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• Netflix Is Getting the New Seasons of The Great British Baking Show, and One of the Old Ones

  23-08-2018 23:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix is positioning itself as the primary U.S. home of The Great British Baking Show, a.k.a. The Great British Bake Off , a.k.a. That Show With the Nice British People and Pastries. The streaming service announced today that it has picked up the rights to three new seasons of the...More »
  
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• Kenya Barris Conjures Up African-American Bewitched Reboot Before He Flies on Over to Netflix

  23-08-2018 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just like zombies and apocalypses, witches have slowly become evergreen television fodder. Black-ish creator Kenya Barris is hoping so at least, now that he’s developing a Bewitched reboot pilot, co-written by Black-ish writer and producer Yamara Taylor, for ABC. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network has already given the...More »
  
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• Why Saturday Night Live’s Guest Stars Win So Many Emmys

  23-08-2018 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saturday Night Live debuted Tina Fey’s remarkable Sarah Palin impression in the fall of 2008; the following year, she was nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series category. Justin Timberlake didn’t deliver a culture-shifting performance during his SNL hosting gig in early 2009, but...More »
  
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• Here’s Who’s Performing at Aretha Franklin’s Funeral

  23-08-2018 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  A public memorial and tribute concert will be held next week for Aretha Franklin, who died on August 16, and it’s slated to be a star-studded send-off. TMZ reports that 23 artists will perform at the service, including Gladys Knight, Johnny Gill, Ron Isley, Raheem DeVaughn, and more — a...More »
  
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• Talking ’80s Wrestling, Sexism, and Stereotypes With GLOW’s Cast and Creators

  23-08-2018 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The summer of 2018 has brought nothing but good news to Netflix’s GLOW. In June, its second season dropped on Netflix to a warm response from both critics and viewers. In July, it received ten Emmy nominations for its first season, including one for Outstanding Comedy Series. And just this...More »
  
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• The Innocents Is a Supernatural Teen Love Story

  23-08-2018 22:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Innocents is a show about teens in love. It’s about other things, too — strained family relationships, knowing yourself, the joy of chunky-knit wool sweaters, the ability to shape-shift — but it’s mostly about lovebird teens, and on that crucial front, The Innocents succeeds. Even where the Netflix series...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Support the Girls,’ Sisterhood Is Funny, Essential and Sweet

  23-08-2018 22:00 via nytimes.com
  A perfectly cast Regina Hall stars in this stealth charmer about women working in a Texas sports bar, the latest from the director Andrew Bujalski.
  
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• Baroness von Sketch Show’s Reign at IFC Will Continue With a Fourth Season

  23-08-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  In case you haven’t been watching and need more sketch in your life, the Baroness von Sketch Show is here to provide. Our benevolent Canadian ruler, also known as an IFC series starring comedians Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill, Aurora Browne, and Jennifer Whalen, will be returning for a fourth season sometime in 2019. The...More »
  
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• The Brief History of Musicians Saying ‘Hell No’ to Donald Trump Using Their Songs

  23-08-2018 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before and after assuming presidential office, Donald Trump’s general relationship with musicians has been, to put it lightly, fraught with a side of Charlie Day conspiracy-board panic. Barely anybody wanted to perform at his inauguration, and the ones who did were more along the lines of whos than theys, making...More »
  
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• Listen to Cher’s Cover of ABBA’s ‘SOS,’ Because Summer Isn’t Over Yet, Baby!

  23-08-2018 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  We all like to complain about the heat and humidity of summer, but soon enough we’ll be bundled up against the cold again, boots soaked in slush, huffing a half-empty bottle of sunscreen just to get a hit of that Labor Day goodness. So, in the meantime, stop your bellyaching...More »
  
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• Songwriter Savan Kotecha on the Making of Ariana Grande’s Sweetener

  23-08-2018 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  In his impressive career as a pop songwriter and producer, Savan Kotecha has helped craft some of the biggest radio hits of the last decade. The bulk of One Direction’s discography, including their career-making debut “What Makes You Beautiful?” was written by Kotecha. The Weeknd’s groovy 2015 signature “Can’t Feel My...More »
  
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• An Avant-Garde Theater Artist Gets Her Due

  23-08-2018 20:03 via nytimes.com
  María Irene Fornés is being celebrated at MoMA and the Public Theater. Her colleagues and students reflect on her enduring legacy.
  
