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• Freddie Redd, Jazz Pianist and Composer, Is Dead at 92

  30-03-2021 23:39 via nytimes.com
  
  He was best known for writing the music for “The Connection,” an Off Broadway play that depicted the lives of heroin-addicted musicians in New York.
  
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• The Syndicate review – a triumphant return for the witty lottery drama

  30-03-2021 23:00
  
  Now in its fourth series, Kay Mellor’s show is like a candlelit bath – warm, comforting and good for the soulYou know what you’re getting from a Kay Mellor drama, and The Syndicate (BBC One) is the writer/creator at her most Mellor-ish. Focusing on a different group of lottery-winners each series, the show has been plugging away for almost a decade, shifting its setting just enough to keep up with the times while sticking to its (cash-)winning formula. I find it irresistible, t
  
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• The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2021: episode four – as it happened

  30-03-2021 22:16
  
  After last week – and the creme de la creme of the Celebrity Bake Off world – can KSI, Jade Thirlwall, Katherine Ryan and Stacey Dooley also rise to the challenge? 9.16pm BST What an episode. See you next week.Seven hours till I make a tit out of myself on national tv @BritishBakeOff @Channel4 #GBBO pic.twitter.com/w9ktbvddEB 9.14pm BST Thrilled for Jade, and still chortling about KSI’s disaster. What an episode.Next week we have TV presenter Anneka Rice, comedian (and soon to
  
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• The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2021: episode four – live

  30-03-2021 21:04
  
  After last week – and the creme de la creme of the Celebrity Bake Off world – can KSI, Jade Thirlwall, Katherine Ryan and Stacey Dooley also rise to the challenge? 8.04pm BST “You’re not going to be Star Baker with a mess in front of Paul”, claims Prue. No, but you might get a handshake. Grumble grumble.I have no idea who or what a KSI is. Let’s play an acronym game - I’ll start: Knackered Sexy Ibis. 8.04pm BST The celebrity challenges involving alcohol
  
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• ‘Listening Party’ Review: Can Songs Heal a Brotherly Divide?

  30-03-2021 20:49 via nytimes.com
  
  In “The Jackson C. Frank Listening Party w/ Special Guests,” the musician is simultaneously central and peripheral to the story.
  
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• ‘Game of Thrones’ Aims for Broadway

  30-03-2021 20:48 via nytimes.com
  
  A stage adaptation is in the works for Broadway, the West End and Australia. The goal is a 2023 debut.
  
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• ‘The Place That Makes Us’ Review: Rebuilding, Brick by Brick

  30-03-2021 18:29 via nytimes.com
  
  This documentary offers a brief look at a handful of people trying to revitalize Youngstown, Ohio.
  
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• ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight

  30-03-2021 18:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Ape and lizard go toe-to-toe, with a cast of talented humans to comment on the action
  
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• Bertelsmann aims for new national TV champion in France

  30-03-2021 17:37 via ft.com
  Chief executive is examining options for the group’s stake in French broadcaster M6
  
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• ‘Diana’ Musical Sets Netflix Run — and Broadway Opening Night

  30-03-2021 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In an unprecedented move, a recording of the show will start streaming in October, while audiences can see it live (if theaters reopen) in December.
  
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• When King Kong Accidentally Met Godzilla

  30-03-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The 1962 monster matchup was supposed to pit the big ape against Frankenstein’s monster. A rights issue cropped up, Toho got involved and the rest is history.
  
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• Akemnji Ndifornyen: 'Grange Hill was huge for me growing up'

  30-03-2021 15:00
  
  The Famalam and Queen’s Gambit star on the shows that shaped him as a child, from the school-set drama to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and the OfficeGrowing up in east London in the early 90s, I watched a lot of TV – I was being reared on a staple diet of African American programmes, but we watched a lot of British shows, too. A homegrown series that stood out to me was a live-action sci-fi show called Watt on Earth, written by [Doctor Who writers] Pip and Jane Baker, which aired on C
  
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• Oscars poised to loosen no-Zoom policy for this year's ceremony

