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• White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood condemns SNL’s ‘mean and unfunny’ sketch

  14-04-2025 10:14 via theguardian.com
  Actor uses Instagram story to address skit in which SNL cast member Sarah Sherman mocked her appearanceAimee Lou Wood has described a sketch on the US comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) which mocked her appearance as “mean and unfunny”.The British actor used an Instagram post to criticise a skit of the television series The White Lotus, in which the SNL cast member Sarah Sherman impersonated her, appearing in exaggerated prosthetic teeth. Continue reading...
  
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• The Assembly review – this celebrity interview show is going to be massive

  26-04-2025 23:30 via theguardian.com
  No question is off limits as a neurodivergent panel give Danny Dyer and David Tennant a grilling. It’s the warmest, funniest telly you’ll watch this yearHelmed by interviewees with autism, other forms of neurodivergence and learning disabilities, The Assembly first aired a year ago as a pilot on BBC One, featuring much of the same cast. According to a recent interview with one of its producers in the Radio Times, the broadcaster couldn’t afford to commission a whole series of t
  
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• Doctor Who: The Well – season two episode three recap

  26-04-2025 21:05 via theguardian.com
  It’s behind you! Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu find themselves at the mercy of a terrifying invisible enemy … and he really shouldn’t have called an evil officer ‘babes’A lot of science fiction and fantasy franchises love to commission sequels but have a patchy record on delivering second stories that match up to the first. Russell T Davies and Sharma Angel-Walfall got close to pulling it off here, but the much-touted Disney+ bigger budget may have worked against it
  
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• The Symbolism in ‘Sinners’

  26-04-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  Beneath the spectacle of an action-packed vampire movie, the film has plenty to say about what is sacred and what is profane.
  
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• Rosa Barba Lights Up MoMA With Her Love of Cinema

  26-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Rosa Barba’s films, sculptures and performances start with movies and the machines that make them. They end up in the realm of exuberant effects.
  
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• Genius Game: David Tennant’s brainiac gameshow is even duller than doing GCSE maths

  26-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Britain loves a gameshow. But the contestants here compete in puzzles so unthinkably boring and complex that you’re baffled from the get-go. Then someone gets locked in a cage …Britain loves a good gameshow. And if there weren’t enough on our screens already, the quizmasters-in-chief, ITV, recently announced that they would be bumping off the reality-focused ITVBe in favour of a new channel dedicated to them. Hopefully it will have some better programmes than Genius Game (Wedn
  
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• TV tonight: Danny Dyer gets the ultimate grilling in this genius show

  26-04-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Neurodivergent people fire tough questions at the actor in The Assembly. Plus: Rose Ayling-Ellis guest stars in Doctor Who. Here’s what to watch this evening 10.05pm, ITV1 Continue reading...
  
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• Spotify to raise subscription prices outside the US

  25-04-2025 19:59 via ft.com
  
  Moves comes as music-streaming service chases greater profitability as its stock has soared higher
  
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• ‘Real Women Have Curves’ Is Now a Broadway Show. Here Are 5 Things to Know.

  25-04-2025 18:21 via nytimes.com
  The new musical is based on Josefina López’s original play and the 2002 film adaptation that starred America Ferrera.
  
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• Francis Ford Coppola unveils Megalopolis graphic novel

  25-04-2025 18:05
  
  In a statement, the 86-year-old director of the critical and box-office flop said the book confirms his feeling that ‘art can never be constrained’ Continue reading...
  
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• May the force be with you! How to save every tired TV superfranchise, from Star Wars to Game of Thrones

  25-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Does anyone know what Marvel multiverse we’re in? And will anything ever happen in Westeros again? The world’s biggest fantasy franchises are in trouble … but we have ways to make them must-see TV once moreIt’s amazing to think that, not so very long ago, people were actually excited at the prospect of a new Star Wars show. Or when it emerged that a fresh Lord of the Rings saga was, through some kind of Gandalfian wizardry, being squeezed on to the small screen, the reac
  
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• Patrick Adiarte, Actor Seen in Musicals and on ‘M*A*S*H,’ Dies at 82

  25-04-2025 13:10 via nytimes.com
  As a young immigrant from the Philippines, he had roles on Broadway in “The King and I” and “Flower Drum Song.” He was later a familiar face on TV.
  
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• Pedro Pascal calls JK Rowling a ‘heinous loser’ in wake of supreme court gender ruling

  25-04-2025 13:01
  
  The actor has long been an activist for LGBTQ+ rights and has a transgender sister who often accompanies him on the red carpet Continue reading...
  
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• Watch Ben Affleck Line Dance in ‘The Accountant 2’

  25-04-2025 11:04 via nytimes.com
  The director Gavin O’ Connor narrates a sequence from the film featuring the actor and Jon Bernthal.
  
