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• Vanity Fair review – lavish, lively, intelligent and funny, never moving at less than a full gallop

  07-10-2018 23:10
  Loose ends were wound up at the end of this adaptation of Thackeray’s novel. It has been a remarkably worthwhile watch, shot through with great performances‘Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.” That is how William Makepeace Thackeray chose to wind up Vanity Fair, dispatching his cast of characters to their varied fates in a few final pages. The TV adaptation of Vanity Fair (ITV) likewise shut up shop with a seventh episode largely
  
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• Everything We Learned About Riverdale Season 3 at New York Comic Con

  07-10-2018 22:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Die hard Riverdale fans were rewarded for not snoozing their alarms on Sunday morning when the 10am New York Comic Con 2018 panel opened with a sneak peek of the season 3 premiere. It was followed by a chat full of juicy clues from KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Luke Perry,...More »
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2018: week three results - as it happened

  07-10-2018 21:30
  Who was the star turn in Movie Week, and who joined Susannah and Anton in being booted off? Heidi Stephens followed all the Strictly action8.30pm BST So that’s IT for Movie Week! Thanks all for joining in, have thoroughly enjoyed this week and it’s shaping up to be a vintage series of Strictly.I’ll be back next Saturday for a return to theme-free dancing (until Halloween), so please join me then. And if you need a liveblog interlude in the meantime, please feel free to pop in f
  
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• Doctor Who Season-Premiere Recap: Stranger in the Night

  07-10-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “So today, I want to talk about the greatest woman I ever met…” — Ryan SinclairWith that declaration begins a new era of Doctor Who, with a brand new cast and crew. This is always an exciting time for this series, particularly with regard to the folks calling the creative...More »
  
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• Venom and Lady Gaga Push Movie-Ticket Sales to an October Record

  07-10-2018 21:01 via nytimes.com
  Huge turnout for “Venom” and “A Star Is Born” gave Hollywood its best October weekend ever. “Venom” came in first place, but both films exceeded expectations.
  
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• The Man in the High Castle Recap: A Light Goes Out

  07-10-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What you can’t conquer, you’ll just destroy.” It’s a line that Juliana Crain says to John Smith, and it rings true for how fascism works in this show and the real world. Thanks in part to writer Wesley Strick, the third-season finale features sharper dialogue than we’ve seen through most...More »
  
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• Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi Played Vampires Together Years Before What We Do in the Shadows

  07-10-2018 20:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Long before their 2015 movie What We Do In the Shadows, co-creators and co-stars Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi were honing their vampire comedy. At the New York Comic Con 2018 panel for the upcoming FX television adaptation of the comedy, the long-time friends revealed the origin of their undead...More »
  
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• Doctor Who review: great Jodie Whittaker debuts in new series with heart(s) and soul

  07-10-2018 20:43
  Chris Chibnall’s opener focuses on a Sheffield adventure rather than the Doctor’s chromosomesWant to discuss Doctor Who? Our episode recap has an open comment threadIf you’re reading this, the world did not end. No galaxies collapsed. No universes imploded. All is as it was – and, possibly, even a little better.Which is to say that, on Sunday night on BBC One, the 13th Doctor – and first female in the role – made her full-episode debut and everyone survived. C
  
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• Review: In ‘Evolution of Mann,’ Fumbling Cuteness Goes Only So Far

  07-10-2018 20:25 via nytimes.com
  An aspiring musical-theater writer is on the hunt for Ms. Right in this familiar romantic comedy.
  
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• R. Kelly’s Ex-Wife Thought She Was ‘Gonna Die’ Due to His Abuse

  07-10-2018 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  All year, reports have been surfacing from multiple women in R. Kelly’s life that detailed his alleged history of sexual and physical abuse against them. Now, his ex-wife Andrea Kelly is speaking out about her 13-year marriage to the musician — they have three children together — and how she...More »
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2018: week three results - live

  07-10-2018 20:10
  Who was the star turn in Movie Week, and who will join Susannah and Anton in being booted off? Heidi Stephens is following all the Strictly action7.10pm BST So in case you didn’t notice it’s MOVIE WEEK, and last night was one of the best episodes of Strictly I’ve seen in ages. I just watched all the dances again (with both eyes this time), and here are my observations:6.59pm BST WAIT, Strictly Results are 7.45pm now? Why did I not get this memo? Is it not enough that you’
  
