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The world's largest, heaviest plane, destroyed by Russia during the Ukraine invasion, lives on in digital form.

Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center 29th Annual "Sistas Are Doin' It For Themselves" Short Film Festival" will highlight 30+ films by women directors, which were culled from more than 1000 global entries.

Find out whats on TV for New Years Day 2021, including the return of Doctor, a Taskmaster New Years special and Torvill and Deans Dancing on Thin Ice.

What’s on TV this weekend: David Attenborough returns to the BBC with A Perfect Planet The i 1/1/2021 Gerard Gilbert Friday 9pm, BBC One A new year and a new real-crime drama. This immaculately designed eight-part thriller follows the hunt for Charles Sobhraj, a conman and serial killer who preyed on young backpackers on the South East Asian “hippy trail” during the mid-1970s. We first meet Sobhraj (played with suitably chilling menace by Tahar Rahim) posing as a gem sal...

Doctor Who (BBC1, 6.45pm) IT’S been nine months since we last saw Jodie Whittaker as everybody’s favourite Time Lord. The sci-fi classic was a Christmas Day fixture for several years, but has now found a home at New Year instead, and this festive edition certainly kicks off 2021 in style by reintroducing the heroine’s most feared foe – the Daleks. Unfortunately for Yaz, Ryan and Graham, they can’t call on the Doctor’s help when they uncover the alien threat in their midst becaus...

Jodie Whittaker returns as The Doctor on New Years Day Credit: BBC Baby, it’s looking bleak outside - or at least it is when it comes to Christmas TV. Thanks to a certain party-pooping virus, production schedules have veered more drunkenly than an egg-nogged reindeer. And, pandemic aside, there’s been a touch of festive laziness from the terrestrial channels, an overreliance on familiar stodge.   It’s certainly no vintage year, then. But among the grim lockdown specials and hurriedly �...

As a child, David Walliams’s favourite movie was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the 1968 musical fantasy about a flying car, its eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts and the brilliantly scary Child Catcher. But the thing that really captured David’s imagination was when Chitty took to the air.  ‘Those scenes were absolutely magical,’ recalls BGT judge David, ‘I really thought that car was flying.’ In reality, Chitty never got off the ground. Weighing a whopping two tons, the specially bui...