‘Annoying snobs was part of the fun’: Paul McCartney and more on the Beatles’ rooftop farewell

As Peter Jackson’s TV series Get Back recasts the Fab Four’s final days in a more positive light, the ex-Beatle remembers the responses to their historic gig above the streets of London

Peter Watson-Wood obituary

Other lives: Film-maker who made documentaries on the Beatles in India and the Thrust 2 land speed record attempt

Your cultural Cop26: films, TV shows and podcasts to help you save the planet

From Ted Danson on the oceans to Greta Thunberg on everything else – get armed with the facts and inspired to make a difference

What went wrong with the exploitative Brittany Murphy docuseries?

A new two-part HBO Max series on the Clueless actor’s shocking death at 32 in 2009 is less monument to her short life than exploitation of her death

Why is Spike Lee’s 9/11 docuseries so controversial?

The film-maker’s new HBO series has been re-edited after backlash over featuring 9/11 ‘truthers’ but a thread of distrust remains

What is high school like around the world? A new film lets students investigate

The documentary The Smartest Kids in the World follows four frustrated American students as they explore different high schools abroad

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?