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• How a Kentucky Man Trapped in a Cave Became a Broadway Musical

  25-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Floyd Collins was pinned under a rock while exploring a cave in 1925. That history, recounted in song, is now on Broadway.
  
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• ‘Drop Dead City’: When New York Was on the Financial Brink

  25-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  This surprisingly entertaining film examines the 1975 fiscal crisis that nearly led the city to bankruptcy. The movie’s conclusions remain relevant today.
  
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• Doubling Up: How ‘Sinners’ and Other Movies Multiply One Actor

  25-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  From camera tricks to digital facial replacement, a history of duplicating effects.
  
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• ‘The Accountant 2’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  25-04-2025 10:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The director Gavin O’Connor narrates a sequence from “The Accountant 2,” starring Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal.
  
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• A Complete Unknown to Havoc: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

  25-04-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Timothée Chalamet is the perfect embodiment of the young Bob Dylan, and Tom Hardy unleashes his wild side in a shamelessly violent thriller about dirty copsJames Mangold directed the excellent Johnny Cash drama Walk the Line, and his latest music biopic – which tracks the groundbreaking early phase of Bob Dylan’s career – has the same rewarding fidelity to time and place. It also features a lead performance that is so much more than an impersonation: Timothée Chal
  
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• The Four Seasons to Flintoff: the seven best shows to stream this week

  25-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tina Fey’s new cringe comedy tackles three couples whose lives unravel on a doomed holiday. Plus: an intimate documentary about the extraordinary life of the cricketer Three apparently stable couples, all deep into middle age and preoccupied with statins and second homes, go on an annual holiday together. It’s expected to be a gentle affair but Nick (Steve Carell) is about to drop a bombshell: he’s bored and frustrated and he’s leaving Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver). Tina Fey
  
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• TV tonight: human remains are found in tense cold case drama Black Snow

  25-04-2025 07:20 via theguardian.com
  An upsetting moment as the search for missing Zoe continues. Plus: Cornish folklore in cosy crime series Beyond Paradise. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Two
  The Queensland-set cold case drama continues. Zoe Jacobs (Jana McKinnon) vanished on her 21st birthday back in 2003, and we have come to know her hopes, fears and love of ecstasy and pop-punk via extended flashbacks. So it’s all the more upsetting that unkempt detective James Cormack (Travis Fimmel) and Zoe’s old
  
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• North Yorkshire’s film-star stately home set to earn its keep by hosting paying guests

  25-04-2025 07:00
  Wealthy fans of Brideshead Revisited or Bridgerton may soon be able to stay at newly refurbished Castle Howard Continue reading...
  
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• UK insurance tycoon Sir Clive Cowdery takes stake in Observer newspaper

  25-04-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  The 234-year-old Sunday newspaper will produce its first edition under new ownership this weekend
  
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• UK insurance tycoon Clive Cowdery takes stake in Observer newspaper

  25-04-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  The 234-year-old Sunday newspaper will produce its first edition under new ownership this weekend
  
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• Flintoff review – so traumatised he can’t even speak to his ex-Top Gear pals

  25-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The story of the former cricket prodigy and car crash survivor Freddie Flintoff is fascinating … but this documentary shows he has such extreme PTSD that he keeps slamming the shutters downFreddie Flintoff is numb. As the 98-minute Disney+ documentary Flintoff begins, we find its subject sitting in a hospital room. He can’t feel his lip, the one that was torn from his face in a nightmarish car accident on the Top Gear track in 2022. But more than that, he is mentally checked out. As
  
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• Review: Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Pirates,’ Now in Jazzy New Orleans

  25-04-2025 04:00 via nytimes.com
  A Broadway remake of the operetta, starring David Hyde Pierce, moves the plot to the Big Easy, where good times roll, even if some jokes don’t quite land.
  
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• Top Trump official in talks with Paramount over Skydance merger concessions

  24-04-2025 23:34 via ft.com
  
  Negotiations come as US president’s legal fight against studio’s CBS News nears conclusion
  
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• EU set to probe Universal’s planned acquisition of Downtown Music

  24-04-2025 23:00 via ft.com
  
  Independent labels have urged competition authorities to block the deal as they say it would make the music giant too dominant
  
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• Andrea Nevins, Who Made Touching Films on Quirky Topics, Dies at 63

  24-04-2025 21:54 via nytimes.com
  Her documentaries, one of which received an Oscar nomination, explored subjects like punk-rock dads and Barbie dolls.
  
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• Sexual violence reported by 60% of women in Spain’s film industry

  24-04-2025 20:06
  Female film-makers call for action to end culture of ‘silence and impunity’ Continue reading...
  
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