{"id":2248120,"date":"2026-01-24T06:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2248120"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:05:25","slug":"from-saipan-to-take-that-your-complete-entertainment-guide-to-the-week-ahead-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/from-saipan-to-take-that-your-complete-entertainment-guide-to-the-week-ahead-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"From Saipan to Take That: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Going out: <\/strong>Cinema<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Saipan<\/strong>
Out now<\/em>
As the Irish national team descend on a small island in the Pacific to prepare for the 2002 World Cup, an epic falling out between manager Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan) and top player Roy Keane (\u00c9anna Hardwicke) is looming, in this sports drama loosely based on the infamous real-life spat.<\/p>\n

No Other Choice
<\/strong>Out now
<\/em>Korean auteur Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) enlists Squid Game\u2019s Lee Byung-hun to lead this dark comedy about a man who has recently been made redundant but is so committed to reclaiming his role that he feels he has \u201cno other choice\u201d but to resort to murder.<\/p>\n

H Is for Hawk
<\/strong>Out now
<\/em>Based on the novel by Helen Macdonald, this drama sees Claire Foy\u00a0play a woman mourning the loss of her father become on the idea of training a hawk. This project isn\u2019t necessarily a natural fit\u00a0with her life as\u00a0a graduate fellow at\u00a0Cambridge. Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe and also starring Brendan Gleeson and Lindsay Duncan.<\/p>\n

The History of Sound
<\/strong>Out now
<\/em>Paul Mescal (Hamnet) plays a talented\u00a0singer and Josh O\u2019Connor (The Mastermind) a committed musicologist who become lovers in this\u00a0early 20th century-set romantic drama from Oliver Hermanus (Living). Based on a couple of short stories by Ben Shattuck, it premiered at Cannes last year in the main competition. Catherine Bray<\/em><\/p>\n

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Going out: Gigs<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/svg><\/span>Most wanted \u2026 Jason Derulo.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jason Derulo<\/strong>
<\/em>29 January<\/em> to 9 February; tour starts Glasgow
<\/em>Ridiculous and often ridiculously entertaining, Talk Dirty hitmaker and now one of the most followed TikTok stars in the world Jason Derulo arrives in the UK for an mammoth arena tour. Expect OTT dancing and enduring bangers such as Whatcha Say and Want to Want Me. Michael Cragg<\/em><\/p>\n

Hannah Diamond
<\/strong>Phonox, London, <\/em>30 January<\/em>
<\/em>The PC Music acolyte returns, three years after second album Picture Perfect, with a new live experience, HD Heaven. Prone to futuristic world-building, and\u00a0with the promise of various special guests, it\u2019s likely to be a visual and sonic onslaught anchored by Diamond\u2019s experimental pop nous. MC<\/em><\/p>\n

Earth and Other Planets: Britten Sinfonia with Stevens & Pound and\u00a0Robert Macfarlane<\/strong>
<\/em>Milton Court, <\/em>London, <\/em>28 January<\/em>; <\/em>Norfolk Events Centre, <\/em>Norwich, <\/em>29 January<\/em>; <\/em>West Road Concert Hall, <\/em>Cambridge, <\/em>30 January<\/em>
<\/em>Folk duo Delia Stevens and Will Pound collaborate with the Britten Sinfonia and Macfarlane to reimagine Holst\u2019s The Planets in a version of the orchestral suite that includes their newly written Earth. The folk-themed concert will also feature Britten\u2019s rarely heard Suite on English Folk Tunes: A Time There Was, which he dedicated to the memory of Percy Grainger, alongside Grainger\u2019s own Lincolnshire Posy, based on songs he collected more than a century ago. Imogen Tilden<\/em><\/p>\n

Marsalis Trumpet Concerto\/Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra
<\/strong>Brighton Dome Concert Hall, <\/em>24 January<\/em>
<\/em>The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra under Joanna MacGregor\u2019s baton performs the blues, swing, Latin and contemporary-classical kaleidoscope of Wynton Marsalis\u2019s panoramic 2023 Trumpet Concerto with exciting young Nigerian-Scottish trumpet virtuoso Aaron Azunda Akugbo, on an eclectic programme also featuring music from Michael Nyman\u2019s The Draughtman\u2019s Contract, jazzy variations on Henry Purcell. John Fordham<\/em><\/p>\n

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Going out: Art<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/svg><\/span>No Title, Andy Warhol, 1967. Tate.<\/span> Photograph: Seraphina Neville & Jai Monaghan\/The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\/DACS\/Tate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Andy Warhol
<\/strong>Lakeside Arts, Nottingham, <\/em>24 January<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a019 April
<\/em>As the US changes, does our understanding of this most American artist also change? Arguably we are still catching up with Andy. His cold analysis of a future dominated by cheap celebrity that disguises a monotonous sameness has never looked more plausible. He never said\u00a0it\u00a0would be a utopia.<\/p>\n

