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From Shaun the Sheep to The Split Up: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Aardman’s woolly hero reckons with a mysterious beast and Abi Morgan’s lawyers-in-love TV drama gets a Manchester-set reboot Shaun
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Jay-Z in 8 review, the rapper’s interminable interview show should have been a podcast
Rick Rubin’s eight-part interview series with the MC is irritatingly unstructured, has portions that feel like filler and would hu

Peter Max, artist who achieved ubiquity marrying Pop art and psychedelia, has died, aged 88

Letter to Brezhnev review, terrific return for Merseysiders’ romance with Russian sailors

The best books to read in September: new paperbacks from Margaret Atwood, Kiran Desai and Richard Holmes

Anthony Page obituary

Karol G review, Colombian chart-topper brings pan-Latin camp and fireworks to New Jersey

Duncan Sheik, singer and composer of Spring Awakening, dies at 56

Stephanie Cole, Coronation Street and Open All Hours actor, dies aged 84

Shakira opens her Madrid stadium with the first of 12 concerts

CBSO/Yamada review, apocalyptic and soul-shaking Mahler opens the season

Phaedra Ensemble: The Music of Meredith Monk review, fleeting rough edges amid polished beauty

Quentin Bell and Olivia Sterling review, two artists with a magic touch

Australian entrepreneur invents hardware aimed at making art-handling lower risk and hands-free

‘The man’s a psychopath when it comes to hedgerows’: Derek vs Derek, the unexpectedly heartwarming doc about farmers at war

Zack Snyder is angling to make another Batman movie. Stranger things have happened

Add to playlist: the euphoric ‘Bollywood electronic’ of the Twins and the week’s best new tracks

Mindboggling Magritte, artists respond to a world in peril and a squished Citroën, the week in art

TV tonight: more zombies get an ass-kicking in The Walking Dead spin-off
