29 h. ago The year of Napoli and Scott McTominay: the Serie A season review

The Scottish influence inspired title winners in Naples, Inter blew up and Claudio Ranieri enjoyed his Roman returnThe season has barely ended and already it is clear Serie A will look very different next term. Five of the league’s top 10 sides have parted ways with their managers and a sixth, Claudio Ranieri, is moving upstairs at Roma. More changes may soon follow, with Igor Tudor’s future at Juventus uncertain and Como’s Cesc Fàbregas drawing attention from richer clubs – including the runners-up, Inter, who need a replacement for Simone Inzaghi.Could we equal the turnover of last summer, when 14 out of 20 teams got a new coach? It’s not impossible, especially with several lower-half teams and their tacticians still exploring the options available. Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Bayern back on top as Schick shines brightest: the Bundesliga season review

Bayern Munich’s domestic dominance returned and Arminia Bielefeld’s remarkable cup run provided the shocksIt’s Bayern Munich, despite Mainz and Freiburg, unexpected troublers of the European places, deserving praise for their stratospheric improvement from 2023-24. The Rekordmeister is rarely more provoked than when presented with serious opposition, and Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen had done just that with last term’s domestically unbeaten double-winning exploits. Leverkusen were still excellent but could simply not match Bayern’s pace in the end. They played with dazzle but Vincent Kompany also did the one thing that was beyond Julian Nagelsmann and Thomas Tuchel in beginning to sort out Bayern’s leaky defence, conceding their lowest total in the Bundesliga (32) since Hansi Flick’s treble-winning season of 2019-20. He also made them competitive in the Champions League, in which they were unlucky to lose to Inter. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago And Just Like That season three review – finally! The Sex and the City spin off hits its stride

The series has given up trying to squeeze its characters into the modern age and is content to just be. Fans of the original will sink into it as if it is made of marshmallows and airIt all fell into place for me around the shoe montage. Roughly halfway through the third season of And Just Like That, there is an on-screen procession of footwear, strident and unapologetically far too long. Carrie has been accused by her downstairs neighbour of walking too loudly on the floor above his bed. A parade of sandals, boots and mules strut back and forth across a polished and expensive wooden floor. I watched this march of the stilettos and began to suspect that the storyline had been retrofitted to the idea of simply showing off the shoes. And I realised that, even if that is the case, I don’t mind at all, because And Just Like That has found its feet.It took a while for it to get there, but finally, the Sex and the City spin-off feels comfortable in its own skin. If the first two seasons w...

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7 d. ago ‘Death is not a mystery’: what happens to your body when you’re dying?

Experts say knowing more about death – or ‘death literacy’ – can actually help quell fears of dyingTell us: how has your sex life changed after 60?“Who would like to hear about what happens when you’re dying?”In the final episode of the FX series Dying for Sex, a hospice nurse with an oddly comforting sense of enthusiasm explains to a patient what to expect as she dies. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Sarah Jessica Parker turns heads in a quirky lace shirt dress at the Paris premiere of And Just Like That

The actress, 60, who plays Carrie Bradshaw in the Sex And The City spin-off, wore a white lace shirt dress for the event.

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9 d. ago Virgin Island viewers shocked at 'uncomfortable moment' contestant finally has sex with surrogate in 'marathon session'

Virgin Island viewers were left floored following Tuesday's episode, as one of the show's contestants finally went all the way in a 'marathon session.'

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9 d. ago The moment Virgin Island contestant finally has sex with surrogate in 'marathon session' as fans are left stunned by the racy scenes

In dramatic scenes, accountant Dave, 24, could be heard moaning and groaning as he finally lost his virginity with surrogate partner Kat.

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1 week ago Virgin Island: Only contestant who had sex is revealed ahead of the outrageous Channel 4 show's finale

As Virgin Island comes to an outrageous end on Tuesday night, it has been revealed that only one of the 12 virgin contestants has lost their virginity. 

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1 week ago The Rehearsal season two review – TV so wild you will have no idea how they made it

Comedian Nathan Fielder’s utterly chaotic docuseries will have you watching with fingers over eyes. It’s a uniquely awkward, occasionally overwhelming show – whose finale has to be seen to be believedSeason two of the Rehearsal opens in a cockpit, where the atmosphere is almost unbearably strained. With the plane apparently on a collision course (“we have those hills to the right of the airport, remember?!”), the co-pilot begins to panic, but the captain haughtily dismisses his colleague’s concerns. Sure enough, the plane begins to plummet, before crashing into a fiery wreck. We zoom out to reveal a set, where Nathan Fielder stares and blinks into the camera gormlessly, having conducted this horrifying performance – one of many reconstructions of real-life disasters to come.This is, of course, the comedian’s totally wild docuseries, in which he prepares people for big life events via elaborate (and occasionally unethical) walk-throughs. The first season culminated in Fielder possibl...

