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Peaky Blinders: Stephen Graham shares update on future of BBC drama

'My agent had spent a load of time putting that together'




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GMB host Kate Garraway says past few weeks have been 'hardest of my life' as husband battles coronavirus

TV host has been playing music to her husband Derek Draper, who remains critically ill




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Walking Dead star Tom Payne says he was 'kind of over' show by the time he left

Actor claimed everyone in the show is 'waiting for their time to shine'




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Phoebe Waller-Bridge has the wall of penises from Fleabag in her house

Writer and creator of the hit show recalled the moment a delivery driver was confronted with it




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Normal People review: Adaptation of Sally Rooney's intense love story is pitch-perfect

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal inhabit lovers Marianne and Connell so utterly that it is instantly impossible to imagine them being played by anyone else




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Simpsons writer offers answer to massive Homer and Krusty the Clown fan theory

Bill Oakley dug up notes from more than 25 years ago that showed the writers' intentions for that particular scene




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Lord Sugar accuses Piers Morgan of 'exploiting' coronavirus pandemic: 'He's trying to become a martyr'

'Good Morning Britain' host has previously criticised Lord Sugar for his attitude towards the government's handling of the pandemic




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Rowena Chiu: 'The Harvey Weinstein survivors we know about are the tip of the iceberg'

The former assistant to the jailed producer talks to Olivia Petter about her attempted rape allegation against Harvey Weinstein, why his lawyers must be held to account, and the damaging myths we attach to rape survivors and perpetrators




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American Horror Story season 10 to feature return of Murder House character, Ryan Murphy announces

It's unknown which of its many stars will play show's iconic figure




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Piers Morgan cleared by Ofcom after 4,000 complaints over interviews with Tory MPs

Presenter was accused of treating care minister Helen Whateley 'unfairly'




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Trevor Noah mocks Trump's disinfectant comments: 'He created shockwaves of stupidity'

New York health authorities reported a spike in possible bleach exposure cases after Trump's now-infamous press briefing




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Great British Bake Off: Paul Hollywood says new series could still air this summer

'Bake Off' is due to return for its 11th series in August




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Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar jokes that he is 'worried' about cast's weight gain while series 6 filming is suspended

'I'm kind of worried about what's going to happen because a lot of us are eating quite a lot'




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Race Across the World contestants describe 'heartbreak' of BBC series finale

'The way it finished, it was heartbreaking and we did feel bad' revealed the winning pair




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Jeers of a clown: How The Simpsons made Sideshow Bob into one of TV's favourite villains

Thirty years on from Kelsey Grammer's remarkable cartoon debut, Louis Chilton looks at the legacy of one of the most endearing felons in fiction




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Queer Eye's Bobby Berk offers home decor advice to Animal Crossing players

The Nintendo game has been hugely popular during lockdown




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Snoop Dogs: New Channel 4 show will see dogs with cameras give tours of celebrities' houses

Programme was announced at the Edinburgh Television Festival




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Will Smith hosts Fresh Prince of Bel-Air cast reunion on Snapchat show

DJ Jazzy Jeff has recovered from coronavirus-like symptoms




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Who is Frog on The Masked Singer? Viewers think they know identity of mystery star

Surreal reality series will unveil remaining celebrities in a matter of weeks




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I Think You Should Leave: the shortform sketch show breaking the rules of TV

TV has always been bound by rules, writes Isobel Lewis. But given our apparently decreasing attention spans, why has shortform not become the norm?




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Will Smith and rest of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air cast pay moving tribute to late Uncle Phil actor James Avery

Avery died in 2013 of complications following heart surgery




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BJ Hogg death: Game of Thrones and Give My Head Peace actor dies aged 65

Renowned Northern Irish star's stage and screen career spanned four decades




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Hollywood on Netflix: Who are the real-life stars of the 1940s-set series?

Ryan Murphy's latest series reimagines the golden age of Hollywood




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The Big Night In: BBC receives 180 complaints over 'offensive content' amid Little Britain backlash

David Walliams and Matt Lucas's comedy comeback proved controversial




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BBC could quarantine casts and crews of shows including Peaky Blinders and Line of Duty together if lockdown continues

The casts of the company's top dramas could soon be isolating together




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'Unhealthy' BBC show The Restaurant That Burns Off Calories receives 1,200 complaints

Experts accused programme of being 'triggering' for people who struggle with eating disorders




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Hafthor Julius Bjornsson: Game of Thrones star says he 'could have done more' after breaking deadlift world record

He lifted one kilogram more than previous record holder to earn the feat




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Hafthor Julius Bjornsson: Game of Thrones star breaks deadlift world record

He lifted two pounds more than previous world record holder to earn the feat




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Ellen DeGeneres' Oscars bodyguard accuses host of being 'cold, sly and demeaning'

He claimed only approved celebrities were permitted to talk to host at awards after party




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Celebrity Juice: Holly Willoughby quits series and thanks Keith Lemon for '12 years of chaos'

Lemon praised Willoughby for 'getting hands dirty' on ITV2 show




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Gangs of London viewers outside UK call for subtitles as they can't understand British accents

'Without subtitles and the British accent, its a no from me'




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James Corden and Trevor Noah praised for paying furloughed staff members out of own pockets

News comes as Ellen DeGeneres allegedly leaves 'distressed' staff members in the dark




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The Witcher: Two Hollywood stars 'turned down role of Vesemir' in season 2

