Tate Modern, London, 14 October to 21 February
The Tate\u2019s big autumn show takes a global look at the more conceptual, artier side of photography, with 200 prints by 80 artists from across the world, including Madame Yevonde, who saw the camera as more than a documentary tool.<\/p>\n
Prem Sahib, Gordon Matta-Clark
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, 10 October to 4 January
Prem Sahib has been making some of the most interesting art in the UK over the past few years, all about queer intimacy and clubbing, and he is getting some well-deserved institutional attention here alongside the brilliant late American conceptualist Gordon Matta-Clark.<\/p>\n
Julia Is\u00eddrez
Nottingham Contemporary, to 10 January
UK museums\u2019 fascination with indigenous art continues unabated with this show of ceramics by Paraguayan Guaran\u00ed artist Julia Is\u00eddrez, filled with mythical creatures and multi-headed amphibians.<\/p>\n
Frieze art fair
Regent\u2019s Park, London, 14 to 19 October
Every autumn, Frieze shows up in a massive tent in Regent\u2019s Park and plays host to the best art galleries in the world. It is a cultural phenomenon, and well worth visiting if you can stomach the price of entry. Eddy Frankel<\/p>\n
Going out: StageLolly pop star \u2026 Harriet Kemsley. Photograph: P\u00e5l Hansen\/The Guardian<\/p>\n
Harriet Kemsley
Brighton, 11 October; Hull, 14 October; Leeds, 15 October; touring to 26 February
On stage, the Last One Laughing star comes across as a giggly, chaotic oversharer \u2013 but you don\u2019t become a successful standup without serious finesse and focus. Kemsley\u2019s current show Floozy sees the 39-year-old relate her experiences of post-divorce dating in deceptively daffy style. Rachel Aroesti<\/p>\n
The Cherry Orchard
Harold Pinter theatre, London, to 9 January
Autumn is the season when all the stage stars come to play in the West End \u2013 and there are none bigger than Kristin Scott Thomas, who stars alongside Stephen Mangan in Chekhov\u2019s richly rewarding final play. Miriam Gillinson<\/p>\n
Middlemarch Parts 1 & 2
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, to 16 January
Nina Raine has adapted George Eliot\u2019s exquisite novel into a play in two parts, directed by Jeremy Herrin \u2013 who is so good at injecting ambitious shows with shape and purpose. Nia Towle plays Dorothea Brooke alongside Amanda Root, playing both George Eliot and matchmaker Mrs Cadwallader. MG<\/p>\n
English National Ballet
Liverpool Empire, 15 to 17 October; touring to 25 October
There are two ways to watch the ENB this week: see them live in Rudolf Nureyev\u2019s staging of Romeo & Juliet, with one of the best ballet scores ever written. Or settle down with some popcorn for their sumptuous production of Sleeping Beauty, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in cinemas (13 to 18 October). Lyndsey Winship<\/p>\n
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Paramount+, 12 October
Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s 1883 novel \u2013 responsible for creating the pirate caricature of the popular imagination \u2013 was first adapted for television 75 years ago. This new version stars David Oyelowo, Jack Huston, and Hayley Atwell as Bess Hawkins, who helps her son Jim in his hunt for fabled riches.<\/p>\n
Disney+, 14 October
It can be juvenile, but Marvel lore has also powered some of the cleverest TV of recent times. This mind-boggling spin-off of 2021\u2019s WandaVision rejoins Paul Bettany\u2019s ex-Avenger Vision as he tries to understand what it means to be an android. James Spader co-stars as his maker, the villainous AI Ultron.<\/p>\n
iPlayer & BBC One, 11 October, 9pm
The bracing, brutal prison drama returns for series three, this time shifting focus to disturbed teens locked up in a young offenders institute. Siobhan Finneran reprises her role as a disenchanted chaplain, while David Tennant joins the cast as a custodial manager at the end of his tether.<\/p>\n
Channel 4, 12 October, 11pm
An expat Syrian academic sees a video of a civilian massacre in Damascus and uses social media to track down the chief perpetrator; she then poses as Anna, a regime sympathiser, to encourage him to reveal details about his work in this remarkable documentary about vigilantism in the digital age. RA<\/p>\n
PC, PS5, Xbox; out 14 October
The popular zoo management sim returns, letting players build their animal kingdoms from a vast toolset of detailed habitats. The addition of aquariums and bird sanctuaries bring in new animals to observe and care for.<\/p>\n
PC, PS5, Xbox; out 14 October
A dead soldier of Napoleon\u2019s army finds himself reanimated in an alternate 19th century filled with plague-ridden monsters. An epic fantasy adventure crammed with gutsy combat and supernatural peril are his certain fate. Keith Stuart<\/p>\n
Out now
The Californian genre alchemist returns with her third album of sideways pop. Less eccentric and neon-splattered than her previous outings, here Wolf contemplates heartbreak on the contemplative Bottle, while the stuttering Twiggy spins through memories via an earworm melody. MC<\/p>\n
Out now
After two albums with avant-garde multi-instrumentalist Spencer Zahn, girlband member turned experimental art-pop practitioner Dawn Richard returns to more solo endeavours with this seventh album. Influenced by her heritage as a Black and Native American woman, songs such as the single Chuuuuurch are relentlessly thrilling.<\/p>\n
Out now
After the commercial highs of 2023\u2019s Something to Give Each Other, there is a palpable sense of confidence on Australian banger merchant Sivan\u2019s follow-up. Its title track is an experimental melange of spoken word and 90s trip-hop, while sugar rush banger Party contorts Madonna\u2019s Music into new shapes.<\/p>\n
Out now
Four years after scoring his first No 1 album, south Londoner Jamie T is back with this sixth record featuring a collaboration with Damon Albarn. As the title suggests, its lyrical focus is on various spectres of his past, with the nostalgia motherlode being the galloping lead single 3310.<\/p>\n
Podcast
The BBC\u2019s space podcast returns with a new series on the Hubble telescope touching on its delayed and over-budget launch and the discovery of a fatal flaw in the build. We hear how scientists salvaged the operation.<\/p>\n
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Managing to make the mundane functionality of the dictionary more interesting, dictionary.com\u2019s Insta account posts unusual \u201cword of the day\u201d picks, as well as analysis on the linguistic choices of artists such as Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n
Apple TV, out now
This vertigo-inducing film follows the extreme climbers who in 2021 attempted to be the first to summit the Pakistani\u2011Chinese K2 mountain in winter. During the gruelling expedition they exposed how dangerously commercialised modern climbing has become. Ammar Kalia<\/p>\n