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• ‘For casting purposes I was born in the wrong skin’ – Noughts and Crosses star Paterson Joseph

  07-03-2020 18:17
  
  Many black actors leave Britain to find fame, but the Londoner’s BBC lead role follows years of acclaimed work on stage and screenAlthough the twin blessings of talent and luck may be all it takes to become a star, it can still take a while to make it big. For Paterson Joseph the steady climb up from life as a recognisable face in popular television sitcoms and dramas, to establishing himself as a leading stage and screen actor, has happily coincided with the rise of colour-blind casting.
  
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• 'Requiem to the Troubles': BBC to air film about Northern Ireland's dead

  07-03-2020 16:04
  
  Lost Lives focuses on 3,700 people killed in violence and comes at sensitive timeIt started as a reporter’s assignment: list all the people killed in the Troubles in north Belfast up to the early 1990s.It was a laborious, macabre catalogue – name, date, location – to be published in the Irish News, a Belfast daily paper, and then quite possibly forgotten about in the next news cycle. Related: Families of the Troubles’ victims are not ‘vexatious’. They simply w
  
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• Five Guys a Week: a dating show even more deranged than Love Is Blind

  07-03-2020 12:00
  
  A group of men move into a woman’s house in the hope of wooing her and evading post-breakfast eviction – and it’s carnageListen, I know the drill with you, and this column: you read it over toast and OJ and eggs, and you read this bit distractedly in the few seconds left for the kettle to boil, and none of these words matter to you, they are just there. You’re not here for TV recommendations, are you? You’re just waiting for a nice jug of coffee to straighten you ou
  
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• Back to Life's Daisy Haggard: ‘If you’re not afraid to be an idiot, do comedy’

  07-03-2020 11:00
  
  After last year’s dark comedy-drama about a former prisoner, the actor draws on her own experiences as a knackered parent for new show BreedersDaisy Haggard says she’s sorry, but she is a bit tired. We are in a cafe down the road from where she lives in south London, and as she gets the coffees in, she explains that she was up for most of the night with her two young daughters, who are five and two. They wanted to ask her questions about space. Having established the location of the
  
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• TV tonight: inside the Tudor mind of Hilary Mantel

  07-03-2020 07:00
  
  The bestselling author delves into her writing process and inspirations ahead of the final part of her Cromwell trilogy. Plus: Man vs Bear. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
  
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• Harvey Weinstein sentence should reflect 'lifetime of abuse' – prosecutors

  07-03-2020 01:59
  
  Movie mogul was convicted of rape in New York last monthCourt filing says producer ‘treated others with inhumanity’Harvey Weinstein’s record of sexual attacks and harassment against women dates back to the 1970s in a “lifetime of abuse” in which he “trapped women into his exclusive control and assaulted or attempted to assault them”, according to New York prosecutors.In a note to the New York supreme court released on Friday ahead of Weinstein’s se
  
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• Review: In ‘Skinfolk,’ the Joys of Blackness Burst From the Earth

  07-03-2020 00:33 via nytimes.com
  
  On a set that transforms the Bushwick Starr into a cave beneath a tree, Jillian Walker tells a story of her family, and of blackness in America, that aches with hope.
  
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