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With the return of The Night Manager, Industry and Hulu’s A Thousand Blows, the home viewing year has kicked off in head-spinning style. And with HBO’s Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Netflix’s How to Get To Heaven From Belfast, the latest from the creator of Derry Girls, the array of small-screen offerings are landing at dizzying speeds well into the spring. We have stopped at nothing – not sleep, not family responsibilities – to watch all of it and curate this list of the best shows to give your limited spare time over to. You don’t have forever to spend on the sofa so make it count with something from our list of the best of the year so far. Best TV and streaming shows at a glance: 📍 Industry season 4 – watch HBO Max and BBC iPlayer📍 Heated Rivalry – watch on HBO Max and Sky Atlantic📍 Waiting for the Out – watch on BBC iPlayer in the UK 

Updated February 2026: There’s been a drought of standout studio comedies over the last five to 10 years, which makes the Liam Neeson-starring remake of The Naked Gun even more of a comedic miracle. It joins both the 1988 original and director Akiva Schaffer’s previous spoof, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, on our list of the funniest movies ever. Medical professionals agree: laughter is the best medicine. Someone should tell movie studio executives. In the last few years, comedies have all but vanished from cinemas. Once one of Hollywood’s most bankable genres, you’re now lucky to get a small dose of giggles streaming at home. It’s a true shame, because as anyone alive in the Before Times will tell you, there are few experiences better than a theater full of people cracking up in unison.  Slowly but surely, however, the film world might be ready to laugh again. In 2025, absurd farces like the rebooted Naked Gun and Tim Robinson’s Friendship found enthusiastic audiences, and there are a few comedies arriving in 2026 that are worth anticipating. But even if a revival remains elusive, the thing about the greatest comedies is they remain infinitely rewatchable. On this list of the 100 greatest movie comedies ever, all senses of humour are represented: silly and sophisticated, light and dark, surreal and broad. Stream them now – because in this day and age, we could all use a good laugh. Recommended: 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time🤣 The best comedies of 2024🥰 The...

What makes a great love song? Some would say romantic lyrics brimming with emotion. Others will nod towards a sweeping production that makes your heart flutter and your tear ducts twitch in tandem. Ultimately it's the power to connect with audiences universally; a song that speaks to the heart and deeply moves the listener. Love songs brighten our days, soundtrack weddings and make us think of those most special in our lives. That's why they tend to endure the test of time. As our rundown of the best love songs shows, even the classics still hold weight and resonance in our modern world. From Etta James to Stevie Wonder, these golden hits remain on wedding playlists to this day. There's also the new school of love birds in town – we're looking at you Olivia Dean and Billie Eilish – who continue to pluck at our heartstrings and provide a romcom soundtrack to modern romance. What is the number one love song of all time? It's widely believed that the best selling love song of all time is Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You.’ No surprise there. We’ve got it on our list, but controversially we’ve got Dolly Parton’s version instead (fun fact: Dolly’s version was actually released first, Whitney’s was just more famous). Oh, and it’s not our number one either – for that, you’ll have to read on. What's the most popular wedding song of all time? There's no exact science to deciding this, but general consenus and various surveys around the world continually point towards two...

As a European filmmaking capital, Italy is second only to France in historical importance. In terms of the kind of movies it’s given the world, though, there may not be a country more diverse. The masterpieces of Italian cinema range from hot-blooded romances to surrealistic dreamscapes, gut-busting commedia d'italia to gritty neorealist docudramas, spaghetti westerns to giallo horror. (Italian-Americans still have the edge on gangster flicks, though the mother nation has produced a few classics of the genre on its own.)  The big names still exert a massive influence on filmmaking culture: Fellini, Visconti, Pasolini, Argento, Leone. But Il Bel Paese is still producing major talents, from Alice Rohrwacher to Paolo Sorrentino. Clearly, narrowing down the greatest Italian movies of all-time is a tall task. But for our lira, these are the 50 best the country has to offer.RECOMMENDED: 📽️ The 50 best foreign-language films ever made.🇫🇷 The greatest French movies of all time.🇰🇷 The best Korean films ever made.

