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• Tiffany Haddish Used to Put Grapefruits in Her Training Bra

  24-09-2018 23:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  How far have you gone to impress your crush?While promoting their new movie, Night School co-stars Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart sat down with E! News and shared some of the craziest...
  
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• The Faces of Tribeca TV Festival 2018

  24-09-2018 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Laverne Cox, Tracey Ullman, Bryan Cranston, Shark Tank investors, three Real Housewives of New York City cast members, and more stopped by our photo studio at the Tribeca TV Festival at Spring Studios in Soho....More »
  
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• Is Young Thug Having a Moment, or Is It Passing Him By?

  24-09-2018 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Sunday night, Atlanta rapper Young Thug released On the Rvn, about 14 days after he tweeted “Album in 2 days,” announcing its title as On the Run in the next tweet. In the end, pretty much everything changed, from the title to the date to the type of release,...More »
  
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• Oceans Apart: Art and the Pacific with James Fox review – an engaging exploration of Māori culture

  24-09-2018 23:00
  The historian examines artworks that capture the spirit of encounters between the indigenous people of New Zealand and Captain Cook, and how they adapted to outside influencesHere is a sculpture of the Virgin Mary, cradling her baby, naked and standing on a severed head. It is fabulous, one of the best versions of the Madonna and Child you will ever see. She also has tattoos all over her face. “What could be more inappropriate than a tattooed Virgin Mary?” asks the art historian Jame
  
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• Black Earth Rising recap: episode three – can Michael be trusted?

  24-09-2018 23:00
  As the fallout from last week’s plot bombshell descends, Kate is forced to question everything she knows about herself, and the people who surround her Black Earth Rising recap: episode twoThis week, we see the strange emotional dynamic between Michael and Kate develop further. Although they mostly trade flippancies, Michael’s strong protective and paternal feelings towards Kate are always evident; yet clearly he is accustomed to withholding secrets from her, missing pieces in the ji
  
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• Everything You Need to Know About the Original Norwegian Maniac

  24-09-2018 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the run-up to the launch of Netflix’s Emma Stone-Jonah Hill trippy, sci-fi limited series, Maniac, it was almost impossible to avoid one word when reading about the project’s backstory: “loosely.” Yes, creators Cary Joji Fukunaga and Patrick Somerville were remaking a Norwegian series with the same title, but their...More »
  
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• Netflix Orders Historical Roasts Series Starring Jeff Ross

  24-09-2018 22:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  If Drunk History and the Comedy Central Roast had a baby for Netflix, it might look a little something like this bit of news Deadline reported today. Comedy Central Roast/Roast Battle mainstay Jeff Ross will star in a new half-hour series in the works at Netflix titled Historical Roasts, which...More »
  
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• Normal-Sized Man Bob Odenkirk Joins Greta Gerwig’s Little Women

  24-09-2018 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women hasn’t even started production yet and it’s already on the threshold of being too beloved. Deadline reports that Bob Odenkirk is joining a cast that already includes Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, Laura Dern, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlon, James Norton, and...More »
  
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• Attention NFL: Cardi B Just Got Her Third No. 1 Song … With Maroon 5

  24-09-2018 22:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, reports emerged that Maroon 5 is the front-runner for the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show. Today, Cardi B has come along to make the case for why they should probably just be runner-up. Maroon 5 and Cardi B have scored the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot...More »
  
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• Jesse Williams Faces Twitter Backlash After Posting Emmett Till Meme to Promote His New Movie

  24-09-2018 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The light-skin Lord giveth, and the light-skin Lord taketh away: Jesse Williams is facing backlash online after posting a meme (?!) to promote Till, his directorial debut. On Monday afternoon, Williams framed photos of Emmett Till’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley after the Colin Kaepernick Nike ads to, effectively, meme Emmett’s death...More »
  
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• Insecure Recap: Creeping Around

