Dan Reed catches up with Jackson’s accusers as they pursue the singer’s estate. Plus: Bradley Walsh has alternative theories about the pyramids. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Dan Reed’s documentary about Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who alleged they were sexually abused as children by Michael Jackson, rocked the world in 2019. This follow-up film delves into their 10-year legal journey to get Jackson’s estate to accept their claims that they were abused, while lawyers share insights. The documentary ends on an astonishing note, and not just because it shows the opening of a hit Jackson musical in the West End of London. Hollie Richardson

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Joining Grace on Comfort Eating this week is actor and comedian Babatunde Aléshé. Babatunde stole the nation’s hearts with appearances on Celebrity Gogglebox, and I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here. He talks to Grace about how his mum is every bit the Nigerian matriarchal stereotype, the age old debate of who makes the best jollof rice, and how a strong dislike for cheese allowed him the privilege of ordering off-menu at school

New episodes of Comfort Eating with Grace Dent will be released every Tuesday

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Drake’s attorneys accuse Universal of being ‘a greedy company’ that is ‘finally being held responsible for profiting from dangerous misinformation’.

Universal Music Group have moved to dismiss Drake’s defamation suit, characterising it as “a misguided attempt” by the Canadian rapper to “salve his wounds” after he “lost a rap battle” with rival Kendrick Lamar.

In the motion, filed on Monday in the US district court for the southern district of New York, Universal Music Group (UMG), which represents both artists, claimed that Drake “lost a rap battle that he provoked and in which he willingly participated.

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Why on earth were cameras invited inside this huge, hated company known for pumping sewage into our waterways? Customers can see the horrors of a dreadful situation they’re paying the price for

It is not really the place of a critic to offer advice. But sometimes the urge is overwhelming, so here goes. If you are the director of communications for a huge, hated utilities company seen by the public to be responsible for endless discharges of sewage into major watercourses whenever its plants are overwhelmed, do not invite a documentary team in until you have your house in order. If you do, do not say: “The impression given is that the Thames is dirtier than five, 10, 15 years ago. I don’t believe that’s true! But I don’t have the evidence.”

Thames Water: Inside the Crisis is a two-part documentary by Barnaby Peel. He was granted access for six – let’s call them tricky – months, with the company facing an ever-shortening “liquidity runway”, as the CEO, Chris Weston, insists on calling it. This means that, with an operating profit of about £140m a year and debts of £15bn, largely accrued during the happy days of 2006-17, when £2.7bn was paid out in dividends while debt tripled, the company will run out of cash by June 2025 unless a quick way is found to turn all that red black. We follow Weston and his team as they try to persuade the regulatory body, Ofwat, that the best means of doing this is to raise customer bills by up to 53%.

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James Lee Williams’s sister says it is important to raise awareness of the dangers of the increasingly prevalent drug

The drag artist known as The Vivienne died of a cardiac arrest caused by the effects of taking ketamine, their family has said.

James Lee Williams, who won the first series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK as The Vivienne in 2019, died at their home in Cheshire in January . Their sister Chanel Williams said it was important to share the circumstances of their death because ketamine use was becoming more prevalent in the UK.

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Friend of actor says he saw woman who accuses Clarke of sexual misconduct touch him on the buttocks

A childhood friend of Noel Clarke saw one of the women accusing the former Doctor Who star of sexual misconduct grope him in a “playful” manner, the high court has heard.

Clarke, 49, is suing Guardian News and Media (GNM) for libel over seven articles and a podcast containing allegations of misconduct against him, published between April 2021 and March 2022.

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The trailer for the new film about the dainty woodland creatures will wash over your brain like a warm 70-second bath. Does every toy movie need to be an Oscar-worthy social commentary?

This Easter, a new movie based on Sylvanian Families will be released into cinemas. If you’ve been keeping up with films based on toys for the last decade or so, then you’ll be forgiven for feeling a modicum of dread upon hearing this news.

Because ever since Barbie took a billion dollars and found itself nominated for a bunch of Oscars, a toy movie isn’t allowed to be a toy movie any more. It has to be an auteur-driven toy movie; one that also functions as a commentary about the capitalist machinations that drive the toy industry.

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Already staggeringly popular since its long-awaited release on Friday, the Atlantan rapper shows off his almost mystical level of vocal range on his jaded, narcotised third LP

Almost no album in rap history has been quite so anticipated as Music, the third album by Atlanta’s Playboi Carti. The harsh, extreme-bass sound of his second, 2020’s Whole Lotta Red, took him to a new level of fame and acclaim – it was canonised as the second best album this decade by Pitchfork (beaten only by Fiona Apple) and a massive influence on a whole generation of rage-rap from Yeat to Ken Carson, OsamaSon and numerous other noisy young MCs. Carti initially announced Whole Lotta Red’s follow-up just three months after its release. Instead, it’s been – cue Titanic grandma voice – over four years, with Pitchfork recently issuing a 34-entry breakdown of all the false dawns and teased info that Carti has drip-fed his starving fans in that time.

It looked like Music (renamed from I Am Music) would finally arrive on Friday, but the promised release time was moved back by three hours. When that time arrived, no album appeared. “My bones are weak, my soul is drained, and my will to live is hanging by a thread” was one typical reaction in the Instagram comments; the danger was that the wait was so long it could never be worth it. But Music is easily good enough to sweep any embitterment away and could come to be seen as a trap classic.

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The British rapper and actor alleges that Dean Cover has failed to repay a loan of £1.7m from 2023

Little Simz is suing her former producer Inflo – AKA Dean Cover of music collective Sault – for allegedly failing to repay a loan of £1.7m, including £1m to cover Sault’s only live show to date, an opulent extravaganza at London venue Drumsheds in December 2023 at which she performed. The London-born rapper and actor said that the debt left her unable to pay her full tax liability in January 2024.

Inflo had worked with Simz, born Simbiatu Ajikawo, since her third album, 2019’s Grey Area, as well as producing for Adele, Michael Kiwanuka, Tyler, the Creator, and Inflo’s wife, soul singer Cleo Sol.

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