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• Quiz review – would you like to ask the audience, Major?

  13-04-2020 23:00
  
  Matthew Macfadyen, Sian Clifford and Michael Sheen star in this new three-part series about the cheating plot that rocked Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – and the entire nationQuiz people baffle me almost as much as sex people. Where do they all get the time, energy or enthusiasm? Why would you not just settle down with a good book and a packet of biscuits instead? Is it me, or is it them?I never quite understood, then, the extent to which the Maj Charles Ingram scandal grabbed the public
  
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• In About-Face, Musicians’ Union Agrees to Pandemic Fund-Raiser

  13-04-2020 22:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Broadway Cares said it would reschedule a canceled event featuring a concert of Disney songs after the American Federation of Musicians dropped a demand for additional compensation.
  
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• Stream and Shout: These Documentaries Truly Rock

  13-04-2020 21:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Missing live music in person? Here are 10 films that will make you feel as if you are there, even on your couch.
  
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• Tiger King: what can we learn from the new special?

  13-04-2020 18:45
  
  A 40-minute special dropped by Netflix on Sunday checks in with some of the tangential players of the runaway hit, with only minor revelationsCalling all you cool cats and kittens – Tiger King is back. Well, kind of. After the outlandish series took the world of memes and quarantine streaming by storm since its premiere in March, Netflix dropped a previously unplanned addendum on Sunday. The Tiger King and I, a special of short, softball interviews hosted by the comedian Joel McHale from h
  
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• Mum's net: how surrogacy thriller The Nest got us hooked

  13-04-2020 18:00
  
  At first, it seemed like just another twisty drama. But Nicole Taylor’s series, which concludes tonight, has proved a gripping, intriguing look at class, ambition and mistakesThere are always shows that take you by surprise. Nicole Taylor’s five-part drama The Nest, which concludes tonight, is one of them. When this surrogacy thriller kicked off, it had the look of another enjoyably glossy slice of hokum. In the vein of Gold Digger, Doctor Foster or Flesh and Blood, it seemed as if i
  
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• Disney's Bob Iger stays on to steer company during Covid-19 crisis

  13-04-2020 16:51
  
  Iger puts semi-retirement on hold to help entertainment group weather crisisCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDisney’s Bob Iger has postponed semi-retirement to retake control of the entertainment group as it braces for changes caused by the coronavirus pandemic.Iger’s 15-year stint as chief executive was due to come to an end this year, with Bob Chapek, the head of Disney’s theme park business, unveiled as his successor in February. Continue rea
  
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• Prue Leith: 'I worried about my daughter finding her birth mother'

  13-04-2020 16:18
  
  A new documentary sees the Bake Off judge accompany her adopted daughter Li-Da as she returns to Cambodia to explore her early life. Here, they reflect on family, identity and survival
  Prue Leith is telling me what a bad mother she was to her daughter, Li-Da Kruger, growing up. I don’t believe her for a second, though she lists off reams of apparent offences. “I never stood on any touchlines, I never went to any swimming galas,” says Leith. “I once went to watch Li-Da row
  
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• Westworld recap: season 3, episode 5 – panic on the streets of LA

  13-04-2020 15:20
  
  This week sees an action-packed episode with a mass freak out – and it’s all down to Dolores, and Serac’s mounds of data Spoiler alert: this blog is published after Westworld airs on HBO in the US and Sky Atlantic in the UK on Sunday night/Monday morning. Do not read unless you have watched season three, episode five.Let’s take a moment to reflect on the passing of Liam Dempsey. OK, that’ll do. Continue reading...
  
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• Have a Magical Week With Harry Potter and More Movies We Love on E!

  13-04-2020 15:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  It's Monday, which means the start of the work week but also the start of another amazing lineup of Movies We Love!Every week, E! brings you some of the best films that you can watch...
  
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• How crime drama Prime Suspect succumbed to sexist cliche

  13-04-2020 14:00
  
  Helen Mirren’s DCI Jane Tennison set the template for nuanced female characters. But seven series of trauma wrung out the subtletiesPlenty of crime dramas feature a beleaguered, hard-drinking detective with questionable social skills, but Prime Suspect was revolutionary in making a woman the protagonist. Created by Lynda La Plante, the award-winning series starred Helen Mirren as DCI (later DS) Jane Tennison and – her Oscar notwithstanding – she’s never been better. In se
  
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• Today’s Live-Streaming Events: ‘Fleabag’ Onstage and a Virtual Nature Walk

  13-04-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Appointment viewing is back. What online events to look out for today, and when to tune in.
  
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• Killing Eve series three review – still deadlier than the rest?

  13-04-2020 10:00
  
  There are gasp-out-loud moments as the hit thriller returns – even if its central cat-and-mouse relationship no longer feels as daring as it once didThe children got Malory Towers. Now it’s the grownups’ turn. Just as the BBC’s Enid Blyton adaptation was brought forward to keep the juvenile masses entertained when the schools shut early, so the corporation has pulled season three of Killing Eve (BBC Three) from its intended summer slot and placed it before us. Hopefully i
  
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• TV tonight: the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire scandal

  13-04-2020 07:20
  
  Michael Sheen and Matthew Mcfadeyn star in a tense adaptation of the 2001 £1m fraudulent gameshow win. Plus: 50 years of Dolly Parton. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
  
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