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Saturday, January 17, 2026

Hello again, it's Annabel with your weekly download of culture news. We are well and truly getting into awards season following the Golden Globes – just as The Traitors is coming to an end. But did Harriet's explosion at the breakfast table this week expose a fatal flaw with BBC's beloved show?

Back to the Globes, though, Irish star Jessie Buckley pulled at heartstrings with her speech when she won Best Actress in a Drama for Hamnet; to think she was once a contestant on Andrew Lloyd Webber's reality series I'd Do Anything (an experience, she said, that "brutalised" her, by the way)! Hamnet is fast emerging as the favourite to win Best Picture come the Oscars in March, but not everyone is so keen on the Shakespearean tear-jerker with one writer calling it "artificial" and "manipulative". 

Away from screens, it's been a wonderful week for theatre with Jade Franks' hilarious Eat the Rich (Maybe Not Me Mates x) on in Soho – Netflix is betting on Franks being the next Fleabag but her voice is all her own. And if you're in the mood for a Geordie football musical, Gerry & Sewell is an alchemical blend of harrowing realism and crude joy. 

That's it from me – catch you later!

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