  24-09-2018 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to some dream interpreters, repeated dreams in which one’s teeth fall out suggest a subconscious fear of speaking out, of the power and destruction inherent in your own voice. In this week’s episode, “Obsessed-Like,” Issa is repeatedly jolted awake by such a dream. Morning after morning, she awakens, worries for...More »
  
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• Serial Scores Nearly 3 Million Downloads in Biggest-Ever Season Debut

  24-09-2018 21:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Serial returned with its highly anticipated third season last Thursday, dropping two episodes to kick off an ambitious journey into the heart of Cleveland’s criminal-justice system, the podcast scored its biggest debut yet: More than 1.4 million people downloaded each of the first two episodes within the first 14...More »
  
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• How Maniac’s Creators Approached Mental Illness

  24-09-2018 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers throughout for Netflix’s Maniac.Say what you will about Maniac, but it doesn’t lack for ambition. The new Netflix mini-series is ostensibly an adaptation of a Norwegian show about a delusional man in a mental institution, but director Cary Joji Fukunaga and writer/series creator Patrick Somerville took only the slightest...More »
  
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• Pete Davidson, a Romantic, Says He Was ‘Jerking Off to’ Ariana Grande Before He Met Her

  24-09-2018 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Extremely Britney Spears voice: Pete Davidson knows he’s lucky to be dating Ariana Grande. “I’m a very, very lucky guy. I get it,” the Saturday Night Live star told Howard Stern about his fiancée. Davidson recounted their relationship history — they met in the SNL writers room, had breakups around the...More »
  
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• Labour’s share plan denies workers’ right to cash in

  24-09-2018 21:06 via ft.com
  Predictable business flap over the proposals does not negate its fundamental flaws
  
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• BTS Addresses the United Nations, Solves World Peace

  24-09-2018 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  At a United Nations meeting today focused on youth issues, the extremely popular (no like, extremely popular) South Korean pop group BTS delivered a speech about the “Love Myself” campaign they launched with UNICEF last year, which aims to minimize violence experienced by children. Kim Nam-joon, known by his stage...More »
  
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• Who Makes It Out of Life Itself Intact?

  24-09-2018 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for Life Itself.At the outset, Life Itself seems like it will be a passable melodrama, a perfect late-night salve for insomniacs to peacefully drift into a sweaty nightmare, or a movie meant to be background noise for household chores. It’s a “multigenerational love story,” about a lot things, including...More »
  
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• What Is Going on With Donald Glover’s Foot?

  24-09-2018 20:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  We still don’t know the identity of the person who masqueraded as Atlanta’s Teddy Perkins at the Emmys, and now we’ve got an even murkier Donald Glover investigation to launch. What the hell is going on with his foot? On Sunday, Glover reportedly had to end his Childish Gambino show...More »
  
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• Memo to Bodyguard writers: Muslim women are more than victims or terrorists | Tasnim Nazeer

  24-09-2018 20:24
  At a time when Islamophobic attacks are soaring, it’s despairing to see the BBC pander to dangerous stereotypes of hijab wearers• WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERSFrustratingly, right from the onset of the BBC’s hugely popular drama Bodyguard, we were bombarded with negative stereotypes of Muslim women. We first see a hijab-wearing woman hiding in the toilet of a busy train, about to detonate a vest she is wearing packed with bombs (stereotype one: Muslim woman as terrorist). It then t
  
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• Memo to Bodyguard writers: Muslim woman are more than victims or terrorists | Tasnim Nazeer

  24-09-2018 20:24
  At a time when Islamophobic attacks are soaring, it’s despairing to see the BBC pander to dangerous stereotypes of hijab wearers• WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERSFrustratingly, right from the onset of the BBC’s hugely popular drama Bodyguard, we were bombarded with negative stereotypes of Muslim women. We first see a hijab-wearing woman hiding in the toilet of a busy train, about to detonate a vest she is wearing packed with bombs (stereotype one: Muslim woman as terrorist). It then t
  
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• Benedict Cumberbatch Humbly Recalls Saving a Cyclist From a Robbery

