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• Netflix misses subscriber forecast for second straight quarter

  16-10-2019 23:56 via ft.com
  Shares rally in after-hours trading after investors expected wider miss
  
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• ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men

  16-10-2019 23:17 via nytimes.com
  Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe play antagonistic lighthouse keepers in a twisted tale of men and loneliness.
  
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• Overlooked No More: Lotte Reiniger, Animator Who Created Magic With Scissors and Paper

  16-10-2019 22:28 via nytimes.com
  Even before Disney, Reiniger told fanciful stories in animated films with her hand-cut paper silhouettes.
  
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• Limetown review: a load of sub X-Files, podcast-to-TV tosh. Thanks Facebook!

  16-10-2019 22:00
  Jessica Biel plays a journalist called Haddock investigating the disappearance of 326 people from a town that housed a science facility. At least they’ll never have to watch this hokumThere is nothing I enjoy more – especially in metaphorically and literally dark times – than a high-concept, low-effort watch. Something that catches the attention and does not demand too much. Something that brings back fond memories of similar shows you can’t fully call to mind. That makes
  
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• Alex Wolff Acts, Writes and Directs. And He’s Only 21.

  16-10-2019 22:00 via nytimes.com
  His debut film, “The Cat and the Moon,” is loosely inspired by his parents.
  
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• Review: A Startling ‘Swan Lake’ That’s Hard to Recognize

  16-10-2019 21:39 via nytimes.com
  In a work opening with a goat tethered to a cinder block, the closest we get to Tchaikovsky’s ballet is four dancers representing swans.
  
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• ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Review: Back to Crack Wise and Crush Skulls

  16-10-2019 21:33 via nytimes.com
  After 10 years, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg and Abigail Breslin are still murdering the pop-culture clichés.
  
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• Why the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys Are Not Ready for They and Them

  16-10-2019 19:46 via nytimes.com
  Asia Kate Dillon of “Billions” is calling on the Television Academy to scrap gendered categories. But the organization and others have no plans for change, for now.
  
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• After 35 Years at Playwrights Horizons, He’s Ready to Seek New Ones

  16-10-2019 19:30 via nytimes.com
  Tim Sanford, the longtime artistic director at the prestigious Off Broadway theater, will turn over the reins to his deputy, Adam Greenfield.
  
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• Michael Friedman Died in 2017. Now 9 Albums of His Work Are Coming.

  16-10-2019 18:55 via nytimes.com
  The first three are to be released Friday by Ghostlight Records and the Civilians theater company.
  
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• Firm at Center of Panama Papers Sues Netflix Over ‘The Laundromat’

  16-10-2019 18:49 via nytimes.com
  The law firm, Mossack Fonseca, objects to the way the film portrays them as villains at the center of a web of illegal offshore activities.
  
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• The Mrs. Doubtfire Musical Is Coming to Broadway Sooner Than Expected

  16-10-2019 18:14 via feeds.eonline.com
  Mrs. Doubtfire is headed to Broadway!
  The beloved 1993 film starring the late Robin Williams and actress Sally Fields is returning to the stage in 2020. Fans have waited long enough to...
  
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• Atlantic Records head resigns over ‘offensive’ Run DMC costume

  16-10-2019 18:01 via ft.com
  Ben Cook apologises for dressing up as a member of the hip hop group in 2012 birthday party
  
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• NHS doctors too busy to care about patients, says Bodies creator

  16-10-2019 17:19
  Jed Mercurio, a former doctor, says medical dramas ignore the cynicism that infiltrates jobThe writer behind the TV hits Bodies, Bodyguard and Line of Duty has said medical dramas do not show how cynical and jaded doctors are in real life.Jed Mercurio, a former doctor who created the cult medical series Bodies, said hospital doctors were often too busy to deeply care about their patients. Continue reading...
  
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• NHS doctors too busy for soapy storylines, says Bodies creator

  16-10-2019 17:19
  Jed Mercurio, a former doctor, says medical dramas ignore the cynicism that infiltrates workThe writer behind the TV hits Bodies, Bodyguard and Line of Duty has said medical dramas do not show how cynical and jaded doctors are in real life.Jed Mercurio, a former doctor who created the cult medical series Bodies, said hospital doctors were often too busy to deeply care about their patients. Continue reading...
  
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• Plans for £110m London film studios on hold because of 'Brexit uncertainty'

  16-10-2019 17:04
  The LA developer Pacifica Ventures and its investors are withdrawing from the 22-acre project in Dagenham until ‘uncertainty has been resolved’
  A Los Angeles-based developer has cited “Brexit uncertainty” as the reason behind its decision to put on hold plans to build an enormous film studio outside London.Pacifica Ventures, which owns the studio where Breaking Bad was made, was picked as the preferred bidder for the proposed project in 2018, but, according to Barking and
  
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• Real NHS doctors too busy to care about patients, says Bodies creator

  16-10-2019 17:03
  Jed Mercurio, a former doctor, says medical dramas ignore the cynicism that infiltrates jobThe writer behind the TV hits Bodies, Bodyguard and Line of Dutyhas said medical dramas do not show how cynical and jaded doctors are in real life.Jed Mercurio, a former doctor who created the cult medical series Bodies, said hospital doctors were often too busy to deeply care about their patients. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Musical Is Coming to Broadway

  16-10-2019 16:12 via nytimes.com
  The 1993 comedy has a Broadway-friendly family plot, but filling one of Robin Williams’s most memorable roles could be risky.
  
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• When We Laugh at Nazis, Maybe the Joke’s on Us

  16-10-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  More than a half-century after Mel Brooks made “The Producers,” mocking Hitler isn’t what it used to be.
  
