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• The Cry review – a baby-snatching drama to rival Bodyguard

  30-09-2018 23:00
  Sunday nights on BBC is the hot TV slot – and this psychological thriller is fit to fill itThe creators and cast of The Cry (BBC One) must have been – and stay with me through the thicket of critical jargon that is about to engulf you – bricking it. The Sunday-night-BBC-drama slot remains, whatever fragmented, on-demand, laters-‘taters times we live in, a significant one and appearing in it carries weight. The Cry, however, follows in the wake of Bodyguard – the six
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2018: week two – live

  30-09-2018 20:47
  Week one is done and dusted; time to see the real contenders for this year’s glitterball. It’s the first time that viewers got the chance to vote; so who’s for the plank? 7.47pm BST If I had to pick two dances I really don’t fancy watching again, it would probably be these two. Unless Lee puts his legs on backwards, the outcome is pretty guaranteed. But let’s go through the motions regardless. 7.46pm BST Ashley and Pasha are safely through, along with Stacey and Kev
  
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• ‘Night School’ and Its Real-Life Comedians Beat the Animated ‘Smallfoot’

  30-09-2018 20:35 via nytimes.com
  Starring Tiffany Haddish as a teacher and Kevin Hart as one of her adult students, “Night School” earned $28 million in North America to be No. 1.
  
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• Ted Turner Reveals Dementia Diagnosis

  30-09-2018 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ted Turner, the media mogul who founded CNN in 1980 as the first 24 hour news network, has revealed to CBS that he’s suffering from dementia. Turner told Ted Koppel in an interview on CBS Sunday Morning that he suffers from Lewy body dementia. The neurodegenerative disease is similar to...More »
  
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• Kanye West's pro-Trump remarks prompt boos in SNL studio

  30-09-2018 19:13
  Rapper complains that ‘the blacks always want Democrats’Says he is often asked: ‘How could you like Trump? He’s racist’Kanye West followed his appearance on the 44th Saturday Night Live season premiere with rambling pro-Trump remarks that prompted boos in the studio. Related: Saturday Night Live: Kanye West controversy trumps lame sketchesContinue reading...
  
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• SNL’s Kavanaugh Cold Open Proves How Hard It Is to Do Political Sketch Comedy Now

  30-09-2018 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  How deeply, in the Trump era, I have come to feel a sense of resignation as I approach the cold open of a new episode of Saturday Night Live. As the hour nears, I am pre-exhausted. It is almost always political, in the sense that it features comic actors made...More »
  
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• Adam Driver Becomes Our New Favorite Screaming, Ruthless Oil Baron on SNL

  30-09-2018 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last night’s SNL premiere finally answered the burning question: What if a character like Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood was alive today, with a son in school, and they had a career day? Would he scream at the children? Teach them the ruthless was of oil baronry? Smash...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live: Kanye West controversy trumps lame sketches

  30-09-2018 16:18
  Hot-buttons were brushed, if not fully pushed, and the sketches were more miss than hit on the season openerThere was no way the cold open of Saturday Night Live’s 44th season premiere wouldn’t revolve around the Ford-Kavanaugh Senate hearing, even though the allegations of sexual assault central to it made for highly volatile terrain. With that in mind, the show couldn’t really be blamed for taking the easy route and simply playing up the absurdity of Kavanaugh’s testimo
  
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• Amazon’s King Lear Captures the Heart of a Classic Shakespeare Tragedy

  30-09-2018 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  The color slowly drains out of the new King Lear as it goes along, as if to formalize its depiction of a nation bled dry by its own awfulness. Adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, this BBC Two and Amazon coproduction is a modernized version of William Shakespeare’s epic about...More »
  
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• SNL Deals With the Aftermath of Pete Davidson’s Epic Summer

  30-09-2018 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 44th season of Saturday Night Live premiered last night and wasted no time addressing the big, famous, headline-grabbing elephant in the room. No, not musical guest Kanye West (that came later) but cast member Pete Davidson’s whirlwind romance and engagement to Ariana Grande. The show kicked things off during...More »
  
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• SNL Season-Premiere Recap: Are You Ready for a Lot of Brett Kavanaugh Jokes?

  30-09-2018 15:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ah, the new season of Saturday Night Live: new writers, new featured players, new opportunities for Leslie Jones to give the camera her death stare! And nowhere in the betting pool for the first host: Adam Driver, who kicks off SNL’s 44th season with his second hosting gig. His first...More »
  
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• The Week in Culture: Native Art at the Met; the Fringe Festival in a Ferry

  30-09-2018 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The museum is showcasing 116 masterworks from 50 cultures across North America.
  
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• The week in radio and podcasts: The Shadows; 15 Minute Drama: Get Carter

  30-09-2018 09:00
  Kaitlin Prest’s audio drama about romance is cringey but touching, while Angela Carter’s grim fairytales get a fantastic radio treatmentThe Shadows | kaitlinprest.org
  15 Minute Drama: Get Carter (Radio 4) | iPlayerSome things in life are not for me. Stretchy cheese fondue, needle-thin heels, work dinners where you don’t know who you’ll be sitting next to: nope, nein, non merci. And when it comes to audio, it’s the same. Bantsy lad chats about film, sport or tech; wh
  
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• Here’s the Writing Staff of Saturday Night Live Season 44

  30-09-2018 08:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  SNL’s 44th season premiered last night, and in addition to the writing staff’s new additions of Alan Linc, Alison Gates, Eli Coyote Mande, and Bowen Yang, there was another notable change: Fran Gillespe and Sudi Green were bumped up to writing supervisors.Take a look at the full writing staff below:Head...More »
  
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• The week in TV: Michael Palin in North Korea; Vanity Fair; Bodyguard; Black Earth Rising; Maniac

