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• The Great Pottery Throw Down review – a precious hour of crafty tranquillity

  10-01-2021 22:00
  
  Some people think there are enough craft shows on TV. That’s complete nonsense – especially when it comes to a series as soothing and restorative as this oneI have no time for those who would argue that we have enough craft shows. If you can make something – if you can combine butter, eggs and flour into a cake the shape of a mermaid’s grotto, or bombazine and thread into a halterneck prom dress, or paint, cardboard and glitter into an eye-catching Christmas ornament, I r
  
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• Schwarzenegger rebukes Trump and compares Capitol riot to Kristallnacht

  10-01-2021 21:51
  
  Ex-Republican governor of California compares US democracy to sword wielded by Conan the Barbarian in video address ‘Descended into madness’: GOP senator says Trump must goArnold Schwarzenegger issued a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump on Sunday, comparing the riot at the US Capitol which the president incited to Kristallnacht, the night in November 1938 when Nazi thugs attacked Jewish Germans and their property, a harbinger of horrors to come. Related: Illinois Republican Mary Miller
  
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• Sian Clifford: 'I nearly vomited into my webcam when I won the Bafta'

  10-01-2021 10:30
  
  The actor on her new ‘plilm’, being busy in a pandemic, and the strangeness of Brad Pitt ‘fan-girling’ over her Fleabag co-star Phoebe Waller-BridgeIn a challenging period for her industry, actor Sian Clifford seems almost embarrassed at how busy she has been. In 2020, the 38-year-old from west London co-starred in ITV’s drama Quiz – the story of the “coughing” scandal on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire – and the survivalist mother of Kim (Mais
  
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• Call My Agent's Camille Cottin: 'Don’t we need culture more than we need shopping?'

  10-01-2021 09:00
  
  The scene-stealing star of the French comedy series - a word-of-mouth Netflix hit - on her journey from a prank show in Paris to co-stardom with Matt Damon“I bought a few sheep during lockdown. Nobody told me they’d eat all my plants. How Parisian is that?” I’m discussing the pandemic with actor Camille Cottin, who during the first Covid lockdown last year decamped from her apartment in the French capital to do up an old farmhouse in Normandy. Now, she’s back in Par
  
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• Here’s one that sailed earlier … sketch that launched the Blue Peter badge

  10-01-2021 07:15
  
  Auction reveals how Tony Hart’s work on another BBC project inspired his galleon for the children’s showCresting the waves for more than 60 years, the jaunty maritime emblem of the BBC children’s television programme Blue Peter, remains one of the most recognisable vessels in Britain. Designed by the popular English television artist Tony Hart, it has always suggested adventure on the high seas to young viewers, serving as the flag ship of BBC’s flagship children’s
  
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• TV tonight: The Great Pottery Throwdown begins

  10-01-2021 07:00
  
  12 amateur potters face the wheel for this new series, presented by Siobhán McSweeney. Plus: A Perfect Planet continues. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
  
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• Six Superhero Movies to Stream

  10-01-2021 05:43 via nytimes.com
  
  The Wonder Woman sequel received mixed reviews. But there are plenty of excellent and entertaining alternatives to stream, and many that never received the attention they deserve.
  
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• Spiral recap: season eight, episodes three and four – everyone wants a piece of Joséphine

  10-01-2021 00:00
  
  Gilou gets a job, Laure ups her boss game and Ms Karlsson finds that cocaine is a hell of a drug as the French crime saga continues Spoiler alert: This recap is for people watching Spiral on the BBC. Do not read on unless you have watched season eight, episodes three and four. Continue reading...
  
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