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• Dani and Jack win the Love Island 2018 final – live

  30-07-2018 23:41
  Favourites Jack Fincham and Dani Dyer triumph over second place couple Paul Knops and Laura Anderson to be crowned king and queen of the villa Take part: share your Love Island highs and lows 10.41pm BST What a show. What memories. Weirdly, my most indelible memory is the lacy trousers Rosie wore when when leaving the villa. They were, to quote Wallace and Gromit, The Wrong Trousers. 10.36pm BST As well as being proxy mum and dad to the whole villa, right down to their non-physical relationship.
  
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• Dani and Jack win the Love Island 2018 final – as it happened

  30-07-2018 23:41
  Favourites Jack Fincham and Dani Dyer triumph over second place couple Paul Knops and Laura Anderson to be crowned king and queen of the villa Take part: share your Love Island highs and lows 10.41pm BST What a show. What memories. Weirdly, my most indelible memory is the lacy trousers Rosie wore when when leaving the villa. They were, to quote Wallace and Gromit, The Wrong Trousers. 10.36pm BST As well as being proxy mum and dad to the whole villa, right down to their non-physical relationship.
  
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• CBS to hire outside counsel over Moonves misconduct allegations

  30-07-2018 23:02 via ft.com
  Shares in media group down 10% since publication of sexual harassment claims
  
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• CBS retains Moonves but launches inquiry into sex allegations

  30-07-2018 23:02 via ft.com
  Board hires outside counsel to investigate misconduct claims against CEO
  
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• Whoever Heard of a Black Artist? Britain’s Hidden Art History review – a powerful picture of whitewashing

  30-07-2018 23:00
  A journey to discover artists of colour reveals how the art establishment has made them invisibleHere’s an astonishing fact. Buried in cold storage at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford is a collection of art you have never seen, by a bunch of major British artists you’ve never heard of. This small gallery contains a hundred more works by British artists of African and Asian descent than the Tate’s national collection. Without it, the story of British art is a whitewas
  
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• Looks Like Gina Rodriguez Got Engaged to Joe LoCicero, a.k.a. Jane the Virgin’s Don Quixote Stripper

  30-07-2018 22:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Being on Jane the Virgin, Gina Rodriguez knows a thing or two about surprise twists, so here’s a nice one: She’s engaged. Or at least she seems to be. Rodriguez posted an Instagram of herself today, celebrating both her birthday and the big shiny ring she happens to be wearing...More »
  
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• MoviePass woes prompt further plunge in owner’s shares

  30-07-2018 22:34 via ft.com
  Future of Helios & Matheson’s film ticketing service in doubt due to cash crunch
  
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• Love Island 2018: follow all the action as the winners are announced - live

  30-07-2018 22:25
  Who will be crowned king and queen of the villa, and who will suffer one final mugging off?Take part: share your Love Island highs and lows 9.25pm BST Ps for every comment about how this is the death of the Guardian, I am going to send one pound directly to North Korea. Directly BACS: NORTH KOREA 9.22pm BST Is no one going to have an argument or try and steal Laura’s boyfriend? This may be the wrong episode to be live blogging.Continue reading...
  
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• What’s Leaving HBO: August 2018

  30-07-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you want John Wick, but in the Wild West: In a Valley of ViolenceOne of the joys of a movie like John Wick catching us all by surprise was the purity of its premise: a retired assassin, picked on by some ignorant fools, out to avenge his dead dog....More »
  
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• Julie Chen Says She’ll Stand By Les Moonves ‘Today, Tomorrow, Forever’

  30-07-2018 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  As questions continue to surround the future of CBS and its chairman Les Moonves in the wake of The New Yorker’s exposé about his alleged sexual harassment, Julie Chen is still standing behind her husband. Chen, who married Moonves in 2004, started off her CBS show The Talk today by...More »
  
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• Tom Cruise’s Most Dangerous Stunts in ‘Mission: Impossible’

  30-07-2018 20:44 via nytimes.com
  The director Christopher McQuarrie ranks the hardest sequences in the latest films. His criteria: risk to his star multiplied by time exposed to that risk.
  
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• New-York Historical Society Announces Harry Potter Events

  30-07-2018 20:28 via nytimes.com
  A series of talks, workshops, classes and more will accompany an exhibition, “Harry Potter: A History of Magic.”
  
