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• Betty Corwin, Who Preserved Theater’s Legacy, Dies at 98

  17-09-2019 23:59 via nytimes.com
  By definition, live theater vanishes in the moment; Ms. Corwin pushed to have shows videotaped and deposited in a library collection, which she ran for decades.
  
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• The Devil Wears Prada Is Officially Becoming a Musical With Help From Elton John

  17-09-2019 23:56 via feeds.eonline.com
  A Devil Wears Prada musical? For 2020? Groundbreaking!That's right, a musical adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada is set to debut next summer. The upcoming musical--based on the...
  
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• Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo’ Is Headed Back to Broadway

  17-09-2019 23:35 via nytimes.com
  Laurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell will star as the junk store hustlers in the revival of the 1975 play.
  
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• Defending the Guilty review – a cross between The Thick of It and This Life

  17-09-2019 23:30
  Legal shows tend to be either unbearably earnest or wretchedly cynical, but this sitcom embraces the silliness of a serious world – and really steps up to the bar
  Defending the Guilty (BBC Two) is a promising new sitcom that mines the potentially less-than-hilarious world of criminal law for its surprisingly plentiful absurdities. Based on the 2011 nonfiction book of the same name by the barrister Alex McBride, it has an insider’s fondness for what it mocks. Will Sharpe stars as Will
  
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• The Great British Bake Off 2019: episode four – as it happened

  17-09-2019 22:30
  It’s the first ever dairy week ... so who milked it, and who curdled under the pressure? 9.30pm BST Phil shocked to meet the end of the road- he was undeniably good in previous weeks. Sherlock Gnomes couldn’t have seen it coming. Lemon entry, Indian goodbye. Michael fell from grace something spectacular, Rosie let her cakes do the talking thank god, and Steph kept a ravening David at bay. He’s a very strong contender though. 9.11pm BST Dora did an explore in EXCELLENCE. Grew ve
  
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• The Great British Bake Off 2019: episode four – live

  17-09-2019 20:30
  It’s the first ever dairy week ... so who will milk it, and who will curdle under the pressure? 5.26pm BST It’s Dairy Week, and you know what that means. Do you? I know I don’t!Yes, tonight The Great British Bake Off has stuck a cream finger up to vegans, with a brand new themed episode. These are uncharted, custardy waters. Who’ll be the cream of the crop, and who’s gonna split? I’ll be writing the highlights here live, so please get involved in the comments
  
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• ‘Midnight Traveler’ Review: A Refugee Family’s Search for Safe Harbor

  17-09-2019 20:04 via nytimes.com
  The global migration crisis comes into intimate view in this documentary about an Afghan family’s arduous journey toward asylum.
  
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• ‘You ain’t my muvva!’ – the 15 most incredible soap storylines of all time

  17-09-2019 17:11
  It’s been suggested that soaps are in crisis because their ratings-chasing storylines have become too ridiculous. But it’s the unbelievable plot twists that we watch them forAccording to the writer and broadcaster Mark Lawson, it’s time for soaps to tone things down. The likes of Coronation Street and EastEnders are in crisis, he says in the latest issue of the Radio Times, because they are “[piling] catastrophe after crisis on the best-known characters” in order to
  
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• ‘The Nightcrawlers’ and ‘Lost and Found’ Review: Short Documentaries Tackle Big Issues

  17-09-2019 17:07 via nytimes.com
  Two films — one on the violent antidrug campaign in the Philippines, another on refugees from Myanmar — screen together.
  
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• Streaming wars heat up with Big Bang Theory deal

  17-09-2019 16:52 via ft.com
  Comedy heading for HBO Max as platforms shell out big sums to snap up popular sitcoms
  
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• NBCUniversal Introduces Peacock, Its New Streaming Service

  17-09-2019 15:52 via nytimes.com
  The service joins a competitive streaming field, and it will offer new shows that incorporate elements of older NBCUniversal properties.
  