  24-09-2018 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you were getting mugged on the streets of London on a chilly winter night, which Avenger would you want to save you? Captain America, Thor, Iron Man? Wrong. It’s obviously Doctor Strange, not because he’d do some magic and send them all to space but because Benedict Cumberbatch, the...More »
  
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• Weezer’s ‘Africa’ Video Is a Glorious Self-Own

  24-09-2018 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Look what 2018 hath wrought: Weird Al parodying Weezer parodying themselves parodying Toto. In some sort of inane musical inception, Weezer have released the video for their cover of Toto’s “Africa” (a thing one fan actually asked for, to which they delivered) and it stars Weird Al Yankovic as Rivers...More »
  
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• South Park Returns to Comedy Central This Week With a School-Shooting Episode

  24-09-2018 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve been wondering why Comedy Central landed on the “#CancelSouthPark” approach to promoting the 22nd season of South Park, perhaps this new teaser will illuminate things a little bit. The season-premiere episode, which is slated to air this Wednesday, has a fairly unassuming log line (“Randy is desperate to...More »
  
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• Inside the Actors Studio Is Coming Back, But Not With James Lipton

  24-09-2018 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Inside the Actors Studio, the iconic in-conversation series featuring actors talking about their craft, is returning with new episodes on the Ovation network. But sadly, its creator and host James Lipton — whose incredibly earnest screen presence gave way to the Will Ferrell Saturday Night Live impression that in turn gave...More »
  
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• Brockhampton’s Iridescence Is Reckless and Unpredictable

  24-09-2018 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brockhampton’s journey began when de facto leader Kevin Abstract posted “Anyone wanna start a band?” in the KanyeToThe forums, a meeting ground where hip-hop fans discuss music, fashion, gossip, and all things Kanye. By the time the dust settled, Abstract had assembled a collective of nearly a dozen rappers, singers,...More »
  
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• BoJack Horseman beats Bodyguard | Brief letters

  24-09-2018 19:37
  Cartoon’s layers of meaning | Mustn’t-see TV | Labour reselection | Feet on seats | Weather pageRebecca Nicholson’s rave review of BoJack Horseman (A misanthropic cartoon about a washed-up acting horse is both darkly brilliant and full of humanity, G2, 24 September) might also have mentioned the reason so many people rewatch it multiple times. The background detail, which whizzes past, from animals flirting or arguing in a restaurant to the posters in a doctor’s surgery,
  
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• The Object Joss Whedon Will Never Let Go

  24-09-2018 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  For their new book What We Keep, Bill Shapiro and his co-author Naomi Wax asked prominent people to talk about the objects they carry with them through life, from home to home, office to office, place to place. Some of their responses are poignant; some are sentimental; some are a...More »
  
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• CBS All Access Is Making a Murderous Drama From Desperate Housewives’ Marc Cherry

  24-09-2018 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marc Cherry loves writing stories about women who get themselves into sordid situations and apparently CBS All Access does too. CBS’s streaming service announced today that it’s placed a series order for a new show from the creator of Desperate Housewives and Devious Maids called Why Women Kill, which “details...More »
  
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• Here Are Anthony Bourdain’s Last Words in the Parts Unknown Premiere

  24-09-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Sunday night’s premiere of Parts Unknown, the late, great Anthony Bourdain got the final word. After the credits roll on the episode — in which he and W. Kamau Bell visit Kenya — Bourdain reappears onscreen, alone, looking out at the Kenyan savanna to give this closing line. “I...More »
  
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• NBC Chief Bob Greenblatt Is Stepping Down Today

  24-09-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Big changes continue to rock the broadcast TV business: NBC Entertainment chief Robert Greenblatt is stepping down. The news comes nearly eight years after Greenblatt joined the network and just days after the Peacock marked its first full-year household ratings victory in 20 years. Word of Greenblatt’s departure began leaking...More »
  
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• Every Michael Moore Movie, Ranked

