Fox News emerged suggests that the threats it poses should not yet be overlooked.

  • Activism
  • Naomi Smith

VCR visionary: The woman who taped 33 years of TV news

The Marion Stokes Project — Director Matt Wolf speaks to Huck about his documentary on the elusive Marion Stokes, a Communist radical who recorded 70,000 tapes worth of TV news as a form of activism.

  • Culture
  • Daisy Schofield

The anticapitalist streaming service taking on Netflix

This is Means TV — Means TV is the world’s first ‘post-capitalist, worker-owned streaming service’, providing subscribers with leftist documentaries, films and cartoons. But in an industry run by big business and billionaires, can it really survive?

  • Activism
  • Daisy Schofield

Inside the wild world of college cheerleading

Class, community and capitalism — New Netflix series Cheer is filled with high stakes stunts and drama – but it can also teach us a lot about America’s class problem.

  • Outdoors
  • Ruby Lott-Lavigna

Is Fleabag the best we can do?

Part of the problem — In framing Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a ‘scrappy British underdog’ and disregarding her immense privilege, we ignore a much larger issue in British society – the total dearth of working class voices in our creative industries.

  • Opinion
  • Aimee Cliff

Top Boy exposes the problem with British broadcasting

Middle class mediocrity — The show, which considers financial struggle, alienation and racism, was one of the few important documents of life in modern Britain. So why did Channel 4 cancel it?

  • Opinion
  • Nathalie Olah

What Netflix did next: corrupt cops & unsexy sex

Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into the latest Netflix releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, its confused cop remake Point Blank, and meandering polyamory drama You, Me, Her.

  • Film
  • Megan Nolan

The creators of Black Mirror want you to stop worrying

Future shock — As creators of the dystopian series Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones have mastered the art of depicting society at its most anxiety-inducing. But when it comes to the future, the pair aren’t ready to panic just yet.

  • Magazine
  • Daniel Dylan Wray

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