With any streaming service, finding the stuff most worth watching is like digging for gold in a landfill. In the case of Amazon Prime, it’s more a matter of not drowning in the overwhelming pool of options. When it comes to movie libraries, Jeff Bezos has most others streamers beat: you’ll find everything from ’60s essentials to last year’s arthouse hits, ’80s blockbusters to cult classics. Need some help navigating? That’s what we’re here for. Below, you’ll find our picks for the 29 best movies available for free for Amazon Prime subscribers in the UK right at this moment. Recommended: 🅽 The 50 best movies on Netflix🔥 21 best free movies to watch on YouTube😍 The 100 best romantic films of all time

Modern parents – especially those with children between the ages of 1 and 3 – are constantly wringing their hands over screen time, often with good reason. But as anyone raising a toddler will tell you, you just have to do whatever it takes to survive. That frequently means plopping the young’uns down in front of the television and switching on a movie.  But there’s no need to feel guilty about it, especially if you put on the right movie. Sure, the wee ones may not have the attention span to sit still for the duration of an actual feature film, but the best kids movies should still buy parents some time before they inevitably return to dumping the contents of your purse into the toilet and ramming their heads into the wall. And hey, they might learn something along the way. These 20 movies will certainly do the trick. Recommended: ✍ The 100 best animated films of all time👪 The 50 best kids movies to watch as a family💻 The best family movies on Netflix for all ages🤣 The best family comedy movies

Will Shakespeare ever go out of style? It seems unlikely. Even now, some 400 years after the great English dramatist’s death, filmmakers are still looking to him for inspiration, whether by straightforwardly adapting his work, remixing it for modern audiences or, in the case of Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, turning into his own biography into a sort of fan fiction. (By the way, a new take on Hamlet, starring Riz Ahmed and set in modern London, is coming soon.)  Truly, the Bard will live forever. How many of those film adaptations will do the same? We tapped our film and theater experts for a definitive list of the best of the best. Recommended: 🫅 The best period dramas of all time🇬🇧 The best British movies of all time🔥 The best movies of all time

So you think you’re a concert aficionado? If you’ve done intimate gigs or famous festivals and want to elevate your music experience to new heights, consider heading to a concert at some of the world’s most beautiful venues. Underground, above ground, and even one that’s in a gladiatorial arena, you’ll never experience live music in venues quite like these. So whether you’re into headbanging to heavy metal or prefer a gentle night of classical music, these spectacular venues are sure to rock your world. RECOMMENDED:🕌 The world’s most beautiful buildings🌆 The world’s best cities🎥 The world’s most beautiful outdoor cinemas India-Jayne Trainor is a British-Australian travel writer based in London. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines and check out our latest travel guides written by local experts.  This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines. 

Gig-tripping (that is, planning your holiday around a – you guessed it – gig) is not exactly a new phenomenon, but is instead proving to be a continuing trend of how we plan our holidays. Not only does planning a break around an event like seeing your favourite band instill the motivation you need to actually book, but it might well take you to cool, weird, and underrated places that you won’t have otherwise considered visiting.  In a brand new report published by travel search engine KAYAK, it seems that 44 percent of Gen Z plan on travelling for a music event this year. With that in mind, Time Out has compiled a list of all the most anticipated gigs, tours, and music events taking place across the world in 2026, which you most definitely should be travelling for.  RECOMMENDED:⚽ The biggest sport events worth travelling for in 2026🏜️ Time Out editors on where you should travel in 2026🌍 The best new things to do in the world this year Liv Kelly is Time Out’s travel writer. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines.

Last year, 1.1 billion tourists ventured abroad between January to September, with numbers up 5 percent on the same nine-month period in 2024. This year, more people are expected to travel internationally than ever before – despite the widely documented and crippling effects of overtourism in popular destinations, such as Madrid, Canary Islands and Mexico City.Yet, research shows travellers are conscious about the impacts of tourism. In Booking.com’s Travel and Sustainability 2025 report, 84 percent of people surveyed said sustainability was an important consideration when planning holidays, while 73 percent wanted their spending to benefit communities. READ MORE: Can popular European cities ever recover from overtourism?Choosing to visit lesser-known regions diverts demand away from places that are already overburdened and enables countries that need more visitors to grow their tourism industries. ‘When visitors arrive with curiosity and respect, in manageable numbers, they can help local economies thrive while also experiencing cultures and landscapes that aren't overcrowded,’ explains Sam Bruce, co-founder of Much Better Adventures, an operator that prides itself in environmentally and community-conscious travel. ‘These places offer a rarer kind of adventure – you get an authentic experience… without the tourist traps, and the impact of your presence still genuinely matters.’So, as you plan your 2026 travels, consider these incredible, lesser-visited countries –...