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• Kiss Me First review – in this ambitious teen drama there’s trouble in digital paradise. Sound familiar?

  02-04-2018 23:59 via theguardian.com
  Bryan Elsley, co-creator of Skins, returns with a promising and uncomfortably prescient sci-fi series in which only donning a virtual reality headset can take away the pain of real lifeLoneliness, social media, identity in the digital age, paranoia, endlessly crappy weather… sound familiar? Kiss Me First (Channel 4, 10pm), a Channel 4/Netflix teen drama mixing live action and computer graphics (CG) by Skins co-creator Bryan Elsley, may be set in the near future, but watching it in the ast
  
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• Modern Television Wouldn’t Exist Without Steven Bochco

  02-04-2018 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  TV evolved because of Steven Bochco.The writer-producer, who died Sunday morning of leukemia at 74, was the mastermind behind a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, and Doogie Howser, M.D. He won multiple Emmys and Peabody awards, the Humanities Prize, and countless other honors, and incidentally ran a series...More »
  
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• The CW Renews Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Jane the Virgin, and 8 More Shows

  02-04-2018 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The CW is confident in its programming slate, so much so that the network just announced it will renew ten of its current shows. That means fans can now plan for more Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Riverdale, Supergirl, Supernatural, Black Lightning, Dynasty, and yes, Jane the Virgin and...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Jesus Christ Superstar,’ an Old Story for (Yet Another) New Millennium

  02-04-2018 20:54 via nytimes.com
  Led by the R&B hitmaker John Legend, NBC’s live, multicultural telecast of the early-1970s musical was a conceptual and artistic triumph.
  
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• Roseanne Just Broke a Ratings Record

  02-04-2018 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Roseanne continues to Make ABC Great Again: More people have now seen the sitcom’s extended-length return than watched the 2018 Oscars. Per Nielsen, Tuesday’s season-ten premiere — which drew 18.5 million same-day viewers— added 6.6 million viewers via three days of DVR replays and streaming, the biggest total viewer growth...More »
  
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• Review: Betting on a Rooster in ‘No One Writes to the Colonel’

  02-04-2018 20:41 via nytimes.com
  Repertorio Español delivers an intimate, transporting adaptation of the Gabriel García Márquez novella.
  
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• Meek Mill Judge Won’t Step Down, Denies Request to Reconsider His Sentence

  02-04-2018 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The ongoing saga of Meek Mill’s court case trudges forward. Despite indications last month that the rapper could potentially be released from jail earlier than expected, the judge presiding over his case, Genece E. Brinkley, has rejected a request to reconsider his current sentence. Per the New York Daily News,...More »
  
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• Review: Ancient Greece Meets Modern Feminism in Ms. Estrada

  02-04-2018 20:00
  The Q Brothers Collective collaborates with the Bats in this updated spin on Aristophanes.
  
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• We should treasure Bill Maynard’s serious side | Brief letters

  02-04-2018 19:05 via theguardian.com
  Bill Maynard | Brexit | Paying your keep | Killer sudokuYou rightly praise Bill Maynard (Obituary, 31 March) for his splendid comedy acting but he was also excellent in serious roles. His performance in Colin Welland’s marvellous play Kisses at Fifty (1973), where he played a middle-aged man leaving his wife for a younger woman was an acting performance to treasure.
  Richard Loder
  Manchester• Timothy Garton Ash (Just six months to foil Brexit, 30 March) is content to ignore the reality
  
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• The Pilot for The Crossing Is Trying to Be the Next Lost

  02-04-2018 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Given TV’s current love affair with reincarnating old shows, it’s surprising that Lost hasn’t gotten a reboot yet. In a way, though, it has, thanks to The Crossing, a new mystery-thriller that ABC is promoting in commercials that note the series comes “from the network that brought you Lost.”It’s obvious why Disney’s...More »
  
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• Steven Bochco: the cop show pioneer who paved the way for The Wire

  02-04-2018 18:38 via theguardian.com
  With its swaggering, chaotic style, Bochco’s hit drama Hill Street Blues revolutionised TV and inspired a generation of showrunnersSteven Bochco, Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue creator, dies at 74Steven Bochco, who has died aged 74, enjoyed a career which spanned almost half a century of American TV drama. He began his working life at Universal Pictures in his mid-20s, working on such staple procedural fare as Ironside and McMillan & Wife, as well as writing the Columbo episode Murder
  
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• Meet the Women Who Will Testify Against Bill Cosby

  02-04-2018 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the judge in the Bill Cosby felony sexual-assault trial said that he would allow 5 out of a potential pool of 19 accusers to take the stand, it was a huge blow to the defense. Even though all of the allegations against Cosby predate the #MeToo movement, the decision...More »
  
