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• The Handmaid's Tale recap: season 2, episode 10 – the cruellest twist yet

  22-07-2018 23:15
  The Waterford’s Macbeth-like pact culminates in a horrific assault on June – but the ‘surprise’ that follows is possibly worseSpoiler alert: this recap is for people watching The Handmaid’s Tale, series two, on Channel 4 in the UK. Please do not add spoilers from later episodes.
  Well, now what’s Offred going to do? We know she doesn’t evade capture for long, because there’s a series three. Has this knowledge irked you as much as it has me? Continue
  
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• The Handmaid's Tale recap: season 2, episode 10 – the cruelest twist yet

  22-07-2018 23:15
  The Waterford’s Macbeth-like pact culminates in a horrific assault on June – but the ‘surprise’ that follows is possibly worseSpoiler alert: this recap is for people watching The Handmaid’s Tale, series two, on Channel 4 in the UK. Please do not add spoilers from later episodes.
  Well, now what’s Offred going to do? We know she doesn’t evade capture for long, because there’s a series three. Has this knowledge irked you as much as it has me? Continue
  
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• Unforgotten series 3 episode 2 recap – finally, we have our first solid lead

  22-07-2018 23:00
  We now know there is a clear link between the suspects and Hayley, but its still unclear who killed her Bit by bit, we learn more about Hayley. A sit-down with former DCI John Bentley, the second-in-command on the investigation in 2000, reveals a police oversight that hampered the case. Believing she had gone to London with her boyfriend, they delayed the start of their search for five days. Bentley will never know what they could have turned up in that period and he bitterly regrets the decisio
  
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• Poldark recap: series 4, episode 7 – pistols at dawn and dark times ahead

  22-07-2018 23:00
  Ross made a mountain out of a molehill in this penultimate episode – and Demelza proved she can match him for stubbornnessIt’s the penultimate episode! How did that happen so quickly? After last week’s light entertainment, things took a dark turn this week, mostly thanks to Frilly Shirt Man, who finally had his moment in the sun, after weeks of trailing his louche presence. Ross saw him off almost as quickly as he appeared, occasioning scenes so gory that even the hardy Demelza
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Review: ‘Emojiland’ and a Graceful Elegy at New York Musical Festival

  22-07-2018 21:00 via nytimes.com
  A show set inside a smartphone is silly, yet surprisingly resonant with contemporary politics.
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: ‘Emojiland’ and a Graceful Elegy at the New York Musical Festival

  22-07-2018 21:00 via nytimes.com
  A show set inside a smartphone is silly yet surprisingly resonant with contemporary politics.
  
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• WPP in talks with Alibaba and Tencent over tie-up

  22-07-2018 20:54 via ft.com
  Advertising group considers sale of stake in Chinese-based business to tech groups
  
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• Meghan Markle’s Half-Sister and Her Inferiority Complex Join Celebrity Big Brother

  22-07-2018 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lord, grant us the confidence (and time management skills) of a scorned half-sister who has nothing better to do than attempt to besmirch a new member of the royal family. Samantha Markle — or rather, Samantha Grant — the half-sister of Meghan Markle who’s currently in the process of publishing...More »
  
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• Amazon’s battle with Google shifts to TVs and speakers

  22-07-2018 19:54 via ft.com
  Rivals worry that Google will bring tactics from handset market to other products
  
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• Denzel Washington and ABBA Thrive at the Box Office

  22-07-2018 18:55 via nytimes.com
  “The Equalizer 2” was the surprise victor at the box office this weekend, overtaking the jukebox musical “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.”
  
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• Watch All the Trailers That Premiered at This Year’s San Diego Comic-Con

  22-07-2018 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every year, Comic-Con provides a days-long extravaganza of anticipation for all the film and television you’ll be champing at the bit to see for the next several months. Below are all the major trailers that debuted at this year’s SDCC, including a very spooky Glass, a very silly Shazam!, and...More »
  
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• Supergirl Makes Television History by Casting Transgender Superhero

  22-07-2018 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Up, up, and away Supergirl goes to a historic casting decision. Nicole Maines, a prominent youth activist who helped change state laws in Maine to allow transgender people to use their bathroom of choice, has joined the cast of the CW series for season four in a leading capacity. Per...More »
  
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• Reizend theater speelt 20 voorstellingen in 10 stadswijken - Groninger Gezinsbode

  22-07-2018 16:49
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  Reizend theater speelt 20 voorstellingen in 10 stadswijken
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  Teatro Munganga komt van 30 juli tot en met 3 augustus met hun opvallende theaterbus naar tien wijken in de stad Groningen. © Teatro Munganga. |. © Teatro Munganga. |. Kinderen vanaf 4 jaar zijn welkom om samen met hun (groot)ouders te genieten van ...
  
