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• What We Do In the Shadows review – the undead prove dead funny

  19-05-2019 23:35 via theguardian.com
  This seductive blood-sucking comedy about the everyday struggles of a gang of vampire housemates in New York is silly, deadpan and full of killer gagsTelevision loves a good vampire, but for some reason, the eternal torment of immortal parasitic killers tends to lend itself more to melodrama than humour. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s perpetually unfortunate sexual attraction to the undead, to the Twi-lite of The Vampire Diaries, bloodsucking fiends are usually much less funny than they a
  
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• Gentleman Jack review: Suranne Jones rocks Halifax as the first modern lesbian

  19-05-2019 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Sally Wainwright has turned Anne Lister’s diary into a thrilling coal-town romp that flirts with parodyIt’s Regency Fleabag! Because the heroine occasionally breaks the fourth wall and exteriorises her inner monologue. But it’s set in Halifax in 1832, so it could be Northern Jane Austen. Then again, it’s about Anne Lister, who – since her 4 million-word diary came to light and particularly the encoded sections were deciphered – has been dubbed the first modern
  
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• Review: ‘The Pink Unicorn’ Leads a Mother Into Unknown Territory

  19-05-2019 22:47 via nytimes.com
  In Elise Forier Edie’s play, Alice Ripley plays a conservative Texas parent inspired to fight for the rights of her child’s gender identity.
  
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• As ‘Rocketman’ Prepares to Take Off, Hollywood Holds Its Breath

  19-05-2019 21:31 via nytimes.com
  Depending on ticket sales, the R-rated musical fantasia about Elton John could have ripple effects for its star, its studio and the wider film industry.
  
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• ‘John Wick: Chapter 3’ Puts Keanu Reeves Back on Top at the Box Office

  19-05-2019 20:20 via nytimes.com
  The R-rated thriller was No. 1 in North America with $57 million in ticket sales, by far a series best. Two other new wide-release movies flopped.
  
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• Inside the Five Best ‘John Wick’ Action Scenes

  19-05-2019 18:00 via nytimes.com
  We asked the director how the franchise’s greatest sequences came to be. His answers involved phrases like “theater of pain.”
  
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• Saturday Night Live finale: Baldwin-Trump sings Queen and panics Pence

  19-05-2019 16:55 via theguardian.com
  The finale fitted the season: some good ideas, Kate McKinnon shining, a sincere message let down by a previous misstepThe season finale opens with a message from Alec Baldwin’s Trump. He’s excited for summer, when he’ll get to indulge in activities he “never has time for”, such as “golf, visiting friends in prison and enjoying all the fantastic new tariffs from Gina”. Related: No holds Barred: Trump and his troops push for imperial presidencyContinue rea
  
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• Julianna Margulies on her shocking Ebola drama: 'I panicked in my hazmat suit!'

  19-05-2019 16:30 via theguardian.com
  The star of ER and The Good Wife is back – as a doctor fighting to save humanity. She gives her bodyguard the slip to talk about our imperilled planet – and her love of Sussex A-roadsBefore I meet Julianna Margulies, I spend three days staring at her bodyguard. He’s impossible to miss: one of those men whose every attempt to blend in flounders. Margulies and I are in Lille, judges at the Series Mania television festival, although our experiences differ a little. My cloak of ano
  
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• Martin Sorrell’s S4 faces investor revolt over pay

  19-05-2019 16:03 via ft.com
  Proxy advisers Glass Lewis and ISS attack marketing group’s long-term bonus scheme
  
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• Jessie and Lennie Ware: ‘We don’t want to turn into the Kardashians’

  19-05-2019 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Mother and daughter on their Table Manners podcast – and the day it all went wrong at Pete Tong’sThere is a poacher turned gamekeeper feel to interviewing Jessie and Lennie Ware over lunch. It’s usually them, in their double-act Table Manners podcast, doing the grilling – while doing the grilling. The 34-year-old singer-songwriter and her irrepressible mother have had all sorts of guests for supper: Sadiq Khan, Yotam Ottolenghi, Ed Sheeran (with whom Jessie wrote her bigg
  
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• Is Arya Death? The questions we need answered in Game of Thrones

