As Douglas Is Cancelled prepares to air, Moffat talks about career implosions, Bonneville relives past nude scenes – and Kingston recalls the ‘wandering hands’ warnings she used to be given

When Douglas, a nationally trusted news host, suffers a social media pile-on about a private comment revealed online, he consults his agent, who warns him – with a vagueness that may have pleased ITV’s lawyers – that he risks the fate of fellow broadcasters “whatsisname and the other one”. Many viewers will substitute the names Phillip Schofield and Huw Edwards, whose careers were cancelled after controversies about their conduct.

“They may well do,” admits Steven Moffat, writer of ITV’s four-part Douglas Is Cancelled. “But I wrote the first version of this – as a stage play that didn’t get put on – five years ago, long before the cases you mention. It doesn’t matter which period you put this story in: there will be somebody who fell from grace in TV.”

You’ve loved Ncuti Gatwa making the Doctor fun again, lapped up the sexiest season of Bridgerton – and discovered the new Mighty Boosh. Here are Guardian readers’ top TV shows of 2024 to date

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Clarkson’s Farm is the funniest programme on TV. My father, who was a teacher after the war, always wanted to be a farmer and this is how I think it would have turned out. Clarkson’s ability to strike out on his own, only to be reined in by his more savvy “staff” make this show a joy. The scene with him using a Mr Henry to collect blackberries is only surpassed by it actually working and Kaleb’s visit to Downing Street should have warned us all about the soon-to-be-former prime minister. Nicholas Johnson, Brentford

The Game of Thrones prequel is back – and everyone is hungry for revenge. Plus: a shocking tale of deaths in the Mediterranean. Here’s what to watch this evening

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The first rule of Westeros? Don’t mess with a Targaryen queen’s children. In the case of this fiery Game of Thrones prequel, don’t let your dragon gobble up Rhaenyra Targaryen’s son. That was the cliff on which we were left hanging at the end of the first season – and it is sure to lead to all-out war between Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and her rival Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke). Don’t expect too much action in this slow-burn opener, though: there is plenty of plotting, alliance-making and world-building to set things up first. But an attention-grabbing payoff reminds us just how seriously George RR Martin’s characters take the act of seeking revenge. Hollie Richardson

The Peacock and People Just Do Nothing star on using food to connect to his Kurdish roots, his mental block with seafood and why he looks up to Anthony Bourdain

I’ve always been into food – and I sort of forget sometimes . Because food was so prominent in my household: my dad’s Kurdish, my mum’s Czech, but my mum spent 15 years living in Baghdad before I was born, so she’s an expert on both sides. She’d always be cooking: a simpler dish would be a goulash with dumplings, or, from the Kurdish side, a lamb stew either with okra or potatoes or beans. I was spoiled.

I used to be a little bit ashamed of being a foreigner and not feeling like everyone else. When my friends were coming over, I’d be like: “Don’t show them sauerkraut, they’ll think it’s weird.” Trying to get the pizzas out of the freezer so they couldn’t see – in my mind – the strange foreign food. And I smoked lots of weed, so I just wanted to eat pizzas and frankfurters, like freezer meals and shit.

The South African soprano on her love of Star Trek, a Stockholm gallery that used to be a squat, and where to find a great negroni in London

The soprano Golda Schultz was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1983. She studied journalism before switching to singing at the University of Cape Town and then Juilliard in New York. In 2011 she joined the Bavarian State Opera. Since then she has sung at La Scala, the Met and, in 2020, at the Last Night of the Proms , as well as releasing two acclaimed albums. Schultz, who lives in Berlin, makes her debut at the Royal Opera House as Fiordiligi in Jan Philipp Gloger’s production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte , from 26 June to 10 July. She also appears at Buxton Opera House on 8 July.

