He plays a pastor on the run from a gang in this dysfunctional family sitcom. The cast is ace, with Taylor Ortega as the hilarious sister – and it has a blindsiding twist There are, broadly speaking, two types of television shows: the ones that make stars and the ones made by stars. The former includes the ensemble productions that turn unknowns into household names – Bridgerton, Euphoria, Industr...
He plays a pastor on the run from a gang in this dysfunctional family sitcom. The cast is ace, with Taylor Ortega as the hilarious sister – and it has a blindsiding twist There are, broadly speaking, two types of television shows: the ones that make stars and the ones made by stars. The former includes the ensemble productions that turn unknowns into household names – Bridgerton, Euphoria, Industry – as well as the labour-of-love projects that make their camera-ready creators scalding-hot industry property (Fleabag, I May Destroy You, Baby Reindeer). Schitt’s Creek , Dan Levy’s sitcom about a once-wealthy family forced to slum it in a dingy motel in the arse end of nowhere, belongs firmly in this category. Levy, 42, did have something of a leg-up in the entertainment world – he co-created the show with his father, American Pie’s Eugene Levy, who also played the clan’s clueless patriarch – yet for all intents and purposes Schitt’s Creek was a grassroots success story, debuting in 2015 on Canadian network CBC before gradually becoming a global hit after it was picked up by Netflix a couple of years later. And what about the second kind? Well, these are the ones that couldn’t exist without the first: they are the post-breakthrough, difficult-second-projects made by freshly minted stars such as Levy, who have been handsomely rewarded for the popularity of their dazzling brainchild with a very lucrative streaming contract. Historically, these deals haven’t always seemed like the wisest investment: Amazon has reportedly paid Fleabag Creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge $100m, but a similar blockbuster is yet to materialise. Netflix have had a fraction more luck with Levy, who made a film for them in 2023 called Good Grief – although you suspect a melancholic indie movie wasn’t exactly what the platform was hoping for when they signed up the maker of a rambunctious family comedy for an eight-figure sum. Big Mistakes is on Netflix Continue reading...
Several major Chinese banks have clawed back staff bonuses or cut salaries amid a sluggish economic recovery and Beijing’s ongoing scrutiny of the financial sector. In their annual reports, an increasing number of lenders, ranging from state-owned institutions to commercial banks, are disclosing the amount of performance-based compensation reclaimed from their employees last year. State-owned Bank...
Several major Chinese banks have clawed back staff bonuses or cut salaries amid a sluggish economic recovery and Beijing’s ongoing scrutiny of the financial sector. In their annual reports, an increasing number of lenders, ranging from state-owned institutions to commercial banks, are disclosing the amount of performance-based compensation reclaimed from their employees last year. State-owned Bank of China recovered 47.18 million yuan (US$6.9 million) from 4,630 individuals in 2025, according to...
It’s worrying to watch Labour entertain Reform’s fantasies about fossil fuels. Only renewables will bring lower bills and higher energy security Ed Miliband is facing a dilemma, apparently. Reform UK is suggesting new oil and gas licences in the North Sea as a way to cut fuel bills and they’re steadily gaining cheerleaders – not just in the media, but also in some trade unions . Labour – having sw...
It’s worrying to watch Labour entertain Reform’s fantasies about fossil fuels. Only renewables will bring lower bills and higher energy security Ed Miliband is facing a dilemma, apparently. Reform UK is suggesting new oil and gas licences in the North Sea as a way to cut fuel bills and they’re steadily gaining cheerleaders – not just in the media, but also in some trade unions . Labour – having swept into power on a green-friendly manifesto , much of which has already been abandoned, but the kernel of which was to prioritise green over fossil energy – is in a bind. It’s plain that fresh exploration of the North Sea would run counter to the party’s every principle, and particularly those of Miliband, whose legacy will be his career-long commitment to the scrappy, dogged, surely often tedious and dispiriting legislative fight against climate breakdown. And yet, equally plainly, the pressure from Nigel Farage is only going to get more intense: he has framed the issue of North Sea oil and gas versus renewables as an elemental fight between the common man and the elites. The wokerati doesn’t care about your cost of living crisis, while the hard right does. Continue reading...
A new book collects the acclaimed photojournalist’s images of everything from conflict zones to Donald Trump’s inner circle. He describes how his pursuit of truth even led to an unsettling encounter with the disgraced financier It didn’t come as a great shock to Christopher Anderson to find out that his name was in the Epstein files. In 2015, he was assigned by New York magazine to photograph the ...
