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• Tess and Claudia quit! Celia farts! It’s 2025’s most jaw-dropping TV moments

  26-12-2025 12:00
  From shock Strictly news to shock flatulence, plus a roundup of the most hilarious news fails, here are the year’s wildest bits of televisionOne of the most critically acclaimed and most watched shows of the year was Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s staggering Adolescence. At the heart of the plot: why did an innocent-looking kid called Jamie (Owen Cooper) commit such a brutal murder? The third episode lifted the lid. As Jamie is interviewed by psychologist Briony (Erin Doherty), we
  
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• How a Deadly Bond Develops in ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’

  26-12-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  James Cameron narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Oona Chaplin and Stephen Lang.
  
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• A Behind-the-Scenes Player of a Transformed Broadway Takes a Bow

  26-12-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The nonprofit organization New 42, which earned a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theater this year, continues to pave the way for a revitalized Times Square.
  
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• 6 Comedy Specials to Get You Through the Holidays

  26-12-2025 11:02 via nytimes.com
  For very different reasons, new hours from Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Kathleen Madigan, George Civeris and Jay Jurden are worth your time.
  
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• All the Cameos in ‘Marty Supreme,’ From Kevin O’Leary to Tyler, the Creator

  26-12-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  A “Shark Tank” investor, a supermarket magnate and even N.B.A. All-Stars make appearances in the table tennis comedy.
  
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• ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash' | Anatomy of a Scene

  26-12-2025 10:50 via nytimes.com
  James Cameron narrates a sequence from his film.
  
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• 28 Years Later to The Phoenician Scheme: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

  26-12-2025 10:00
  The thrilling zombie saga returns with Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes trying to protect the remnants of humanity. Plus: the new Wes Anderson – and Austin Butler as ElvisDanny Boyle and Alex Garland’s zombie-like horror saga returns – 18 years later – with the first in a trilogy set in a Britain quarantined from the rest of Europe. Rather than being all running and dying (though there is a fair bit of that), this one follows humanity as it tries to protect the remnants of c
  
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• What Christina Hall, Rachel Bilson & More Have Shared on Co-Parenting

  26-12-2025 09:00 via eonline.com
  Putting the co- in co-parenting isn’t always easy.
  And sometimes, it takes a while for exes to fall into a rhythm. However, figuring out these family dynamics can be worth it. Just ask Christina...
  
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• Boxing Day TV: oh yes it does! The Masked Singer goes full panto

  26-12-2025 07:20
  A Christmas special of the most berserk singing show on screen. Plus: Helen Mirren pops into The Repair Shop. Here’s what to watch this evening7.30pm, ITV1The most wonderfully bizarre singing contest is back for a festive special – and some panto icons have been called in to help the judges. Su Pollard, Christopher Biggins, Lesley Joseph and Basil Brush will give clues about which celebrities are singing behind the masks. Instead of “Take it off” there will surely be shou
  
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• Stranger Things to Y Crwydryn: the seven best shows to stream this week

  26-12-2025 07:00
  Expect a fan-serving finale as the much-loved series wraps things up, plus a poetic odyssey through Wales that’s a melancholy treat As this much-loved sci-fi thriller reaches its endgame, it seems to have narrowed its scope. The town of Hawkins – which was already under quarantine and military rule after the events of season four – now feels more isolated than ever as traces of Vecna spill out. Meanwhile, with Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven on the run, the odds are stacked a
  
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• ‘Bob Odenkirk called to check on me after he saw it’: Rhea Seehorn on the intensity of making hit show Pluribus

  26-12-2025 07:00
  The star has hit the big time as a total grump in her new Apple TV drama – no mean feat, given how delightful she is. She talks Lego therapy, freaking out her Better Call Saul co-star and her frustration with the Guardian crosswordRhea Seehorn has had a hell of a year. For years she had garnered a reputation as a great underappreciated talent, but that has all changed now thanks to Pluribus. A series about one of the only people on Earth not to have their minds taken over by an alien virus
  
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• The Lowdown review – Ethan Hawke’s new drama is hilariously poignant

  26-12-2025 06:00
  The actor plays a ‘truthstorian’ trying to uncover how a powerful man’s death came about. Brace yourself for a hugely funny, all-American wild goose chase!Lee Raybon (Ethan Hawke) is a “truthstorian”. How to explain that proudly self-applied title? A historian, but also an investigative journalist with an inherent distrust of mainstream narratives? A maker of trouble for trouble’s sake? Or one of those fantasists whose home contains a huge mood board (current
  
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• Stranger Things season five vol 2 review – the fact that this isn’t unbearable is a miracle

  26-12-2025 02:00
  Yes, the kids are now 90% Adam’s apple. Yes, Winona Ryder has been unforgivably sidelined. And yes, some characters are trapped in a room filling with yoghurt. But despite our misgivings, this show still absolutely slapsListen, this isn’t the place for newcomers. Stranger Things has been around for almost a decade, and it has spent almost all this time building a mythology that has grown so unwieldy that trying to explain it would cost me my wordcount and my will to live.However, in
  
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• Ryan Seacrest Wishes His Late Father a "Merry Heavenly Christmas"

  26-12-2025 01:14 via eonline.com
  Ryan Seacrest is remembering his dad Gary Lee Seacrest.
  The American Idol host—who shared that his father died after a yearslong battle with prostate cancer in October—opened up about how he spent...
  
