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• Years and Years review – a glorious near-future drama from Russell T Davies

  14-05-2019 23:00
  Trump gets a second term, robots perform sexual favours and humans can upload their minds to the cloud in Davies’ thrilling new show, which follows one family from 2019 to 2034
  I don’t feel we deserve Russell T Davies. We don’t deserve his talent, his generosity, his glee, his unabashed joy in everything. And we don’t deserve his ceaseless willingness to pour them all out before us in endlessly glorious TV dramas, from his singlehanded resurrection of Doctor Who to Queer
  
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• Tim Conway, Beloved Bumbler on ‘The Carol Burnett Show,’ Is Dead at 85

  14-05-2019 21:55 via nytimes.com
  Best known for his long tenure on the comedy-variety show, Mr. Conway was a leading non-leading man and an enduringly popular clown.
  
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• Trilobites: Striking Down the Queen Won’t Save You From the Swarm

  14-05-2019 21:37 via nytimes.com
  It’s a common trope in science fiction, but hives in nature are not dependent on any central node for their function.
  
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• MTV Movie & TV Awards 2019: The Complete List of Nominations

  14-05-2019 21:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  The nominations for the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards are finally here!
  MTV revealed this year's contenders on Tuesday--and fans definitely recognized a few familiar...
  
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• Tim Conway, Beloved TV Bumbler, Is Dead at 85

  14-05-2019 20:38 via nytimes.com
  Best known for his long tenure on “The Carol Burnett Show,” Mr. Conway was a leading non-leading man and an enduringly popular clown.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: A Rollicking Trek ‘Around the World in 80 Days’

  14-05-2019 20:11 via nytimes.com
  Laura Eason’s adaptation of the Jules Verne novel is a reminder of how to make stage magic from simple elements.
  
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• US private equity groups’ €5.7bn bid for Scout24 collapses

  14-05-2019 19:36 via ft.com
  Offer for German classifieds group failed to garner sufficient shareholder support
  
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• ‘The Third Wife’ Review: Cruelty and Sensuality in 19th-Century Vietnam

  14-05-2019 19:34 via nytimes.com
  Ash Mayfair’s film paints a clear, unnervingly seductive picture of life in a strictly patriarchal society.
  
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• Cannes Film Festival: Jury Head Alejandro González Iñárritu Praises Netflix

  14-05-2019 19:17 via nytimes.com
  The streaming service’s films have run into intense opposition from French theater owners, but the director sees a place for them in the festival.
  
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• Home Is Where the Greek Drama Is

  14-05-2019 18:51 via nytimes.com
  The choreographer and performance artist Ann Liv Young is using her Bushwick apartment — and her daughters and animals — in her version of “Antigone.”
  
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• Bond fans look forward to driving Goldfinger Aston Martin

  14-05-2019 18:50
  DB5 from Goldfinger film will feature battering rams, retractable bulletproof glass and ability to produce oil slicksIf they’re rich enough, James Bond fans will soon be able to live out their fantasies of driving 007’s Aston Martin DB5, the one featured in Goldfinger, complete with Q-branch gadgetry including revolving number plates, rear smokescreen and simulated twin machine guns concealed in the headlights.The historic British carmaker announced on Tuesday that it is producing 25
  
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• Jeremy Kyle Show suspended after guest's death – video report

  14-05-2019 18:46
  Jeremy Kyle’s programme was taken off air to 'protect the show' from adverse reaction, ITV’s chief executive said on Tuesday. The broadcaster is facing pressure from MPs to drop the programme permanently following the death of a guest who failed a lie detector testJeremy Kyle: ITV says it acted to protect show after guest's death
  Jeremy Kyle Show suspended following death of guestContinue reading...
  
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• Nicholas Hoult Reveals What It's Really Like to Work With Ex Jennifer Lawrence on X-Men

  14-05-2019 18:40 via feeds.eonline.com
  They'll always have X-Men.Though Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult split in 2014, the friendly exes have continued working together on the franchise that introduced them way back...
  
