大象传媒

With Mark Lawson.

Academy Award winner George Clooney stars as an assassin on the run in The American, a thriller from Dutch photographer, music video and film director Anton Corbijn, who directed Control, about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Writer Rachel Cooke reviews.

Seth MacFarlane is best-known for creating the award-winning animated series Family Guy, in which he voices the characters of Peter, Baby Stewie and Brian the Dog. It's less well-known that Seth sings. Last year he made his singing debut in London at the 大象传媒 Proms with the John Wilson Orchestra and is now about to tour the UK with them, performing music from classic MGM musicals. Seth discusses how far American network tv allows Family Guy to stretch the boundaries of decency and taste, and whether he considers singing songs from the shows as time off from real work.

Four decades after her death at the age of 47, Judy Garland continues to intrigue and inspire. Front Row re-assesses her life and legacy, with singer Rufus Wainwright, who has just announced that he is bringing his Rufus Does Judy show to the Royal Opera House next July, writer Michael Freedland, author of a new biography, and director Terry Johnson, who has staged End of the Rainbow, a new play about Judy Garland's last years. .

And as the Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres reopen in Stratford-upon-Avon after three and a half years and a 拢112m transformation, RSC Artistic Director Michael Boyd discusses the building projects and announces the company's 50th birthday programme for next year.

Producer Ella-mai Robey.