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• Jordyn Woods & NBA Star Karl-Anthony Towns Are Engaged

  25-12-2025 23:50 via eonline.com
  Karl-Anthony Towns has found his teammate for life in Jordyn Woods.
  The NBA player and model confirmed their engagement in adorable photos after five years of dating. In the Dec. 25 announcement,...
  
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• Kelly Osbourne Marks First Christmas After Ozzy Osbourne's Death

  25-12-2025 23:29 via eonline.com
  The Osbournes are finding some holiday cheer.
  During the family’s first Christmas since Ozzy Osbourne’s death, wife Sharon Osbourne and daughter Kelly Osbourne teamed up to bring their extended...
  
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• Love Is Blind's Alexa Lemieux, Brennon Lemieux Reunite for Christmas

  25-12-2025 23:08 via eonline.com
  Alexa Lemieux and Brennon Lemieux are putting their love for their child first.
  The exes, who met and wed on Love is Blind in 2021, spent Christmas Day together with their daughter Vienna, 16,...
  
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• Amandaland Christmas special review – Jennifer Saunders is sublime in this Ab Fab reunion

  25-12-2025 22:45
  The TV legend is back on screen with Joanna Lumley for a brilliant guest role in the Motherland spinoff. It’s all off to Aunt Joan’s mansion for a beautifully bittersweet festive taleCan this really be the first Amandaland Christmas special? Surely it’s the third, or 13th. Wasn’t Felicity Kendal in one, tutting? Didn’t David Jason turn up in another with a subplot about plumbing tucked under his arm, and everyone complained about the size of his turducken?It has bee
  
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• The Great Christmas Bake Off review – there’s something very soothing about this Peep Show reunion

  25-12-2025 22:15
  It’s so nice to have the old gang back together – yes, even Olivia Colman. They’re all clearly still friendly, which makes for seasonal TV that’s exactly as comforting as it should beIt’s 22 years since Peep Show began its nine-season run. God, weren’t we all happier then? With the possible exception, ironically, of its beleaguered leads Mark (David Mitchell) and Jez (Robert Webb) – though whether Jez, who made the average whelk look like a philosopher k
  
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• Hoda Kotb & Ex Joel Schiffman Reunite for Christmas with Daughters

  25-12-2025 22:05 via eonline.com
  Hoda Kotb and ex Joel Schiffman are co-parenting goals.
  The former Today co-anchor, who ended her tenure on the morning show in January, shared a sweet family photo on Christmas morning that...
  
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• Christmas 2025: How Selena Gomez and More Celebrities Are Celebrating

  25-12-2025 21:54 via eonline.com
  'Tis the season for celebration.
  Many stars got into the festive spirit this Christmas, working harder than Santa Claus' elves to deck the halls for the Dec. 25 holiday.
  "Christmas for me starts...
  
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• Sunny Nights review – Will Forte and D’Arcy Carden’s sassy Australian comedy is criminally good fun

  25-12-2025 20:00
  Despite a comedic surface, this playful romp is fundamentally a crime story that is less concerned with plausibility than having a good timeGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThis very entertaining and sassy new series starring Will Forte and The Good Place’s D’Arcy Carden joins a long line of productions about foreigners setting up shop in Australia. Things often don’t go well for outsiders attempting to make good down under —but unlike John Grant in Wake in Frig
  
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• ‘Pure magic!’ Farewell Tess and Claudia, the power couple who were Strictly’s life and soul

  25-12-2025 19:45
  The trailblazing female duo’s days of effortlessly holding the BBC dance competition together are over. They open up on the joy of working togetherFor the past 21 years, there has been only one ever-present on Strictly Come Dancing. It’s not dancer-turned-judge Anton du Beke, who usually got knocked out of the contest early. It’s not the panel’s panto villain, Craig Revel Horwood, who might be the longest-serving judge but took sick leave after testing positive for Covid
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2025 – live

  25-12-2025 18:00
  Happy Christmas, glitterati! Tissues at the ready for Tess and Claud’s last hurrah. Join us for every minute of this tinsel-strewn tearjerkerSeason’s greetings, hoofing fans. Michael here – I hope you’re all enjoying some comfort, joy and purple ones from the Quality Street. You might just be weeping into the tin soon, because the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special promises to be a tinsel-adorned tearjerker.Yes, today’s edition is one for the history books: it&
  
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• See the Kardashian-Jenners Celebrate Christmas 2025

  25-12-2025 17:48 via eonline.com
  It's time to deck the halls of Calabasas. 
  Indeed, the Kardashian-Jenner family kicked off their elaborate holiday celebrations on Dec. 24, getting into the festive spirit with their annual...
  