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• The USA Gymnastics Sex-Abuse Scandal Is Getting the HBO Treatment

  30-07-2018 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this year, former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was given a third prison sentence after being found guilty of sexually abusing over 100 women and girls in the country’s gymnastics circuit, in what was considered one of the most shocking displays of abuse in modern sports...More »
  
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• Guardians of the Galaxy cast signs open letter in support of James Gunn

  30-07-2018 20:14
  Stars like Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper released a joint statement calling for the director’s reinstatement after Disney fired him over offensive past tweetsChris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper, along with other cast mates from the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, have signed an open letter asking that James Gunn be reinstated as director of the upcoming third installment. Related: Who will rescue Guardians of the Galaxy after James Gunn's sacking?Although I don&rsq
  
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• Making It Is Reality TV That’s Good for the Soul

  30-07-2018 19:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  If Leslie Knope and Ron Swanson of Parks and Recreation came up with their own reality competition show, it would look a lot like Making It. Which makes sense since Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman, the actors who famously played Leslie and Ron on the NBC comedy, are the executive...More »
  
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• So, Was Henry Cavill’s Mission: Impossible Mustache Worth It?

  30-07-2018 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Has any mustache ever caused more blockbuster agita than the one Henry Cavill sports for Mission: Impossible – Fallout? The 35-year-old actor grew out his facial hair last year upon joining Tom Cruise’s venerable action franchise, but when Warner Bros. asked Cavill to also squeeze in summer reshoots for the...More »
  
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• Vivendi plans to sell up to half of Universal Music Group

  30-07-2018 19:38 via ft.com
  IPO ruled out as younger Bolloré makes mark as chairman of media group
  
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• Panorama Festival 2018: The Good, the Bad, and the Muddy

  30-07-2018 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  What’s a little New York City music festival without a whole lotta rain? This year, the Panorama Music Festival faced the wrath of Mother Nature and came out the loser. 2018’s abbreviated festival — headlined by Janet Jackson, the Killers, and, ultimately, not the Weeknd — was by all accounts...More »
  
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• Will Les Moonves Hang On to His Job?

  30-07-2018 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  CBS chairman Leslie Moonves, the TV industry titan whose instincts helped shape what the world watched for a quarter-century, now finds himself fighting for his corporate survival. In Friday’s New Yorker exposé, Ronan Farrow outlined a half-dozen sexual harassment and assault charges against Moonves, putting names and faces to what...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: After the Play, a Supreme Encore from Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  30-07-2018 19:24 via nytimes.com
  Following “The Originalist,” the judge talked fondly about its subject: her frequent legal sparring partner Antonin Scalia.
  
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• Time’s up for misogyny in TV writers’ rooms

  30-07-2018 19:22
  A new survey shows that these spaces are hotbeds of sexual harassment. Do women always have to be collateral damage for male creativity?TV writers’ rooms, so we have long been told (mostly by male writers), are hotbeds of creativity. Places where intense geniuses bat one-liners back and forth like tennis champions and everyone talks like Don Draper landing an account with Chevy. Normal workplace rules don’t apply in this weirdly mythologised space. Everything must be at the service o
  
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• Guardians of the Galaxy Stars Petition to Have James Gunn Reinstated as the Director of Vol. 3

  30-07-2018 19:20 via feeds.eonline.com
  The stars of Guardians of the Galaxy--Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Karen GillanSean Gunn, Pom Klementieff, Chris Pratt, Michal Rooker and Zoe Saldana--published an open...
  
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• Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Guardians of the Galaxy Cast Write Open Letter to ‘Fully Support’ James Gunn

  30-07-2018 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  More than a week after James Gunn was fired by Disney from directing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, owing to offensive tweets he wrote a decade ago that were recently recirculated online, Galaxy’s leading cast has published an open letter in support of him. Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper, Zoe...More »
  
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• Which August Blockbuster Are You Going to See in Theaters? Vote Now!

  30-07-2018 19:18 via feeds.eonline.com
  Summer has flown by, with August beginning in two short days and yet we are still at the height of summer blockbuster season.With a new month comes new Netflix arrivals, TV show...
  