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• Lindsay Lohan’s New Reality Series Is a Grecian Vanderpump Rules

  22-07-2018 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  We can already see the penultimate episode where Lisa Vanderpump storms in, feather boas in hand, and tells Lindsay Lohan everything she’s doing wrong. After teasing the likelihood of a reality series set at Lohan’s Mykonos club, aptly named the the Lohan Beach House and stretched “along a healthy stretch...More »
  
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• Get All Your Calling and Beeping Out of the Way, Because Here’s the First Live-Action Look at Kim Possible

  22-07-2018 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you put your ear real close to your screen, you might hear the muffled sounds of Christy Carlson Romano shouting “Ron!” Disney, ever in the Comic Con spirit, released the first photo from the upcoming live adaptation of Kim Possible, which is starring Riverdale’s Madelaine Pe—er, sorry, which is...More »
  
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• Ryan Reynolds Teases Deadpool 2 ‘Super Duper Thunder F-ck’ Edition

  22-07-2018 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Heading into Saturday’s Deadpool 2 panel at Comic-Con, the burning question was whether studio distributor Fox would use its self-congratulatory Hall H engagement to announce future plans for the “Merc with a mouth” vis a vis other X-Men offshoots — a planned X-Force movie or reveal any sneak peak footage from...More »
  
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• Chinese streaming site Douyu plans to raise $700m in US IPO

  22-07-2018 14:54 via ft.com
  Tencent-backed company considers New York debut after weighing up Hong Kong listing
  
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• UK cinema attendances hit by World Cup and warm weather

  22-07-2018 13:41
  Summer box office sales down 20% despite release of Ocean’s 8 and Jurassic Park sequelEngland’s World Cup run and the sweltering weather have hit summer cinema attendance, with UK box office sales slumping 20% since June despite the release of blockbusters such as the Jurassic Park sequel and Ocean’s 8.UK cinemas have taken £103m at the box office from 1 June to 12 July, down 19% on the £128m taken during the same period last summer. Continue reading...
  
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• Newsprint tariffs send costs soaring for US newspapers

  22-07-2018 13:30 via ft.com
  Industry urges Trump administration to reconsider in trade dispute with Canada
  
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• According to The Cast, Working On Twin Peaks Was Both ‘Transcendent’ and ‘Arousing’

  22-07-2018 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you came to the Twin Peaks panel at Comic-Con hoping for answers about The Return — well, are you even a real Twin Peaks fan at all? Cast members Kimmy Robertson, Harry Goaz, Adele Rene, Chrysta Bell, Nicole LaLiberte, John Pirruccello, Amy Shiels, George Griffith, Eric Edelstein, Robert Broski, and executive producer Sabrina Sutherland were all on hand in...More »
  
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• The Wynonna Earp Cast Announced A Fourth Season, So Fans Lost Their Minds

  22-07-2018 08:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hey do you want to see Shamier Anderson GO OUT OF HIS MIND and whip up the crowd at the panel? Hey do you know if he’s available for birthday parties and corporate events? Jordan Crucchiola (@JorCru) July 22, 2018“It’s such a testament to you guys that we haven’t even...More »
  
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• Vanessa Kirby: ‘I was bullied at school and became self-conscious about everything I did’

  22-07-2018 08:00
  Vanessa Kirby astounded audiences as Princess Margaret in The Crown. Now she is starring opposite Tom Cruise in the new Mission: Impossible. She talks to Sophie Heawood about theatre crushes, all-night parties – and what the Queen really thought of The CrownWhen I went to see Vanessa Kirby starring in Julie at the National Theatre, it turns out I picked “a really bad night. Oh God everything went wrong,” she says when we meet a few days later, in a café in Chelsea where
  
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• The week in TV: Unforgotten, Who Is America?, Prison and more