  19-05-2019 13:00 via theguardian.com
  The saga comes to a close in what promises to be an epic finale. But who will kill Daenerys, will Bran warg again – and are the White Walkers gone for good?
  Warning: this article contains spoilers.Many of the big season eight questions have already been answered, like how the White Walkers are defeated, how Cersei bites the dust, and whether or not the showrunners knew where they were going all along. After a, shall we say, divisive penultimate episode, we are left with a deeply twisted ha
  
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• Saturday Night Live: Paul Rudd affable, Trump cold open laughable

  19-05-2019 12:46 via theguardian.com
  The finale fitted the season: some good ideas, Kate McKinnon shining, a sincere message let down by a previous misstepThe season finale opens with a message from Alec Baldwin’s Trump. He’s excited for summer, when he’ll get to indulge in activities he “never has time for”, such as “golf, visiting friends in prison and enjoying all the fantastic new tariffs from Gina”. Related: No holds Barred: Trump and his troops push for imperial presidencyContinue rea
  
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• In the end, Game of Thrones needed better writers

  19-05-2019 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Without George RR Martin, the last seasons of the TV spectacular lost their way, says the Observer columnist and GoT enthusiastThe failure of the final season of Game of Thrones has its cheerful side. Despite the assumptions of “creative industry” executives, the collapse in advances to novelists, the downsizing of serious journalism, and the web appearing to rule that the monetary value of the written word is precisely nothing, it turns out writers are not interchangeable.For as lon
  
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• All shows must die: can Game of Thrones avoid curse of the TV finale?

  19-05-2019 10:00 via theguardian.com
  As the light fades on Westeros, with almost inevitable fan disappointment to follow, we look at shows that got their last act right – and those who failedWarning: this article contains spoilersAt 2am on Monday morning thousands of people across the country will stumble out of bed to watch the final episode of TV’s biggest show, Game of Thrones. Continue reading...
  
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• When Jodie Comer met Stephen Graham: the secret behind Killing Eve star’s big break

  19-05-2019 08:59 via theguardian.com
  A call to Virtues actor’s agent kickstarted the career of Bafta award-winnerWhen Jodie Comer gave an emotional acceptance speech at last weekend’s Bafta awards, the star of Killing Eve singled out one man, a fellow Liverpudlian actor, for kickstarting her career. “I want to take this moment to thank Stephen Graham,” she said. “If I didn’t owe you a pint before then, I do now. Thank you for the generosity you showed me all those years ago.”While many in t
  
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• The week in TV: Years and Years; The Virtues; Mum and Game of Thrones

  19-05-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Russell T Davies’s state of the nation drama traces the Lyons family fortunes with wit and thrills, while Stephen Graham is shockingly good as a traumatised man seeking his pastYears and Years BBC One | iPlayer
  The Virtues Channel 4 | All4
  Mum BBC Two | iPlayer
  Game of Thrones Sky AtlanticIn Years and Years, the sheer gleeful inventiveness of Russell T Davies is allowed to run right off the leash and bounce like a lolloping puppy over the hills and far away. Among its many virtues, the dra
  
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• TV tonight: Sally Wainwright's irresistible queer period drama

  19-05-2019 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Suranne Jones swaggers back on our screens in the beguiling Gentleman Jack. Plus: a hilarious deadpan comedy about dandy vampires. Here’s the best TV to watch this eveningJack Whitehall’s done it. AJ Odudu’s done it. And Romesh Ranganathan is doing it too. Seeing the parents of TV presenters invited to share the limelight with their offspring is often entertaining; this time, the battles of the Ranganathan dinner table are replayed in public as Romesh and his mum explore curren
  
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• Madonna was excruciating: what we learned from Eurovision 2019

  19-05-2019 01:45 via theguardian.com
  The Eurovision bandwagon will touch down in the Netherlands in 2020, but what wisdom have we found? And so it is over for another year, and the Eurovision bandwagon heads off to the Netherlands in 2020. But here are a few of the things we learned from the 64th edition of the competition in Tel Aviv. Continue reading...
  
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• Eurovision 2019: all the songs and action – as it happened

  19-05-2019 01:10 via theguardian.com
  It was the most controversial Eurovision in history, and featured a half-time show from pop legend Madonna. We followed all the events in Tel Aviv12.08am BST So that’s IT for another Eurovision, thank you all so much for joining in and helping me get through it. Huge thanks also to Becks (@beckshumps) for keeping me going and Oliver in Tel Aviv (@olireports) for keeping me posted on the events in the host city - he’s off to Euroclub now to dance the night away. However you feel about
  
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