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• CBS: Les than ideal

  30-07-2018 19:13 via ft.com
  The Redstones can do the right thing by auctioning CBS
  
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• Vulture Is Making a Weekly Awards Show for truTV

  30-07-2018 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  It seems like forever since someone got an award for acting or directing a live-action short or narrating an audiobook. Why can’t there be an award for what happened last week? Like, did you even see Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again? Well, Vulture and truTV have seen Mamma...More »
  
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• What’s Leaving Hulu: August 2018

  30-07-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re still not over Crash winning an Oscar: Brokeback MountainThere’s little that Ang Lee’s acclaimed movie about two men who fall in love in the mountains of Wyoming does that isn’t excellent. With Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands who...More »
  
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• Kid Fury and Lena Waithe Teaming Up for HBO Comedy Series

  30-07-2018 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The reign of Lena Waithe continues! Per Variety, Waithe will executive produce a new HBO comedy series from podcaster-comedian Kid Fury. The half-hour show is described as “a surreal dark comedy that follows Greg, a 20-something sarcastic gay black man navigating adulthood and responsibility in New York City while struggling to...More »
  
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• Future of MoviePass Is in Doubt After Service Outage, Experts Say

  30-07-2018 18:52 via nytimes.com
  The subscription-based movie ticket service said the outage happened after it could not pay its bills and was forced to borrow $5 million.
  
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• Why Is Ted Bundy Suddenly Everywhere?

  30-07-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  All week long, Vulture is exploring the many ways true crime has become one of the most dominant genres in popular culture.It is a truth universally acknowledged, at least in the true-crime community, that Ted Bundy would be irritatingly pleased with all the attention he’s getting lately. Twenty-nine years have...More »
  
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• MTV’s Royal World Will Be an Aristocratic Real World Spinoff

  30-07-2018 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cashing in on the royal fever undoubtedly brought forth by Meghan Markle and her wild family, MTV announced a new reality series called The Royal World to quench our thirst. Per Variety, the show will document “the exclusive, unfiltered lives of young royals and aristocrats,” and will likely feature nobility scattered...More »
  
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• Pressure mounts on CBS over Moonves misconduct allegations

  30-07-2018 18:03 via ft.com
  Shares in media group down almost 10% since publication of sexual harassment claims
  
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• 52 Great True-Crime Podcasts

  30-07-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  All week long, Vulture is exploring the many ways true crime has become one of the most dominant genres in popular culture....More »
  
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• How TV’s Biggest True-Crime Players Find Their Stories

  30-07-2018 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  All week long, Vulture is exploring the many ways true crime has become one of the most dominant genres in popular culture.While Serial famously inspired a wave of true-crime storytelling on podcasts, HBO’s The Jinx and Netflix’s Making a Murderer arguably made the boom real on television. Now, after three...More »
  
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• Bernard Hepton obituary

  30-07-2018 17:01
  Actor best known for his roles in the TV series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Colditz and I, ClaudiusNever on the front cover, but always somehow familiar, Bernard Hepton, who has died aged 92, was one of those actors you were always glad to see again. He could be plain and morose, or authoritative and stern, or he could be extremely funny, but he never let you down, whether as the German Kommandant with a human streak in the popular TV series Colditz (1972-74), or as an ordinary, humdrum &ldquo
  
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• The 10 Best Burns From the Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis

  30-07-2018 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s hard to tell exactly why Comedy Central chose Bruce Willis for its latest roast. Glass — the third installment of the Unbreakable series — won’t be released until early 2019, his roles of late have been generally lackluster, and he’s not known as the type of guy who really...More »
  
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• John Oliver Talks Sexual Harassment and #MeToo With Anita Hill: ‘There Are No Innocent Bystanders’

  30-07-2018 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  During last night’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver spoke about the #MeToo movement with a woman who is familiar with what happens to women who come forward with workplace harassment complaints against men: Anita Hill. When Oliver asks her what men’s role is in fixing the issue, Hill says, “You...More »
  
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• This! Is! Upsetting! Alex Trebek Might Soon Retire From Jeopardy!

