62 h. ago Actor Alexandra Roach looks back: ‘I’m from a small town – when I snuck into a nightclub underage, 11 people told my dad’

The Utopia and No Offence star on channelling her righteous younger self, how she shakes off heavy roles, and her alter ego DJ DaveBorn in Ammanford, south Wales, in 1987, Alexandra Roach began her career in the S4C soap Pobol y Cwm, before training at Rada in London. Her first major role was as a young Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady in 2011, and she has gone on to star in TV dramas including Utopia, No Offence, Hunderby and Being Human; she is currently staring in Amazon Prime Video’s series Lazarus. She lives in Bristol with her husband and daughter.This is me in my living room. I’m 12 years old and proudly holding a letter I’d written to the local town council. In it, I pleaded with them to do something radical for the sake of the youth of Ammanford: open a Claire’s Accessories. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘I hate that they show my bum in the first scene!’ David Duchovny on poems, podcasts – and his TV comeback

Playing Fox Mulder made him a global phenomenon then he walked away to save himself. As he stars in killer-nanny thriller Malice, David Duchovny talks art, his beef with Gillian Anderson – and being murdered by Jack WhitehallHalfway through our hour-long conversation, David Duchovny slumps in his seat a little then gently chastises me. “I got tired while you were talking,” he groans. In fairness, I had been talking a lot, but only because I was trying to list everything he’s managed to do in the past year.There’s his podcast, Fail Better, in which he’s wrung incredibly candid interviews from notoriously reticent stars like Alec Baldwin and Robert Downey Jr, more on which later. There’s his book of poetry, About Time, which came out last month. There’s his History Channel show Secrets Declassified With David Duchovny. As we speak, he’s just finished an eight-date tour, where he performed songs from the three folk-rock albums he’s released over the last decade. We are ostensibly here ...

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2 w. ago Lazarus review – this Harlan Coben adaptation is absolutely woeful

Bill Nighy and Sam Claflin star in a thin, thin Amazon thriller. It’s horrifically badly paced, deeply repetitive and tension free – not to mention its deeply unlikely plotDame Edna Everage (and if you are too young to know of the housewife superstar that was Barry Humphries’ greatest creation, get yourselves to YouTube and gaze upon her glory, possums) once begged South Bank Show presenter and prolific novelist Melvyn Bragg to stop writing: “Give us all a chance to catch up.”I feel the same way about Harlan Coben’s TV career. With the possible revision that once we have caught up, if he doesn’t feel refreshed enough to give us something better than Lazarus, he could extend his hiatus until full reinvigoration has been achieved. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Major internet outages resolved after 'recovery' of Amazon Web Services

A number of huge apps crashed this morning leaving thousands of users unable to access their favourite sites.

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2 w. ago Internet outage latest LIVE: Dozens of apps including Amazon, Zoom, Snapchat, HMRC and Lloyds Bank hit by online services crash

A huge internet outage has hit dozens of websites with banks, phone companies and major retailers among those affected.

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2 w. ago The Chosen Adventures cast from Paul Walter Hauser to Yvonne Orji

The Chosen Adventures is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video

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2 w. ago Amazon Prime thriller soars up charts after leaving fans 'blown away'

A thriller that aired earlier this year has climbed back up the Amazon Prime Video charts, with fans calling it the "best" series they've seen so far

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2 w. ago 'Most intense war film ever made' is finally back on streaming platforms

Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, often described as one of the greatest war films ever made, is now streaming on Sky Cinema and Amazon Prime Video.

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2 w. ago 'Stone cold masterpiece' and 'greatest ever war film' streaming now

Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg, is regarded as one of the finest war films ever made, and it's now available to watch on Sky Cinema and Amazon Prime Video

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2 w. ago 'Best war film of the century' now streaming on Amazon Prime

Letters From Iwo Jima, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, is now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video and is a must-watch for fans of war films

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3 w. ago The Chosen Adventures release date, cast and plot as Bible spin

The Chosen Adventures is a new spin-off series from the hit Amazon Prime Video show The Chosen

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3 w. ago Prime Video thriller unexpectedly axed after one season leaving fans 'disappointed'

Amazon Prime Video has cancelled crime thriller Countdown after just one season, with the show's lead Jensen Ackles now speaking out.

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3 w. ago Vodafone broadband down: Thousands of UK homes hit by major internet outage

Vodafone's broadband network appears to be down, with homes across the UK losing internet access.

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3 w. ago Amazon Prime Video is DOWN: Thousands of users unable to access streaming service as it is hit by major outage

More than 1,000 outage reports were logged on tracking site Downdetector within an hour, with most complaints flooding in just before 10am.

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3 w. ago Amazon Prime Video down LIVE: Thousands of users suffering worldwide blackout

Thousands of Amazon Prime Video users across the world have reported issues with the streaming site and app this morning

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3 w. ago ‘I’m going to write about all of it’: author Chris Kraus on success, drugs and I Love Dick

A decade after her debut became a cult hit, the US author talks about the true crime that inspired her latest novel, #MeToo overreach and being married to an addictChris Kraus regards the late success of her first book, I Love Dick, with ambivalence. A work of autofiction, first published in 1997, it chronicles Kraus’s infatuation with a cultural theorist named Dick, a doomed, one-sided love affair that nonetheless pulls Kraus, a depressed, 39-year-old failing film-maker languishing in a sexless marriage, out of her personal and artistic rut. After a slow start, the book became a cult classic and in 2016 it was made into an Amazon Prime Video TV series, with Kraus played by Kathryn Hahn. “To me, success would have been like a long review in the New York Review of Books, not being a character on a sitcom,” Kraus says now. Her commercial success was a financial boon, of course. “But who can stand by a book they wrote 20 years ago? It was massively embarrassing to go out and support th...

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3 w. ago Jeremy Clarkson's savage swipe as star 'leaves' Diddly Squat for new project

Kaleb Cooper is heading to Australia on a new farming adventure for Amazon Prime Video - and his boss in Chipping Norton, Jeremy Clarkson, had some choice words about the move

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4 w. ago Amazon Prime Video deletes James Bond posters that were digitally altered to remove the spy's gun after fan backlash

Amazon has ditched a set of gun-free James Bond posters (pictured) from its TV streaming platform following fan's complaints that the brand had gone 'woke'.

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4 w. ago 'Meta Quest 3S that beats my PS5 is cheapest ever price in Amazon Prime Day deal'

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale has seen the Meta Quest 3S fall to a record low price with more than 20% off

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