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Daniel Radcliffe gives personal ranking of every Harry Potter film

Daniel Radcliffe gives personal ranking of every Harry Potter film

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Daniel Radcliffe has weighed in on the ranking of the Harry Potter film adaptations, admitting he was surprised by some of his own preferences. The British actor, 36, played the lead role in eight film adaptations of JK Rowling’s best-selling book series, between 2001 and 2011. During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Radcliffe was presented with bracketed choices between pairs of Harry Potter films, which were then whittled down to an overall winner: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part Two, a film he described as “my favourite of all of them”. Daniel Radcliffe pictured in April 2026 (Getty Images) Radcliffe explained that he has “more time now for me in the early films”, which included the inaugural adaptation Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001), and the followup Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). …

Ranking Member of House Armed Services Committee Adam Smith discusses the war on Iran : NPR

Ranking Member of House Armed Services Committee Adam Smith discusses the war on Iran : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

NPR’s Scott Simon talks with House Armed Service Committee ranking member Adam Smith, D-Wash., about the war on Iran, now a month old, and DHS funding. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The war in Iran has been going on for a month. There is no end in sight. More U.S. troops are headed to the region. President Trump is demanding that Iran open the Strait of Hormuz by April 6, or he’ll order strikes on Iran’s power plants. President also said that talks with Iran are progressing, although Iranian officials deny that there are any discussions. Representative Adam Smith of Washington State is the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee and joins us. Congressman, thanks for being with us. ADAM SMITH: Oh, well, thanks for having me. I appreciate the chance. SIMON: And we will certainly get to Iran in a moment, but first, I have to ask you about the partial government shutdown. It’s been 40 days. SMITH: Yeah. SIMON: Yesterday, House Republicans did not accept the Senate’s bill to fund the Department of …

Biggest subscription news websites 2026: Exclusive ranking

Biggest subscription news websites 2026: Exclusive ranking

Published by Sam Flores

Digital subscriptions pages or homepages for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Zealand Herald, Mail+ and Apple News+, all screenshotted on 5 March 2026 New entrants on Press Gazette’s 100k Club ranking of the biggest subscription news websites in the world include in 2026 include The Irish Times Group, Goalhanger and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Press Gazette’s 100k Club ranks English-language publishers with at least 100,000 paying digital subscribers. Fifty-nine news and magazine publishers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India appear on the list. Scroll down or click here for the full ranking. This compares with just 24 titles making the grade as members of the 100k Club when Press Gazette launched this ranking in 2020. The New York Times (12.21 million digital subscribers, up 13% year on year – but some are only non-news products) makes up 23% of the subscriptions on the entire list of 59 publishers. Substack now has more than five million paying subscribers to publications on its platform (from whom it …

Top 50 UK news media companies ranking for 2026

Top 50 UK news media companies ranking for 2026

Published by Sam Flores

Top four media companies in UK by revenue. RELX Group (picture: Igor Golovniov, Shutterstock), BBC (Chris Dorney, Shutterstock), Informa (Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images), ITV (Piotr Swat, Shutterstock). The top three news media companies in the UK by revenue saw turnover increase in their latest full-year accounts, Press Gazette’s latest top 50 ranking shows. Collectively the top 50 increased their revenue by £1.1bn compared with last year, representing a 3.1% increase reporting £37.5bn versus £36.3bn. Most of the top UK media companies (29 out of 50) grew their revenue in their most recent accounts, while 17 saw decline and four remained stagnant. RELX, the BBC and Informa topped the list with highest revenues, all posting more than £3.5bn. Most of the accounts (30) cover the 2024 financial year, a period which saw inflation average 2.5% while gross domestic product (GDP, a key measure of the economy) grew by 0.4%. Our ranking is based on the most recent full-year revenue reported by each business. Because not all companies break out their different revenue streams the …

Bridgerton fans left divided over ‘mind-blowing’ Rotten Tomatoes ranking of all 4 seasons

Bridgerton fans left divided over ‘mind-blowing’ Rotten Tomatoes ranking of all 4 seasons