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1 week ago Mikel Arteta shares details of Arsenal review after another trophyless season

Arsenal fell short in their hunt for glory this season as they missed out on the Premier League title and reached two cup semi-finals and now Mikel Arteta is ready to conduct a review on what went wrong

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2 w. ago 'Xbox Game Pass is finally hitting its stride but is it enough?'

Microsoft's subscription service, Xbox Game Pass, has grown into a must-have this year thanks to a whole host of big releases, but is it enough to help Xbox catch up to PlayStation?

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2 w. ago Nine Perfect Strangers season two review – not even Nicole Kidman’s new wig makes this worth watching

The good news is that the star has rediscovered her ability to emote facially. The bad news is that this boring drama about a creepy wellness guru is almost impossible to care aboutThe wig is better. Everything else is worse. The second series of Nine Perfect Strangers – which was so clearly set up by the open-ended finale of the original, starring Nicole Kidman in a blond hairpiece that would disgrace a four-year-old’s Frozen birthday party – is here.Mad/bad/traumatised wellness guru/cult leader/visionary genius Masha (Kidman) was last seen driving to freedom after experimenting on the stupid, affluent guests at her California health retreat for the stupid and affluent. Tranquillum House was the name, microdosing subjects with psychotics and without consent so they hallucinated dead children and fires was the game. Plus, constant surveillance by hidden cameras feeding private information back to Masha at all times. Let me stop you there and say – well, yes, quite. But Melissa McCar...

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2 w. ago ‘I’m less apologetic now’: Kelly Macdonald on her Trainspotting teen highs and hitting her stride in her 40s

She hid in the toilets during the Trainspotting shoot – yet became a screen sensation. As the star plays a police therapist in new Netflix thriller Dept Q, she explains why today’s young female actors leave her in aweOne of the good things about playing a therapist, says Kelly Macdonald with a laugh, is that you get to sit down a lot. There’s a fun scene in the new Netflix thriller Dept Q in which her character, Dr Rachel Irving, weary of her client DCI Carl Morck, plants herself down behind her desk to eat her packed lunch in front of him. Morck may be the kind of troubled detective we’re used to seeing in police dramas, but Irving isn’t a typical therapist. She’s blunt, antagonistic even. It’s a “shitty” job working with police officers, she tells him. Another time she describes him as “doolally”, which in my experience is not something a typical therapist would say; Macdonald, who has had therapy, “but not regularly”, may agree.In the show – adapted from novels by the Danish auth...

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2 w. ago Clarkson’s Farm Season 4 on Prime Video review: the schtick is starting to wear thin

It’s very much business as usual on Diddly Squat Farm: for better or worse

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2 w. ago Clarkson’s Farm doesn’t have the same spirit of its early days – but Jeremy’s antics are still hard to resist

The dogs are out of control, Kaleb Cooper’s gone on tour and Clarkson is opening a new pub in season four of Prime Video’s smash-hit show

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3 w. ago Justin Bieber finally breaks silence on explosive Diddy allegations amid sex trafficking trial

Justin Bieber has broken his silence on explosive rumors connecting him to Sean 'Diddy' Combs just days after the disgraced music mogul's sex trafficking trial began.

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3 w. ago Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial: Jury selection set to be finalized Friday in sex trafficking case

Court narrows down potential jurors from 600 to dozens, with opening statements set for Monday, May 12

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3 w. ago Jury to be chosen for sex trafficking trial of Sean 'Diddy' Combs

The final stage of jury selection for the racketeering and sex trafficking trial of hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was set to occur three days before opening statements

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4 w. ago Poker Face season two review – Natasha Lyonne’s fun detective show is painfully close to being a classic

Our crime-solving heroine is utterly charming, it’s stuffed with A-list stars and some episodes are just great. If only the cases were a bit more cleverThis tribute to case-of-the week crime dramas is so nearly a brilliant TV show. Starring Natasha Lyonne (Orange Is the New Black, Russian Doll) as Charlie Cale, a woman with a foolproof ability to tell truth from falsehood, the series follows in the footsteps of classic story-of-the-week crime dramas; each episode features a tranche of excellent guest stars and a freshly covered-up misdeed for our thoroughly charming citizen-detective to uncover. With her gravelly-chipmunk New York tones – or “voice like a rusty clarinet”, as one character has it – Lyonne ensures Cale is an idiosyncratically charismatic protagonist you can really get behind. She’s cool: her catchphrase is “bullshit” and her aesthetic is 1970s-hued indie sleaze; shades, spray-on jeans, biker boots, shrunken T-shirts, wild, matted hair. She’s chaotically good, too: mis...

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4 w. ago Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial live: Jury selection set to be finalized Friday in sex trafficking case

Court narrows down potential jurors from 600 to dozens, with opening statements set for Monday, May 12

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