A new book collects the acclaimed photojournalist’s images of everything from conflict zones to Donald Trump’s inner circle. He describes how his pursuit of truth even led to an unsettling encounter with the disgraced financier It didn’t come as a great shock to Christopher Anderson to find out that his name was in the Epstein files. In 2015, he was assigned by New York magazine to photograph the American financier for a planned profile interview by the American journalist Michael Wolff. “I didn’t know who Jeffrey Epstein was at all,” says Anderson. He admits that he often didn’t research the people he was photographing, and went into the job unaware that Epstein was a child sex offender who had been convicted in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a minor, and had served 13 months in a Palm Beach County jail in Florida. “What I knew was that this guy is a rich and powerful man connected to rich and powerful men.” Continue reading...
Alda feels Rachel should follow jewellery ‘rules’, but Rachel likes to mix things up. You decide whose argument rings true • Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror I know she’s expressing herself, but when you mix everything up, it looks thrown together and cheap They’re not Alda’s hands to worry about – I like my mismatched mess. Why does it matter to her? Continue reading.....
Alda feels Rachel should follow jewellery ‘rules’, but Rachel likes to mix things up. You decide whose argument rings true • Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror I know she’s expressing herself, but when you mix everything up, it looks thrown together and cheap They’re not Alda’s hands to worry about – I like my mismatched mess. Why does it matter to her? Continue reading...
The New Zealand striker provides a welcome boost as Forest face crunch games in the league and in Europe Nobody has scored more goals in the Europa League this season than Igor Jesus and yet the overwhelming source of interest surrounding Nottingham Forest on arrival in northern Portugal on Wednesday was another striker. Only Erling Haaland, Mohamed Salah and Alexander Isak outscored Chris Wood in...
The New Zealand striker provides a welcome boost as Forest face crunch games in the league and in Europe Nobody has scored more goals in the Europa League this season than Igor Jesus and yet the overwhelming source of interest surrounding Nottingham Forest on arrival in northern Portugal on Wednesday was another striker. Only Erling Haaland, Mohamed Salah and Alexander Isak outscored Chris Wood in the Premier League last season and the New Zealand frontman has been slowly building fitness and working towards a long-awaited first-team return. All eyes were on Wood at last weekend’s interactive open-training session, staged at the City Ground. He has been ticking off different targets since knee surgery in December and at the end of last month the 34-year-old made a welcome goalscoring comeback 11 minutes into his return to action for Forest under-21s against Newcastle, in modest surroundings at Loughborough University’s stadium in front of a crowd totalling a couple of hundred: students, Forest fans, a few from the north-east. Continue reading...
World champions England will be favourites to repeat last year’s grand slam but France and Ireland will eye an upset Coach John Mitchell Captain Meg Jones Last year’s finish Grand slam champions Continue reading...
World champions England will be favourites to repeat last year’s grand slam but France and Ireland will eye an upset Coach John Mitchell Captain Meg Jones Last year’s finish Grand slam champions Continue reading...
J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images The war in the Middle East and the subsequent surge in oil prices have been key drivers of volatility across U.S. equity segments as inflation expectations risk de-anchoring. The chart below illustrates the density and distribution of four S&P SmallCap 600 stock indices compared to oil price fluctuations since 2016. The oil price range exhibits more outlier...
J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images The war in the Middle East and the subsequent surge in oil prices have been key drivers of volatility across U.S. equity segments as inflation expectations risk de-anchoring. The chart below illustrates the density and distribution of four S&P SmallCap 600 stock indices compared to oil price fluctuations since 2016. The oil price range exhibits more outliers on both ends compared to indices. On Friday, February 27 (black dot), the day before the first U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran, the four S&P SmallCap 600 equity indices traded at decade highs, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price stood at $67.06 — near recent lows. Then, the war began, pushing oil prices higher, settling at $99.56, in contrast to declining levels across the S&P SmallCap 600 indices two weeks into the conflict by Friday, March 13 (red dot). During this period, the average decline across the analyzed group was about 85 points, with variations observed on each index's specific profile. Historical data is available via Xpressfeed and other delivery mechanisms that investors can leverage to populate algorithms and models. S&P SmallCap 600 Index & S&P SmallCap 600 Equal Weighted Index Both indices experienced declines as the war continued, with the Equal Weighted version declining more than the group average and outpacing the market cap-weighted counterpart. Despite the pullback, both indices remain near long-term highs, even as oil tested $100 by March 13. Historically, the S&P SmallCap 600 Index has shown retests around the 1,300 and 950 levels over the past decade. The Equal Weighted version, which has yet to break above 2,000, displays moderate density near 1,600 and 1,000 since 2016. S&P SmallCap 600 Value Index & S&P SmallCap 600 Growth Index As oil prices trended higher on the chart above, the Value and Growth categories demonstrated greater resilience to the downside during the initial 10 trading days of the war, remaining near their decade highs. ...