  24-09-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One of the mosquito-bite irritations of being on the left is finding your ideals represented in public by Michael Moore.” That quote from Vogue film critic John Powers, written about Moore’s Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine, encapsulates all that’s great and troublesome about the celebrated, divisive filmmaker. More often than not,...More »
  
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• The Woman Who Made Aquaman a Star

  24-09-2018 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  As I sit down at Joshua’s Cafe in Woodstock with Eisner Award-winning artist Ramona Fradon, 91, I can see her sizing up our surroundings. The small, gray-haired comics legend is dressed in the relaxed, Bohemian-looking layers favored by Hudson Valley residents, but her eyes are on high alert, watching the...More »
  
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• Peter Benson obituary

  24-09-2018 18:55
  Veteran stage and screen actor who played Bernie Scripps in the ITV drama series HeartbeatThe actor Peter Benson, who has died aged 75, had a screen and stage career encompassing everything from Shakespeare to musicals and worked with the film directors Michael Crichton and Roman Polanski. However, he will be best remembered as the gaunt and melancholy Bernie Scripps in Heartbeat, the popular television police drama set in 1960s rural North Yorkshire.As well as owning Aidensfield garage, Bernie
  
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• Au Revoir! Céline Dion Is Ending Her Vegas Residency After 8 Years

  24-09-2018 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s the end of a pop era: Céline Dion has announced she’s ending her Las Vegas residency after eight years, with her final show set for June 2019. “I definitely have mixed emotions about this final run. Las Vegas has become my home and performing at the Colosseum at Caesars...More »
  
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• Jane Fonda in Five Acts Is an Intimate Portrait of a Hollywood Legend

  24-09-2018 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What in the world is the matter with Jane Fonda? I feel so sorry for Henry Fonda, who’s a nice man.”That’s Richard Nixon caught on White House tape in 1972, around the time that Jane Fonda, a movie star and Hollywood legacy in the process of reinventing herself as a...More »
  
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• Cosby Has a Mental Disorder and ‘Is Likely to Reoffend’ Says Expert

  24-09-2018 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He is likely to re-offend,” said Kristen Dudley, a psychologist and member of the Pennsylvania Sexual Offenders Assessment Board that conducted an evaluation on Cosby this summer. During Bill Cosby’s sentencing hearing this morning at the Montgomery County Courthouse outside of Philadelphia, Dudley testified about the 81-year-old comedian’s mental health.She...More »
  
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• Russian film director's replica Berlin Wall rejected by city authorities

  24-09-2018 18:18
  The 800-metre recreation for the premiere of Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s film Dau caused safety concernsA controversial art installation that would have rebuilt part of the Berlin Wall in the German capital has been put on hold by city authorities over safety concerns.The brainchild of Russian film director Ilya Khrzhanovsky, who also paid 400 people to live for three years in a recreation of the Stalin-era Soviet Union, Dau Freedom would have immersed visitors in a totalitarian regime in the hear
  
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• Chadwick Boseman Is a People's Choice Awards Finalist! Check Out His Best Roles to Date to Celebrate

  24-09-2018 18:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Wakanda forever!Black Panther fans it's time to get excited because Chadwick Boseman has made a major splash when it comes to the 2018 E! People's Choice Awards.
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• Bill Burr and Al Madrigal Sign Production Deal with Comedy Central

  24-09-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bill Burr and Al Madrigal’s production company All Things Comedy is going into business with Comedy Central. The network announced today that it’s signed a production deal with All Things Comedy, which will include a half-hour stand-up series hosted by Burr, featuring some of his favorite comedians as well as...More »
  
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• Here’s What Could Happen at the Cosby Sentencing

  24-09-2018 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bill Cosby arrived at what’s expected to be a two-day sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse outside of Philadelphia this morning. Rain didn’t deter onlookers from catching a glimpse of the disgraced 81-year-old entertainer, who smiled as he was led into the courthouse on the arm of his handlers.After...More »
  
