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• Primates review – monkeying around with Chris Packham

  26-04-2020 22:15 via theguardian.com
  
  The opposite of an Attenborough documentary, this jaunty new show saw capuchins struggle to control their young, while macaques held sunglasses captive in exchange for food
  Dads! Let’s hear it for those hairy, smelly martyrs, stoically accepting their function as climbing frame, punchbag and trampoline for their annoying young. One of several gladdening moments in the first instalment of Primates (BBC One) was seeing a gorilla child swing repeatedly into his father’s face, despite Da
  
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• RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode nine: all the glitters is not Goldblum

  26-04-2020 17:38 via theguardian.com
  
  One of the best episodes of Drag Race ever, from a dinosaur doctor to a hijabi queen – it doesn’t get much better than thisSeason 12 of Drag Race seems to be going by quicker than a bottle of gin in lockdown – we’re mere weeks away from the final, which raises an interesting question. Will they postpone it? Will they film it on Zoom, the three finalists waiting with bated breath from their bedrooms? Or will they just not have one and leave us to draw our own conclusions?T
  
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• RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode nine: all that glitters is not Goldblum

  26-04-2020 17:38 via theguardian.com
  
  One of the best episodes of Drag Race ever, from a dinosaur doctor to a hijabi queen – it doesn’t get much better than thisSeason 12 of Drag Race seems to be going by quicker than a bottle of gin in lockdown – we’re mere weeks away from the final, which raises an interesting question. Will they postpone it? Will they film it on Zoom, the three finalists waiting with bated breath from their bedrooms? Or will they just not have one and leave us to draw our own conclusions?T
  
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• UK traffic to film and TV piracy sites up nearly 60% in lockdown

  26-04-2020 16:17
  
  Figures mirror rise in legal streaming, while comedy and family shows thrive on TVCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageStay-at-home Britain appears to be becoming a nation of streaming pirates, with traffic to illegal movie and TV sites surging since lockdown measures were introduced.In the last week of March, visits to film piracy sites were up by 57% compared with the last week of February. Sites allowing viewers to illegally watch TV shows and series saw a 29% inc
  
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• Ain't Got S--t to Do? Check Out the Cast of Friday Then and Now

  26-04-2020 15:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Ready to be knocked the f--k out?!It's been 25 years since Friday wafted into theaters, featuring a breakout performance by Chris Tucker and turning Ice Cube and his serious-guy vibe...
  
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• For my next trick: Dynamo's mission to bring back magic

  26-04-2020 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In a world of deepfakes and augmented reality has magic lost its power to thrill? The performer Dynamo says we need it now more than ever
  Midnight in Tokyo. I’m standing in a narrow alleyway behind one of the hostess clubs in the capital’s red-light district. A large screen displays live updates of the gender balance inside, currently: ladies 113, men 87. Just around the corner is a famous hangout of the yakuza gangs, where a few months earlier there was a bloody shootout and a Korea
  
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• The week in TV: After Life; Gangs of London; Emergence; Have I Got News for You – and more

  26-04-2020 10:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Ricky Gervais’s After Life struggles second time round, as 21st-century London’s answer to Peaky Blinders gets off to a violent start. And how long can live shows survive via video-call?After Life (Netflix)
  Gangs of London (Sky Atlantic)
  Emergence (Fox)
  Twin (BBC Four) | iPlayer
  The Graham Norton Show (BBC One) | iPlayer
  The Mash Report (BBC Two) | iPlayer
  Have I Got News for You (BBC One) | iPlayerRicky Gervais is, take your pick, ever reinventive (a la Madonna, Lady Gaga, the royal
  
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• End of the road for travellers who kept Britons on the edge of their armchairs

  26-04-2020 09:35 via theguardian.com
  
  BBC Race Across the World pairs are now on the home straight after a fraught journey from Mexico City to the tip of South AmericaIt has been quite a journey. And that’s just for viewers. Tonight sees the finale of Race Across the World, the BBC2 series in which five pairs of travellers competed to be the fastest getting from Mexico City to the most southerly city in the world, Ushuaia in Argentina.Covering 15,000 miles in two months and passing though 16 countries, with checkpoints in Hond
  
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• TV tonight: Stacey Dooley on the European drug trade

  26-04-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The filmmaker heads to southern Spain to investigate smuggling routes into the continent. Plus: Matt Lucas keeps our lockdown entertaining. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
  
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• Normal People review – Sally Rooney's love story is a small-screen triumph

  26-04-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This BBC/Hulu adaptation of the hit novel about the on-again, off-again relationship between two Irish teenagers captures the beauty and brutality of first love perfectlyInevitably, people will come to the television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People in one of two ways: as avid fans of the book, which to a certain demographic and sensibility has become tantamount almost to a sacred text, or as detractors to whom the Irish wunderkind’s work reads as barely more than top
  
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