Nick Galvin discovered he had a “Widowmaker”,and needed a heart operation.

After months of feeling off,I took myself off to the GP. I didn’t expect this diagnosis

Avoiding deadlines until the very last minute is a way of life for most journalists but after month of feeling “a bit off”,I went for a check-up.

  • Nick Galvin

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Francesca Olia as Barbara Locci in The Monster of Florence.

‘Not to solve,not to explain’:Netflix drama investigates Italy’s most infamous serial killer

For the makers of The Monster of Florence,the story was less about the culprit and more about why the victims were killed.

  • Stephanie Bunbury
Jacob Elordi as a “newborn” creature.

Frankenstein’s monster:Ugly,cute or just plain Elordi?

It took up to 10 hours a day to transform the Hollywood heartthrob into a “newborn” Creature.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
What to stream this week (from top left):The Hand that Rocks the Cradle;My Bungalow Bliss;Son of a Donkey;Lazarus;Down Cemetery Road;and Ballad of a Small Player.

What to stream this week:Emma Thompson’s detective thriller,plus five more picks

While Down Cemetery Road will be compared to Slow Horses,once you lean into the considerable differences it comes into its own.

  • Craig Mathieson
Drama,drama everywhere and not a drop to drink …

The palm-of-your-hand soap operas turning viewers away from TV

An explosion of “vertical video” dramas has Hollywood scrambling,unions worried and phone-clutching audiences glued to the next sticky chapter.

  • Michael Idato
From shark horrors to friendly ghosts,there’s a Halloween movie for everyone.

From shark killers to friendly ghosts:10 Halloween movies for every mood

Whether you’re watching with the family,keen for a laugh with friends or looking for a serious fright,there’s plenty of new content to suit every taste over Halloween weekend.

  • Nell Geraets
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Ghost stories have evolved alongside technology.

Where do our monsters hide now? The digital age has rewritten the rules of fear

They left the dark forests and lonely highways to stalk us on our screens – and they tell us everything about our modern anxieties.

  • Christian White
Joanne (Kristen Bell) and Noah (Adam Brody) in S2 of Nobody Wants This.

We fell in love with season one of Netflix’s hit rom-com,but can lightning strike twice?

For its second season,Nobody Wants This has expanded its storytelling beyond the star-crossed lovers at its core.

  • Karl Quinn
What to stream this week:(from top left) Love Life;Reformed;Devil in Disguise:John Wayne Gacy;Burden of Dreams;A House of Dynamite;and Murdaugh:Death in the Family.

What to stream this week:A clock-ticking Netflix nuclear thriller and five more picks

Don’t miss Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite,the (good) serial killer drama about John Wayne Gacy,the mad Werner Herzog doco,and the rom-com Love Life.

  • Craig Mathieson
An AWS outage has affected websites globally.

Internet still struggling after mammoth Amazon outage

Millions of users were left unable to access Canva,Amazon,Snapchat and Alexa in a global outage.

  • David Swan andDaniel Lo Surdo