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• Britain still loves sheds and Penelope Keith: what we learned from the weekend's TV

  22-06-2015 12:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Are we stuck in the 1970s? And is that a bad thing? Even Jimmy Carr is channelling Bob Monkhouse …Having seen the blurb for this (“Penelope witnesses the formation wheelbarrow display by the Red Sparrows”) I could not miss the mad example of ultra-British retro programming as represented by Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages (Channel 4, Saturday). Is this the best we can do for Margo? But what a voice! What’s her secret? Surely there’s an entire scone lodged in her mouth at all times.
  
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• TV tonight: a violinist’s incredible recovery from a brain injury

  28-03-2025 07:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Clemency Burton-Hill recorded her journey after being left unable to speak or walk. Plus: the twist-filled season finale of Death in Paradise. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Two
  “Music was my greatest ally, and now it’s like my toxic friend.” A film following the remarkable story of Clemency Burton-Hill, who was 38 years old when a brain injury left her unable to speak or walk. Before that, she was a violinist who had also achieved a double first from Cambridge
  
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• Number One on the Call Sheet review – a spectacular tribute to black excellence in Hollywood

  28-03-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Jaw-droppingly star-studded and stuffed with incredible stories, this series is a joy to watch. Just wait till you hear the one about James Brown burying bags of cash in the woods …Denzel Washington. Don Cheadle. Morgan Freeman. Laurence Fishburne. Idris Elba. Viola Davis. Halle Berry. Cynthia Erivo. Angela Bassett. Octavia Spencer. To say that the cast of Apple’s new two-part, feature-length documentary series is stacked would be an understatement, and that truly is only a smatteri
  
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• Review: ‘Picture of Dorian Gray,’ Starring Sarah Snook and 3 Million Pixels

  28-03-2025 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The “Succession” actress plays all 26 roles in this Oscar Wilde classic reimagined as a video spectacle. If only there were less screen time and more IRL contact.
  
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• Clive Revill, Original Voice of Emperor Palpatine in ‘Star Wars,’ Dies at 94

  27-03-2025 23:40 via nytimes.com
  
  His voice can be heard for only a minute in “The Empire Strikes Back,” but it provided the first draft of a character that would be a mainstay of the franchise for decades.
  
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• Brianna: A Mother’s Story review – surely this exploitative documentary should not have been made

  27-03-2025 23:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Esther Ghey’s grief for her murdered daughter is so raw that her participation here is agony to watch. Sadly, the important thing in TV is to be firstIt is possible to make a cynical piece of television without anyone who appears on screen having a drop of toxicity in their veins. Documentaries with subjects ripped from the headlines are particularly likely candidates; documentaries centring the recently, appallingly bereaved even more so.We turn, then, to Brianna: A Mother’s Story.
  
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• Review: Long-Lost ‘Love Life’ Still Has a Lot to Say About America

  27-03-2025 20:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and other top-shelf singers star in an overly sentimental production of the long-lost Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner show.
  
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• ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli Style Animations Are Almost Too Good

  27-03-2025 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An update to ChatGPT made it easy to simulate Hayao Miyazaki’s style of animation, which has flooded social media with memes.
  
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• OnlyFans fined £1mn over inaccurate age-checking information

  27-03-2025 19:16 via ft.com
  
  Ofcom says site failed to provide appropriate responses to requests about third-party facial estimation technology
  
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• Sundance Picks Boulder, Colo., as Its New Home

  27-03-2025 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Sundance Institute chose the new location for the movie festival because it had outgrown Park City, Utah, its home for the past 40 years.
  
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• Turkey deports BBC journalist over Erdoğan protest coverage

  27-03-2025 18:18 via ft.com
  
  British broadcaster says veteran correspondent Mark Lowen was held by police for 17 hours before being forced to leave
  
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• Hollywood Has Not Recovered Jobs Lost During Strikes, Report Says

  27-03-2025 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Many entertainment industry workers have been jobless for months, leading state officials to consider increasing subsidies to keep film and television production in California.
  
