The Folio · No. 19Wednesday 23 September 2026Jess Entwistle
Film
Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Digger had its world premiere in Leicester Square on Tuesday night as the Royal Film Performance, with the Prince and Princess of Wales in the front row. It opens on 2 October from Warner Bros.
Film
Catherine joined William at the Leicester Square premiere in a purple gown, finished with an amethyst necklace that has been in the family for more than a century.
Film
Vogue World’s fifth edition landed in Milan on Tuesday as a tribute to Italian craftsmanship. The full arrivals gallery runs from Jennifer Lopez to Pamela Anderson.
Film
Hadid opened Vogue World: Milano in a Valentino Haute Couture gown with a Renaissance theme, finished entirely by hand over 1,680 hours.
Film
Early reactions to Inarritu’s apocalyptic satire range from audacious to hollow misfire, though several critics single out Cruise. It opens on 2 October.
Film
Focus Features is closing in on Shakespeare’s tragedy as Eggers’s next project, after Werwulf arrives this Christmas.
TV
Radio Times calls Lawson’s first episode as a Bake Off judge every bit as good as the old formula, at 66 and in her element. Channel 4, Tuesdays.
TV
Channel 4’s Army of Shadows, from the Rivals team, imagines a near-future authoritarian Britain under de facto American occupation. Colman and Sarandon lead.
TV
The rowing-set YA drama came out on 10 September, topped the English TV Top 10 and has been renewed within a fortnight.
TV
The pair are back together for a comedy set in rural Scotland, which the BBC is billing on its landscape as much as its cast.
TV
The Supernatural and The Boys actor will star in and executive produce the thriller, adapted from John Sandford’s novel.
Music
A 23rd week at number one on the Hot 100 takes the country single past Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You. Langley says the day does not feel real.
Music
Swift announced the track with a new look, her first release since her wedding to Travis Kelce. It arrives on Friday.
Music
Dion appeared remotely for an all-star Australian concert celebrating Farnham’s songs and career, one of her rare performances of the past year.
Music
A new music hall is planned for the London landmark, adding another mid-sized room to the city’s live circuit.
Music
The Glasgow trio’s first new music since 2021’s Screen Violence comes with small shows in Glasgow and London. Lauren Mayberry: now we can start.
Theatre
Jamie Lloyd’s production crosses the Atlantic with Zegler and several of her London company, who join the Broadway transfer.
Theatre
Original cast members including Wilson Jermaine Heredia return to mark 30 years of Jonathan Larson’s musical on Broadway.
Theatre
Someday is the first music released from the Old Vic revival, written for the reworked version by the Les Miserables pair.
Theatre
Lucas has taken over the role at the Gielgud Theatre and plays it until 1 November.
Theatre
Karen Hauer and Natalie Anderson lead the Chichester, Stage Entertainment and Sheffield Theatres production on the road next year.
Books
Six books are in the running for the £50,000 award, among them a Pulitzer winner, a science fiction veteran and a debut novelist.
Books
This year’s chair of judges explains how the shortlist was reached, and why she thinks each of the six will change how you see the world.
Books
Blakemore’s third novel follows the 16 days of England’s medieval uprising through a wide cast of narrators, in what the Guardian calls startlingly rich prose.
Books
The Labyrinth author turns to West Sussex, its landscape and its folklore, in a short seasonal book about the turning of the year.