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• Maya Rudolph Tells Obnoxious Hypothetical Journalists to ''Suck My D--k'' on Busy Tonight

  14-05-2019 18:27 via feeds.eonline.com
  The women of Wine Country have been making great content for decades.So it's pretty bizarre that some journalists still start interviews with Maya Rudolph and say, "Well,...
  
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• Cannes 2019: jury speaks out against 'rage and anger' of populist politicians

  14-05-2019 18:04
  Jury president Alejandro González Iñárritu takes aim at Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant policiesA familiar trio of topics – Netflix, gender disparity and Donald Trump – were on the agenda as the this year’s Cannes film festival got under way.At the press conference introducing this year’s festival jury, its president, Birdman and The Revenant director Alejandro González Iñárritu, took aim at Trump and offered support to theatr
  
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• Cate Blanchett Is 50! Look Back at All Her Iconic Roles From Elizabeth to Ocean's Eight to Celebrate

  14-05-2019 17:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Today is Cate Blanchett's birthday so we've renamed it Cate Blanchett Day! It has a nice ring to it, don't you think?The Oscar-winning actress is basically Australian...
  
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• 'We wanted to hack your television!' – how yoof TV changed the world

  14-05-2019 16:11
  It covered the rise of MDMA, staged gay weddings and introduced us to Magenta Devine. The team behind Network 7 relive the maniaWhen the sad news of Magenta Devine’s death came earlier this year, the tributes focused on two things: the striking image she always presented to camera (never seen without her trademark shades) and the fact that she was the undisputed champion of “yoof TV”. The late 80s and early 90s genre has long been derided by the snooty mainstream. But you only
  
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• George Clooney Told Ben Affleck Not to Play Batman

  14-05-2019 16:07 via feeds.eonline.com
  "Don't do it.
  Such was the warning George Clooney issued to his former co-star Ben Affleck when the opportunity to play Batman came along. As the Catch-22 star revealed on The...
  
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• Disney to take full control of Hulu in Comcast deal

  14-05-2019 15:29 via ft.com
  Agreement would give video streaming service a minimum valuation of $27.5bn
  
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• Mel Gibson casting in Rothchild comedy sparks outrage

  14-05-2019 14:51
  News of the film, set among the New York super-rich, attracts criticism in wake of the actor’s previous controversiesA wave of condemnation has greeted the announcement of a new film starring Mel Gibson, in which the actor is due to play a character called Whitelaw Rothchild, the patriarch of a wealthy family.The film, called Rothchild, is being offered to buyers at Cannes, and is described as a “dark comedy” and “an action-packed cautionary tale on wealth and power&rdquo
  
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• George RR Martin scorns 'absurd' claims he's finished writing Game of Thrones

  14-05-2019 14:48
  Actor Ian McElhinney, who played Ser Barristan Selmy in HBO’s adaptation, claimed last month that the author had ‘struck an agreement’ with the TV channelGeorge RR Martin has rebuffed the rumour that he has secretly finished the final two books in his Song of Ice and Fire series, after a Game of Thrones actor made the claimlast month.Speculation began spreading online after actor Ian McElhinney, who played Ser Barristan Selmy in the HBO adaptation, made the claim on 29 April at
  
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• An Appraisal: Doris Day: A Hip Sex Goddess Disguised as the Girl Next Door

  14-05-2019 13:13 via nytimes.com
  Celebrated and misunderstood, Doris Day embodied the American mainstream and scrambled all its codes.
  
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• Bond film delayed again after Daniel Craig hurt

  14-05-2019 12:58
  Shooting suspended after star injured his ankle, adding another setback for the spy franchiseProduction on the latest Bond film has been delayed again, after star Daniel Craig injured his ankle while filming an action sequence in Jamaica.According to the Sun, Craig slipped and fell while running, and the subsequent ankle injury resulted in him being flown to the US for treatment. Filming scheduled to take place at Pinewood studios in London has been postponed. Continue reading...
  