Published by Daniella Wilson

Bridgerton season four made its long-awaited return to Netflix on Thursday and, unsurprisingly, has already shot up to the number-one most-watched TV show on the streamer. The fourth instalment lands in two parts, with the second due to arrive on 26 February. While some viewers have lamented the long wait to see what fate awaits Benedict and Sophie, many have taken the opportunity to binge-watch and reflect on the previous three seasons. Taking to Instagram, Rotten Tomatoes shared a roundup of the highest- to lowest-ranked Bridgerton seasons, according to critics – and fans quickly flooded the comments to debate the “mind-blowing” results. © LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIXSophie and Benedict in season four Bridgerton’s Rotten Tomatoes ranking The Rotten Tomatoes Instagram post showed a compilation of Bridgerton seasons ranked from highest to lowest score. Season one and season three led the way with a tie at 87 per cent, followed by the newly released season four with 82 per cent and season two in fourth place with 78 per cent. WATCH: Bridgerton Season 4 Teaser Season one followed …

The Traitors: Here’s Our Ranking Of Every UK Traitor

The Traitors: Here’s Our Ranking Of Every UK Traitor

Published by Sam Flores

Warning: This article contains major spoilers for the latest series of The Traitors UK. After four gripping weeks of double-crossings, jaw-dropping outbursts, quotable moments and no end of absolute serves from Claudia Winkleman, The Traitors is almost over for another year. This latest edition of the Bafta-winning reality series featured some of the most cunning Traitors in the show’s history – as well as some of the most dramatic moments the turret has ever housed. All that led us to thinking about all the Traitors from past UK seasons – and which of them were the most effective. With that in mind, here’s our ranking of all 22 contestants who’ve paid a visit to the turret on The Traitors UK, from least to most effective… 22. Freddie (The Traitors season 3) Freddie’s stint as a traitor was short-lived, to say the least Cody Burridge/BBC/Studio Lambert Oh, Freddie. You were not cut out for the life of a Traitor and we all knew it. Freddie, you may recall, was recruited as a sacrificial lamb by Charlotte …

A viral church ranking series is sending young Catholics to Mass in New York

A viral church ranking series is sending young Catholics to Mass in New York

Published by Sam Flores

              View this post on Instagram                         A post shared by RNS (@religionnewssvc)   NEW YORK (RNS) — As Anthony Gross left Sunday Mass at Our Lady of Pompeii Church, a Catholic parish in downtown Manhattan, a fellow parishioner stopped him as he exited the sanctuary. “Do us a favor and try not to be shirtless in the video for this parish,” the man told him.  Gross, 22, a social media influencer who recently moved to New York City, has been posting a viral video series in which he ranks Catholic churches, grading them from A to F based largely on a single visit. The short, lighthearted videos follow a familiar arc: Gross leaves his apartment, attends Mass and often returns home, ending the clip by taking off his shirt and jumping into bed. Less reliant on research and more on “vibes,” Gross said, his most popular church-ranking video, posted last month, has received more than 1.5 million …

Top news apps in UK: Exclusive ranking for 2026

Top news apps in UK: Exclusive ranking for 2026

Published by Sam Flores

The top apps for engagement retention: The Times and The Sunday Times, Daily Mail and Mail+ The Daily Mail and The Times have the most engaged app users of any newsbrand in the UK, according to data from Ipsos iris. But in terms of overall popularity, BBC News remains the biggest app in the UK with 15 million users followed by Apple News on 14 million. Google’s smartphone-based aggregation tool Discover may well be the most popular news app in the UK but does not appear in the Ipsos ranking because it is part of the suite of Google products embedded in most mobile devices (not a separate app). Samsung News, the default news app on Samsung devices since April 2025, does not yet appear in Ipsos Iris data. Daily Mail’s newspaper editions app, Mail+, recorded the most average minutes spent per person (758 minutes) followed by The Times and Sunday Times (539 minutes). The Times and The Sunday Times app saw a redesign and relaunch in April 2025. Speaking to Press Gazette in December, …

A 2025 Ranking You Won’t Read Anywhere Else

A 2025 Ranking You Won’t Read Anywhere Else

Published by José Betancourt

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. How to describe this year … Slop? Rage-baiting? Pantone white? Yes, and: The Katie Miller Podcast. If you’re wondering who Katie Miller is and why high-level officials keep going on her podcast: She made a name for herself during the first Trump administration by denying that the Department of Homeland Security was separating families. This year, she was an adviser to the Department of Government Efficiency, a brilliant effort that did not in fact save money but certainly did destroy a lot of goods and services! She is also Stephen Miller’s wife. Yes, that Stephen Miller—the architect of the administration’s immigration policy, an exercise in wanton cruelty that has demanded 3,000 arrests of undocumented immigrants daily and has taken a wrecking ball to thousands of lives. Since August, Katie has hosted a soft-focus podcast in which she interviews administration-adjacent …