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• Comically chaotic chat with no boundaries: best podcasts of the week

  03-08-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Fern Brady and Alison Spittle return for natter with no rules. Plus, the viral red phone is back on the bridgeComedians Fern Brady and Alison Spittle return for a second series of comically chaotic chat. Expect plenty of wildly pinballing discussions with no theme other than what pops into their heads. Topics so far include Robert De Niro’s much younger partner, podcasts about nuns playing ultimate frisbee – and Brady on how “so many of Bonnie Blue’s views are so close to
  
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• TV tonight: Strictly’s Amy Dowden and Carlos Gu join Celebrity Hunted

  03-08-2026 07:20 via theguardian.com
  The hit survival show returns with a group of famous faces. Plus: Sally Magnusson remembers Mastermind. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 4 Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Hadestown’ Parts Ways With Geno Segers After Transgender Comments Surface

  03-08-2026 00:46 via nytimes.com
  Geno Segers was set to join the production with an all-new principal cast in September.
  
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• Richard E Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey review – far more thrilling than the Christopher Nolan borefest

  02-08-2026 22:00 via theguardian.com
  The actor gobbles up food, roars with glee and finds himself deeply moved in this four-part travelogue inspired by the journey of Homer’s hero. It’s a real success of a showHere comes Richard E Grant, pounding towards us in his tiny leather jacket as he gesticulates wildly at his cobbled surrounds. “Wow,” he gasps. “Look at that.” We look at that. It’s Malta. Specifically, Malta’s Grand Harbour: a sobbingly beautiful gateway to the Mediterranean an
  
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• ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Heads for $875 Million Opening at Global Box Office

  02-08-2026 18:48 via nytimes.com
  The Sony Pictures movie, the 11th big-budget Spider-Man blockbuster since 2002, was on pace to have one of the biggest domestic first weekends ever.
  
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• Morgan Freeman Interview: On “Lioness” and His Iconic Voice

  02-08-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The 89-year-old actor returns for the third season of “Lioness,” and he still can’t understand the fuss over his voice.
  
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• TV tonight: Richard E Grant on his obsession with The Odyssey

  02-08-2026 07:15 via theguardian.com
  The actor is a charismatic tour guide as he follows in Homer’s footsteps. Plus: Amsterdam cop Van Der Valk is back. Here’s what to watch this evening8pm, Channel 4 Continue reading...
  
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• A ‘Death of a Salesman,’ Edged in Darkness

  02-08-2026 06:01 via nytimes.com
  Every Broadway production of “Death of a Salesman” has its distinguishing features. Willy Loman’s Chevrolet is a powerful character in the latest production.
  
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• The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Disney+, AMC+, Apple TV and More in August

  01-08-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  “Ted Lasso” returns, and “The Shards” and a documentary about Novak Djokovic also arrive.
  
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• Best Movies and Shows Streaming in August 2026: ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Lioness’ and More

  01-08-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  “Ted Lasso” returns, and “The Shards” and a documentary about Novak Djokovic also arrive.
  
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• 14 Off Broadway Shows (and 1 Festival) to Elevate Your August

  01-08-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Bridget Everett, Patti LuPone, Alex Moffat, Ben Folds and Michael R. Jackson are all slated to perform on New York City stages this month.
  
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• Greta Lee Has a New Appreciation for Martha Stewart

  01-08-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  “I mean, here she is, tending her garden in such a physical and athletic way in her short shorts,” the actress said. “That’s how I do it.”
  
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• Can Spider-Man Evolve Again in ‘Brand New Day’?

  01-08-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Our movie critic Alissa Wilkinson reviews “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” in which the titular hero must grapple with his new, unwanted powers, along with the weight of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  
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• Alley Cats: Ricky Gervais is back with a boorish, sweary comedy – and I didn’t laugh once

  01-08-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Animated cats banter tediously in a show that’s determined to shock, but which leaves you checking your watch to see how long is left. It’s lazy, dated and far too pleased with itselfAccording to multiverse theory, there are parallel realities in which news of a new Ricky Gervais project instils a feeling other than dread. But we don’t live in them. Having seen his new series, Alley Cats (Netflix, from Friday 7 August), a boorish banter-vehicle in which animated cats shoot the
  
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• TV tonight: a perfect finale for French super-soldier thriller The Sentinels

  01-08-2026 07:15 via theguardian.com
  The first world war drama has been a thrill throughout. Plus, the uneasy story of the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Here’s everything to watch this evening9.50pm, BBC Four Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Project Hail Mary’ and More Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now

  31-07-2026 17:00 via nytimes.com
  From the Ryan Gosling hit “Project Hail Mary” to the psychosexual alien rom-com “Touch Me,” explore this month’s eclectic picks.
  
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• Boy George Pulled From ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Days After Posting Pro-Israel Reggae Song

  31-07-2026 15:09 via nytimes.com
  Boy George’s manager said he was pulling the singer from a role in “Jesus Christ Superstar” in “the best interests of my artist.”
  