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• Prince William and Kate Middleton's 3 Kids Steal the Show at Christmas

  25-12-2025 16:14 via eonline.com
  Kate Middleton and Prince William's kids came to sleigh.
  Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7, stole the show as the royal family made their way to their annual Christmas...
  
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• Anthropologie Dropped Last-Minute Gifts & Ski Jackets Starting at $9

  25-12-2025 16:00 via eonline.com
  Anthropologie clearly understands the assignment, because its holiday sale is coming in hot with luxe gifts and winter staples starting at $9, plus an extra 50% off that makes everything feel even...
  
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• Amy Schumer, Jelly Roll & More Celeb Transformations of 2025

  25-12-2025 16:00 via eonline.com
  A lot can change in a year.
  While 2025 saw its fair share of celebrity heartbreaks and happiness, many stars underwent physical transformations as well as emotional. Take Amy Schumer, who embarked...
  
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• Celebs' Real Names Revealed: Meghan Markle, Katy Perry and More

  25-12-2025 14:00 via eonline.com
  What's in a name? A lot, according to these stars.
  After all, a unique moniker sticks in the mind better than a catchy jingle. Take Miley Cyrus, who was born Destiny Hope Cyrus but adopted a stage...
  
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• Best Holiday Gifts on Oprah’s Favorite Things 2025 List Are on Sale

  25-12-2025 14:00 via eonline.com
  There's only one list out there that we're checking twice, and it's Oprah Winfrey's Favorite Things (sorry Santa).
  The talk show icon's curated list of must-have products is always full of...
  
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• How Marriage Changed Madison Chock, Evan Bates' on-Ice Partnership

  25-12-2025 13:00 via eonline.com
  Evan Bates and Madison Chock are dancing through a new chapter outside of the rink.
  Following their back-to-back World Championship wins in 2023 and 2024, the ice dancers celebrated another major...
  
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• How Eminem's Daughter Hailie Jade Is Adjusting to Motherhood

  25-12-2025 12:00 via eonline.com
  For Hailie Jade McClintock, it's been a year of losing herself in the moment.
  Eminem's daughter welcomed son Elliot Marshall McClintock on March 14, her first child with husband Evan McClintock....
  
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• ‘No Other Choice’ Review: A Company Man Cut Loose

  25-12-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Park Chan-wook, the director of “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden,” brings comedic flair to the cruel tale of an employee pushed to the brink.
  
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• From The Gruffalo to Tabby McTat: Julia Donaldson’s TV adaptations ... from best to worst

  25-12-2025 10:00
  Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s heartwarming kids’ tales have become a cosy festive fixture on the BBC. Ahead of this year’s offering of The Scarecrows’ Wedding, we ask: which is the all-time Christmas cracker?They’re now as much a part of the Christmas Day schedules as the monarch’s boring speech and a bafflingly popular Mrs Brown’s Boys special. Animated adaptations of the picture books by author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler have
  
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• Celeb Godparents Revealed: Taylor Swift, Macaulay Culkin & More

  25-12-2025 09:00 via eonline.com
  These celebrities were made an offer they just couldn't refuse.
  One of the biggest decisions some parents make is selecting who will be their child's godparents, the two (or potentially more)...
  
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• Christmas Day TV: Olivia Colman and the Peep Show gang do Bake Off

  25-12-2025 07:15
  What chaos will Super Hans cause in the tent? Plus, calling all Ab Fab fans: Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley are back together! Here’s what to watch today8pm, Channel 4“I kind of assumed someone would do it for us.” Nope, Olivia Colman. Even Oscar winners have to muck in on Bake Off. This fun special reunites the main cast of Peep Show (minus Robert Webb) to conjure up shortbread, turkey pies and famous scenes from the sitcom rendered in cake. Sadly, barbecued dogs don&rsqu
  
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• ‘Wouldn’t it be lovely if I could shut up?’ Meet Lola Petticrew, TV’s most fearless actor

  25-12-2025 07:00
  The award-winning star of Say Nothing and Trespasses refuses to play the fame game when they can fight government inaction. They open up on making amazing TV … and why morals matter more than nice handbagsFew people are less daunted about the prospect of turning 30 than Lola Petticrew. “I used to be so afraid of getting old, and now I just think it’s the best thing ever,” they say. “I feel like I’m just coming into myself. And it feels fucking amazing. I thin
  
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• Spotify, Live Nation and the role of the music industry baddie

  25-12-2025 06:00
  The business of selling music has always been a source of grievance for those who create it
  
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• Our Fave Fashion Trends of 2025 That You Can Still Style for 2026

  25-12-2025 03:00 via eonline.com
  2026 is coming up fast, but before you declare it's "a new year and a new you," there might just be a few things from 2025 worth hanging onto.
  There are a few standout fashion trends we haven't...
  
