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"I'd like to kill him," Sean Connery famously said of Bond, that "dull, prosaic English policeman"; it was Daniel Craig who finally managed to do it, a fifth film torturously pulled out of him because Barbara Broccoli…
Given that I have zero rhythm, comedy was my other option. She wrote me a poem called Mrs Brown's Moggy, about a cat that was often very soggy, for my school's talent show. Because you can't tell the difference between…
Perhaps that's why the BBC has kept it something of a state secret that Honey , its splashy new Cold War drama, is exactly that. This prequel follows Fiona Shaw’s Carolyn Martens, played here as a young agent by Ann…
It’s for good reason that the game’s popularity hasn’t dwindled: it’s free to play and boasts a simple concept for a fun and engaging puzzle game that doesn’t take too much time. To play, you’re given six tries to work…
It's inspired by the real-life cases of women who have been targeted by vigilantes wrongly believing them to be Maxine Carr, the former accomplice of Ian Huntley who is now living somewhere in the UK under new identity.…
For those playing for the first time, the goal of Connections is to divide a block of 16 words into four common themes. Some of these – for example, grouping four types of fish – can be very straightforward, while others…
However, unlike Wordle , players have unlimited guesses for Globle so you won’t have to worry about losing unless you’re ready to concede defeat. Even for geography aficionados, guessing the Globle answer each day can be…
Framed is one of the newest, following in the footsteps of Wordle , but offering a slightly different twist. You’ll still need to work out the answer using limited information and only six tries, but it’ll be movies that…
Child labour, sexual exploitation, poverty, religious extremism, homelessness: all were ably tackled by a presenter who stood out for her lack of lofty TV-star pretension and her knack for asking the direct questions…
Our surviving nine pairs – assuming Jaime Winstone is back from injury – now progress to the eighth live show, which sees them bidding to make it through to the annual Blackpool special. It airs at next Saturday at…