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• Mike Birbiglia Doesn’t Think ‘Just Having White Dudes’ in Comedy Is Good

  07-10-2018 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comedian Mike Birbiglia sat with Emma Allen for a conversation during the New Yorker Festival this weekend and shared how the documentary National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead made him appreciate diversity in comedy even more. “It was jarringly just white dudes writing comedy in the 70s, like jarringly so,...More »
  
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• Graham Linehan given police warning after complaint by transgender activist

  07-10-2018 18:56
  West Yorkshire force tell Father Ted co-writer not to contact Stephanie Hayden after row on TwitterGraham Linehan, the co-writer of the sitcom Father Ted, has been given a verbal harassment warning by police after a complaint by a transgender activist.Linehan was told by West Yorkshire police not to contact the activist Stephanie Hayden, after a row on Twitter. Continue reading...
  
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• John Mulaney Doesn’t Understand Why Brett Kavanaugh Keeps Bragging About His High School Years

  07-10-2018 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  During the widely watched Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Supreme Court nominee — and now, Associate Justice — Brett Kavanaugh last week, the judge waxed poetic on multiple occasions how fantastic his high school experience was, listing off a bunch of superlatives and academic accolades he was privy to at...More »
  
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• Hong Kong’s move against free speech

  07-10-2018 18:13 via ft.com
  De facto expulsion of the FT’s Asia news editor sends a chilling message
  
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• The Man in the High Castle Recap: The Different Truth

  07-10-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “War is far too grave a matter to go through traditional channels.” So says Trade Minister Tagomi to Reichsmarschall Smith, knowing that he is probably the only person in a position of power in the Nazi regime who can stop World War III. “Baku” brings two of the best characters...More »
  
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• Scott Wilson, actor in The Walking Dead, dies aged 76

  07-10-2018 17:46
  The network calls Wilson’s character on The Walking Dead, veterinarian Hershel Greene, ‘the emotional core of the show’Scott Wilson, who played the murderer Robert Hickock in 1967’s In Cold Blood and was a series regular on The Walking Dead, has died. He was 76. AMC, the show’s network, announced Wilson’s death on Saturday. The network calls Wilson’s character on The Walking Dead, veterinarian Hershel Greene, “the emotional core of the show.”
  
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• Star Trek: Discovery Unveiled Your New Spock and He Is Wearing that Beard

  07-10-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fans of Star Trek: Discovery will soon be throwing up their Vulcan salutes as everyone’s favorite sharp-eared space voyager will debut in the forthcoming second season. At New York Comic Con 2018, a new (bearded!) Spock made his first appearance in a trailer for the new season, set to premiere...More »
  
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• Jim Carrey Received a Very Bad Omen Right Before His SNL Audition

  07-10-2018 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s well reported that auditioning for Saturday Night Live is a harrowing process. Even America’s sweetheart Kevin Hart wasn’t immune to rejection. But what if it’s not your fault you bombed? What if you encountered something traumatizing as you were walking into your audition? At the New Yorker Festival on...More »
  
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• The Good Omens TV Show Was Terry Pratchett’s Last Request

  07-10-2018 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  At New York Comic Con 2018, Neil Gaiman and the cast of forthcoming Amazon Prime series Good Omens talked about the inception and creation of the show, which stars Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Miranda Richardson and Jon Hamm. The six-episode series, about an angel-demon duo and a scrappy group of...More »
  
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• Jughead’s Mom and Sister Are About to Stir Things Up in Riverdale Season 3

  07-10-2018 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  New York Comic Con hosted an epic Riverdale panel at the Hulu Theater in Madison Square Garden on Sunday morning, and it turns out the Jones family Thanksgiving is about to fill out. Jughead Jones will soon be dealing with his mother and sister’s sneaky behavior, as the show has...More »
  
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• SNL Managed to Find the Most Depressing Place in America: A Ted Cruz Rally

  07-10-2018 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  With Beto O’Rourke fever sweeping through the great state of Texas, Ted Cruz is doing everything he can to transform himself into a cool and hip guy worthy of serving another term in the senate. And you know what that means! Hype people blasting t-shirt canons to crowds, basketball stunts,...More »
  