  30-09-2018 08:00
  The former Python turned 75 in Kim country and Becky Sharp won Waterloo. Plus, a noirish fantasy from NetflixMichael Palin in North Korea (Channel 5) | my5.tv
  Vanity Fair (ITV) | itv.com
  Bodyguard (BBC One) | iPlayer
  Black Earth Rising (BBC Two) | iPlayer
  Maniac (Netflix) | netflix.comAlmost over before it began, Michael Palin in North Korea was a cruelly short, if illuminating, gift from (and to) Channel 5, which must be mildly wondering how it got the Nicest Man on Telly on board, even for two
  
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• Kanye West Replaced SNL’s Goodnight Hugs With, Um, A Speech

  30-09-2018 07:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  So you know how at the end of every SNL episode the cast and host all get together and hug as slow piano music plays and people wave and it’s all nice? Yeah, no this week that warm and fuzzy stuff was replaced with Kanye West performing ‘Ghost Town’ with...More »
  
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• Sunday's best TV: The Cry; Farther and Sun – A Dyslexic Road Trip

  30-09-2018 07:00
  Jemma Coleman excels in a drama that has the potential to fill the Bodyguard slot, while a film-maker and his son consider their shared condition9pm, BBC One
  Don’t be put off by the exposition-heavy first half of the opener to this poignant adaptation of Helen Fitzgerald’s novel. Eventually, the drama takes off and Jenna Coleman excels in the role of Joanna, a mother forced to deal with the repercussions of a terrible event that occurs to her baby when she and her partner Alistair (E
  
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• Zimbabwe’s new artistic freedoms are tested by film on Matabeleland violence

  30-09-2018 06:59
  Documentary on 1980s massacres screened as director faces threatsA film about the massacre of tens of thousands of civilians in Zimbabwe more than 30 years ago was screened on Saturday in Bulawayo, despite a campaign of pressure and intimidation aimed at its director by police and intelligence agents.Observers have described the release of the documentary as a litmus test for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took power in the former British colony when Robert Mugabe was ousted after 37 years in
  
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• The Being Formally Known as Kanye West Performs As a Bottle of Sparkling Water

  30-09-2018 06:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  The “being formally known as Kanye West” who earlier today announced “I am YE” was introduced by host Adam Driver as Kanye West for his first performance on SNL’s season 44 premiere, so, crisis averted. But who needs a name change when you’re a giant bottle of fancy sparkling water?...More »
  
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• Matt Damon Played Brett Kavanaugh on SNL

  30-09-2018 05:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tonight’s SNL season 44 premiere kicked off with a surprisingly faithful re-enactment of Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate testimony. Matt Damon stepped in to play the very yelly and weepy potential Supreme Court justice, who simply couldn’t wait to show the committee his calendar full of nights spent drinking beer and not...More »
  
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• Matt Damon and a Cardboard Cut-Out of Alyssa Milano Open SNL’s 44th Season

  30-09-2018 05:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tonight’s SNL season 44 premiere kicked off with a surprisingly faithful re-enactment of Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate testimony. Matt Damon stepped in to play the very yelly and weepy potential Supreme Court justice, who simply couldn’t wait to show the committee his calendar full of nights spent drinking beer and not...More »
  
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• Falling Barrier Sparks Panic at Global Citizen Festival

  30-09-2018 05:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  At around 7:30pm a falling barrier sparked a panic that sent fans stampeding into fences and over barriers at Saturday night’s Global Citizen Festival in Central Park. A section of the event’s 60,000 attendees fled when rumors of gunshots spread through the crowd after the noise of a barrier falling...More »
  
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• The Deuce Recap: Who Lights the Match?

  30-09-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A 16-year-old girl perishes in a massage parlor fire. Who is responsible for her death? Is it the mobster who set the fire as the latest salvo in an ongoing territory war? Is it Carlos, the parlor manager who forgot to check her room when he was rounding up the...More »
  
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• Gwyneth Paltrow Is Probably Married Right Now

  30-09-2018 03:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s happening! Just a few hours ago People reported that Gwyneth Paltrow was in the process of getting married to Glee co-creator and TV producer Brad Falchuk. So by now she’s probably reached the part of the evening where she does the Electric Slide with her bridal party, which includes...More »
  
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• Gwenyth Paltrow Is Probably Married Right Now

  30-09-2018 03:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s happening! Just a few hours ago People reported that Gwyneth Paltrow was in the process of getting married to Glee co-creator and TV producer Brad Falchuk. So by now she’s probably reached the part of the evening where she does the Electric Slide with her bridal party, which includes...More »
  
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• Kanye West Is Just YE Now Because Sure, Fine, Whatever

  30-09-2018 03:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just a heads up: Kanye West isn’t Kanye West anymore. He would now like to be referred to as YE, or ye, or Ye? It’s hard to be sure, but much like how Kim Kardashian knows better than to uproot her life and move to Chicago because West got an...More »
  
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• Tom Daley discusses fatherhood on Lauren Laverne's first Desert Island Discs

  30-09-2018 01:01
  Diver tells host becoming a father has given him a new emotional distance from sportTom Daley interview: ‘If I hadn’t met Lance, I don’t know if I’d be diving now’Tom Daley, the first Desert Island Discs castaway to be interviewed by Lauren Laverne, reveals fatherhood has given him a new emotional distance from the competitive world of sport.The diver and his husband, the film-maker Dustin Lance Black, announced the birth of Robert Ray in June. Continue reading...
  
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• RuPaul Wants to Make Voting ‘Sexy’ For Young People

  30-09-2018 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the midterm elections only a month away, RuPaul entered Saturday’s DragCon NYC interview with New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow ready to chat politics. While discussing the Kavanaugh hearings, inequality, social justice and other issues, RuPaul asked the pundit what it would take to make more people involved...More »
  
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