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• Pilot Week: Sam Dastyari, Kyle Sandilands and more line up for a race to the bottom

  23-08-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Ten’s week of exclusively male-led comedy show pilots ranges from bland to tedious to outright offensiveDirector Sidney Lumet’s classic 1976 film Network foretold of the last vestiges of decency and tact in broadcast television, as the medium spiralled uncontrollably towards inevitable self-destruction. Its race to the bottom was egged on by an assortment of vested interests, grubby producers and two-bit show ponies.There is more than a whiff of Network’s depravity in Ten&rsquo
  
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• Drunk History Season Five: Derek Waters Chooses His Favorite Performances

  23-08-2018 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comedy Central’s inventive and inebriated show Drunk History was renewed for a 16-episode sixth season back in February, the biggest order of its run thus far. One thing we can be assured of is that creator, host, and (reen)actor Derek Waters is striving to make the show something more evolved...More »
  
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• Mary Beard returns to TV with 'exploration of nakedness'

  23-08-2018 19:33 via theguardian.com
  BBC Two show will follow her journey exploring the history of the naked body in artMary Beard is to return to TV screens with a “singular exploration of the role of nakedness” in society.The University of Cambridge classics professor and broadcaster has been commissioned by BBC Two to present a two-part series entitled The Nude Uncovered, which will follow her journey exploring the history of naked human bodies in art and how they impacted perceptions of beauty and gender politics. C
  
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• Crazy Rich Asians’ Proposal Scene Was Changed at the Last Minute

  23-08-2018 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We need to rip it up,” director Jon M. Chu thought a few weeks into production on Crazy Rich Asians. It was the night before they shot the second proposal scene, when the dashing, slightly naïve Nicholas Young (Henry Golding) makes a Big Sweeping Gesture to his girlfriend Rachel Chu...More »
  
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• Connie Britton and Dylan McDermott Will Return for American Horror Story: Apocalypse

  23-08-2018 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  What better excuse to get the whole gang back together again than the end of the world? According to Variety, Connie Britton and Dylan McDermott, the stars of the first season of American Horror Story, will return for the show’s latest edition. While it’s exciting to hear the leads of...More »
  
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• Harry Potter Fans Can Celebrate Halloween at Hogwarts

  23-08-2018 18:56 via feeds.eonline.com
  Attention all Gryffindors, Slytherins, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs! You can celebrate Halloween 2018 at Hogwarts!The Warner Bros. Studio Tour in London will again feature a special Dark...
  
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• Encounters: Marilu Henner, the Former ‘Taxi’ Star, Doesn’t Need a Grocery List

  23-08-2018 18:47 via nytimes.com
  The 66-year-old actress, who stars in the Broadway musical “Gettin’ the Band Back Together,” remembers everything.
  
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• Ant McPartlin to be replaced as co-host for latest series of I'm a Celebrity

  23-08-2018 18:42 via theguardian.com
  ITV confirms that stand-in will accompany Declan Donnelly while partner recovers from a prescription drug addiction Declan Donnelly will have a new co-host for the forthcoming series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, breaking his longstanding partnership with Ant McPartlin.ITV’s director of programmes, Kevin Lygo, said the channel would soon announce a stand-in host for the reality TV show while McPartlin takes time off to deal with an addiction to prescription drugs. Co
  
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• Dakota Johnson's New Suspiria Trailer Will Give You Nightmares

  23-08-2018 18:29 via feeds.eonline.com
  Forget Anastasia Steel from Fifty Shades of Grey. Dakota Johnson is channeling a totally new character for her horror film Suspiria.
  Amazon Studios released the official trailer for the...
  
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• The Man in the High Castle Season 3 Trailer: Fighting in the Name of Love

  23-08-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Man in the High Castle started out with a surreal, alternate-reality vision of a fascist America that lost World War II; now, the alternate-reality counterculture has started to arrive. In the show’s third season, Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos) starts to disseminate the videos that depict our own reality, sparking...More »
  
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• Michaela Coel on MacTaggart lecture: 'I feel better having shared'

  23-08-2018 17:38 via theguardian.com
  The Chewing Gum star said she hopes her speech, in which she spoke about racism and her own sexual assault, will bring about change in the UK Michaela Coel says her MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival, during which she revealed she had suffered racism and sexual assault while working in the industry, was a cathartic exercise aimed at bringing change.In a post-MacTaggart interview with comedian Katy Brand, Coel spoke about how the lecture was a way of letting others know they can spea
  
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• ‘Suspiria’ Trailer: If You Thought Ballet Was Scary in ‘Black Swan’ ...

