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• Deirdre Barlow: Coronation Street says goodbye to a legend

  08-07-2015 17:45 via theguardian.com
  
  From her bubble perm and glasses to her travails with Ken and her time in prison, she left an indelible mark on viewers of the soap Dark times descend on Weatherfield this evening. As the Barlows excitedly squabble over plans for a surprise 60th birthday party to mark the return of the iconically put-upon Deirdre, they are greeted by Susie Blake’s Bev, a tragic, tear-stained character at the best of times. Deirdre’s sudden death by aneurysm, sat in a deckchair, comes cruelly and inevitably,
  
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• ‘Red One’ Review: Santa’s Helpers Have Been Working Out

  14-11-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, this Christmas offering has the courage to ask: What if the Santa Claus story was like a Marvel movie?
  
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• ‘Dream Team’ Review: Fax on the Beach

  14-11-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Nothing really makes sense in this homage to ’90s cable thrillers, but that’s sort of the point.
  
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• Serial tells the true tale of Free Willy’s titular whale

  14-11-2024 10:49 via theguardian.com
  
  For its 13th season, the investigative titan explores the complicated story of Keiko. Plus: five of the best podcasts to dip into• Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt’s 90s week in podcast land! Or at least you’d think so, judging by the nostalgic homages to kids’ entertainment from decades gone by. There’s an entire series devoted to fictional purple dinosaur Barney, plus investigative news heavyweights Serial Productions offer up a lit
  
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• Best podcasts of the week: Serial tells the true tale of Free Willy’s titular whale

  14-11-2024 10:49 via theguardian.com
  In this week’s newsletter: For its 13th season, the investigative titan explores the complicated story of Keiko. Plus: five of the best podcasts to dip into• Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe Mysterious Affair at Styles Audible, all episodes available nowPeter Dinklage is Hercule Poirot in this stunningly cast take on Agatha Christie’s debut novel. Rob Delaney, Harriet Walter, Jessica Gunning and Himesh Patel join him in a high-budget, immersive
  
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• From Sunset Beach to Dallas: the top 20 TV soap operas that are no more

  14-11-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Massacres at weddings! Naked buttocks! Jude Law! With the final episode of BBC medical drama Doctors airing this week, here are the finest melodramas that didn’t make itAny chance of a second opinion? Afraid not: it’s terminal. At 2pm on Thursday 14 November, BBC medical soap Doctors airs its last ever episode.After 24 years of aches, pains and plot twists, Mill Health Centre in the invented West Midlands town of Letherbridge will close its surgery doors for the last time. At least f
  
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• Disgusting, isn’t it? John Lewis’s shocking Christmas advert is actually about … shopping

  14-11-2024 09:10 via theguardian.com
  Where’s the lonely man on the moon? Where’s the plaintive piano ballad sung by a wan Victorian girl? This year’s John Lewis ad is packed with unforgivable sinsWell, this is an outrage. There are just some things you shouldn’t mess with. Roast dinners. The national anthem. The John Lewis Christmas advert.You see, the John Lewis Christmas advert has long operated on a perfect formula. Every November we are treated to a sumptuous mini-movie, the components of which have long
  
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• TV tonight: the season finale of Simon Bird’s hit doomsday preppers comedy

  14-11-2024 07:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Is the end nigh for the Lewis family in Everyone Else Burns? Plus: the Taskmaster champion is crowned. Here’s what to watch this evening10pm, Channel 4 Continue reading...
  
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• Say Nothing review – a compelling but fatally flawed account of the Troubles

  14-11-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This gripping adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s bestselling book tells the shocking story of the IRA’s Price sisters, but makes little attempt to hide its sympathiesSay Nothing could so easily be absolute chaos. It comprises at least seven narratives, jumping back and forth over four decades, with different actors playing older and younger versions of the same characters. But it has such a firm grasp of those characters – and of all its stories and the history against which
  
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• John Krasinski Is People’s ‘Sexiest Man’ With Help From His Stylist

  14-11-2024 00:27 via nytimes.com
  
  John Krasinski may not have the raw energy of Glen Powell, but a collaboration with the stylist Ilaria Urbinati has paid huge dividends.
  
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• ‘Strategic Love Play’ Review: A Slightly Dark, Not-Quite-Romantic Comedy

  14-11-2024 00:22 via nytimes.com
  
  In this first-date comedy, Michael Zegen and Heléne Yorke play people who might just be willing to settle for each other.
  