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• Kourtney Kardashian & Travis Barker's Luxury Gifts to Alabama Revealed

  25-12-2025 01:33 via eonline.com
  Alabama Barker is getting blinged out.
  Travis Barker's daughter rang in her 20th birthday on Dec. 24 with a haul of eye-popping luxury presents, posting a photo of a carful of Chanel and Louboutin...
  
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• Athleta's Semi-Annual Sale Has Tons of 70% Leggings & More

  25-12-2025 01:00 via eonline.com
  Now that the holidays are (almost) over and you're done shopping for everyone else in your life, it's time to refocus your attention to who really matters—yourself!
  Athleta dropped its semi-annual...
  
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• Inside Olivia Culpo's Christmas With Her & Christian McCaffrey’s Baby

  25-12-2025 00:27 via eonline.com
  Olivia Culpo is getting into position for Christmas. 
  The model gave a glimpse inside her and husband Christian McCaffrey’s first holiday season since welcoming their baby girl Colette. And...
  
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• Two Doors Down Christmas Special review – festive larks with TV’s most hilarious monsters

  24-12-2025 23:35
  The Glasgow-set sitcom is back after two years … and the highlight is Cathy losing any semblance of civility, flirting aggressively then calling Eric a ‘big stupid donkey’. Happy holidays! Sitcoms aren’t meant to go anywhere: the default setting is one location full of characters who keep resetting to zero. Few have followed that rule as faithfully as Two Doors Down, a low-key comedy set on a middle-class close on the outskirts of Glasgow and focusing on retirement-age c
  
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• Nicole Kidman Shows Off Natural Curls on Outing With Daughters

  24-12-2025 23:34 via eonline.com
  Nicole Kidman's natural hair is practically magic. 
  The Big Little Lies star rocked her gorgeous curly hair while stepping out for a Christmas Eve party in Sydney, Australia, alongside her and...
  
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• The Room in the Tower: A Ghost Story for Christmas review – Tobias Menzies is perfect in Mark Gatiss’s spooky tale

  24-12-2025 23:30
  The understated lead in this year’s creepy festive drama is ideal for the whispered dread it drips with. Be warned, though: it verges on horror – young kids may well be terrifiedIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a family gathered around a roaring yuletide screen must be in want of a ghost story. Since 1968, therefore (or a couple of years earlier, depending on whether you count the precursor Whistle and I’ll Come to You, directed by Jonathan Miller – and who am
  
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• Bed Sheets That Make Your Room Feel Like a Hotel – Yes, Really!

  24-12-2025 23:00 via eonline.com
  New Year, new sheets! Why not take 2026 as a sign that you should give your bed a makeover, starting with a fresh set of sheets?
  The best sheets won't have you overheating through the night, are...
  
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• Will Arnett Slams “S--t” Rumors About His Bond With Ex Amy Poehler

  24-12-2025 22:41 via eonline.com
  Will Arnett’s bond with Amy Poehler isn’t a bad case of arrested development. 
  As the former couple—who got divorced in 2012 after nine years of marriage—continue to prove they’re on good terms,...
  
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• David & Victoria Beckham Celebrate Christmas Amid Brooklyn Drama

  24-12-2025 22:41 via eonline.com
  David Beckham and Victoria Beckham are getting in the Christmas spirit.
  Amid an apparent estrangement from their son Brooklyn Beckham, the former Spice Girls star shared how the family is...
  
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• Kate Middleton Shares Touching Christmas Message After Difficult Year

  24-12-2025 22:35 via eonline.com
  Kate Middleton is expressing her gratitude for all that life has to offer.
  The Princess of Wales—who is mom to kids Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7, with husband...
  
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• Finding Father Christmas review – Lenny Rush and James Buckley’s chemistry is just wonderful

  24-12-2025 22:00
  The father-and-dad pair are a total delight in this tale of a 16-year-old trying to prove Santa’s existence. They deserve a whole new episode togetherIn an era in which it is now an annual tradition for the US streaming giants to put out bland paint-by-algorithm holiday movies, there is something rather satisfying about the oddball British Christmas stand-alone special. The ingredients tend to be as follows: appearances by the year’s favourite comic actors; niche cultural references,
  
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