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• Surfacing: A Queer Film Festival in Tunisia — Where Being Gay Is Illegal

  14-05-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  “It is normal to be queer, to be different, and we have the right, of course, to exist.”
  
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• How we made Parks and Recreation, by Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman and Mike Schur

  14-05-2019 10:57
  ‘Ron is based on a real person: a libertarian with a kick-ass moustache who hates government but loves red meat, hunting and woodwork’Mike Schur and I worked together at Saturday Night Live; he wrote Leslie with me in mind. She was this optimistic, determined person with very little power but big aspirations. She evolved over time, but the idea of this person who was motivated by the hopeful spirit of the government employee, and how one can stay inspired when they keep getting knock
  
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• Tony Awards 2019: Who Will Win (and Who Should)

  14-05-2019 10:00 via nytimes.com
  The chief theater critics for The Times choose who they think should win and who should have been nominated.
  
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• Heavenly or Hellish? Our Critics Debate the Broadway Season

  14-05-2019 10:00 via nytimes.com
  Adventurous directors and galvanizing performances made for unexpected — and very welcome — departures on what once felt like the Staid White Way.
  
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• How The Good Fight became TV's most political drama

  14-05-2019 09:00
  The third season of the ever-topical legal drama has delivered a torrent of righteous anger but has it gone too far?Since it began in 2017, The Good Fight has been brilliant and often astounding television. The legal side of the story quickly morphed into an anarchic political drama with only a sprinkling of courtroom action, taking its cue from its predecessor, The Good Wife, which followed a similar path. It has built on those foundations with an admirable lack of regard for decorum, and there
  
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• Latest Game of Thrones episode sends curveball to children named Khaleesi

  14-05-2019 08:07
  WARNING: contains spoilers from season eight, episode five. Sharp change of fortune for dragon queen leaves many wondering about the thousands named after her WARNING: contains spoilers from season eight, episode five.Among those feeling most horrified as they watched Daenerys Targaryen’s mass-murderous turn in this week’s Game of Thrones episode were surely some of the parents who had named their daughters after the dragon queen. Continue reading...
  
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• Fifteen minutes of prestige: how Hollywood went long on short content

  14-05-2019 08:00
  Short-form content has graduated from YouTube to attracting big stars, big studios and big Hollywood backing. Is watching in snippets the future of TV?State of the Union opens in a bar, where Tom (Chris O’Dowd) and Louise (Rosamund Pike) hash out an agenda for their marital therapy session over drinks and witty diversions. The two banter and alternately confront and avoid the flailing state of their marriage, before the scene cuts at the therapist’s door.And by scene, I mean episode.
  
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• TV tonight: the Eurovision juggernaut reaches the semi-finals

  14-05-2019 07:20
  Rylan Clark-Neal and Scott Mills present live from Tel Aviv. Plus: the latest dramatic masterpiece from Russell T Davies. Here’s what to watch this eveningIt is like Eurovision Christmas Eve, as 17 acts of variable quality and sequinned ridiculousness compete for a place in Saturday’s main event. Charisma juggernaut Rylan Clark-Neal, presenting live from Tel Aviv with Scott Mills, is the ideal host. Among the delights are a Depeche-Mode-loving folk quartet from Poland, a shouty prote
  
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• All Black Everything

  14-05-2019 06:07 via nytimes.com
  John Singleton put black lives on the big screen.
  
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• Review: In ‘Curse of the Starving Class,’ a House Is Really Divided

  14-05-2019 03:45 via nytimes.com
  Terry Kinney’s unbalanced Sam Shepard revival, with Maggie Siff and David Warshofsky, finds the prophecy in a wild and woolly play from the 1970s.
  
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• See Angelina Jolie in First Trailer for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

  14-05-2019 02:49 via feeds.eonline.com
  Angelina Jolie is back and better than ever.It's been over five years since the release of Disney's Maleficent and people can hardly wait for the character to return to the big...
  
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