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• Shares of Trump-friendly Newsmax leap 2,200% after Wall Street debut

  01-04-2025 23:32 via ft.com
  
  Rightwing media mogul makes windfall on paper as stock in lossmaking conservative cable TV channel soar
  
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• Stacey & Joe review – Solomon’s husband is absolutely useless

  01-04-2025 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s impossible to dislike Joe Swash. But his utterly chaotic approach to looking after five kids turns this reality show into a nightmarishly stressful watchOh man. I really thought this was going to be the one. I thought Stacey & Joe, the new reality show starring Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash and their 800 children (five) would let me escape and forget the troubles of the world. Because I like Joe Swash (for it is impossible to dislike Joe Swash. I mean, disliking Joe Swash is not a
  
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• Newsmax listing turns media boss and Trump ally Ruddy into billionaire

  01-04-2025 19:54 via ft.com
  Rightwing media mogul makes windfall on paper as shares in lossmaking conservative cable TV channel soar
  
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• ‘Give them something to confess!’ Nancy Banks-Smith on Richard Chamberlain’s lusty Thorn Birds priest – archive, 1984

  01-04-2025 18:46 via theguardian.com
  We revisit the epic tale of forbidden love, which saw Chamberlain strip off on a veranda and have his pecs polished and his neck erotically kneaded. But what did God make of it?9 January 1984“I missed you at evensong” said God. “Yes, I’m sorry about that. I was watching The Thorn Birds for my work.” “Who’s in it?” said God. “Funny you should ask that. You have a bit part.” “Stroll on,” said God. “What was I doing ?&rdq
  
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• ‘I’m welling up thinking about it’: how a comedian used humour to beat trauma – and made it into a podcast

  01-04-2025 18:11 via theguardian.com
  After Mark O’Sullivan’s My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom helped him move past his childhood trauma, he’s launched a tearful, joyful new show – about creativity’s power to rebuild livesMark O’Sullivan is still buzzing from winning a Royal Television Society (RTS) award for his documentary, My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom. “I’m grinning like a mid-party Michael Gove,” he chuckles. “It’s lovely for it to be recognised as an important and powe
  
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• ‘Where I’m from, you don’t get to be up yourself’: what ex-Derry Girl Saoirse-Monica Jackson did next

  01-04-2025 17:57 via theguardian.com
  
  As she reveals her tougher side in a Liverpool gangland drama, and fearfully prepares to tread the boards in New York, the actor talks about body image, big hair and the blind faith that has always driven herSaoirse-Monica Jackson has done some dramas where everyone was quite sober and all her jokes fell flat. But This City Is Ours was different, not least because of the number of Scousers on set, the Derry Girls star explains. “It wasn’t, like, so serious,” she says. “We
  
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• Meet the Beatles! (The Movie Version, at Least)

  01-04-2025 16:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Sam Mendes announced the stars of his four-film series, each told from the perspective of a different Beatle, set to be released in 2028.
  
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• Beatles Movies Cast Revealed, Including Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan

  01-04-2025 16:21 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Sam Mendes announced the stars of his four-film series, each told from the perspective of a different Beatle, set to be released in 2028.
  
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• Fisher Center at Bard Announces Civis Hope Commissions

  01-04-2025 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Fisher Center at Bard has announced a wave of works by artists including Suzan-Lori Parks, Courtney Bryan, Barrie Kosky and Lisa Kron.
  
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• Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan and More to Star in Beatles Biopics

  01-04-2025 14:14 via eonline.com
  
  These four stars are coming together for an epic journey.
  Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Joseph Quinn and Harris Dickinson have been tapped to bring to life The Beatles in an epic, four-part...
  
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• Andrew Scott on ‘Vanya’: ‘Who Isn’t Sad?’

  01-04-2025 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The actor calls his solo performance in Chekhov’s melancholy comedy an “endless experiment.” Even all alone, he can really fill a stage.
  
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• Best Movies and Shows Streaming in April: ‘Étoile,’ ‘Hacks,’ ‘The Last of Us’ and More

  01-04-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “Étoile,” “Government Cheese” and an Oklahoma City bombing documentary arrive, and “Hacks” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” return.
  
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• TV tonight: Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash invite you to Pickle Cottage

  01-04-2025 07:20 via theguardian.com
  The celebrity duo reveal the realities of raising five children, two dogs and four ducks. Plus: Bradley Walsh signs off on his Egyptian travelogue. Here’s what to watch this evening8pm, BBC One
  Pickle Cottage opens its doors for the newest celebrity fly-on-the-wall series. Golden couple Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash let the cameras in to their home for six months, as they raise their five children, two dogs and four ducks. The duo are easy to like – especially when the besot
  
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• Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: it’s all kicking off in Ambridge

  01-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  The disastrous sewage dump continues, leading residents to protest by dressing up as giant bog rolls … and staging a 10-hour campanological marathon. Only in BorsetshireA miasma hangs over Ambridge; an enchantment of sorts. Its inhabitants seem bizarrely foggy about events in the outside world. For example, the word Palestine cannot be spoken in the village. The Malik family have been saying a few prayers during iftar, among which “Let it stop soon,” is the nearest anyone has
  
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• Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ With Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr

  01-04-2025 05:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk star in a bumpy revival of David Mamet’s play about salesmen with nothing worth selling.
  
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