  22-07-2018 08:00
  Detective duo Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar returned on fine form, but Sacha Baron Cohen’s new satire was an uneven affairUnforgotten (ITV) | itv.com
  Who Is America? (C4) | channel4.com
  Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema (BBC Four) | iPlayer
  Prison (C4) | channel4.comHow good is Unforgotten? You must excuse me. I had simply… forgotten. It’s not just in the performances of the leads, Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar, though both performances are beyond sterling: Walker
  
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• Once Again, David Lynch Sent Comic-Con Fans A Very David Lynch Greeting

  22-07-2018 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Twin Peaks came to Comic-Con last year, David Lynch was not in attendance, but he did send an appropriately strange video message along to thank fans for watching the show. This year, as you might have guessed, Lynch missed the Convention once again, but since he loves his Peaks...More »
  
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• The week in radio and podcasts: Everything Is Alive; The Exeter Whisper; Bunk Bed

  22-07-2018 07:59
  Ever wonder how a can of cola might feel about its life? Just one way podcasters escaped mundane reality last week…Everything Is Alive | Radiotopia
  The Exeter Whisper | Resonance FM
  Bunk Bed | BBC R4Humankind cannot bear very much reality, according to TS Eliot, so let’s pull the plug on Trump, Putin, Brexit and Love Island and search out the weirder side of life. Weird is always good, but at times like these, it’s essential. Continue reading...
  
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• The Good Place Cast Reveals Who — In Real Life — Is Destined For The Bad Place

  22-07-2018 07:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who IRL would go to or The Bad Place? The cast sounds off with their thumbs. The Good PlaceSDCC (@nbcthegoodplace) July 21, 2018...More »
  
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• Conan O’Brien’s Superpower Is Late Night Hosting

  22-07-2018 07:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Practically every single person in America is at San Diego Comic-Con right now. And, as is tradition, TBS’s Conan also relocated their show to the pop culture fest for the fourth year in a row. But it seems like all those years spent surrounded by cosplayers have rubbed off on...More »
  
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• Sunday's best TV: Artist in Residence – The Sex Clinic; Poldark

  22-07-2018 07:00
  Performance artist Bryony Kimmings visits a sexual health clinic to get artistic inspiration, while there’s a duel in the offing in the period drama10.10pm, Channel 4
  The work of performance artist Bryony Kimmings (pictured) deals in “things people don’t like talking about”. Accordingly, the chance to spend time with those passing through a sexual health clinic, and to get them to discuss sex in order to find artistic inspiration, is too good to miss. But it soon becomes
  
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• RZA Debuts the Trailer to His Gritty Heist Caper Cut Throat City

  22-07-2018 05:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saturday’s San Diego Comic-Con panel “RZA: Movies, Music & Martial Arts” promised a celebration of the life and creative works of one Robert Diggs, aka the RZA, aka Bobby Digital, aka the Rzarector: founder and sonic architect of the Wu-Tang Clan. While best known for mashing up the spiritual enlightenment...More »
  
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• New The Purge Series Trailer Shows People Still Have to Go to Work

  22-07-2018 04:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you just can’t get enough of The Purge, don’t worry, there’s a ten episode series of it coming to USA this September. And today, attendees at San Diego Comic Con got a look at this brand new, fully terrifying trailer. It’s looking like the show will be another chance...More »
  
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• Broken Lizard Confirms the Insane Title of Super Troopers 3

  22-07-2018 04:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  At a raucous engagement at San Diego’s Horton Grand Theatre Saturday, the comedy troupe Broken Lizard used San Diego Comic-Con to basically take its victory lap, basking in the unlikely financial success of their raunch comedy Super Troopers 2. But they also took the opportunity late in the panel to...More »
  
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• USA Cancels Colony After 3 Seasons

  22-07-2018 03:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Deadline is reporting that USA has cancelled their sci-fi drama Colony, starring Josh Holloway and Sarah Wayne Callies. It’s season 3 finale on Wednesday will be the final episode of the series. While Colony started out strong, spending its first two seasons as the top cable scripted series on Thursday nights,...More »
  
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• Millie Bobby Brown Comes Face to Face With New Creatures in Godzilla: King of the Monsters Trailer

  22-07-2018 01:22 via feeds.eonline.com
  The Demogorgon was just the beginning for Millie Bobby Brown.
  The 14-year-old actress of Stranger Things fame is gearing up for her silver screen debut and fans got a thrilling first...
  
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