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• Bodyguard recap: series one, episode five – the calm before the storm

  16-09-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  The penultimate outing for Jed Mecurio’s thriller leaves as many questions as answers as we enter the final chapter. Anyone could be a suspectRead the Guardian’s episode four recapTonight’s episode was really the calm before the inevitable storm of next week’s supersized 75-minute finale. Of course, calm is always a relative term in a Jed Mercurio drama, and thus, the episode was still pretty tense. A large amount of the episode was dedicated to David gruffly insisting to
  
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• The First Look at Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker Is Only About 50 Percent Serious

  16-09-2018 22:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  No green hair, purple suit, or a face full of tasteful albino make-up? Whatever, we’ll take what we can get! Todd Phillips, the director of the upcoming “gritty” Joker origin film — not to be confused with the other stand-alone Joker film starring Jared Leto — has shared the first...More »
  
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• After 25 Years, the Curtain Closes on ‘Theater Talk’

  16-09-2018 21:31 via nytimes.com
  Over the years, the show included interviews with James Gandolfini, Cate Blanchett, Idina Menzel and Hugh Jackman.
  
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• BoJack Horseman Recap: Til the Curtains Fall

  16-09-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Given what BoJack was after at the end of last episode, we start in the state of “okay.” Maybe a little better than okay. The show’s a hit. They’re filming season two of Philbert. Gina’s getting fame, but as BoJack tells us, “I’m not bitter and jealous. I like seeing...More »
  
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• ‘The Predator’ Tops Box Office Despite Last-Minute Controversy

  16-09-2018 20:55 via nytimes.com
  “The Predator” unseated “The Nun,” a surprise hit last weekend, after drawing negative attention over an actor’s status as a registered sex offender.
  
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• Nah, Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Aren’t Actually Married Yet

  16-09-2018 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Despite eager reports to the contrary, Hailey Baldwin wants to inform everyone that, no, she hasn’t already married Justin Bieber. But she appreciates your interest, thanks! Per TMZ, Baldwin issued a statement to politely deny the nuptial claims. “I understand where the speculation is coming from,” she explained, “but I’m...More »
  
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• We Advise You to Get Tissues Before Watching This Trailer for Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

  16-09-2018 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  The goodbye begins. The final season of CNN’s Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown will feature six episodes of Bourdain’s travels prior to his suicide earlier this year, the first being a trip to Kenya with fellow network personality W. Kamau Bell. This episode is the last one to feature Bourdain’s narration...More »
  
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• Forever Recap: Bananas

  16-09-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Oscar wakes up from his accident in the ballroom, he’s a little out of sorts. For a moment, he isn’t sure what’s going on, but it isn’t long before he (still) finds it in him to berate June. And they argue: first over Kase, and what June’s willingness to...More »
  
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• American Vandal Recap: God Did Not Design Us to Bend That Way

  16-09-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  I hardly know where to begin! Let’s start with the positive: Once again, the actors playing DeMarcus, Kevin, and Jenna are doing absolutely incredible work, Peter and Sam, as always, are the moral center of my universe, and Kevin’s grandmother pops up one last time. And I have an affection...More »
  
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• Weather Channel Mounts Incredible Defense for Reporter Accused of Faking Hurricane Winds: Wet Grass!

  16-09-2018 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  A conspiracy has finally reached the Weather Channel, and it involves neither the sun or the rain, but rather the foe of toupéed gents everywhere, the wind. If you’ve been keeping up with viral clips this weekend, there’s a chance this 20-second vignette reached your timeline, which shows seasoned reporter...More »
  
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• Serial is back – but can it make a difference in the gritty new era of true-crime podcasting?

  16-09-2018 17:00 via theguardian.com
  From The Teacher’s Pet to Spår, true crime is making a real dent in the criminal justice system worldwide. Can the third series of the pioneering podcast Serial keep up?On paper, the first season of Serial, launched in 2014, didn’t exactly scream hit. Who would have bet on a This American Life spin-off podcast that investigates a 16-year-old murder case in 12 episodes of excruciating detail without ever reaching a definite conclusion about who was guilty?Yet the host, Sara
  
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• BoJack Horseman Recap: What Separates Philbert?

