It’s time to stop making movies about Ted Bundy
The trailer for American Boogeyman, yet another film to cast a handsome actor as a serial killer, faces backlash. Who is asking for more Bundy content?
TV tonight: the civil rights lawyer elected Philadelphia’s top lawman
Storyville’s eight-part series examines the US’s devastating incarceration rates. Plus: Bake Off: The Professionals sets the teams a carrot-shaped test. Here’s what to watch this evening
The week in TV: Time; Fred and Rose West; Lupin; Statue Wars – review
Sean Bean and Stephen Graham excel in a grim prison drama, and the mayor of Bristol takes centre stage in a documentary about the city’s 2020 BLM protests.
Documentary-maker Marc Isaacs: ‘I like to provoke, but not to be seen’
He counts Louis Theroux as a fan but struggles to find funding for his off-beat drama-doc hybrids. He explains why he uses non-actors to play themselves – and why he filmed his cleaner finding a cat with a defrosted pigeon in its mouth
Peter Tatchell’s life on film: ‘So far I’ve been violently assaulted 300 times’
Peter Tatchell has protested against everyone from Mike Tyson to Tony Blair. So what did the human rights campaigner make of the Netflix documentary Hating Peter Tatchell?
‘You care for birds, and they heal you’: film profiles world of a Black falconer
A new documentary, The Falconer, follows Rodney Stotts, who found fulfillment in working with raptors and inner-city kids
AT&T agrees deal to combine WarnerMedia with Discovery
New company aims to ‘compete with world’s largest streamers’ such as Netflix and Disney+
‘They all got on as one family’: the story of a woman who lived with chimps
A moving new documentary provides a sensitive first-person account of a chimp raised as a human, and the caretaker who followed her to extraordinary ends
Louis Theroux: ‘I worry about not coming up to scratch’
He made a film on Joe Exotic a decade before Tiger King, lulls interviewees into personal revelations – and can rock a leather suit. So why is he so anxious?
‘It was like a horror film’: inside the terror of the Covid cruise ship
HBO documentary The Last Cruise revisits, through footage recorded by passengers and crew, the early-pandemic horror of the Diamond Princess cruise disaster
Martin Freeth obituary
Other lives: Documentary maker who worked for many years for the BBC science features department
Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil review – a pop music doc of shattering candour
The trauma and even duplicity of US pop singer Demi Lovato, who suffered a near-fatal relapse into drug addiction, is shown in unflinching detail by film-maker Michael D Ratner
Sky Documentaries, the Guardian and Wonderhood Studios join forces to tell the story of sexual exploitation in the modelling industry across decades, in a new three-part documentary series
The series will be produced by an all-female team including award-winning investigative journalist Lucy Osborne.
Australia in Colour: recolourised film ushers into existence a new kind of fiction
As the new series of SBS’s film revitalisation project airs, Guardian Australia’s film critic considers the consequences of this trend in film-making
Woody Allen denies claims in Allen v Farrow HBO documentary
The film-maker and wife Soon-Yi Previn claim film is ‘hatchet job riddled with falsehoods’ on abuse allegations