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• Sissy Spacek Was So Nervous to Meet Robert Redford, She Called Him ‘Bobert’

  24-09-2018 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  After nearly 50 years of knowing each other, The Old Man and the Gun is the first movie Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek have made together. He plays a gentlemanly bank robber; she’s the country woman who dates him. During a Times Talk Friday night in New York City, Spacek...More »
  
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• Moral Orel Paved the Way for the Depressing Cartoons of Today

  24-09-2018 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Breakout animated sitcom hits like The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and Family Guy helped ’90s TV audiences relearn what their Flintstones-watching forebears already knew: Cartoons aren’t just for kids. With the stigma of watching animated shows as a grown-up gradually fading into nonexistence, animated television spent the ensuing decades...More »
  
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• Art installation of replica Berlin Wall rejected by city authorities

  24-09-2018 16:26
  The 800-metre recreation for the premiere of Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s film Dau caused safety concernsA controversial art installation that would have rebuilt part of the Berlin Wall in the German capital has been put on hold by city authorities over safety concerns.The brainchild of Russian film director Ilya Khrzhanovsky, who also paid 400 people to live for three years in a recreation of the Stalin-era Soviet Union, DAU Freedom would have immersed visitors in a totalitarian regime in the hear
  
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• Dorinda Medley Wants Lady Gaga’s Mom to Join The Real Housewives of New York City

  24-09-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Tribeca TV Festival drew a legion of Real Housewives of New York fans Sunday to watch Andy Cohen grill Dorinda Medley, Tinsley Mortimer, and Sonja Tremont Morgan about ten years of Gotham’s favorite reality show. The ladies squabbled and talked over each other much like they do on Bravo,...More »
  
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• Andrea Constand to Give Statement at Bill Cosby Sentencing

  24-09-2018 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Bill Cosby’s sentencing gets under way on Monday in Pennsylvania, he’ll have to face one of his accusers. Andrea Constand, the woman Cosby was found guilty of drugging and raping in 2004, will give her victim impact statement in court ahead of his sentencing, either on Monday or Tuesday,...More »
  
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• SiriusXM to buy Pandora in $3.5bn all stock deal

  24-09-2018 14:36 via ft.com
  Satellite radio group to offer its programming over internet music service
  
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• Peppa Pig: how the ham-fisted cartoon butchered its charm

  24-09-2018 14:00
  While not without its controversies, the porcine kids’ show matured into a true worldwide phenomenon. Then, like Skynet, it became too self-aware
  Kids are morons. You can’t talk to them about Brexit, or Trump, or the theory of everything. No. You have to tackle such philosophical questions as “Why do I have to go to bed?” or “Why do I have to have a bath?” Kids’ TV-viewing habits are equally moronic. Take Peppa Pig, a British cartoon about four-year-old
  
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• Bodyguard audience peaks with 10.4m viewers for series finale

  24-09-2018 13:21
  BBC drama had larger average audience than any other show this year outside World Cup• WARNING: This article is for readers who have seen Bodyguard and contains spoilersBodyguard hit a new ratings high on Sunday night, with 10.4 million viewers tuning in for the final episode of the drama – a larger average audience than any other UK TV programme this year outside the World Cup. Related: 'Barely credible – but who cares?': your Bodyguard reviewsContinue reading...
  
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• Weight Watchers slims down its name to focus on health

  24-09-2018 13:05 via ft.com
  Company to promote ‘wellness’ in response to changing consumer attitudes to dieting
  
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• 'Barely credible – but who cares?': your Bodyguard reviews

  24-09-2018 12:00
  The Guardian said the BBC drama’s finale was an “ultimately unsophisticated resolution” – now it’s over to youBodyguard recap: series one, episode six – the finale WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERSRushed, weak, disappointing – Bodyguard fell apart with extraordinary speed, betraying its haste with almost embarrassing levels of exposition and stepping so far beyond plausibility as to be plain silly. If someone had told me that an entirely different writing team
  
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