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• Alien erotica, football coaching and making Meryl Streep cry: Ted Lasso’s new star Tanya Reynolds opens up

  31-07-2026 14:00 via theguardian.com
  She lit up screens as Sex Education’s steamy sci-fi writer, wowed Streep in the West End and now she’s starring in the return of TV’s feelgood footie hit. Thestar talks about pretending to be sporty – and why she’s a total cheese stringBy the time its third season came to an end in 2023, Ted Lasso was a Big Deal. The cosy comedy about an indefatigably positive American football coach gee-whizzing his way into the hearts of a London football team had won 13 Emmys and
  
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• Universal Music shares plunge by a quarter on streaming growth fears

  31-07-2026 12:40 via ft.com
  Potential impact of AI-generated songs also weighs on the world’s largest music group
  
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• Can the Gritty ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Save the Superhero Movie?

  31-07-2026 11:02 via nytimes.com
  The newest entry in the franchise took a more grounded approach, a departure for a spectacle-focused genre that is teetering at the box office.
  
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• Flaco on Film (Along With the Community the Owl Inspired)

  31-07-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  “Wild Inside” starts off with the director Penny Lane’s characteristic curiosity and winds up being a collective tribute to a bird and his city.
  
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• Broadway Shows Closing Soon: ‘Death of a Salesman,’ ‘Ragtime’ and More

  31-07-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Catch these Tony Award winners and nominees before the curtain comes down on them for a final time.
  
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• Mayoral scrutiny is a pressing issue

  31-07-2026 10:30 via ft.com
  As Burnham devolves power, remember much of the country lacks Manchester’s media ecosystem
  
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• Heretic to Love Me: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

  31-07-2026 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Hugh Grant gives a gleeful, career-best performance in A24’s terrifying horror, while Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star in a fun post-apocalyptic love storySophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets) and Chloe East (The Fabelmans) play a pair of unworldly Mormon missionaries who arrive at the door of an avuncular Englishman hoping to make a new convert. That Englishman, however, is played by Hugh Grant – once a foppish romcom idol, now deep into his villain era – and what at first seems
  
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• Ted Lasso to Monsters of God: the seven best shows to stream this week

  31-07-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Jason Sudeikis’ football coach turns his hand to the women’s game. Plus, a wild new documentary from the maker of Tiger King – about exotic animal smugglingAre we still in the mood for football with a side order of ripe American cheese? In the light of reservations about the recent World Cup (and, particularly, the final’s half-time show featuring Ted Lasso), it’s certainly up for debate. The premise of this fourth series is “back to basics” – whic
  
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• TV tonight: a great comedy drama about a flawed Muslim American

  31-07-2026 07:20 via theguardian.com
  Ramy Youssef’s excellent show finally returns to UK terrestrial TV. Plus: a post-apocalyptic origin story. Here’s what to watch this evening12.10am, Channel 4
  Four years on from its release, the third season of Ramy Youssef’s great comedy drama about a deeply flawed Muslim American gets a UK terrestrial airing. The good news is that it has aged rather brilliantly: in particular, the second episode of this double bill featuring a disastrous Tinder date. Hannah J Davies Continue
  
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• Don’t Date Brandon review – this lazy true-crime show doesn’t start to do justice to these women’s horrors

  31-07-2026 00:00 via theguardian.com
  The tale of the women who came together to unpick the destructive swathe that one man cut through his local dating pool is woefully lacking in the detail you need to understand their plight. It feels voyeuristic and misguidedI’m beginning to suspect that the feminist movement is operating a covert psyops wing. I like to think that this is the motive force behind the slew of true-crime documentaries that show us, time and again, what bad men do and how they go about it. Perhaps the repeated
  
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• Ronald G. Davis, a Mime Who Spoke Out, Dies at 92

  30-07-2026 18:29 via nytimes.com
  At the height of the psychedelic era, he guided the very vocal San Francisco Mime Troupe’s pointed satire of American militarism, racism and bourgeois values.
  
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• Train’s Pat Monahan “Blown Away” by Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce Wedding

  30-07-2026 18:00 via eonline.com
  
  Pat Monahan is thrilled he didn’t miss a single thing about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding. 
  Less than a month after the couple tied the knot with a star-studded party at Madison Square...
  
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• ‘Jimmy’ Review: Inhabiting the World of a Young James Baldwin

  30-07-2026 17:52 via nytimes.com
  The director Yashaddai Owens took his Bolex film camera to Istanbul and Paris to show glimpses of the gifted author before he became a literary quasar.
  
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• Ben Affleck Reacts to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Grand Prize Win

  30-07-2026 17:18 via eonline.com
  
  Ben Affleck is celebrating his glory daze.  
  Indeed, the Academy Award winner is adding another achievement on his long list of accolades: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire champion.
  The 53-year-old...
  
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• Sneak Peek: Disney Store's Disney Villains Collection

  30-07-2026 17:00 via eonline.com
  
  Disney Store has tricks up their sleeve coming soon! If you just can't wait to see what's arriving soon we've got an exclusive first look at the new Disney Villains collection landing...
  
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• Collin Gosselin Details Turning "Pain into Purpose" in Note to Himself

  30-07-2026 16:55 via eonline.com
  
  Collin Gosselin is looking back at his childhood.
  As the Jon & Kate Plus 8 alum prepares for the release of his upcoming memoir Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood—detailing his...
  
