The World Cup, Olympics and rise of sports betting reveal how the playing field is increasingly shaped by power and inequality, writes DENNIS BROE

DENNIS BROE recommends two new series on Apple TV for their examination of inequality and skewed morals

DENNIS BROE notes the thin, unfunny and apolitical quality of the gruel dished up by the US networks and studios for mass consumption

DENNIS BROE surveys the offerings made at Series Mania Festival

DENNIS BROE observes how cutbacks, mergers and AI create content detached from both reality and history itself

DENNIS BROE relishes the working class characters of the BBC’s Can You Keep A Secret, and Hulu’s Sunny Nights

DENNIS BROE examines two new horror films — Send Help and Scream 7 — for the way they demonstrate how capital routinely desensitises the consumer

DENNIS BROE surveys the bias of the US news networks, and recommends alternatives

DENNIS BROE points out that two popular TV series promote police violence and disguise it as ‘fun’

DENNIS BROE searches the literary canon to explore why a duplicitous, lying, cheating, conning US businessman is accepted as Scammer-in-Chief

DENNIS BROE unpicks the subterfuge by which the BBC claims to represent working-class prison life in a new series

DENNIS BROE surveys the new wild west: a technology that aims to “innovate” so fast that no government regulation or union negotiation can keep up