  23-08-2018 17:04 via nytimes.com
  The remake, directed by Luca Guadagnino, stars Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton, who some think is playing dual roles despite what the filmmakers have said.
  
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• Sharon Horgan Developing Amazon Self-Help Comedy Co-Starring Billy Magnussen

  23-08-2018 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Catastrophe’s Sharon Horgan has a new comedy series in the works. Deadline reports that Amazon has given a script-to-series commitment to a show co-created by Horgan and Why Him? writers John Hamburg and Ian Helfer, which would star Horgan alongside Billy Magnussen, who also starred alongside Horgan in Game Night....More »
  
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• HBO announces new Game of Thrones video game

  23-08-2018 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Reigns: Game of Thrones, by the award-winning developer of the Reigns series, will be released in October on Android, iPhones and PCHBO has announced a new Game of Thrones game for smartphones and PC, developed by Nerial, the award-winning studio behind the Reigns series.Reigns: Game of Thrones casts the player as a king or queen trying to avoid rebellions, disastrous wars, assassination or supernatural interference to stay on the throne as long as possible. It’s presented as a kind of car
  
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• The Land of Steady Habits Trailer: Connie Britton Deserves Better, Ben Mendelsohn

  23-08-2018 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’re sure by the end of The Land of Steady Habits, Ben Mendelsohn’s self-destructive dad will work through the existential despair that made him quit his job, leave his wife (Edie Falco), and befriend a teen boy struggling with drug addiction, played by Charlie Tahan, “sending him down a path...More »
  
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• Yellowstone Recap: Happy Trails

  23-08-2018 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kevin Costner’s probably the 21st century’s greatest Western star — with all due respect to Tommy Lee Jones, Sam Elliott, and Robert Duvall. But while he may be the biggest reason for Yellowstone becoming a surprise summer hit, his performance on this show hasn’t really been among his best. That’s...More »
  
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• What TV Execs Really Think About This Year’s Emmy-Nominated Actors

  23-08-2018 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Trying to predict the winners of any given awards show is an inexact science, and that’s particularly true of the Emmys. While slightly more than 7,000 people decided this year’s Oscar winners, the TV Academy’s membership rolls have swollen to more than 23,000 potential voting members, up sharply from an estimated...More »
  
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• Jon Hamm and Ed Harris Are in Top Gun: Maverick Now, Too

  23-08-2018 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hollywood is now divided into two factions: The half signed onto Quentin Tarantino’s movie, and the other half, who’ve been recruited to the Top Gun sequel. Per Deadline, Jon Hamm, Ed Harris, and Lewis Pullman (son of Bill, and also seen in Battle of the Sexes) have joined Tom Cruise...More »
  
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• 'Help Mystiek Theater aan een nieuw onderkomen' - Tubantia

  23-08-2018 16:29
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  videoENSCHEDE - De sloopvergunning is aangevraagd. Over uiterlijk een jaar moet Mystiek Theater het huidige onderkomen aan de Raiffeissenstraat hebben verruild voor een nieuwe stek. Maar waar? „Enschede, denk mee in het vinden van een nieuw ...en meer »
  
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• Laura Benanti to Replace Lauren Ambrose in My Fair Lady, Playing ‘Dream Role’ of Eliza Doolittle

  23-08-2018 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Laura Benanti, a gifted soprano stuck in an era of musicals full of belting, has long said she would love to play Eliza Doolittle, and now she finally will. The Tony winner will be joining the Lincoln Center Theater revival of My Fair Lady from October 23 to February 17,...More »
  
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• Muziek, theater en vermaak tijdens de Brabantsedag | Het Contact ... - Het Contact van Someren

  23-08-2018 16:21
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  SOMEREN - Deze zondag is de 61ste Brabantsedag in Heeze. 16 wagens gaan de strijd aan met elkaar. Het thema vandeze editie is 'Van Ravenstein tot ...en meer »
  
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• We the Animals Director Jeremiah Zagar on Why Familial Love Is More Interesting Than Romantic Love

  23-08-2018 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Movies about families — and the selfish and selfless ways we love people we’ve spent our whole lives knowing — are the stories Jeremiah Zagar wants to tell the most. We the Animals, his first feature, takes place almost entirely inside one home in upstate New York, and follows the...More »
  
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• Drew Michael’s HBO Special Will Make You Think About How Comedy Works

  23-08-2018 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Drew Michael’s new, self-titled HBO comedy special is almost impossible to criticize, mainly because it preemptively criticizes itself. An experimental, extended monologue, it’s more a commentary on the self-absorbed nature of comedy than an actual LOL-filled 49 minutes of stand-up. In a lot of ways, it fits right in with...More »
  
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• Laura Benanti to Join ‘My Fair Lady’ on Broadway

  23-08-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The Tony-winning actress will portray Eliza Doolittle in the hit musical revival.
  
