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Boro slipped out of the automatic promotion spots after fighting back to draw with struggling Cardiff City last Saturday. Will Lankshear stepped off the bench to rescue a point for Middlesbrough after being surprisingly…
Composer and lyricist Tim Minchin said he was still amazed by the show's success. "Probably the biggest family musical of this century is written by [us] couple of idiots," he joked. Based on Roald Dahl's classic…
For those who prefered to listen to their fiction, Freida McFadden had eight of her titles featuring in the top 10 adult fiction audiobooks borrowed. Jillian McFrederick from Libraries NI said books with "short chapters"…
Four years on from when he handed himself in to the authorities, Assane is days away from being released from prison and fulfilling the promise he made to his son Raoul to be fully present in his life. Among other…
The most acclaimed and beloved shows – Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones, Brass Eye, The Office – tend to be exceptionally short-running. Compared to the Americans, our series are brief anyway, but we also seem anxious to…
A wildly gifted actor, she can convey every human emotion there is. On screen, though, she is most often asked to embody deep self-possession. Even doing karaoke, Hüller is in control. And in real life, life is good. Her…
Now it's getting a reboot, directed by Tuckett, former Royal Ballet dancer turned choreographer and director of everything from the National Ballet of Japan's Nutcracker to a stage adaptation of In the Night Garden.…
The US president is suing the BBC over an episode of Panorama that edited together two different sections of a speech he gave before the riot at the US Capitol in 2021. Trump cancelled a previous deposition - an…
The London singer-songwriter was crowned the winner of the 2026 prize in Newcastle last night (Thursday October 22) for her second album, beating off competition from other shortlisted records by Paul McCartney , JADE…
The Pitch Perfect star directed, co-produced and starred in The Deb, a musical comedy that became the battleground for multiple legal battles in Australia and the US. Filmed on a $22m budget, The Deb made just $335,000…