28 h. ago A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: who's in the cast for the Game of Thrones spinoff?

A former rugby player and an Emmerdale child actor head up this tale of knights and squires

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34 h. ago A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms release date, cast, trailer and plot

The latest Game of Thrones spin-off series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, arrives very soon.

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60 h. ago Salah inspires Egypt with energy recalling golden generation to evoke recent history | Jonathan Wilson

Liverpool forward will face his former teammate Sadio Mané in Afcon semi against Senegal after arguably the Pharaohs’ best performance since 2008It is a long time since Egypt had a night this good. There have been two World Cup qualifications since their golden age of three successive Cups of Nations came to an end in 2010, and they’ve got to the finals of two Cups of Nations since, but this had a different feel to the knockout phases in 2017 or 2021 (played in 2022). This wasn’t grinding through, doing just enough (across the knockouts in 2017 and 2021, Egypt won one game without needing extra time or penalties; a grim 1-0 against Morocco in the 2017 quarter-final). It was taking on one of the giants of African football and beating them well. A 3-2 victory over Côte d’Ivoire was probably Egypt’s best single performance since they beat the same opposition 4-1 in the semi-finals of Ghana 2008.That game in Kumasi was always going to cast its shadow over this quarter-final. Saturday’s ...

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3 d. ago Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present

From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?This year marks 100 years since the first demonstration of television in London. Elizabeth II sent the first royal email in 1976. The first meeting of the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers took place in 1876. All notable anniversaries. But I’m going with 2026 as the 85th anniversary of a great short story: Jorge Luis Borges’s The Garden of Forking Paths (1941). It’s about chance, labyrinths and an impossible novel. Ts’ui Pên, an ancestor of the narrator, sets himself the task of writing a novel with a cast of thousands: “an enormous guessing game, or parable, in which the subject is time”. In most novels, when a character reaches a fork in the path, they must choose: this way, or that way. Yet in Ts’ui Pên’s novel, all possible paths are chosen. This creates “a growing, dizzying web of divergent,...

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5 d. ago His and Hers on Netflix full cast from Marvel stars to iconic video game hero

Netflix's new thriller stars some very familiar faces, so where might you have seen them before?

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5 d. ago Girl Taken cast unveiled from Game of Thrones icon to soap star

Paramount Plus has just added the thriller Girl Taken to its library and the series has been adapted from the novel Baby Doll by Hollie Overton

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5 d. ago Girl Taken cast in full as Game of Thrones legend leads harrowing thriller

Girl Taken is a new psychological thriller based on an eerie novel.

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1 week ago Secrets of The Traitors S4 cast – from naked artist and glam psychologist to gardener who clashed with MP on TV

CLAUDIA Winkleman had her toughest trial yet devising the new series of The Traitors - because all 22 players wanted to be chosen as baddie.  With players now more clued-up on the BBC murder mystery than ever before, hopefuls have clocked that being cast as a Traitor means you are in control of the game. ...

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1 week ago Netflix's Run Away cast from Harry Potter legend to Game of Thrones star

Harlan Coben's Run Away will be dropping on Netflix in the New Year and boasts an enviable cast.

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3 w. ago Amadeus cast in full from Bridgerton actor to The Crown and Game of Thrones stars

Amadeus is a five-episode limited series launching on Sky Atlantic and NOW on December 21, starring Will Sharpe as the legendary composer.

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