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• Ray Galton obituary

  07-10-2018 16:31
  Half of the supremely talented writing duo who produced popular comedy hits such as Steptoe and Son and Hancock’s Half HourFor three long and bleak years in the late 1940s a teenager with tuberculosis had to endure boredom, depression and a sense of alienation because all the other occupants of his sanatorium were much older. Then another teenager was brought into the ward and one of Britain’s most successful and enduring comedy writing teams was born.The lonely young man was Ray Gal
  
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• Maggie Gyllenhaal Details Her Adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter

  07-10-2018 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Saturday, Elena Ferrante announced in an essay in The Guardian that Maggie Gyllenhaal is adapting her novel The Lost Daughter for film. The story follows a middle-aged, divorced mother on a seaside vacation who explores how she raised her now-adult daughters. The film will be Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut. Later on...More »
  
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• Is ‘A Star Is Born’ Campy, or Have We Forgotten How to Feel?

  07-10-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  We’re so unused to romance and sincerity on the big screen that we’ve become suspicious of our reactions. Perhaps that‘s why some critics are calling it schmaltzy.
  
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• SNL’s Susan Collins Believes Women, Until It’s Time to Stop

  07-10-2018 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  It was a non-stop party in the GOP locker room following Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice, and everyone from the turtle-y Mitch McConnell to the dozens of other White Men are ready to ralph until they boof in celebration! All those fellas and Maine senator Susan Collins,...More »
  
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• Pete Davidson Believes Kanye’s Rant Was One of the Worst Moments in SNL History

  07-10-2018 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Capping off a pretty solid season premiere of SNL last week, Kanye West decided to eschew pleasantries in his sign-off in favor of a bizarre pro-Trump speech, a decision that was met with great derision by some of the cast. Pete Davidson, a guy who admits he knows zero to...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live Recap: Why Didn’t Awkwafina Rap?

  07-10-2018 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the glowing profiles will tell you, 2018 is the year of Awkwafina, a.k.a. Nora Lum. The rapper-turned-actress more than held her own in Ocean’s 8 and, more importantly, gave sweet raunch as the best friend in this summer’s hit Crazy Rich Asians. SNL surely had to invite someone from...More »
  
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• The Man in the High Castle Recap: Genetic Purity

  07-10-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Man in the High Castle asks a number of interesting what-if questions that are embedded in its very concept, one of which arose this episode. If different regimes ran different parts of the United States, how long would it be before World War III broke out on American soil?...More »
  
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• From duplicitous villains to fleshed out characters: is TV finally getting bisexuality right?

  07-10-2018 14:59
  Smallscreen bisexuals have long been cliches, but with shows such as Desiree Akhavan’s new comedy, that is changing. Why are there still so few male bisexuals on screen though?When Desiree Akhavan’s debut film Appropriate Behaviour was released in 2014, she found herself having to do interviews for the first time. As an actor, writer and director, there were plenty of prefixes available, but she started to notice that when she was introduced, it was as something else. “Always a
  
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• The week in radio and podcasts: Escaping NXIVM; The Anatomy of Loneliness; A Life Alone; Music of the Spheres

  07-10-2018 09:00
  An insider’s take on life in a cult, loneliness comes in from the cold and the music of the cosmos echoes through the agesUncover: Escaping NXIVM | CBC Radio
  The Anatomy of Loneliness | BBC Radio 4
  The Documentary: A Life Alone | BBC World Service Podcasts
  The Essay: Music of the Spheres | BBC Radio 3
  I’m a bit late to this one, but friends have alerted me to the none-more-bingeable podcast Escaping NXIVM (pronounced Nexium). From CBC, this is a seven-episode series about a self-impr
  
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• Jill Soloway: ‘My father told me he was trans and it changed my life’

  07-10-2018 09:00
  Jill Soloway’s hit series Transparent turned gender radicalism into a searing family comedy. Now the writer and director has written a compelling memoir. Here, Soloway talks to Sophie Heawood about the joys of life imitating artReading a book about an era of great cultural change is usually an exercise in nostalgia. You start wishing you had been around to see it happen. So it feels rather startling to walk through the sunshine of Paramount Studios in Hollywood to meet Jill Soloway –
  
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• The week in TV: Drowning in Plastic; Horizon – The Placebo Experiment; The Cry and more