The comedy producer, 51, reflects on early ambitions to be a stockbroker, dodging racism by being a wheelchair user, and being noisy enough to get invited to the party

I was born in Cairo and moved to Northern Ireland when I was two for my parents’ work – they’re both doctors. I’d open my mouth and this really manic Northern Irish accent would come out, which was even more incongruous for a little brown boy in a wheelchair. When my family moved to England, my nickname at school was IRA.

I was really interested in becoming a stockbroker. I’m a product of the 80s, with the stock market booms and red striped shirts. I thought: they’re just sitting down, shouting into a telephone. I could do that! That’s what I trained to do, but when I got there, I wasn’t very good at it. I got fired or resigned – depending on who you ask.

I can’t tell you that I grew up wanting to work in comedy. It’s something that occurred to me quite late. I got my midlife crisis out of the way when I was 23, a realisation that I was at the bottom of a ladder I didn’t want to climb. There’s something melancholy about trading in the City. As the new guy, I’d sit seven down from the man who’d been there 25 years. I thought: I don’t want to be him.

If you’re a wheelchair user, it’s all you know. Growing up, you start to realise that most people are not wheelchair users and you are a significant minority. It’s unwelcome learning that the world has not been built to help you.

I can’t remember experiencing racism. It’s the second most obvious thing about me. Had I not been in a wheelchair, my heritage might have turned up more. If you looked at me as a child or even now, the first thing you might say is: “That man is a wheelchair user.” Only then would you add: “He is Egyptian.”

I don’t subscribe to the narrative that it’s hard to make comedy in the current climate. Only a small percentage of issues are hot-button topics: gender, the trans debate. Do those things occupy my thinking when I’m putting together a new sitcom? Not at all. If you want to go straight into the fire and talk about those things, good luck to you. But that’s not where 99% of comedy sits.

I’ve always been worried about being invisible. It’s GCSE psychology to say the guy in the wheelchair wants to make sure he’s noisy enough that people take notice. Working in comedy is one way of making sure you’re invited to the party.

I find it very hard to watch comedy. I’m either hugely envious or writing script notes in my head. I want to watch television for escapism. The problem is, it’s what I do for a living.

I cry relatively easily. I get quite melancholic and nostalgic about the passing of years. It can bring me to tears quickly.

I had some interior designers help me do my flat. They said, “You should include something to do with The Office .” I thought that would be showy, so instead they came up with this ugly picture of a canal in Slough that has nothing to do with the show I produced. It’s been on the wall for years.

Is there a God? Well, my family thinks so, so hopefully they’re not reading this. If there is, I’ve got a few notes for him.

Things You Should Have Done is available to catch up on BBC iPlayer

The chef and her friend Jérôme Merdrignac on all-night parties, chosen family, and brutal honesty

Born in Samoa in 1975, Monica Galetti is a chef, MasterChef judge and Amazing Hotels presenter. She developed a passion for food on her family’s plantation on the island of Upolu, before moving to New Zealand, where she established her name in the world of fine dining. In 1999, Galetti moved to London to work for Michel Roux Jr at his two-Michelin-starred restaurant, Le Gavroche, where she met her friend, Jérôme Merdrignac, who runs the London-based boutique dog walking business, Active Barks . Galetti is working with The Singleton whisky brand on its new Dream Gathering campaign .

A teenage Riley gets to know Anxiety and Envy in the Pixar animated sequel, and Westeros descends into civil war as the Game of Thrones prequel returns

Inside Out 2
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The first Inside Out gave us five personified emotions living inside the mind of 11-year-old Riley. Now a teen, Riley and her brain must contend with the arrival of new emotions, including Anxiety (voiced by Maya Hawke), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser).

Pitching his creed to a roomful of comic stars, the pontiff pronounced that it is good to laugh at God. In which case, he may enjoy these

A hundred top comedians are generally considered a tough crowd, but Pope Francis had them rolling in the aisles at the Vatican on Friday, with jovial praise for their profession.

To “laugh at God” was fine, he explained, in the same way “ we play and joke with the people we love ”.