Hit Netflix show expected to return in 2021




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Killing Eve's Harriet Walter: 'Male writers and producers have their fantasy of what an awful woman is'

The actor has joined Phoebe Waller-Bridge's acclaimed spy thriller for its third season. She talks to Alexandra Pollard about the joy of not wearing a corset, the limitations of Shakespeare's heroines and why she thinks people should think carefully before changing their pronouns




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Normal People star Paul Mescal addresses criticism of 'pornographic' sex scenes

'We worked very hard to make it feel like it was a real, accurate and truthful representation of sex amongst young people today,' said the actor




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Star Wars actor Anthony Daniels 'fell deeply, deeply asleep' watching Rise of Skywalker for the first time

Daniels played the uptight robot C-3PO in all nine core Star Wars films




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Hollywood: Cast of Netflix series were fitted for prosthetic penises ahead of full frontal sex scenes

'Uber-salacious' scenes were ultimately not filmed, with star Darren Criss revealing the show chose to instead emphasise 'the heart and the hope'




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Coronavirus: Game of Thrones actor becomes Asda delivery driver during pandemic

Michael Condron played Bowen Marsh in the fantasy epic




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Mick Jagger performs mundane tasks in spoof quarantine PSA on Jimmy Fallon's show

Rolling Stone can herd sheep, chop vegetables, and perform a few repairs




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Stranger Things: Full list of films watched by writers reveals 'DNA of season 4'

All the clues you need in one picture




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Space Force: Real chief wanted to be played by Bruce Willis instead of 'shaggy' Steve Carell

Series is a humorous response to Trump's actual Space Force




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For all its absurdity, Netflix's Dead to Me captures the grief, anger and sadness of losing a partner

The first season ended with a cliffhanger – did Jen kill Steve or not? But what is most poignant about the second season is not who killed him, but how well the show deals with grief, writes Charlotte Cripps




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Frances Quinn: Great British Bake Off winner 'banned from Waitrose' after being accused of shoplifting

Show's 2013 winner was approached by store detectives after she appeared to not pay for her shopping




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David Attenborough: 15 of the naturalist's best quotes

In celebration of his 94th birthday




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'Love in the Time of Corona': Coronavirus romance series filmed entirely remotely to air this summer

Show promises a 'funny and hopeful look at the search for love, sex and connection during this time of social distancing'




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June Bernicoff death: Gogglebox star dies at the age of 82

Channel 4 star came to fame alongside her husband Leon, who died in 2017




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Roy Horn death: Magician of famous duo Siegfried and Roy dies aged 75 from coronavirus

'Roy was a fighter his whole life including during these final days,' his partner Siegfried Fischbacher said




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Phillip Schofield shares family photo during lockdown, appears to contradict reports he's moved out

TV presenter, wife Stephanie and their daughters played a game of Murder Mystery




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Kemistry & Storm – the tragic story of the drum'n'bass originals

As a pioneering female DJ duo, the two best friends were integral to the rise of the 90s dance scene, before a car accident changed everything. Storm talks about the soul sister she lost

Storm remembers the sound of glass shattering, but not how many seconds or minutes had passed before she realised something awful had happened. A 4.5kg metal cat’s eye had been dislodged from the road ahead by a passing van, and had smashed through their car windshield on the passenger side. It left Kemistry – her best friend and partner in one of the UK’s most pioneering drum’n’bass outfits – with devastating injuries. Minutes later, she died.

“I’ve had some really dark times and really dark thoughts,” says Storm, 20 years on from the accident. “Thoughts about me not being here, about going to join her.”

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Dave Greenfield: putting beauty at the rotten heart of the Stranglers

The keyboardist, who has died aged 71 of coronavirus, upended the rules of punk with organ arpeggios and a moustache – and pointed the way to post-punk

Music writer Pete Paphides’ recent memoir, Broken Greek, contains a vivid description of its seven-year-old author encountering the Stranglers for the first time, during a 1977 Top of the Pops appearance. “They landed in the living room while I was totally unsupervised,” he writes, “and scared the shit [out] of me. By now I would have seen images of punk rockers … but they looked like circus entertainers compared to [the Stranglers]. They looked too old to be punk. They looked like the sort of people you pass in the street and your mother puts her arm round you, stares at the pavement and doubles her walking speed … The point at which it all got too much was when the camera cut to Dave Greenfield – who has died from Covid-19 aged 71 – jabbing his keyboard while looking straight ahead with what seemed, beyond doubt, to be the eyes of a murderer, an effect somehow compounded by the army-surplus boiler suit he had decided to wear. Just like that, my list of phobias had got a little longer: worms, biting into mushrooms, insects, the fibreglass King Kong which stood next to a ring road in Birmingham city centre and, now, Dave Greenfield from the Stranglers.”

It’s funny writing, but it’s also very incisive about the Stranglers: in real life Greenfield was, by all accounts, the band’s most approachable and charming member, but otherwise Paphides has it spot-on. The Stranglers complained relentlessly about not being accepted by the punk cognoscenti, but what did they expect? They didn’t look like punks, particularly Greenfield, who defiantly sported that least punk of facial accoutrements, a moustache. They were old, at least by the standards of the day, old enough to have the kind of musical pasts it was wise to keep your mouth shut about in the scorched-earth environment created by the Sex Pistols: Hugh Cornwell had played bass in a band with Richard Thompson, later of Fairport Convention; Greenfield had been in a prog rock band called Rusty Butler.

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