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• Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria Official Trailer: Basically The Devil’s Step-Up

  23-08-2018 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just as in Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic of the same name, things just don’t seem right at the all-female dance company Dakota Johnson has joined. The new full trailer for Suspiria fleshes out (so to speak) the connection between Chloë Grace Moretz’s deeply unwell dance student and the therapist,...More »
  
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• Watch Jennifer Garner Use a Very Particular Set of Mothering Skills in This Peppermint Clip

  23-08-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s probably reductive to claim Jennifer Garner’s action flick Peppermint looks like Taken for moms. It’s also the greatest compliment a parental-revenge action flick could possibly receive. In this exclusive clip, Garner’s wronged Riley confronts the judge who ruined her chance at finding justice through the legal system. Now, it’s...More »
  
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• All or Nothing leaves City fans with more questions than answers | Simon Hattenstone

  23-08-2018 15:00 via theguardian.com
  As a Manchester City supporter it’s impossible not to take some pleasure in the documentary but it pulls its punches, fails to probe and is nothing but a gloriously glossy club commercialWhy am I so reluctant to watch All or Nothing: Manchester City? The eight-part Amazon documentary series covers my team’s season mirabilis – 2017-18 when we won the league with record points, record wins and record goals, playing the beautiful game more beautifully than it’s ever been pla
  
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• Yoko Ono Revisits Her Past, and the Weather in Her Head

  23-08-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yoko Ono is a visionary. She imagines and reimagines. In October, she’ll release Warzone, which reprises 13 songs from her past albums. Spookily, or comfortingly, or depressingly, or rousingly, they are as applicable to the world today as they were when Ono wrote them. That same month, she’ll reimagine Imagine...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Hot to Trot,’ a Look at Same-Sex Ballroom Dancing

  23-08-2018 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The documentary follows the format that was so successful for the spelling-bee film “Spellbound,” but it doesn’t have the same results.
  
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• Review: ‘Maison du Bonheur,’ a Beguiling Portrait of a Woman in Paris

  23-08-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Sofia Bohdanowicz’s documentary captures a way of life through the observations of a delightful woman who has occupied the same apartment for 50 years.
  
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• Review: In ‘What Keeps You Alive,’ a Couple, a Cabin and a Crisis

  23-08-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A couple’s blissful vacation turns dark in Colin Minihan’s film.
  
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• Review: In ‘The Bookshop,’ Seeking Calm, Finding Conflict

  23-08-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy form a tender connection in this film adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1978 novel.
  
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• Review: In ‘Searching,’ a Clever Conceit and John Cho as Leading Man

  23-08-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The entirety of the action in Aneesh Chaganty’s psychological thriller unfolds on screens, apps and online.
  
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• Review: In ‘Makala,’ the Difficulties of Selling Charcoal in Congo

  23-08-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The director, Emmanuel Gras, closely follows a man as he tries to improve his life.
  
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• Review: Economic Anxiety Leads to Violence in ‘Arizona’

  23-08-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Rosemarie DeWitt and Danny McBride star in this grisly dark comedy set during the housing meltdown of 2009.
  
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• Review: ‘Blue Iguana’ Takes Two Goofballs, Adds a Caper and Comes Up Empty

  23-08-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Sam Rockwell and Ben Schwartz star in this heist film written and directed by Hadi Hajaig.
  
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• Review: ‘An L.A. Minute’ Isn’t Worth the Time

  23-08-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The film, starring Gabriel Byrne, is meant to skewer the mores of Tinseltown.
  
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• Theater Review: An Eclectic Lineup at a Festival Dogged by Scandal

  23-08-2018 12:32 via nytimes.com
  The Ruhrtrienniale festival in Germany presents unpredictable works in postindustrial settings. But this year controversy has overshadowed the event.
  
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