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• NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Set a New Standard for Live Musicals

  02-04-2018 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  NBC’s live production of Jesus Christ Superstar was pitched to audiences as a “Live in Concert” version, which led some to expect a straightforward performance of the songs. It turned out to be an inventively staged production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock-and-roll gospel, so passionately imagined that it set a new standard...More »
  
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• The Case of Stormy Daniels vs. Donald J. Trump Gets a New Witness: Seth Rogen

  02-04-2018 17:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2018, the name Stormy Daniels might be synonymous with Donald Trump and Shark Week, but more than a decade ago, the prolific porn star and director was working in a somewhat different type of film industry. Daniels appeared alongside Seth Rogen and his merry band of bros in the...More »
  
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• EU attack on pro-Kremlin ‘fake news’ takes a hit

  02-04-2018 17:09 via ft.com
  Dutch dispute highlights problems facing anti-propaganda campaign
  
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• Join New York City’s Biggest Book Club

  02-04-2018 16:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment announced the return of One Book, One New York, a citywide initiative that brings book-loving New Yorkers together to read the same book at the same time. This year’s campaign, in partnership with New York Magazine and Vulture, includes five candidate titles, each...More »
  
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• John Oliver Compares Sinclair News Anchors to Members of a ‘Brainwashed Cult’

  02-04-2018 16:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Oliver has already preached about the dangers of local news stations becoming a cesspool of conservative agendas, but even that didn’t prepare Last Week Tonight for the recent developments surrounding the Sinclair Broadcast Group. Last week, the company forced dozens of anchors to recite propaganda about one-sided news stories...More »
  
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• Theater News: Rachel Bay Jones and Steven Pasquale to Announce Lortel Award Nominations

  02-04-2018 16:00
  The Lortel Awards will be hosted by Laura Benanti and Jason Jones.
  
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• Edie Falco and Jay Duplass Are Terrific in Outside In

  02-04-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Outside In is a love story featuring a great variety of loves. It’s the story of an ex-con (Jay Duplass) who returns to his small Washington hometown after 20 years in prison, bringing back his personal effects and a huge torch for his high-school teacher Carol (Edie Falco), who advocated...More »
  
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• Help Us Pick This Summer’s Must-Read Book

  02-04-2018 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the second year in a row, New Yorkers* will all be reading one book together, and Vulture is happy to play the role of binding agent. We’ve joined with NYC’s Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment to present this year’s “One Book, One New York,” a citywide program encouraging...More »
  
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• Watch Sterling K. Brown Get Interrogated on Brooklyn Nine-Nine

  02-04-2018 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before he was a funny, intimidating cop on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Andre Braugher made a name for himself (and won an Emmy) by playing the serious, intimidating cop Frank Pemberton on Homicide: Life on the Street. Brooklyn Nine-Nine made a little homage to Homicide last night, as Andy Samberg and Andre...More »
  
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• The Iron Giant Is Ready to Tell Us Where He’s Been

  02-04-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Until the Iron Giant, star of 1999’s The Iron Giant, appeared in the trailer for Ready Player One this summer, I assumed he was missing. He was lost to us. But he was always with himself. And I wanted to know where that was.With Ready Player One in theaters this...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Potomac Season Premiere Recap: The Grand Dame

  02-04-2018 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  There have been a lot of grifters and liars in the Real Housewives game. There is no shortage of delusion and fantasy in the Housewives extended cinematic universe, but my goodness, Mrs. Karen Huger. The Grand Dame is now the Grand Dette. That’s “debt” in French. Plus there’s the arrival...More »
  
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• Theater News: August Wilson and David Yazbek to Be Honored at Chairman's Awards Gala

  02-04-2018 15:00
  Katrina Lenk and the musicians of The Band's Visit will perform in celebration of their composer.
  
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• The 25 Best Golden-Age Movie Musicals

  02-04-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  From the 1930s to the early 1950s, musicals dominated the big screen.The genre emerged alongside the invention of sound in the late 1920s thanks to the first full-length — and controversial — sound picture, The Jazz Singer (1927), and soon the sounds of singers and tap shoes were highlighting the...More »
  
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• Port Talbot’s once-grand Plaza cinema due for major revamp

  02-04-2018 14:58
  Derelict building where a young Richard Burton watched films may become community hubThe sad hulk of the Plaza in Port Talbot, an imposing listed, but derelict, cinema where local boys including Richard Burton, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen were regular filmgoers before going on to become Hollywood stars, could come back to life as a council-owned community hub – but not a cinema.The Plaza was built in 1939. A local landmark, it was Grade II listed in 1999 for its striking art-deco
  
