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• ‘Little Women’ Review: This Movie is Big

  23-12-2019 23:19 via nytimes.com
  
  Greta Gerwig refreshes a literary classic with the help of a dazzling cast that includes Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Laura Dern and Meryl Streep.
  
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• ‘1917’ Was an Impossible Mission. Here’s How Sam Mendes Pulled It Off

  23-12-2019 22:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The World War I drama, seemingly filmed in one bravura take, is a tribute to his grandfather that Mendes never thought he’d make.
  
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• The Goes Wrong Show review – a terribly brilliant festive farce

  23-12-2019 21:00
  
  This Christmas special from the team behind The Play That Goes Wrong is brimming with bedlam, from awful-on-purpose props to a sozzled Santa
  The director of the Cornley polytechnic drama society appears on stage to greet the audience. The company, he says, has put together a little holiday show called The Spirit of Christmas. We are privileged to be able to sit and watch it come apart.The CPDS is a fictional troupe, a creation of the Mischief Theatre Company, the people behind the West End and B
  
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• Playwrights Are Finding ‘Television Money’ Helps Pay the Bills

  23-12-2019 18:22 via nytimes.com
  
  More top playwriting programs are preparing students to write for the small screen. And TV writers’ rooms are scouting those classrooms for new talent.
  
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• Killing Eve to Game of Thrones: the biggest TV disappointments of 2019

  23-12-2019 17:02
  
  Villanelle was too sadistic, the world of Westeros was too silly and Line of Duty swerved disastrously off-piste. Here are the TV turkeys of the yearWarning: this article contains spoilers.Buoyed by the success of his disbelief-stretching smash Bodyguard, Jed Mercurio’s cop drama began its fifth series, and Line of Duty fever swept the country. Bookies took bets on the identity of H, and the show finally got the respect it deserved after years of providing gasp-inducing twists. The additio
  
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• The TV quiz of the year: from the hot priest to Kendall Roy's rap

  23-12-2019 17:00
  
  How’s your Night King knowledge? Can you remember the lines from Line of Duty? Time to test your telly knowledgeWhat was the Hot Priest’s drink of choice in Fleabag? Gin in a tinRum in a drumVermouth in a boothTequila in a three-wheelerComplete Kendall Roy’s excruciating rap from Succession: “Handmade suits, raking in loot …”“Dude’s so rich it does not compute”“Y’all Old Spice, but my man’s a Brut”“Five-star gen
  
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• Words to Live By: Artists We Lost in 2019

  23-12-2019 16:28 via nytimes.com
  
  At their best, the artists who died this year could make us see the world in new ways — even as they made us laugh and cry. Here is a tribute to some of them, in their own words.
  
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• Scratch that: Cats film to be 'resupplied' with 'improved visuals'

  23-12-2019 13:51
  
  New version of widely derided movie starring Idris Elba and Judi Dench will have CGI updateA new version of Tom Hooper’s film adaptation of the musical Cats with “improved visuals” is reportedly being sent to cinemas after a barrage of negative reviews in which the film was hammered for its “disturbing” CGI effects.On Sunday, the Hollywood Reporter said it had seen a note that was sent by Universal Studios to thousands of cinemas in the US confirming that a new vers
  
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• Kneel! How the whole world bowed down to Fleabag ... and her Hot Priest

  23-12-2019 09:00
  
  There was no escaping Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s comedy this year. It transformed our porn habits, sent gin-in-a-tin sales soaring ... and then the Catholic church weighed in‘It’ll pass,” Hot Priest told Fleabag after she declared her love for him in the show’s finale. We will never know if she got over him – its creator, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, recently said she has no idea where the character is now and has ruled out making another series. Meanwhile, the Fleabag p
  
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• TV tonight: what happens when Christmas goes wrong?

  23-12-2019 07:00
  
  The Goes Wrong team serve up seasonal, saccharine fun. Plus: relive festive specials from 1979. Here’s what to watch this eveningThe canned laughter comes thick and fast in this six-part series from the founders of the Mischief Theatre Company (the makers of Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Play That Goes Wrong, Magic Goes Wrong – you get the idea). Here, the team unleashes its planned chaos on a Christmas tale of a drunken Santa and his elves trying to restore some festive cheer to a girl
  
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• 'He's the Roger Moore of tigers!' – how The Tiger Who Came to Tea came to TV

  23-12-2019 06:59
  
  The children’s classic has been turned into a flagship Christmas animation for Channel 4. Our writer takes his two-year-old behind the scenes at the studio seeking to capture its furry magicHas a tiger come to tea at the Lupus film studios? No, but an equally disruptive guest has turned up. There are dozens of people beavering away on each floor of this smart London townhouse – animators, producers, artists – when my two-year-old daughter Romy arrives for a sneak preview of wha
  
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• 'Shameless' influencers face backlash for promoting Saudi Arabia music festival

  23-12-2019 04:28
  
  Celebrities criticised for posting about a ‘cultural revolution’ in country without mentioning human rights record MDL Beast had all the markings of a big budget electronic music festival. The line-up included big name acts like David Guetta and Steve Aoki. The guest list featured supermodels (Joan Smalls and Alessandro Ambrosio) and actors (Armie Hammer and Ed Westwick), and there was plenty of fluorescent face paint and neon lights.But the event was not held in the California or th
  
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