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• Back to Life review – this darkly comic gem is an ideal Fleabag replacement

  22-04-2019 23:55
  Daisy Haggard plays an thirtysomething ex-con moving back in with her parents in a show that, without a false note, moves deftly between grief and laughterA few episodes into Back to Life, I felt like pushing it away in protest. “No, no!” I cried inwardly. “It’s too much! It’s too good! I’m still processing Fleabag and Home, and I haven’t sucked the juice out of Don’t Forget the Driver yet. I have to stagger my pleasures, lest I die of a surfeit of
  
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• 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend

  22-04-2019 23:44 via nytimes.com
  Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
  
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• Walt Disney heir says paying chief executive £50.5m is 'insane'

  22-04-2019 18:48
  Abigail Disney complains that Bob Iger receives 1,424 times more than company averageAn heir to the Walt Disney fortune has described the $65.6m (£50.5m) paid to the company’s chief executive, Bob Iger, as “insane”.Abigail Disney, an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and granddaughter of the Disney co-founder Roy Disney, said it was outrageous that Iger was paid 1,424 times more than the company’s average pay for an employee last year. Iger’s 2018 pay package incre
  
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• Friends without benefits: how Joey and Rachel’s fling killed off the sitcom

  22-04-2019 14:00
  Season 10 was a low point for Friends, but the real issue was the gang taking ‘I’ll be there for you’ a bit too literallyStuff a bunch of rats in a cage with no food or water and they’ll end up trying to eat each other. Stuff a bunch of rats in a cage with enough water and food and they’ll end up trying to have sex. The same was invariably going to happen with Messrs and Mses Bing, Geller, Tribbiani, Buffay, Geller and Green. They’re caged in their New York ap
  
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• This week's Game of Thrones was a booze-fest – and the most moving episode yet

  22-04-2019 13:00
  Wine was glugged, songs were sung, and things got emotional in what might serve as the final chance to hang out with some of our favourite charactersThis article contains spoilers for season eight, episode two of Game of ThronesHow do you kill time before the actual time for killing? Perhaps you amuse yourself with wordplay. Episode two of the final season of Game of Thrones was called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a grand and unusually courtly title for a drama defined by political opportunis
  
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• This week's Game of Thrones: a booze-fest – and the most moving episode yet

  22-04-2019 13:00
  Wine was glugged, songs were sung, and things got emotional in what might serve as the final chance to hang out with some of our favourite charactersThis article contains spoilers for season eight, episode two of Game of ThronesHow do you kill time before the actual time for killing? Perhaps you amuse yourself with wordplay. Episode two of the final season of Game of Thrones was called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a grand and unusually courtly title for a drama defined by political opportunis
  
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• Game of Thrones recap: season eight, episode two – A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

  22-04-2019 09:48
  Forgiveness, redemption and bedroom action were to the fore in an episode that served as a satisfying curtain-raiser for the coming mayhemSpoiler alert: this recap is published after Game of Thrones airs on HBO in the US on Sunday night and on Foxtel in Australia on Monday. Do not read unless you have watched episode one of season eight, which airs in the UK on Sky Atlantic on Monday at 2am and 9pm, and is repeated in Australia on Showcase on Monday at 7.30pm AEST. Continue reading...
  
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• Could you beat Leo to the buzzer? Take our superhard University Challenge quiz

  22-04-2019 07:00
  Ahead of tonight’s final, we asked the question setters to share some of their toughest starters for 10. How many can you get right? 'Together with Annie Lennox’s Diva and Madonna’s Blonde Ambition tour … (it) put female desire at the heart of mass popular entertainment.' These words refer to Ingénue, a song cycle by which Canadian singer-songwriter?kd langAlanis MorissetteCéline DionUnder its colonial name, which leading producer of cocoa beans made its on
  
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• TV tonight: Sara Pascoe is back with more anxious, ribald brilliance

  22-04-2019 06:59
  The comedian’s show is inspired by the breakdown of a relationship, while new programme The Customer Is Always Right is a dowdier Dragons’ Den. Here’s what to watch this eveningWhile the comedian’s last show, Animal, was all about the human body, her follow-up, LadsLadsLads, is a more personal endeavour, inspired by the breakdown of a four-year relationship. Even so, it’s heavy on the same anxious, ribald brilliance as its predecessor. This programme, recorded on th
  
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: Taylor Mac’s ‘Gary’ Finds Hope and Humor on a Pile of Corpses

  22-04-2019 03:45 via nytimes.com
  This comedic sequel to “Titus Andronicus” finds Nathan Lane and Kristine Nielsen cleaning up after a Shakespearean blood bath.
  
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