  30-07-2018 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  To quote a wise man who knows a thing or two about game shows: Damn you, Trebek. The very esteemed, the very beloved, the very Canadian Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek has sent up his flair signals to indicate his retirement plans for the long-running show, saying in a new interview...More »
  
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• The Great British Baking Show Recap: Dough-ble Jeopardy

  30-07-2018 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  After the non-elimination leg that was the last episode (please consider this my official pitch for a Bake-Off/Amazing Race crossover), two of the remaining seven bakers will be sent home by the end of Sweet Dough Week. My bottom is already soggy, albeit with tears.The signature challenge tasks the contestants...More »
  
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• Sharp Objects Recap: Devil Child

  30-07-2018 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  When I had the pleasure of interviewing Patricia Clarkson about Sharp Objects she said something that has stuck with me ever since, “The body never lies.” Watching “Ripe” I couldn’t get this quote out of my mind. It holds true for everyone in Wind Gap from Gayla with her quiet,...More »
  
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• Preacher Recap: What We Do in the Shadows

  30-07-2018 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  I admit I was initially a little worried when Cassidy split off from the pack. Juggling multiple narrative threads isn’t easy on the best of days, and Preacher is generally strongest when it lets its characters bounce off of each other. Luckily, “Les Enfants du Sang” mostly manages a neat...More »
  
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• Orange Is the New Black Recap: Nobody F*cks With Daddy’s Girls

  30-07-2018 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’ve spent five episodes on the Litchfield inmates’ legal issues; we’re obviously due an update on their vaginas! A gynecologist is on site — but, of course, Piper’s not going to see him. Dr. Chin is a specialist in New York who doesn’t take insurance but does have an herbal-tea...More »
  
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• Orange Is the New Black Recap: Mischief Night

  30-07-2018 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s the week of Halloween, and no one seems to agree on when exactly the festivities should start. The kids in Luschek’s neighborhood, at least, aren’t waiting until the night before for Mischief Night, and have already been egging the entrance to his basement apartment and leaving flaming shit bags...More »
  
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• Orange is the New Black Recap: Honor Your Mother And Father

  30-07-2018 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  There is, of course, always a chance that Laura Prepon will abruptly exit her role as a lesbian, for well-documented reasons. But it hasn’t happened yet: the episode has barely begun before we see her among a group of new inmates on their way in to Litchfield Max. And if...More »
  
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• What Would’ve Happened If The Last Man on Earth Got Another Season

  30-07-2018 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The ending of the fourth season of The Last Man on Earth looked like it was going to be a happy one. Tandy showed tremendous and earned growth, encouraging his brother Mike to go out in search of a family of his own and convincing the group to “make like...More »
  
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• What’s Leaving Netflix: August 2018

  30-07-2018 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the self-help obsessives in your life: Welcome to MeA scorching satire about the corrosive power of media on the psyche, Shira Piven’s 2014 black comedy deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as The Truman Show and Sunset Boulevard. That’s thanks to Kristen Wiig’s career-best performance as Alice,...More »
  
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• Chuck Lorre Avoids Commenting on Les Moonves, Claims ‘You Can’t Do Good Work in an Unsafe Environment’

  30-07-2018 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chuck Lorre, the man behind CBS hits The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, and Young Sheldon, is avoiding commenting directly on the recently reported allegations against CBS chief Les Moonves, though he did speak to the importance of a harassment-free work environment. After a Television Critics Association...More »
  
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• Who Has the Most Damning Appearance in Who Is America Episode 3?

  30-07-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  No one comes out of a Sacha Baron Cohen show looking good. Your mere presence on Showtime’s Who Is America? means you’ve already been duped by a guy in a costume. It’s an impossible game to win, but some guests make it out relatively unscathed by refusing to play along.The...More »
  
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• Reizend theater Munganga speelt 20 voorstellingen in Groningen - Oog TV

  30-07-2018 14:37
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  Reizend theater Munganga speelt 20 voorstellingen in Groningen
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  Reizend theater Munganga speelt van maandag 30 juli tot en met vrijdag 3 augustus met hun theaterbus naar tien wijken in de stad. In de bus kunnen kinderen van 4 jaar samen met hun (groot)ouders genieten van de vrolijke en ontroerende voorstelling over ...
  
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• The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Back in Town

  30-07-2018 14:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is a classic “post-trip/pre-finale” episode. Every single scene begins with an emotional recap of the trip before launching into the new emotional issue. And you can tell that no one wants to spend time with each other. All the women are trying to be as far away from each...More »
  
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