Julia Phillips
<\/strong>Barbican Centre: The Curve, London, <\/em>30 January<\/em> to 19 April
<\/em>This Germany-born artist is a sculptor of acutely modern unease. Casts of her own body, strangely rendered in shiny ceramic, are juxtaposed with steel frames, sharp tools and other pieces of\u00a0technology. Her jarring collisions of\u00a0flesh and metal suggest the new machine age, in the spirit of Berlin dada.<\/p>\n

Georg Baselitz
<\/strong>Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, to\u00a028\u00a0February
<\/em>The veteran painter and sculptor \u2013 who has spent a life expressing the human condition, from scabrous \u201cdegenerate\u201d early works to upside-down pictures and historical provocations \u2013 is having a brilliant, honest old age. He marks his 88th birthday in typically defiant and dangerous style with depictions of\u00a0the German eagle.<\/p>\n

Caroline Walker
<\/strong>Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, to\u00a026 April
<\/em>Realist, on the surface almost placid, paintings that explore the experience of motherhood. A mother sits with her\u00a0children in one scene, and we wonder what her thoughts and feelings are in this stilled moment of\u00a0everyday life. Another painting looks from the outside, at a child in a\u00a0room. Jonathan Jones<\/em><\/p>\n

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Going out: Stage<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/svg><\/span>Lee Duveneck, Kenny Corrigan, Alex Clayton and Shawn Lesniak of Paul Taylor Dance Company.<\/span> Photograph: Whitney Browne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paul Taylor Dance Company
<\/strong>Royal Ballet & Opera: Linbury Theatre<\/a>, London, <\/em>27<\/em> to 31 January
<\/em>Paul Taylor was one of the most important, and popular, figures in American modern dance, from the 1950s onwards. The company hasn\u2019t been to the UK for two decades (Taylor died in 2018) so this is a long-overdue visit, with two programmes featuring Taylor classics and new works. Lyndsey Winship<\/em><\/p>\n

Rosalie Minnitt: Clementine
<\/strong>Theatr Clwyd, Mold, <\/em>24 January<\/em>; touring <\/em>to 7 June
<\/em>Since debuting in 2022, Minnitt\u2019s one-woman Regency heroine spoof has gradually blossomed into a word-of-mouth hit. Combining period drama parody with knowing anachronism, Clementine draws clever parallels between its protagonist\u2019s eye-wateringly desperate search for a husband and the nightmare of modern dating. Rachel Aroesti<\/em><\/p>\n

Arcadia
<\/strong>Old Vic theatre, London, <\/em>24 January<\/em> to 21 March
<\/em>The late Tom Stoppard\u2019s dazzling classic \u2013 a century-hopping swirl of intellect and romance \u2013 is staged at the Old Vic for the first time. Directed by Carrie Cracknell and starring Seamus Dillane, Leila Farzad, Angus Cooper and Prasanna Puwanarajah. Miriam Gillinson<\/em><\/p>\n

Our Town
<\/strong>Swansea Grand theatre, to 31 January; touring to 28 March
<\/em>The inaugural production for Michael Sheen\u2019s Welsh National Theatre tours Wales and then transfers to London\u2019s Rose theatre in February. Sheen leads an all-Welsh cast in Thornton Wilder\u2019s achingly moving play, which quietly tracks the passing of time in a\u00a0small town. MG<\/em><\/p>\n

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Staying in: Streaming<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/svg><\/span>Comic capers \u2026 Yahya Adbul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley in Marvel\u2019s Wonder Man.<\/span> Photograph: Marvel Television<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wonder Man<\/strong>
Disney+, <\/em>28 January<\/em>
<\/em>Marvel has its cake and eats it with this mind-bendingly meta drama set in a world plagued by superhero fatigue. Wannabe actor Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and past-it thesp Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley) are both desperate for roles in a Wonder Man reboot \u2013 but could the former be a far better fit for the lead than he first appears?<\/p>\n

Under Salt Marsh
<\/strong>Sky Atlantic & Now, <\/em>30 January<\/em>, 9pm
<\/em>This brooding Wales-set thriller from rising film-maker Claire Oakley is more bone-chiller than winter warmer. Starring Rafe Spall and Yellowstone\u2019s Kelly Reilly, it kicks off\u00a0with a detective turned teacher discovering the body of a pupil; the ensuing investigation unites police dysfunction, small-town suspicion and climate crisis-abetted natural disaster.<\/p>\n