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• Secrets of the Spy Whale review – the bizarre tale of how Russia used a cetacean as a secret agent

  13-11-2024 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The alleged operative surfaced in 2019 wearing a camera harness labelled ‘equipment of St Petersburg’ – but sadly this documentary is thin on other detailsSpy Whale does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a documentary about a whale that was, in all probability – if not in all cetacean consciousness – a spy. For the Russians. In 2019, a beluga whale who would eventually be named Hvaldimir (a portmanteau of the Norwegian word for “whale” and Puti
  
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• ‘Emilia Pérez’ Review: A Song and Dance of Transformation

  13-11-2024 21:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The star of Jacques Audiard’s showy new musical about a trans Mexican crime boss, Karla Sofía Gascón, adds soul to the melodrama. Zoe Saldaña also shines.
  
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• Timothy West, star of stage, film and television, dies aged 90

  13-11-2024 19:38
  
  With a career ranging from Shakespeare to EastEnders and Great Canal Journeys, actor was a familiar face from the 1960s onwardsMichael Billington: West was a modest maestro who embodied the best of British theatre Continue reading...
  
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• Big Apple Circus Review: A City Tour, Pizza Rats Included

  13-11-2024 19:07 via nytimes.com
  
  This year’s show is an underwhelming exercise in nostalgia. But it’s still a joy to be under the big top with acts like the Wheel of Destiny.
  
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• Harris ditched Joe Rogan interview over progressive backlash fears

  13-11-2024 19:03
  
  Decision seen as major blunder for campaign that lost male votes to Donald Trump
  
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• Timothy West, Who Portrayed Kings and Prime Ministers, Dies at 90

  13-11-2024 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  A staple of British television, he played Churchill three times over a long career. Onstage, he was King Lear, Macbeth and Willy Loman.
  
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• South Korean actor Song Jae-lim dies aged 39

  13-11-2024 17:25
  
  Star of Korean dramas Moon Embracing the Sun and Queen Woo was found dead at his home in Seoul Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Conclave’ Is Becoming One of 2024’s Most Memed Movies

  13-11-2024 16:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Thanks to characters we recognize from reality TV, the Vatican intrigues have jumped from stuffy prestige drama to the social-media scrum.
  
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• Can ‘mainstream media’ survive the second Trump era?

  13-11-2024 15:31
  
  US news groups fear president-elect will deliver on campaign threats through regulation, litigation and intimidation
  
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• TV tonight: what really happened when fishers found a ‘spy whale’

  13-11-2024 07:20 via theguardian.com
  Is Russia really using sea creatures for surveillance? Plus: it’s been 10 years since award-winning series Our War. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Two Continue reading...
  
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• Sportian’s rugby team takes on North America’s big five leagues

  13-11-2024 06:01
  
  Joint venture of tech group Globant and Spanish football’s La Liga has pivoted to a new sport — and a new market
  
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• Advertisers set to return to X as they seek favour with Musk and Trump

  13-11-2024 06:01
  
  Some brands had abandoned the site over moderation concerns
  
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• Bad Sisters season two review – any trace of joy has been obliterated

  13-11-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sharon Horgan’s follow-up to her stunning revenge comedy is darker – and far less charming for it. The plots are a rambling mess and, despite stellar performances, it all feels moroseUsually, the return of a great TV series is cause for celebration. In the case of Bad Sisters, it’s cause for a fair amount of scepticism – and a sliver of hope. That’s because the Dublin-set whodunnit’s original run – a stunningly engineered split-timeline story of ultimate
  
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• Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds

  13-11-2024 01:01
  
  Sutton Trust calls for improved access to creative education and industry dominated by upper middle-class Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Hot Frosty’ Review: The 8 Abs of Christmas

  13-11-2024 01:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A hunky snowman comes to life in this Netflix holiday rom-com that strikes a certain muscle tone.
  
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• Denzel Washington Will Star in Black Panther 3 Before Retirement

  13-11-2024 00:20 via eonline.com
  
  Denzel Washington is gearing up for a trip to Wakanda.
  The two-time Oscar winner recently shared his plans to leave acting behind, but not before he works on a few exciting new projects.
  “I played...
  
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• Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ wins Booker Prize for fiction

  12-11-2024 23:00
  
  Judges praise ‘beautiful and miraculous’ novel that tells the story of astronauts on the International Space Station
  
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• Ariana Grande Shares Dad's Reaction to Using His Last Name in Wicked

  12-11-2024 22:36 via eonline.com
  
  Ariana Grande is dancing through life with a new name.
  After the Eternal Sunshine singer decided to be credited with her full name Ariana Grande-Butera in her new movie Wicked, her dad Edward...
  
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• Dwayne Johnson Says Moana 2 Sends Empowering Message to Young Girls

  12-11-2024 21:28 via eonline.com
  
  Dwayne Johnson is excited to see how far Moana 2 can go. 
  And the Black Adam star knows the upcoming sequel to the 2016 animated Disney film will go far, especially because it speaks so directly...
  
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