Hello and welcome to your weekly dose of arts and culture courtesy of The Independent. It's Annabel here and there is plenty to catch up on since last week, like, say the return of two beloved franchises: Happy Gilmore and Naked Gun. One is much better than the other… I'll leave you to guess which.
It's also August, which can only mean one thing: Edinburgh Fringe! If the world's biggest arts festival wants to remain ground zero for hits like Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, though, something has got to change because this beloved festival is dangerously close to pricing itself into extinction. In other theatre news, I very much enjoyed the Seventies-set Stereophonic, which is still on in the West End. Following a Fleetwood Mac-esque band in the recording studio, it's got belly laughs, stellar performances and a cracking original soundtrack by Arcade Fire's Will Butler. Elsewhere, though, I saw the controversially terrible Elvis Evolution... which was another story altogether.
Elsewhere, bookshops across the world are readying themselves for the inevitable frenzy surrounding Dan Brown's new novel out next month. In honour of the forthcoming release, Nick Duerden dove deep into the author's world of implausible plots and over-the-top prose to discover how this much-mocked author defied the critics and became a bestselling behemoth?
News that YouTube has leapfrogged ITV to become the UK's second-most popular choice for at-home viewing after the BBC is shocking if not all surprising. Nick Hilton, however, has some choice words for any BBC bosses hoping to follow in the footsteps of the platform's success. We'll all end up in a race to the bottom.
Tons more interesting reads below, including our Saturday Interview with the Maccabees, a comment from Ellie Harrison on the Beeb's latest Masterchef blunder, and a look at the outspoken Irish musicians who make U2 look apolitical by comparison.
Catch you next time!
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