  07-10-2018 08:00
  Liz Bonnin’s documentary on plastic pollution was painful to watch; Michael Mosley extolled the placebo’s power; and The Cry was a worthy replacement for BodyguardDrowning in Plastic (BBC One) | iPlayer
  Horizon: The Placebo Experiment (BBC Two) | iPlayer
  The Bank That Almost Broke Britain (BBC Two) | iPlayer
  The Cry (BBC One) | iPlayerA couple of documentaries splashed into this autumn of High Drama with a salt-fresh punch, as shocking and as welcome as that first gasp wading into sn
  
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• John Mulaney Has Another Theory Why Famous Comedians Refuse to Perform at Colleges

  07-10-2018 07:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  In recent years, two very high-profile comedians — Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock — have admitted they refuse to perform at college campuses anymore, owing to a certain level of political correctness that has seeped into modern undergraduate culture. “It was just like, This is not as much fun as...More »
  
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• Sunday's best TV: Doctor Who; Vanity Fair; The Cry

  07-10-2018 07:00
  The Jodie Whittaker era of the sci-fi series gets underway while Becky Sharp is at a low ebb as the period drama concludes6.45pm, BBC One Continue reading...
  
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• Steptoe and Son was a genius creation. We won’t see its like again | Frank Cottrell Boyce

  07-10-2018 06:59
  The flair of Ray Galton, who died last week, lives on in a series of tragicomic charactersIt’s impossible to talk about Ray Galton without talking about Galton and Simpson. It always sounded to me like the name of a light engineering firm. “Galton and Simpson by appointment, artificers of high-class existential comedy.” They were definitely the first scriptwriters whose name I noticed, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who found out from them that scriptwriting was
  
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• Film of daring balloon escape from East revives German identity debate

  07-10-2018 06:59
  Families welcome Ballon, a thriller about their 1979 flight from the GDR, released on reunification’s anniversaryOne of the most spectacular escapes from communist East Germany, in which two families sailed over the heavily fortified border in a homemade balloon, has been recreated as a thriller for the cinema.Ballon, by German director Michael Bully Herbig, tells the true story of the Strelzyks and the Wetzels, who built their balloon in a cellar in Thuringia. a state in the German Democr
  
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• The Walking Dead to Bring Back Three Characters for Season 9

  07-10-2018 05:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  During their panel on Saturday at New York Comic Con, showrunner Angela Kang announced that The Walking Dead would be welcoming back three former characters in season nine. Entertainment Weekly reports that Jon Bernthal, Scott Wilson, and Sonequa Martin-Green are slated to appear in the upcoming season, reprising their former...More »
  
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• Scott Wilson from The Walking Dead Dies at 76

  07-10-2018 05:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Veteran actor Scott Wilson, most recently known for his role as the beloved Hershel Green on The Walking Dead, has passed away at the age of 76. TMZ is reporting that Wilson’s death was the result of complications from leukemia. Wilson had a career that spanned decades, with roles in...More »
  
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• Outlander Screened the Season 4 Premiere at Comic Con and Yes There Was Sexy Stuff

  07-10-2018 03:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The sound you may have heard earlier was 5000 Outlander fans screaming with pure delight. At New York Comic Con 2018, Starz unveiled a surprise screening of the hit drama’s season four premiere and it did not disappoint. The episode introduces us to Claire and Jamie’s new life in America...More »
  
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• Bo Burnham Says Trump ‘Learned Everything’ From His Comedy Central Roast

  07-10-2018 03:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  During a conversation with Bo Burnham at the New Yorker Festival, host Michael Schulman asked the Eight Grade director about Brett Kavanaugh’s yearbook jokes, considering Burnham’s own history as a high school YouTuber. “It’s not about the fucking jokes, but it’s all we have that tangibly points to the thing...More »
  
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• Jimmy Fallon Fondly Recalls NBC Not Wanting Him for Late Night

  07-10-2018 03:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The aughts were a simpler time for the late-night television universe, when Jimmy Fallon reigned over NBC’s Late Night with a goofy fist and even goofier stream of musical impressions. (Jim Morrison singing the “Reading Rainbow” theme song? Classic!) Late Night soon transformed into the coveted Tonight Show gig for...More »
  
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