  30-03-2021 12:34
  
  Concerns over inclusivity for non-US-based nominees and those who are vulnerable or shielding to be raised with show producers in Tuesday summitProducers for this year’s Oscars ceremony are said to be considering relaxing their policy of mandatory in-person attendance for this year’s nominees.According to a story in the Hollywood Reporter, the Academy has invited all nominees to participate in a Tuesday morning Zoom “conversation with show producers” Steven Soderbergh, St
  
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• Sharon Stone: cosmetic surgeon enlarged my breasts without consent

  30-03-2021 12:10
  
  New memoir claims the actor has faced ill-treatment at the hands of doctors, the film industry and her own grandfatherSharon Stone had her breasts augmented without her consent during reconstructive surgery, the actor has claimed.Stone says she woke from a 2001 operation to reconstruct her breasts following the removal of benign tumours to find they had increased in size, because the doctor felt she “would look better with bigger, ‘better’ boobs”. Continue reading...
  
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• Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: is Darrington an evil parallel realm?

  30-03-2021 12:06
  
  Alice is brought low by post-natal depression and alcoholism – while Ambridge’s neighbours put on a rival play productionA thought experiment: you are giving birth, six weeks early, on the back seat of a clapped-out Nissan Note outside a branch of Toys R Us on the Borchester bypass. (The BBC draws a veil over certain brand details, but you know I’m right.) By which of the inhabitants of Ambridge would you least like to be assisted? Leaving aside Bert and Clive Horrobin, obvs, t
  
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• See the Cast of Spy Kids, Then & Now

  30-03-2021 12:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  "My parents can't be spies--they're not cool enough!"At least that's what Carmen (Alexa PenaVega) and Juni (Daryl Sabara) thought at the beginning of Spy Kids, the...
  
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• Lagardère replaces head of book publisher Hachette

  30-03-2021 11:42 via ft.com
  Arnaud Nourry has spoken out against rumoured tie-up with Vivendi
  
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• A French Monument Remains Every Bit as Grand on Film

  30-03-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Palais Garnier, which inspired the first “Phantom” in 1910, is silent at the moment, but it continues to hold the imagination.
  
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• Rosie Jones: ‘I hope disabled people can see me on TV and think: if she can do it, I can do it'

  30-03-2021 10:00
  
  The standup on representation, Matt Hancock, her new travel show and why she loves NorwichA Great British, Female, Gay, Disabled, Covid-Compliant Adventure was the original name for Rosie Jones’s new travel show. “But,” says its host, “we thought that when you’ve got a presenter who speaks slowly, introducing that would take all bloody day.” She also might have called it Stereotypically Shit Places, another phrase bandied about in today’s Zoom chat. &ldq
  
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• TV tonight: a fourth series for Kay Mellor's lottery-win drama The Syndicate

  30-03-2021 07:20
  
  Neil Morrissey and Gaynor Faye lead the cast as a group of kennel workers who think they’ve won big. Plus: the best of Yorkshire cuisine. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
  
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• Mutts and millions: how Kay Mellor rethought The Syndicate after getting a shih tzu

  30-03-2021 07:00
  
  The drama series about lottery winners is back. And this time, thanks to a very talented dog called Happy, it’s exploited kennel-workers who have hit the jackpot. The veteran TV writer reveals allThere’s a dog in the new series of The Syndicate that’s small, white and fluffy. Caninewise, that’s not my cup of tea at all. Yet I was struck by its tremendous acting. This dog is a genuine talent, packing a huge range of emotions into its tiny face, while displaying considerabl
  
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• Novelist’s criticism of Polish president sparks storm over insult laws

  30-03-2021 06:01 via ft.com
  Jakub Zulczyk faces charges under penal code that makes it an offence to insult head of state
  
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• Lenny Henry tells black Britons: get Covid jab to avoid being left behind

  30-03-2021 01:01
  
  Open letter by comic and other black cultural figures encourages wider vaccine take-up Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSir Lenny Henry has warned black Britons they could be left behind if they refuse the coronavirus jab in an open letter signed by leading black figures in the UK.The letter urges black adults in the UK to make informed decisions about the vaccine and to protect themselves and the people they care for by getting vaccinated. Continue reading...
  
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