The Folio · No. 28Friday 2 October 2026Jess Entwistle
Film
Dior took its spring-summer 2027 show to the Tuileries Garden on the second day of Paris Fashion Week, with Rihanna, Anya Taylor-Joy and Cynthia Erivo in Jonathan Anderson’s clothes. The full set of looks is here.
Film
Peter Bradshaw’s five-star notice from the New York film festival, on Fielder moving in with the Theranos founder and her family. He calls it the year’s strangest documentary and keeps the spoilers out.
Film
The first trailer for Ebenezer is out, with Depp as Scrooge. It reaches cinemas in November, which makes it the season’s first Christmas release of any size.
Film
The horror film that sold for more than $10 million out of Toronto now has a date from Universal and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, opening against The Beekeeper 2 and Children of Blood and Bone.
Film
Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth! closes the Newport Beach Film Festival on 22 October, with Gilroy attending. Pedro Pascal plays a cellist who goes home, the first proper look at the film before awards season.
TV
The BBC’s biggest hit is back with 21 new celebrities at Ardross Castle, and Radio Times says Richard E Grant is already the most valuable player. Episode one aired last night.
TV
Murphy is attached to The Chairman, in development at Peacock from Matthew Weiner. If it is greenlit it will be his first live-action scripted series in a career that began on Saturday Night Live.
TV
Netflix’s take on the 1952 novel is lavishly shot and very well acted, says the Guardian, if lighter than the book. It is the service’s big October title and Pugh’s Cathy is the reason to watch.
TV
A member of the writing team has confirmed work has begun on season six, which covers Eloise’s romance. Season five has not aired yet, so Netflix is now two books ahead.
TV
First images from The Heights, with Friel in a revenge thriller adapted from the novel. Digital Spy has the pictures and the cast; no transmission date yet.
Music
Coach tickets for Glastonbury 2027 went in under 30 minutes. 2026 was a fallow year, so this is the first sale for the festival’s return and a fair guide to how fast the general sale will go.
Music
Kahan’s Draw You Out is the first single from the soundtrack to The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. He also talked through how it came together in a new interview.
Music
Duff has written and recorded CATastrophe for the animated Dr Seuss film, with a video out now. It is her first new pop single in some time and the film’s lead song.
Music
Britain’s songwriters honoured Stormzy, James Blake and Emily Eavis, with MNEK recognised for his songwriting, production and his advocacy for LGBTQIA+ writers.
Music
Andy Bell and Vince Clarke return with a 20th album of synthpop and talk about difficult years, staying happily uncool and Clarke’s decision to stop touring. One of the great British pop partnerships.
Theatre
Emily Burns’s revival of the Noel Coward comedy opened at Wyndham’s, running to 12 December. Grant plays a vain novelist with shock-haired vigour, Baranski the hostess; the reviews call it light and delicious.
Theatre
Marianne Elliott’s in-the-round revival of the Albee classic runs at sohoplace to 19 December, with Anderson and Billy Crudup sparring. Staged as a boxing match, by the directors’ own description.
Theatre
The Ahrens and Flaherty musical gets its West End premiere at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 15 February to 27 March 2027, directed by Stroman, with Julian Ovenden and Laura Pitt-Pulford among the cast.
Theatre
Three West End stars will split the role on the new Lloyd Webber tour, which plays Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Hull, Manchester, Nottingham, Plymouth and Sunderland.
Theatre
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s new season adapts both novels for the stage and casts Elizabeth Debicki as Richard II and Damien Molony as Coriolanus. Two of the braver adaptations announced this year.
Theatre
Two gala performances of ABBA Voyage will raise money for BBC Children in Need, presented with Radio 2 and hosted by Vernon Kay. Tickets go to the charity.
Books
The James Baldwin biography will be adapted for the screen by its author Nicholas Boggs with Marlon James, for Higher Ground and Anonymous Content. Worth reading before the film arrives.
Books
The author of Circe and The Song of Achilles has a new story about Mestra, daughter of the King of Thessaly, granted the power to change shape by Poseidon. Her first new fiction in a while.
Books
A 1960s college dropout drives across America to avoid Vietnam. The Guardian says deWitt keeps both the readerly pleasure and the literary tricks, which is the deWitt bargain.
Books
Hutchinson reads her own Women’s Prize-nominated novel, told by a girl growing up in Bradford. The review praises how she holds the comedy and the cruelty together.