  16-09-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  We begin with a cryptic tease, a parable of faith between two nuns who are discussing the woman who has washed on their shore and not said a word for two years. One of the nuns is still shaken by the lack of an answer, but the other implores her,...More »
  
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• Dudley Sutton obituary

  16-09-2018 16:26 via theguardian.com
  Veteran stage and screen actor who found fame as Tinker Dill in the BBC series LovejoyBrimming with mischief, the gloriously uproarious Dudley Sutton was an actor who epitomised the Elizabethan view of thespians as rogues and vagabonds, “cony-catchers and bawdy-baskets”. His face provided theatre critics with years of poetic inspiration.They described him as “a debauched cherub” and “a fallen angel”; the Guardian’s Michael Billington admired his “b
  
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• How Donald Trump Broke Kenan Thompson’s Cardinal SNL Rule

  16-09-2018 16:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Donald Trump’s 2015 SNL hosting stint, to put it lightly, seemed like an eternal dumpster fire sprinkled with gasoline for all of the cast involved: He apparently couldn’t read, tried to improvise, and gave poor Sia diarrhea. Who does that! But for the show’s golden boy Kenan Thompson, there was...More »
  
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• Get Ready to Laugh Out Loud Because It's Amy Poehler's Birthday! Celebrate By Voting Now for Her Funniest Role Ever

  16-09-2018 16:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's time to paaarty! Today is Amy Poehler's birthday, so yes, it's a valid excuse to party.On this day, the comedian and actress turns 47 years old and that is definitely...
  
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• Forever Recap: It’s Exhausting

  16-09-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The penultimate episode of Forever’s first season opens with Oscar reading a letter from June. We don’t really need to see it to know what it says: June left with Kase for Oceanside. It certainly speaks to the state of her marriage that June couldn’t have that conversation in person....More »
  
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• BoJack Horseman Recap: Crashing

  16-09-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  What’s real? BoJack asks himself this as the lines between his real life and his life as Philbert begin to blur. But through the haze, the last day of shooting suddenly arrives not with a bang, but with an whimper. The sudden stop leaves BoJack feeling empty, but all should...More »
  
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• American Vandal Recap: Blackmail and Corn Chips

  16-09-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She paid us on the spot. You’ve gotta respect her for that. If you’re rich and you’re a terrible driver, that’s the way to be, that’s responsible.” —DeMarcus Tillman on Jenna Hawthorne“Because I was there and I helped, but I didn’t do it … I just did the gym and...More »
  
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• China’s Bytedance shows way to navigate ‘great firewall’

  16-09-2018 12:09 via ft.com
  Internet group creates video apps to reach foreign markets without upsetting censors
  
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• The Amazing Stroopwafes komen naar het theater - Barendrechts Dagblad (persbericht)

  16-09-2018 11:00
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  16 september 2018. The Amazing Stroopwafes komen naar het theater. Vr. 2 november, 20.15 uur. De Stroopwafels, de amazing heroes van de Rotterdamse Lijnbaan, hebben weer een prachtig album afgeleverd vol verhalende nummers en liedjes over ...
  
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• ‘Why weren’t we taught this at school?’ asks star of Rwanda drama

  16-09-2018 10:30 via theguardian.com
  Michaela Coel says making the BBC hit Black Earth Rising has given her an education in the 1994 genocideHugo Blick makes a habit of writing and directing television that has serious, high-minded ambition to elevate the form and educate his audience. Black Earth Rising, a drama about the prosecution of international war crimes – specifically the Rwandan genocide – is no exception.Co-produced by the BBC and Netflix, the first episode aired last week to a string of five-star reviews and
  
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• The week in TV: Trust; Killing Eve; Black Earth Rising and more

  16-09-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Donald Sutherland, Sandra Oh and Harriet Walter feature in a trio of superb new BBC dramas diving into wealth, corruption, espionage and bloody historyTrust (BBC Two) | iPlayer
  Killing Eve (BBC One) | iPlayer
  Black Earth Rising (BBC Two) | iPlayer
  Strangers (ITV) | ITV Hub
  A Discovery of Witches Sky 1Hope you had a just dandy and howdy-doody summer but are now firmly camped, legs tucked, in front of the screen, because last week was most probably the high-water mark for new drama this year. More
  