Take That
<\/strong>Netflix, <\/em>27 January<\/em>
<\/em>Between the BBC\u2019s the BBC\u2019s Boybands and Girlbands Forever strand and Sky\u2019s Boyzone doc, sensitive yet rollickingly entertaining programmes about our favourite 90s pop stars are everywhere. Now it\u2019s\u00a0Barlow and co\u2019s turn to get the nostalgia treatment with this chronicle of the group\u2019s dizzying heyday plus their spectacular comeback in the 2000s.<\/p>\n

Mission to Space With Francis Bourgeois
<\/strong>Channel 4, <\/em>25 January<\/em>, 6.45pm
<\/em>Best known as the TikTok trainspotter, social media sensation Bourgeois goes off the rails in this programme about the reality of becoming a professional astronaut. From G-force training with\u00a0Tim Peake to tests in zero gravity,\u00a0the life-affirmingly anorakish 25-year-old will\u00a0discover if he has what it takes to\u00a0make it in space. RA<\/em><\/p>\n

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Staying in: Games<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/svg><\/span>Always on call \u2026 Dispatch.<\/span> Photograph: AdHoc Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dispatch<\/strong>
Switch & Switch 2; out \u00a0<\/em>28 January<\/em>
<\/em>This story-driven game about a former superhero dispatcher working at a call centre has delighted everyone who\u2019s played it, and is now out on Nintendo\u2019s Switch consoles. It has an extraordinarily strong cast of superheroes and villains whom you must dispatch on jobs around a mirror-world Los Angeles, and is written with wit and warmth.<\/p>\n

TR-49
<\/strong>PC; out now
<\/em>In a forgotten church basement, a second world war-era computer is discovered. Within, swaddled in strange code, are books, poems, diaries\u2026 and people? A mystery game from the excellent developer behind A Highland Song and Expelled!. Keza MacDonald<\/em><\/p>\n

Staying in: Albums<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/svg><\/span>Known quantity \u2026 IDK.<\/span> Photograph: Nico Lareau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

IDK \u2013 Even the Devil Smiles
<\/strong>Out now
<\/em>UK-born, US-raised rapper IDK follows up 2024\u2019s fifth album, Bravado + Intimo, with this 15-track mixtape. Shaped by his incarceration as a teen, tracks such as the Pusha T-assisted Life 4 a Life prowl around sinister production from Kaytranada, while a\u00a0posthumous verse from DMX burns through Start to Finish.<\/p>\n

Ari Lennox \u2013 Vacancy
<\/strong>Out now
<\/em>Across her first two albums, Washington DC\u2019s Ari Lennox conjured up a feeling of pleasure for pleasure\u2019s sake, channeling 90s neo-soul and modern R&B into date-night anthems. That\u00a0continues on this third record, which features the languid single Under the Moon, plus production from Jermaine Dupri and Tommy Brown.<\/p>\n

Louis Tomlinson \u2013 How Did I Get Here?
<\/strong>Out now
<\/em>Having dabbled in dour Britpop-adjacent rock on his first two solo albums, the erstwhile One Directioner lightens up on this new record. Featuring songwriting contributions from Theo Hutchcraft (Hurts) and David Sneddon (Lewis Capaldi), the singles Lemonade and Palaces are imbued with a genuine sense of fun.<\/p>\n

Agnes \u2013 Beautiful Madness
<\/strong>Out now
<\/em>Despite her commercial peak in the UK being long gone (2009\u2019s Release Me was a Top 3 smash), Swedish pop singer Agnes (below) has built a fervent cult following, bolstered by 2021\u2019s Abba-esque opus, Magic Still Exists. This belated follow-up features glistening dance-pop, sweat-soaked electro and a\u00a0bop called Uterus & Universe. MC<\/em><\/p>\n

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Staying in: <\/strong>Brain food<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/svg><\/span>Eye of the Duck: Lord of the Rings Special.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eye of the Duck: Lord of\u00a0the Rings Special
<\/strong>Podcast
<\/em>In-depth cinema series Eye of the Duck presents a three-part special exploring Peter Jackson\u2019s Middle-earth, featuring a mammoth four-hour opening episode on the making of 2001\u2019s The Fellowship of the Ring and its enduring legacy.<\/p>\n

University of Chicago Assyrian Dictionary<\/a>
<\/strong>Online
<\/em>With its origins in ancient Mesopotamia, Assyrian is one of the\u00a0world\u2019s oldest languages. This free dictionary from the University of Chicago took 90 years to assemble and explores fascinating contexts for these early words.<\/p>\n

Hungary: The Alternative to Orban
<\/strong>BBC World Service, <\/em>29 January<\/em>
<\/em>In April, Hungary faces new parliamentary elections and for the first time since his initial election in 2010, far-right leader Viktor Orban is falling behind in the polls. Nick Thorpe meets opposition activists and voters. Ammar Kalia<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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