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• Robert Pattinson and Rami Malek Have Mini Twilight Reunion During Star-Studded Gala

  17-11-2019 23:15 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Robert Pattinson isn't letting his busy schedule keep him from rallying behind the social justice issues he cares about the most.
  The former Twilight actor has recently starred in...
  
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• The War of the Worlds review – doom, dystopia and a dash of Downton

  17-11-2019 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This new adaptation of HG Wells’s classic space odyssey marries a thrilling tale of Martian-themed terror with period drama twists, for a solid Sunday night sagaPrior to its debut, there was some grumbling that this latest adaptation of The War of the Worlds (BBC One) would be a “woke” revision of the story, taking liberties with HG Wells’ source material to promote newfangled ideas like the existence of women and gay people. Besides, what better time to produce a drama a
  
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• ByteDance to take on rivals with music streaming launch

  17-11-2019 22:30 via ft.com
  Chinese group in talks with top record companies as it plans to battle with sector leaders Spotify and Apple
  
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• Best Supporting Grandma? For ‘The Farewell,’ an Oscar Campaign Begins

  17-11-2019 21:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Lulu Wang’s indie hit, starring Awkwafina and Zhao Shuzhen, may be an awards contender, but that doesn’t mean the film is easily categorized.
  
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• ‘Ford v Ferrari’ Finishes First at the Box Office

  17-11-2019 21:11 via nytimes.com
  
  The racing drama with Matt Damon and Christian Bale opened strong this weekend. The new “Charlie’s Angels” sputtered.
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2019: week nine results - as it happened

  17-11-2019 20:59 via theguardian.com
  
  It was the glitziest night of them all – the Blackpool special! Who missed the bus home? 7.59pm GMT So that’s IT for our annual Blackpool outing – thank you all for coming along and being amazing. As mentioned yesterday I’m off to watch the show next week, so there will be a stand-in liveblogger for Saturday night. Please play nicely, and I’ll be back on Sunday so pick up the reins through to Christmas. Come and say hi on Twitter @heidistephens if you’re passi
  
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• Trey Edward Shults’s Fractured Family Portraits

  17-11-2019 20:34 via nytimes.com
  
  At 32, the director of “Waves” has made his third and most personal film about how families come together and fall apart.
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2019: week nine results - live

  17-11-2019 19:42 via theguardian.com
  
  It was the glitziest night of them all – the Blackpool special! Who won’t be on the bus home? 6.42pm GMT Pulled myself away from S3 of The Crown earlier to catch the Countryfile Casual Weather, courtesy of Chris Fawkes in a smart navy shirt and charcoal slacks, with not so much as a rolled-up sleeve. I can only assume he’d come from a gastropub lunch with the in-laws and didn’t have time to change into jeans and manly plaid.6.40pm GMT Evening all, and welcome back for the
  
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• When Pop Stars Make Soundtracks: A Brief History

  17-11-2019 18:19 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  When the creators of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 approached Lorde about contributing to the film, their intention was simple:Create a powerful song in line with Taylor...
  
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• Saturday Night Live: impeachment hearings sketch a flat soap opera

  17-11-2019 17:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Cold open filled with bad blocking, heavy mugging and wastes Jon Hamm, but episode picks up steam along the wayThis week’s Saturday Night Live opens with Days of Our Impeachment, the media’s attempt to spice up recent congressional hearings for the bored public by turning them into a soap opera, replete with all the over-the-top twists and turns – amnesia, sudden declarations of love, surprise returns – found on day time TV.The stars are boring Chair Adam Schiff (Alex Mof
  
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• Micheal Ward: ‘Everywhere I go it’s good vibes’

  17-11-2019 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In just a year, Micheal Ward has risen from online model to leading man in the crime drama Blue Story. He still can’t believe it – nor can his mumA few hours before I’m due to meet Micheal Ward, I get a text from his publicist. The photoshoot for this interview has finished more than an hour early – could I come a bit sooner? I race to a café in Blackheath, plush south London. When I arrive, Ward has already finished lunch. These shoots normally overrun, I say. How
  
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• 30 Secrets About Steel Magnolias That Probably Won't Make You Cry

  17-11-2019 12:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  What bride, when planning her vows, hasn't declared, "My colors are blush and bashful"?
  No? Just us then, okay.
  Thirty years ago, those words were being uttered by...
  
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• The Crown season three review – a lavish return full of royal pains

  17-11-2019 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Olivia Colman struggles to rule over an increasingly strained brood and a fractured nation as Netflix’s regal epic resumes. One is not amused, but you’ll be hookedI know that, like me, you will have been worrying how the third season of The Crown would fare once Claire Foy’s Queen Elizabeth was replaced by Olivia Colman. Especially considering how the Telegraph columnist Charles Moore highlighted the apparently insuperable difficulty posed by Colman’s “distinctly le
  
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• 'We're horrified': James Corden tackles US gun control on late-night talkshow

  17-11-2019 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Late Late Show host dedicated portion of his program to California incident and called out politicians over inactionNot content with singing karaoke with pop and movie stars, James Corden has bitten off a much gristlier and indigestible subject for his late-night US TV audience: gun control.After the most recent school shooting on Thursday at Saugus high school in Santa Clarita, California, which left two students dead and several injured, Corden took to the airwaves. While not known for politic
  
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• How filming the agony of Aberfan for The Crown revealed a village still in trauma

  17-11-2019 09:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Peter Morgan, creator of the hit TV series, explains how the 1966 catastrophe raised questions about the nature of storytelling and the monarchyOne of the sets built for the new series of The Crown on a backlot at Elstree Studios was held in sombre reverence by both actors and crew. Between the model of the gilded gates of Buckingham Palace and a mock-up of 10 Downing Street lay a bleak pile of brick, coal dust and rubble: a replica of the school in the Welsh village of Aberfan that was destroye
  
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• What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Crown’ and ‘Man in the High Castle’

  17-11-2019 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Olivia Colman takes the throne in Season 3 of “The Crown.” And Amazon’s alternative history series comes to an end.
  
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• TV tonight: strap in for a new War of the Worlds

  17-11-2019 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A thrilling take on HG Wells’s dystopian drama starring Rafe Spall. Plus: the story of the Met Opera House. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
  
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• The week in TV: The Crown; World on Fire; Smuggled and more

  17-11-2019 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The Crown makes a seamless transition, World on Fire deserves another run, and Smuggled reveals uncomfortable truthsThe Crown (Netflix)World on Fire (BBC One) | iPlayer
  Smuggled (C4) | All 4
  Gold Digger (BBC1) | iPlayer
  The Accident (C4) | All 4So, The Crown: any good? There have been harder questions to answer. It’s unsettling, in fact, how quickly we shed any expectations of Claire Foy, Vanessa Kirby and the rest of the band, so seamless the transition and so thorough the inhabiting. Oli
  
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• The week in radio and podcasts: The Score: Bank Robber Diaries; Hunted

  17-11-2019 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  An ex-bank robber on breaking the fear barrier, and an engrossing if cliche-riddled jailbreak dramaThe Score: Bank Robber Diaries (Acast Studios/Western Sound)Hunted (Endeavor) Continue reading...
  
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• Prince Andrew denies having sex with a teenager

  17-11-2019 01:16 via ft.com
  British royal dismisses allegations linked to controversial friendship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein
  
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