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• The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season Finale Recap: The Exterminator and the Giant Roach

  02-04-2018 14:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  This finale provided us with some of the best images in Real Housewives history, chief among them – NeNe and Gregg Leakes dressed as an exterminator and a giant roach. It was a petty move of epic proportions – brilliant, hilarious, and when they cut to Gregg asleep in the...More »
  
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• American Idol Recap: Set Fire to the Meh

  02-04-2018 14:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  All hail the American Idol solo round. It’s the meatiest and most underrated part of the competition, an endless conveyer belt of auditions where underdogs skyrocket and front-runners trip over their egos and find themselves catapulted back to dinner theater in Celebration, Florida. We’ve got 742 auditions to analyze and...More »
  
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• The Last Movie Star Is a Banal Burt Reynolds Vehicle

  02-04-2018 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The (elderly) Burt Reynolds vehicle The Last Movie Star strikes a note of banality in its first sequence from which it rarely deviates. Wearing a face as stiff as a death mask, Reynolds’s faded action movie star Vic Edwards limps into a vet’s office where he learns that his 15-year-old...More »
  
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• When good TV goes bad: the time MTV Unplugged went nu-metal

  02-04-2018 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Whether a proving ground for nascent acts or an opportunity for the old guard to win new fans, the acoustic staple was unmissable. Until Korn showed upFrom Toys R Us to the state of Gary Lineker’s upper lip and chin, many things fared better in the 90s. This includes the acoustic performance show MTV Unplugged, which, for a while, showcased stripped-back and often surprising performances from a range of worthy musicians.It was where Nirvana offered up obscure cover versions and the adorabl
  
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• Photo Flash: Harry Connick Jr.-Led The Sting Begins Performances

  02-04-2018 14:00
  The world-premiere adaptation of the 1973 film runs through April 29 at Paper Mill Playhouse.
  
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• Weinstein accusers to speak with Ronan Farrow at Women in the World summit

  02-04-2018 13:51
  Asia Argento and Ambra Gutierrez will speak publicly for the first time about sexism in Italy and the effects of #MeTooTina Brown has revealed to the Guardian that, at her annual Women in the World summit later this month, Harvey Weinstein accusers Asia Argento and Ambra Battilana Gutierrez will appear on a panel with Ronan Farrow, one of the reporters who broke the story of the Hollywood producer’s sexual harassment in the New Yorker last fall.Argento, who has appeared in films such as La
  
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• Video Flash: Frozen Salutes Broadway History With Oklahoma! Birthday Celebration

  02-04-2018 12:00
  The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical premiered at the St. James Theatre 75 years ago.
  
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• Video Flash: Frozen, Margaritaville Salute Broadway History With Oklahoma! Birthday Celebration

  02-04-2018 12:00
  The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical premiered at the St. James Theatre 75 years ago.
  
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• Review: What's the Buzz About NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert?

  02-04-2018 11:00
  John Legend took on Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock score as Jesus in the Easter Sunday broadcast.
  
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• From Heathers to Thoroughbreds: what next for teen nihilism?

  02-04-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com
  In the wake of #NeverAgain and a generation of politicised youth, the mean-scheming adolescents found in films feel out of dateRelated: Heathers trailer: TV remake flirts clumsily with identity politics “This is Amanda: she feels nothing. This is Lily: she feels everything.” This is teenhood in a nutshell. And this is the crawl from the trailer of Thoroughbreds, a delightfully nasty new movie in which two privileged Connecticut schoolgirls hatch a plot to kill Lily’s stepdad. T
  
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• The Generation Game review – priapic symbolism and a conveyor belt? Yes, it’s the return of a family favourite

  02-04-2018 10:13 via theguardian.com
  This Easter Sunday resurrection of a BBC classic recaptures the original spirit of show – but has its time passed?And so, on Easter Sunday, The Generation Game rose from the dead again, in accordance with the schedules … Sunday! The Generation Game was always on a Saturday, no? Brucie will be turning in his grave. Larry Grayson, too … shut that door. Jim Davidson … well, let’s not talk about Jim Davidson.Mel’n’Sue are hosting this
  
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• From sofa to sunbed: holidaymakers can see British pay-TV abroad

  02-04-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Access to UK services begin for mainland Europe, but BBC still blockedHolidaymakers heading to mainland Europe this summer will be able to watch their favourite shows from back home for the first time, including live Premier League football, thanks to a freeing up of regulations allowing access to UK online TV services.From Monday, broadcasters including Sky, ITV and Amazon are allowing Britons on the continent to access their pay-TV subscriptions via online TV services Now TV, ITV Hub+ and Prim
  
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• Bard example: can Shakespeare translate to the small screen?

