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• House of Cards Recap: Going in for the Kill

  04-11-2018 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  In case you were still wondering about the moral compasses of everyone in the HoC universe, and/or you were confused as to the stakes of this series, this penultimate episode clears that right up for you by announcing this much: Literally everyone is capable of murder.And by everyone, I mean...More »
  
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• The Little Drummer Girl recap: episode two – the cast assemble, the plot thickens

  04-11-2018 23:00
  Charlie is drawn in to Kurtz’s team as she and Becker work together to play their roles in foiling the bombers. But who is fooling who?SPOILER ALERT: This recap contains spoilers for episode two of The Little Drummer Girl. You can read the episode one recap here.Peter. Joseph. And now Becker. In a very short time, Alexander Skarsgård’s broad-shouldered but brooding agent has already picked up multiple aliases. As the stubbled yet slippery operative told his newest asset that he
  
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• Altered States: Love Without Limits review – Louis Theroux treads his tightrope

  04-11-2018 23:00
  With his patented tone of careful interest, Theroux unpicked the world of polyamory, or people openly sleeping with other people while their partners keep determinedly smilingWell, it turns out Portlandia didn’t show the half of it. Love Without Limits (BBC Two), the first episode of Louis Theroux’s new documentary miniseries, Altered States, took him to Portland, Oregon, the epicentre of polyamory, or ethical non-monogamy, as it is now called. It is centred on the facility of &ldquo
  
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• Rihanna Endorsed Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum for Governor

  04-11-2018 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rihanna, singer, designer, philanthropist, vlogger, and icon, used her massive platform on Instagram to speak directly to Florida voters ahead of the midterm elections on Sunday. In a post, she endorsed Andrew Gillum, the Tallahassee mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate, and encouraged voters to vote “yes” to restore voting rights...More »
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2018: week seven results - as it happened

  04-11-2018 21:37
  Seann and Katya have departed, but who joined them this week? 8.33pm GMT So that’s IT for another week on planet Strictly! It felt like the first few weeks dragged on for years, but now this series is flying by. Before you know it we’ll be back from Blackpool and arguing about the difference between Movie Week and Musicals Week. Thanks for joining in with all your comments - next week’s pre-Blackpool warm up kicks off at 7pm, so join me then for another turn around the floor. H
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2018: week seven results - live

  04-11-2018 21:33
  Seann and Katya have departed, but who will join them this week? 8.33pm GMT So that’s IT for another week on planet Strictly! It felt like the first few weeks dragged on for years, but now this series is flying by. Before you know it we’ll be back from Blackpool and arguing about the difference between Movie Week and Musicals Week. Thanks for joining in with all your comments - next week’s pre-Blackpool warm up kicks off at 7pm, so join me then for another turn around the floor
  
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• ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Tops Box Office, Overcoming Lackluster Reviews

  04-11-2018 21:06 via nytimes.com
  The Freddie Mercury biopic made about $50 million domestically this weekend, a great figure for a film that cost about $52 million to make.
  
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• Eyeless Congressional Candidate Isn’t Thrilled With Pete Davidson’s SNL Jokes

  04-11-2018 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  While you were all fast-forwarding Pete Davidson’s Weekend Update appearance to see what he would be saying about his ex-fiancé Ariana Grande, you might’ve missed the actual conceit of why he showed up behind the desk to begin with: He gave some “first impressions” about various Republican and Democratic candidates...More »
  
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• Doctor Who recap: series 37, episode 5 – The Tsuangra Condundrum

  04-11-2018 20:50
  Team Tardis ends up in a sticky spot and the Doctor isn’t feeling too well in an episode that gives Tosin Cole a chance to show his classSPOILER ALERT: this weekly blog is for those who are watching the new series of Doctor Who. Don’t read ahead if you haven’t seen episode five, The Tsuangra Condundrum. Continue reading...
  