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• What Jonathan Taylor Thomas Has Been Doing Since Leaving Hollywood

  30-07-2026 16:46 via eonline.com
  
  It wasn't just Jonathan Taylor Thomas' fans who were left wanting more when he popped up on Tim Allen's sitcom Last Man Standing.
  In fact, for years his Home Improvement dad sounded optimistic...
  
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• Cardi B Addresses Plastic Surgery, Butt Injection Reversal Rumors

  30-07-2026 15:40 via eonline.com
  
  Cardi B likes her body like that. 
  Responding to recent comments about her figure, the 33-year-old addressed speculation that she had undergone more plastic surgery after previously removing most...
  
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• Tom Holland Makes Cheeky Comment About "Wife" Zendaya in Spider-Man

  30-07-2026 15:29 via eonline.com
  
  Tom Holland can't help but marvel at his favorite actress.
  After all, the Spider-Man: Brand New Day star spotlighted his wife and costar Zendaya as he and Seth Meyers detailed their respective...
  
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• A Historian Considers the Yuppie

  30-07-2026 14:42 via nytimes.com
  “We live in the world we inherited from them,” the author Dylan Gottlieb says.
  
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• Jonathan Taylor Thomas Seen in Extremely Rare Photo

  30-07-2026 13:54 via eonline.com
  
  Jonathan Taylor Thomas’ latest sighting would be hard to improve on. 
  The Home Improvement star, who stepped back from Hollywood in 2015, made an extremely rare appearance reuniting with former...
  
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• ‘I Want Your Sex’ Review: Working Out the Kinks With Your Boss

  30-07-2026 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Cooper Hoffman and Olivia Wilde explore a tie-me-up, turn-me-on relationship in Gregg Araki’s jolly sex comedy.
  
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• ‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’ Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Satisfying Whodunit

  30-07-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs a satisfying period piece about the tense collaboration between a lord and a cunning envoy.
  
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• The Movies That Get Dancers on Their Feet

  30-07-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Savion Glover, Honey Balenciaga and other artists from the world of performance share their favorites, from era-defining musicals to art-house dramas.
  
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• It’s ‘Game of Thrones,’ on Shakespeare’s Stage

  30-07-2026 11:00 via nytimes.com
  As the hit series keeps expanding, an ambitious stage adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s prequel saga has found a natural home at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
  
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• TV tonight: the two women who made a podcast about their ex-partner’s lies

  30-07-2026 07:20 via theguardian.com
  
  True-crime show Don’t Date Brandon is a shocker. Plus: Harriet Walter delves into her Italian family heritage in Who Do You Think You Are? Here’s what to watch this evening10pm, Channel 4
  Amber Rasmussen thought Brandon Johnson was “the full package” when they met on Tinder. They quickly got engaged but there was one problem: his “crazy ex” Athena Klingerman was apparently making wild demands. As this three-part true-crime series shows, it was – shocker!
  
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• Piers Morgan: from journalist provocateur to YouTube mogul

  30-07-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The former newspaper editor is set on turning his ‘Uncensored’ show into an online media empire
  
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• George Clooney, Amal Clooney Evacuate Home in France Due to Wildfires

  30-07-2026 05:01 via eonline.com
  
  George Clooney and Amal Clooney are facing an unimaginable situation.
  Amid devastating wildfires spreading across Europe, the couple and their 9-year-old twins Alexander and Ella have evacuated...
  
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• Tom Selleck Reveals Drastic Blue Bloods Pay Cut

  30-07-2026 05:00 via eonline.com
  
  Tom Selleck is still feeling blue about how his longest-running series came to an end.  
  The Blue Bloods alum shared that the show's cast—which included costars Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan...
  
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• The Surprising Reason Emma Stone Was Cast in Crazy, Stupid, Love

  30-07-2026 03:34 via eonline.com
  
  Emma Stone's big move in her Crazy, Stupid, Love audition was to play it cool.
  In fact, the movie's directors, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, picked the Bugonia star for the part of Ryan Gosling's...
  
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• Sean "Diddy" Combs' Prison Release Date Moved Up After Prison Fight

  30-07-2026 03:21 via eonline.com
  
  Sean “Diddy” Combs experienced a change in his prison time. 
  The rapper—who was recently sent to solitary confinement following a fight with a fellow inmate—had his release date changed from Feb....
  
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• Michael Strahan Reacts to Criticism of His NFL Alum Interview on ALS

  30-07-2026 03:09 via eonline.com
  
  Michael Strahan is ready to tackle the criticism he received for a recent interview.
  The Good Morning America anchor clapped back at viewers who called him out for not asking former NFL star Chris...
  
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• Paige Lorenze & More Slam "No Influencers" Sign in Nantucket Store

  30-07-2026 02:32 via eonline.com
  
  Get ready for a clapback.
  Content creators such as Paige Lorenze are calling out the owners of Four Winds Craft Guild—an antiques shop in Nantucket, Mass., specializing in handwoven baskets and...
  
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