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• Strictly Come Dancing 2020: the Grand Final – as it happened

  19-12-2020 21:24
  
  Bill, Maisie, HRVY and Jamie battled it out for the Glitterball, as another series of the nation’s favourite spangly Saturday night extravaganza reached its conclusion 8.24pm GMT And that’s the end of another Strictly, and for me it’s been an absolute joy in a very up and down year. As always it’s made immeasurably better by the comment box community who have created one of the friendliest and most special corners of the internet. That’s no mean feat in these toxic
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2020: the Grand Final – live

  19-12-2020 18:15
  
  Bill, Maisie, HRVY and Jamie battle it out for the Glitterball, as another series of the nation’s favourite spangly Saturday night extravaganza reaches its conclusion 4.13pm GMT Evening all, and welcome to this year’s Strictly Grand Final liveblog! It’s been a strange old year in Strictly’s history, and a pretty torrid day even by 2020 standards, but it’s definitely cause for celebration that the production team (and the rest of us, for that matter) have managed to
  
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• TV stay home: all hail the medium that kept us entertained in 2020

  19-12-2020 12:00
  
  We’ve watched more telly than ever this year. Our standards may have dropped – but then Covid does cause loss of taste I know it is tedious to look back on 2020 and force everything through the prism of coronavirus – “Hey, remember that absolute horrorshow of a year we all just-about lived through? Well, let’s look back on the horror again, shall we?” – but it is slightly unavoidable when recapping what is arguably the weirdest year in television since
  
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• The Sopranos: from enduring TV hit to the hottest show of lockdown

  19-12-2020 10:00
  
  2020 has seen HBO’s mafia series win fresh fans, as a new generation relate to the emotional struggles of its antihero protagonist, and its stars preserve its legacyWhen the first episode of The Sopranos aired in January 1999, people weren’t sure what to expect. Two months later, in March, Robert De Niro would star in the movie Analyse This, a mafia comedy about a mob boss who, like Tony Soprano, seeks the support of a therapist. But for most people at the time, the worlds of the cos
  
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• Lennie James meets Paapa Essiedu: ‘I was probably in the last wave of actors who needed to go to the US’

  19-12-2020 08:30
  
  The stars of The Walking Dead and I May Destroy You on great TV, grief and black British cultureRead the other conversations in this seriesSpeaking from Austin, Texas, a tranquil but talkative Lennie James, 55, reclines in his chair. Best known for his morally ambiguous portrayals of Gates in Line Of Duty, Nelly in Save Me (a drama he also wrote) and Morgan Jones in The Walking Dead, he’s there filming the show’s spin-off, Fear The Walking Dead. He muses on a conversation about Covid
  
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• TV tonight: Paul McCartney chats with Idris Elba

  19-12-2020 07:00
  
  The musician and actor meet to discuss McCartney’s third solo album, written and recorded in lockdown. Plus: Strictly Come Dancing reaches the final. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Christmas Carol’ Review: Brooding Scrooge Gets Ghosted

  19-12-2020 00:39 via nytimes.com
  
  An elaborate production streamed live from London makes a miser out of Andrew Lincoln and the rest of us rich with holiday cheer.
  
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