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• Bohemian Rhapsody Is Having Such a Good Time, It’s Having a Ball At the Box Office

  04-11-2018 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shhhh, Rami Malek and his fake teeth wouldn’t mind the conflation of the two bangin’ tunes in this headline. Despite its rather chaotic journey to the screen, the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody won this weekend’s box office by bringing in $50 million in the domestic market. EW reports that these...More »
  
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• Demi Lovato Is Out of Rehab

  04-11-2018 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Demi Lovato is out of rehab, according to TMZ. Over the weekend, she reportedly left the rehab facility she was admitted to nearly three months ago and was photographed leaving a restaurant on Saturday night. Lovato entered rehab in July, after suffering from a nearly fatal overdose and experiencing severe...More »
  
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• Hey TV Writers, Your Frasier Reboot Ideas Are Lacking ‘the Necessary Fire’

  04-11-2018 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The promise of even more tossed salads and scrambled eggs have been floating around in small-screen purgatory since Kelsey Grammer expressed interest in rebooting Frasier earlier this year, even if he’s cooled on the idea a little bit after realizing, uh, doing a good reboot is hard. However, while attending...More »
  
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• Universal targets Africa for growth in music streaming

  04-11-2018 17:31 via ft.com
  Sub-Saharan region seen as ripe for digital streaming while music industry seeks new markets
  
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• SNL’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders Is Now a Spokesperson for Extra Strength Quaaludes

  04-11-2018 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Being forced to lie day after day to the American public is finally taking its toll on Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her sleep schedule, so much so that she’s succumbed to taking an iconic trio of melatonin, extra strength quaaludes, and what Michael Jackson’s doctor called “one-and-dones” to get a...More »
  
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• The Soros conspiracy theory goes global

  04-11-2018 16:54 via ft.com
  Billionaire has become hate figure on right in both Europe and US
  
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• House of Cards Recap: Birth and a Nation

  04-11-2018 16:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  This HoC season has somehow become obsessed with pregnancy. It’s all about abortion, babies, and, as we learn at the end of this episode, the reveal that Claire is pregnant with what she says is Frank’s child. I am underwhelmed by all of this. Honestly, with Frank out of the...More »
  
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• Alec ‘Disgraced Former Actor’ Baldwin Doesn’t Get Away Unscathed on SNL

  04-11-2018 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  What, you thought Alec Baldwin’s pals in Studio 8H would give him immunity for allegedly engaging in some fisticuffs — some fisticuffs that got him arrested — over an East Village parking spot? As if! This is New Yawk, baby! Watch until the end of this cold open and your...More »
  
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• Daredevil Recap: Hey Matt, Remember Your Friends?

  04-11-2018 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Daredevil can’t build momentum to save its life. Why does it have a baffling compulsion to follow up its show-stopper episodes by … stopping the show? When done right, this can admittedly be effective—“Aftermath” was a very good episode that did a lot of work to do narrative justice to an...More »
  
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• Pete Davidson Takes 15 Precious SNL Seconds to Discuss His Break-Up

  04-11-2018 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alright, you gossip queens out there. The SNL moment you were (maybe) waiting for this week came during Weekend Update, when a seemingly fresh-from-Sing-Sing Pete Davidson deviated from his voting monologue to address the tiny, cute elephant in the room: The recent drama surrounding his break-up with Ariana Grande. And...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live Recap: Jonah Hill Earns His Five-Timers’ Jacket

  04-11-2018 15:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  An unusual number of guest hosts joined SNL’s gilded Five Timer’s Club during the last stretch of season 42. Tonight, Jonah Hill joins the ranks of those recent additions—Scarlett Johansson, Dwayne Johnson, and Melissa McCarthy—and those repeated invites since his initial gig in 2008 make perfect sense. His boyish and...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live: midterms angst and ‘disgraced actor Alec Baldwin’

  04-11-2018 13:28
  Jonah Hill hosted and the cast played expertly on liberals’ greatest fear – that the longed-for ‘blue wave’ won’t happenReturning from a two-week hiatus, the show kicks off with a special report from Fox News’s Laura Ingraham – Kate McKinnon, appropriately wooden and soulless – on the migrant caravan. According to Ingraham, “dozens, maybe millions” of immigrants, including “Guatemalans, Hondurans, Mexicans, Isis and the 1990 Detro
  