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• Nothing for Gavin & Stacey? The sheer number of omissions in the TV Baftas is ridiculous

  27-03-2025 15:24 via theguardian.com
  From the Barry-Billericay finale to Wolf Hall, Pachinko and Nobody Wants This, there are far too many cruelly overlooked shows this year. But the even bigger problem? Bafta’s Adolescence issue• Stalking saga Baby Reindeer leads 2025 TV Bafta nominationsThe latest Bafta TV awards again show the range of talent across UK television. Though drama characteristically dominates, the shows with most nominations – Rivals, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Slow Horses and Baby Reindeer &ndash
  
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• Nothing for Gavin & Stacey? The number of omissions in the TV Baftas is ridiculous

  27-03-2025 15:24 via theguardian.com
  
  From the Barry-Billericay finale to Wolf Hall, Pachinko and Nobody Wants This, there are far too many cruelly overlooked shows this year. But the even bigger problem? Bafta’s Adolescence issueThe latest Bafta TV awards again show the range of talent across UK television. Though drama characteristically dominates, the shows with most nominations – Rivals, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Slow Horses and Baby Reindeer – represent a range of genres and source material (from real event
  
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• BBC drops podcast adverts plan after industry backlash

  27-03-2025 14:20 via ft.com
  
  U-turn highlights challenges facing corporation in moving away from licence fee model
  
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• Sky cuts 2,000 jobs as it moves more customer services online

  27-03-2025 14:19 via ft.com
  
  Broadcaster to close three of 10 customer service centres, affecting jobs in Stockport, Sheffield and Leeds
  
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• Stalking saga Baby Reindeer leads 2025 TV Bafta nominations

  27-03-2025 13:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Richard Gadd’s semi-autobiographical stalker thriller has eight nominations, with Mr Bates Vs the Post Office and the raunchy bonkbuster Rivals on six apieceBafta TV awards 2025 nominations: the full listBaby Reindeer, Richard Gadd’s groundbreaking semi-autobiographical saga about his years of abuse and being stalked, has been nominated for the most 2025 TV Bafta awards.The Netflix drama – which claimed to be a true story, prompting the woman who allegedly inspired the stalker
  
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• ‘The Penguin Lessons’ Review: A Unique Approach to Teaching

  27-03-2025 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Steve Coogan plays Tom Michell, an English teacher in 1970s Argentina, whose small new friend makes his class a hit.
  
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• ‘Julie Keeps Quiet’ Review: Coping at Her Own Speed

  27-03-2025 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A teenage regional tennis star moves on at her own pace after her ex-coach is dismissed under a cloud of suspicion.
  
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• ‘Holland’ Review: Nicole Kidman Goes Dutch

  27-03-2025 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Set in a Michigan town designed to evoke the Netherlands, this thriller has red herring on the menu.
  
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• ‘Grand Tour’ Review: A Quiet Knockout

  27-03-2025 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’s black-and-white film follows a colonial official on a 20th-century odyssey across Asia, with his fiancée in pursuit.
  
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• ‘A Working Man’ Review: Blue Collar, Bloody Hands

  27-03-2025 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jason Statham plays a construction worker who’s as deft at breaking bones as he is at building high-rises.
  
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• ‘Viet and Nam’ Review: A Soft Kiss Underground

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Truong Minh Quy’s haunting romance between two Vietnamese coal miners contemplates war and loss with pained elegance.
  
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• ‘The Friend’ Review: The Writer vs. the Great Dane

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Naomi Watts plays a writer in mourning who is given a formidable gift from a friend in this adaptation of the Sigrid Nunez novel.
  
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• ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: A Sour Note

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Carey Mulligan briefly warms this damp, downbeat comedy about two lonely men and their musical obsession.
  
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• ‘Holy Cow’ Review: How to Become a Big Cheese

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Louise Courvoisier’s debut feature follows a teenager in the French Alps who, when thrust into caring for his sister, forges a path in cheese making.
  
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• ‘Death of a Unicorn’ Review: Into the Woods (Chomp, Chomp)

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega play a father and daughter who run down a mystical beast and end up running amok with a monstrous brood.
  
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• At 50, the Wooster Group Is Experimenting on Itself

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk reflect on their decades of making daring theater together. Just don’t call it a nostalgic exercise.
  
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• ‘Art for Everybody’ Review: The Hidden Life of the ‘Painter of Light’

  27-03-2025 10:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Thomas Kinkade turned himself into a ubiquitous brand — but there was more to him than that, a new documentary shows.
  
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• How ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Brings a Beloved Song to Life on Broadway

  27-03-2025 10:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Of all the “Buena Vista Social Club” songs, the beloved “Chan Chan” is the most recognizable. But figuring out where in the musical to put it became a challenge.
  
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