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• Love Elaine Stritch? Thank the Parts She Didn’t Get

  16-10-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The legendary stage actress’s character was shaped as much by the roles she lost as those she won. These are some of the ones that got away.
  
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• Flannery O’Connor Documentary Wins New Award From Library of Congress

  16-10-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The filmmakers Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco will be awarded the first Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, which comes with a $200,000 finishing grant.
  
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• Regina King on fighting white supremacists in Watchmen: 'My community is living this story'

  16-10-2019 15:47
  The Oscar-winner is playing a cape-swishing superhero in HBO’s revamp of the epic comic book. She talks wage gaps, wardrobe woes and her dreams of becoming a dentistRegina King had a hard time convincing some of her friends about Watchmen, her new HBO series inspired by the DC comic book of the same name and featuring the kind of details that make some people run for the exits: time travel, kung-fu fighting, masks and thinly veiled political allegory. “Girl, don’t do this,&rdqu
  
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• Another Movie, Another Musical: ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Coming to Broadway

  16-10-2019 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The 1993 comedy has a Broadway-friendly family plot, but filling one of Robin Williams’s most memorable roles could be risky.
  
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• Who Will Watch ‘Watchmen’?

  16-10-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Damon Lindelof, creator of the HBO comic adaptation, and Regina King, its star, discuss why the show is a Rorschach test of its own.
  
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• ‘Watchmen’ Is Coming. (Actually, It Never Left.)

  16-10-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  A new adaptation of the graphic novel “Watchmen” is coming to HBO. The original changed superhero tales — and pop culture at large — forever.
  
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• John Lewis says Peaky Blinders flat caps and Fleabag jumpsuits in demand

  16-10-2019 10:12
  Retailer says hit shows on the small screen are having a big effect on sales.The sofa has become the new fashion front row, with cult television shows such as Peaky Blinders, Fleabag and Stranger Things heavily influencing what consumers bought in the past year.The return of charismatic Birmingham gangster Tommy Shelby in BBC One’s Peaky Blinders sent sales of flat caps up by a quarter in John Lewis, while Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s elegant anti-hero resulted in a “Fleabag effect&r
  
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• Panama Papers law firm Mossack Fonseca sues Netflix over The Laundromat

  16-10-2019 09:24
  Partners Jurgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca want US court to stop the film being released on FridayThe partners of the offshore law firm whose confidential files were exposed in the Panama Papers leak, Mossack Fonseca, have launched defamation action against Netflix over a movie about the scandal that is due to be released on Friday.In a US lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Jurgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca say The Laundromat, in which they are respectively played by Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas, portr
  
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• Succession season two finale – battle of the backstabbers: discuss with spoilers

  16-10-2019 08:00
  The breakout second season of the most darkly compelling drama on TV brought a juicy combination of betrayal and revengeThis article contains major spoilersIf Succession wasn’t the breakout HBO hit in 2018, then it’s achieved hit status in its second season, one of the best sophomore outings in recent TV memory. After nine episodes that brought us such landmark moments as the Con-heads, Cherry Jones at Tern Haven, literal bed-shitting, the Kendall rap, Greg v Tom’s water bottle
  
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• TV tonight: a trip down memory lane for Idris Elba

  16-10-2019 07:00
  The Luther star brings us more pleasing nostalgia as In the Long Run returns. Plus: The Apprentice candidates grapple with a slime-covered unicorn. Here’s what to watch
  Idris Elba goes back to the 1980s for the second series of his semiautobiographical sitcom about an east London family living on the fictional Eastbridge estate. Elba’s patriarch, Walter, opens the series having been elected as union representative at his factory, and now finds himself fighting to keep his job and tha
  
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• 'It breaks down innocent people': the interrogation method at center of Ava DuVernay lawsuit

  16-10-2019 07:00
  Police consulting firm behind widely criticized ‘Reid technique’ claims Netflix drama When They See US misrepresents methodThe director Ava DuVernay and Netflix are facing a lawsuit from the police consulting firm behind a widely criticized interrogation technique referenced in the miniseries When They See Us.John E Reid and Associates, a US company that trains law enforcement on interrogations, filed a defamation suit on Monday, challenging DuVernay’s critically acclaimed Netf
  
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• Review: Marisa Tomei Braves a Typhoon in ‘The Rose Tattoo’

  16-10-2019 03:45 via nytimes.com
  Trip Cullman’s unmoored production of this atypical comedy from Tennessee Williams presents sexual attraction as a raging force of nature.
  
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• Review: In the Musical ‘Soft Power,’ China Whistles the Tune

  16-10-2019 03:45 via nytimes.com
  A complex look at democracy from an Asian perspective turns “The King and I” inside out.
  
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• Meat the Family: new reality TV show challenges carnivores to eat their 'pets'

  16-10-2019 01:39
  Channel 4 programme will follow meat-eaters as they adopt a farm animal that they must cook unless they go vegetarian It is one of the most shocking ultimatums delivered on television. Go vegetarian or we kill your pet.But a new British reality TV show called Meat the Family goes even further. Not only will a family of unrepentant carnivores have to let an animal they have adopted and grown to love go for slaughter if they refuse to stop eating meat – they will be asked to cook and eat it.
  
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• Cuba Gooding Jr. Is Accused of Unwanted Sexual Touching by 14 Women

  16-10-2019 00:15 via nytimes.com
  The actor is facing charges of touching one woman’s breast and another’s buttocks, and prosecutors said 12 others have come forward with allegations.
  
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