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Is the great white male TV anchor facing extinction? Can we save the species? Should we? | Leila Latif

27 June 2024 at 06:57

ITN’s Tom Bradby raised the alarm, but I’m not sure it’s a problem to worry me or David Attenborough. Viewers benefit from diversity behind the desk

Since the last general election, we have gone through three prime ministers, changed monarchs and seen a record number of scandal-fuelled resignations from the cabinet. But at least one thing will remain the same. Tom Bradby will be back to present ITV’s coverage of election night, joined once more by George Osborne and Ed Balls.

There is comfort in familiarity, but maybe not for Bradby and the like. Speaking to the Radio Times about the coverage, he suggested that perhaps, career-wise, he should be nervous as β€œthere aren’t many white male anchors left”.

Leila Latif is a freelance writer and critic

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Supacell review – these superpowered Black Londoners are an absolute riot

27 June 2024 at 00:00

Rapman’s sprawling sci-fi drama is strikingly performed, bracingly plotted and its characters are up there with prestige TV’s finest. It’s ingenious

When it comes to superpowers, there are two that are considered the most desirable: flight and invisibility. As the US writer John Hodgman once pointed out, people who would choose flight have nothing to hide and are selfless, competent and unashamed. People who’d choose invisibility are deceitful, fearful, perverts.

The subjects of Supacell don’t have the privilege of choosing the powers they are assigned. Instead, they find themselves reeling from sudden supernatural abilities. Sweet nurse Sabrina (Nadine Mills) is given telekinesis, young rapscallion Tazer (Josh Tedeku) can turn invisible and become a β€œghost”, inept drug dealer Rodney (Calvin Demba) can run to Edinburgh in a few seconds, single dad Andre (Eric Kofi-Abrefa) has extraordinary strength and can lift cars without breaking a sweat, and the show’s heart and soul, Michael (Tosin Cole), can move through time and space in the blink of an eye.

Supacell is on Netflix

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