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• The X Factor forced to cancel live public vote over sound problems

  04-11-2018 12:52
  Viewers will be allowed to vote on Sunday night’s programme insteadThe X Factor was forced to cancel its live public vote on Saturday night after sound issues left contestants with distorted robotic voices during the primetime ITV programme.Two performances were ruined by the glitch, which left major sound issues during songs by Danny Tetley and Anthony Russell as well as distorting the voices of the X Factor judges, with some viewers comparing the experience to listening to Daleks. Contin
  
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• Raymond Chow, Movie Producer Who Popularized Kung Fu Stars, Dies at 91

  04-11-2018 11:21 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Chow, who co-founded the Golden Harvest studio, helped propel Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan to global fame.
  
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• Sky to cut number of betting commercials

  04-11-2018 11:00 via ft.com
  Public concern mounts about problem gambling
  
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• China student speaks of harassment over protests

  04-11-2018 09:05 via ft.com
  Complaints follow Cornell’s suspension of exchanges with Renmin over academic freedom 
  
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• The week in TV: The Little Drummer Girl; The First; House of Cards and more

  04-11-2018 08:00
  The BBC’s new Le Carré was a wonderfully gloomy trip across the globe, while Sean Penn shone on a mission to MarsThe Little Drummer Girl (BBC One) | iPlayer
  The First (C4) | All 4
  House of Cards (Netflix)
  Hitler’s Holocaust Railways C5)
  Black Earth Rising (BBC Two) | iPlayer
  The Great British Bake Off (C4) | All 4“If you saw The Night Manager,” intoned the continuity, breathlessly, “or even if you didn’t, you will not want to miss this.” Sorry, bu
  
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• Sunday's best TV: Louis Theroux's Altered States; The Little Drummer Girl

  04-11-2018 07:00
  The documentary-maker explores polyamory in a new series on shifting social norms, while the spy drama serves up a brilliantly plotted episode 9pm, BBC Two Continue reading...
  
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• Jonah Hill Is Welcomed Into a Post-Time’s Up 5 Timers Club on SNL

  04-11-2018 06:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Five-Timers Club has cleaned house since the #MeToo movement began. Jonah Hill was welcomed into the Five-Timers fold by Candice Bergen, Tina Fey, and Drew Barrymore. All the famous men in the club had been kicked out for various perceived transgressions. Tom Hanks is out because “Woody” is a...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live is Really, Really Nervous About the Midterms

  04-11-2018 06:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  The blue wave is coming! Isn’t it? Please tell me it is. Saturday Night Live echoed liberal America’s hopes and fears for Tuesday in a fake spot for Democrats. “They say don’t trust the polls, but I’m choosing to,” shakily intoned Kate McKinnon as she tried to arrange flowers while...More »
  
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• Ariana Grande Drops “Thank u, next” Half an Hour Before SNL

  04-11-2018 05:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reigning Queen of Petty Ariana Grande has released her new single “Thank u, next” shortly before 11 p.m. EST. That’s half an hour before Saturday Night Live. It was widely reported that her ex, dǝʇǝ pɐʌᴉpsou, pulled a sketch about their breakup earlier this week. Apparently commenting on the relationship...More »
  
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• It Was-a Him, Mario

  04-11-2018 02:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mario Segale, the man who inspired Nintendo’s flagship character, has died. He was 84. Born in 1934, Segale rented space to Nintendo US when the company was developing Donkey Kong. Originally, the plumber we all know as Mario was called “Jumpman.” That changed when Segale stormed into Nintendo’s offices demanding...More »
  
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• Justin Bieber Declares Love for Hailey Baldwin with Face Tattoo

  04-11-2018 01:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pete Davidson might be getting lots of Ariana-themed ink covered up, but that hasn’t deterred lovebirds/newlyweds(?) Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin. Speaking to Page Six TV, tattoo artist Bang Bang revealed that Baldwin and Bieber secretly got couples’ tattoos, and that Bieber’s is on his face.“Justin’s tattoo is on his...More »
  
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