  02-04-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Television history is littered with sub-par adaptations, but with some big name numbers coming soon – including King Lear and Hamlet – the material is still too attractive to ignoreIt’s generally agreed that Shakespeare, if he were alive today, would wish to write for TV. But what exactly? Drama commissioners might feel his stage work hadn’t shown enough interest in the police procedural, except for a few comic cops in much ado about nothing. But seeing as 14 of his 37 pl
  
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• Monday’s best TV: Kiss Me First; Travel Man: 48 Hours in Brussels; Marcella

  02-04-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Tallulah Haddon stars in this frantic teen VR thriller, a joint production between Channel 4 and Netflix adapted by Skins creator Bryan Elsley10pm, Channel 4 Continue reading...
  
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• SoundCloud on track for growth after financial rescue

  02-04-2018 06:15 via ft.com
  User base rises in past three quarters as the music service focuses on new artists
  
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• Steven Bochco, creator of Hill Street Blues, dies at 74

  02-04-2018 05:27 via theguardian.com
  Bochco, who won 10 Emmy awards, created several hit TV shows including LA Law, NYPD Blue and Doogie Howser, MD.Steven Bochco, a writer and producer known for creating the groundbreaking police drama Hill Street Blues, died on Sunday. He was 74. A family spokesman says Bochco died in his sleep after a battle with cancer.
  Bochco, who won 10 Emmy awards, created several hit television shows including LA Law, NYPD Blue and Doogie Howser, MD. Continue reading...
  
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• Trust Recap: The Meanest Human Being I’ve Ever Met

  02-04-2018 05:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When you have everything you could dream of, what do you value? Nothing.” —John Paul Getty IIThe first episode of Trust focused heavily on John Paul Getty and his grandson, John Paul Getty III. In a parallel structure, the second episode introduces us to another pair of key players in...More »
  
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• Seth Rogen Sold Himself to Netflix (for April Fool’s Day)

  02-04-2018 05:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  ***EXCLUSIVE: NETFLIX ACQUIRES SETH ROGEN IN UNPRECEDENTED BUSINESS MOVE*** Netflix US (@netflix) April 1, 2018In addition to his signature laugh and physical appearance, Rogen reveals in the prank announcement video, Netflix legally claims the “ability to frame you for murder and rights to film a docuseries about that murder and...More »
  
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• Media moralist rails against Five Star-League deal for Italy

  02-04-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Editor of ‘Il Fatto Quotidiano’ warns anti-establishment party over coalition choices
  
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• Brendan Fraser Is Giving the Most Delightful Performance on TV Right Now

  02-04-2018 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the first episode of FX’s Trust, we are introduced to the show’s kaleidoscopic web of characters and the lavish, messed-up world they inhabit. We meet the curmudgeonly John Paul Getty Sr. (Donald Sutherland), the wealthiest man in the world, who has a harem and a lioness and a vast...More »
  
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• Billions Recap: Black Swan

  02-04-2018 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nothing makes an episode of Billions pop like a scheme: the high-wire tension of the initial Ice Juice play, followed by its equally-thrilling unravelling, or watching Axe squeeze a short until someone’s eyes pop out. After a (very good) week of catching up on what our buddies did over summer...More »
  
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• Barry Recap: The Chechens Are Coming

  02-04-2018 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In its second episode, “Use It,” Barry fully presents itself as the workplace sitcom suggested by the funny little banalities of the pilot. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a contract gun, a gangster, or a cop – everyone’s subject to the same incompetence, pettiness, and awkwardness of the average mid-range...More »
  
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• Jesus Christ Superstar Live: The Highs and the Lows

  02-04-2018 04:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  To celebrate the resurrection of Christ, NBC continued its annual TV musical tradition with Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert, a spirited staging that involved lots of guitar shreds, geometric coats, and glitter. Sinning is shiny! Read on for all the highs, lows, and deep Vs.HIGH: Brandon Victor Dixon. Judas...More »
  
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• The Walking Dead: season 8, episode 14 recap – Still Gotta Mean Something

  02-04-2018 04:30 via theguardian.com
  Why are the cast suddenly all bothered about a certain underrated root vegetable? That and more important questions are answered hereSpoiler alert: this blog is published after The Walking Dead airs in the US on AMC on Sundays. Do not read unless you have watched season eight, episode fourteen, which airs in the UK on Fox on Monday at 9pmWhat is with The Walking Dead’s sudden fascination with turnips?Last week, in a stunning exchange, it was Michonne who heroically gambled upon “I sa
  
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