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• Amazon bets on HD to boost music streaming service

  17-09-2019 15:00 via ft.com
  Tech giant trails Spotify and Apple but reckons users will pay more for CD-quality sound
  
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• Chris Rock Is Writing a Book on Race and Relationships

  17-09-2019 14:47 via nytimes.com
  “My First Black Boyfriend,” an essay collection by the comedian and filmmaker, is coming out next year.
  
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• Tom Hiddleston Asked Chris Hemsworth to Hit Him in the Face And, Uh, It Didn't End Well

  17-09-2019 14:34 via feeds.eonline.com
  Frozen peas need to assemble to Tom Hiddleston's face ASAP.Though you may know him best as Loki--brother to Chris Hemsworth's Thor, of course--in the Marvel franchise, the Brit...
  
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• 'I got the guy!' My 17-year manhunt for a $50m art criminal

  17-09-2019 13:04
  For years, documentary-maker Vanessa Engle has been on the trail of a notorious swindler who escaped from prison and disappeared into thin air. Then one day, the phone rang ...You probably haven’t heard of Michel Cohen. Do a search and you get Michael Cohen, the Trump fixer who went to jail. Wrong one. Though this one did go to jail, too. He’s French, born in 1953 on an estate in a poor suburb of Paris and his first job was to sell the Encyclopedia Britannica door-to-door, which he w
  
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• For One Playwright, It Wouldn’t Be Home Without a Little Melodrama

  17-09-2019 11:01 via nytimes.com
  When Theresa Rebeck first saw her Brooklyn brownstone, it was falling apart. She took it as a challenge.
  
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• 'Banker to the stars' Frédéric Levesque goes on trial in France

  17-09-2019 10:51
  Financier accused of cheating rich celebrity clients out of millions of eurosTo the directors and celebrities who came to him for money to fund their projects, Frédéric Levesque was clever, charming, intelligent and the man who never said non.He took their calls at any time of the day or night, calmed them and proposed solutions to their financial woes; on occasions he did not even ask them to sign documents on the loans he made for hundreds of thousands of euros, they told French
  
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• Unbelievable: the quiet power of Netflix's fact-based rape drama

  17-09-2019 08:00
  The series, focused on two rape investigations - one gone awry, one dogged and empathetic - shows the refreshing power of depicting hard, sensitive work
  In the second episode of the Netflix drama series Unbelievable, detective Karen Duvall, played by Merritt Wever, conducts what I imagine could be a high-budget training video for sexual assault investigators. Duvall finds the victim, a college student named Amber, processing in the stairwell of her apartment building in Golden, Colorado, one mor
  
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• TV tonight: a tumble in the hay with Love in the Countryside

  17-09-2019 07:00
  Sara Cox helps seven singles find romance in the midst of running busy farms. Plus: the Bake Off rises once more. Here’s what to watch this eveningIt is time for the titular swim in this final episode of the charitable series where non-swimming celebrities really are thrown in the deep end (of the Channel) – and one hopes (as do the producers) that they don’t sink. Following 12 weeks of training, the cohort, which includes Olympians Linford Christie and Tessa Sanderson, seem re
  
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• Review: In ‘Wives,’ the Other Halves Have Their Say

  17-09-2019 06:31 via nytimes.com
  Jaclyn Backhaus’s slapdash comedy, at Playwright’s Horizons, travels through time to coax oppressed spouses out of their powerful husband’s shadows.
  
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• Writers Guild Re-elects Leadership at Odds With Agencies

  17-09-2019 03:32 via nytimes.com
  It has been five months since thousands of movie and TV writers fired their agents and election results indicate the Hollywood standoff will continue.
  
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• Phyllis Newman, Tony Award-Winning Star, Is Dead at 86

  17-09-2019 00:02 via nytimes.com
  She was also a familiar face on television and raised millions of dollars to help women in entertainment deal with health problems.
  
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