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• The week in radio and podcasts: You, Me and the Big C; Living for the City; Woof: True Tales… and more

  16-09-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Honest, touching shows about cancer, and courage after a partner’s death; plus, comedy on Illuminati and bad dates“Rachael was nails,” said Mike Holt. “She propped us all up.” The You, Me and the Big C podcast on 6 September was an emotional listen: touching and uplifting, sad and professional. Rachael Bland, who came up with the idea for the podcast – a show about cancer presented by three women with cancer – died on 5 September. Her co-presenters, Debo
  
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• Jenna Coleman: ‘Being me makes me feel self-conscious’

  16-09-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  She reigned as Queen Victoria and is now back on screen as a traumatised mum from Glasgow. Jenna Coleman tells Elizabeth Day how these ‘brave’ women made her so much strongerThe other day Jenna Coleman gave birth for the seventh time. “I feel like my year has been literally maternity bras and pregnancy bumps,” she says over a cup of tea in a cafénear her home in north London. “It’s becoming a parody now.” Before you start to worry about the medica
  
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• Matthew Perry Announces He’s Been in the Hospital for Three Months

  16-09-2018 07:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Friday, Friends star Matthew Perry announced on Twitter that he’s actually been hospitalized for the last three months. “Three months in a hospital bed. Check,” the actor wrote. The news comes after Perry was rushed into emergency surgery in early August. At the time a spokesman for the actor announced,...More »
  
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• Sunday’s best TV: Bodyguard; Vanity Fair

  16-09-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Jed Mercurio’s pacy, tense and bewildering thriller continues with Vanity Fair gamely attempting to keep pace on the other side Continue reading...
  
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• Childish Gambino Plays Last Show at MSG Before Turning Back Into Donald Glover Forever

  16-09-2018 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like some kind of wildly more talented Cinderella, everyone’s favorite rapper Childish Gambino is about to turn back into Donald Glover. Just plain ol’ multi-Emmy Award winning Donald Glover, star and creator of FX’s critically acclaimed Atlanta. While announcing at the outset that this was his last tour as Gambino...More »
  
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• Christopher Nolan Is Taking a Stand Against How His Movies Look On Your TV

  16-09-2018 06:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  If after a long day of watching NFL games, you plan to immediately switch over to Netflix to stream The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan would like a word. You might not know it, but your fancy TV is probably using something called “motion smoothing” that makes all your fun sportsball...More »
  
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• American Vandal Recap: The Truth About Skip Day

  16-09-2018 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Right now, Pete and Sam have two options: Either Kevin is the Turd Burglar, in which case all the attacks were brought on by bullying and alienation, the act of a disaffected and resentful outcast. Or DeMarcus is, in which case they were pranks. Still gross and destructive as hell,...More »
  
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• Actor Dudley Sutton, who played Tinker Dill in Lovejoy, dies aged 85

  16-09-2018 01:12 via theguardian.com
  Sutton’s agent confirms that actor, who also had roles in EastEnders and Holby City, has diedDudley Sutton, who was known for playing Tinker Dill in the TV series Lovejoy, has died aged 85, his agent has confirmed.A statement from Sutton’s agent said he died peacefully on Saturday at the Royal Trinity Hospice in London surrounded by his family, after being diagnosed with cancer. Continue reading...
  
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• BoJack Horseman Recap: The Merry Wives of Peanutbutter

  16-09-2018 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mr. Peanutbutter seems simple on the surface. He’s a good boy. Happy-go-lucky. He loves everything and everyone. And because he never gets too deep to really examine himself, nothing really bothers him. When things go wrong he just finds the new thing that makes him happy. But all of this...More »
  
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• Forever Recap: We Missed It

  16-09-2018 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  We begin “Andre and Sarah” from the vantage point of two characters we haven’t seen before: a black guy named Andre (Jason Mitchell), and an Asian woman named Sarah (Hong Chau). This sixth episode is the best episode in the whole series, full stop. Partly because its narrative center is...More »
  
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