4 d. ago BBC The Repair Shop expert on fear item was unfixable as they admit 'I was worried'

The Repair Shop's Steve Fletcher has been a part of the BBC show since it first began in 2017 and has shared some of the most challenging items he's been faced with.

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5 d. ago BBC The Repair Shop's Suzie Fletcher recalls reason filming had to be stopped

The Repair Shop's Suzie Fletcher has opened up about the emotional impact the BBC show has on its cast and crew, revealing how filming has had to be stopped in the past.

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5 d. ago BBC The Repair Shop expert details moment show was forced to 'stop filming'

The Repair Shop's Suzie Fletcher has opened up on the moments when filming on the beloved BBC One show had to be suspended as the team were overcome with emotion.

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6 d. ago Hunt for man who filmed ex choking to death after 'forcing her to swallow caustic soda'

Cassiane Eugênia, a mum of three, was captured in a distressing video allegedly taken by her husband before she died in March, with police now hunting him on suspicion of murder

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9 d. ago Oliver Stone to testify at John F Kennedy assassination hearing

The director, whose film JFK has been derided by historians for suggesting the CIA had a role in the killing, will speak to task force aiming ‘to get to the bottom of this mystery’Film director Oliver Stone will testify at a US House of Representatives hearing on Tuesday that is considering thousands of pages of documents related to the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy released this month at the direction of President Donald Trump.Representative Anna Paulina Luna, chair of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, said that lawmakers will hear from witnesses about the value of the documents. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Their voices had been overlooked for so long’: the shocking hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer

The long and often shocking journey to finding the alleged killer of young women in Long Island is brought to a wider audience in a damning new Netflix seriesThe film-maker Liz Garbus was on vacation in July 2023 when she got the call that an arrest had finally been made in the case of the Long Island serial killer. Since 2010, when the bodies of four women were found along an isolated stretch of highway near Gilgo Beach, authorities had looked for a presumed serial killer with little progress and plenty of consternation. Garbus was one of the most prominent chroniclers of the grassroots effort to force authorities into action; her 2020 feature film Lost Girls, an adaptation of Robert Kolker’s book of the same name, depicted the fight by a group of working-class women to figure out what happened to their loved ones – all women who participated in sex work on Craigslist – with or largely without police help.It was the star of that film, Amy Ryan, who alerted Garbus to the arrest of R...

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2 w. ago Maya Jama, 30, steps out with her youthful lookalike mother Sadie, 48,as they join forces to film something special for Mother's Day

The Love Island host, 30, and her age-defying mother, 48, strutted around central London hand-in-hand as they posed for a new filming project.

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2 w. ago BBC The Repair Shop's Steve Fletcher makes retirement admission as he details 'predicament'

The Repair Shop expert Steve Fletcher has been a part of the BBC show since 2017 and quickly became a fan-favourite.

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2 w. ago Jubilant Sudanese soldiers film themselves celebrating in presidential palace after seizing it from rival Rapid Support Forces in major civil war victory

State television had broadcast scenes of fighters celebrating in the palace, before three of its journalists were killed in a drone strike, according to an army source.

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2 w. ago Awkward moment Strictly star forced to reveal engagement after This Morning star's slip

An unexpected moment at the Smiley Charity Film Awards saw AJ Pritchard forced to confirm his engagement after a slip-up from the ceremony's host Lisa Snowdon

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2 w. ago Big stars, little shine: is anyone actually watching Apple TV+ shows?

The service might boast A-listers like Natalie Portman and Colin Farrell but in a competitive streaming landscape, it’s struggling to be heardNext week Apple TV+ launches The Studio, a Seth Rogen comedy about the rapidly changing landscape of the film industry. Episodes follow a beleaguered executive as he’s forced to make an ugly IP movie, because streamers are in dominance and this is all traditional studios are left with.For a show explicitly about the death of the theatrical experience to be made by a disruptive streamer – one funded by the deep pockets a global tech megacorp to boot – is unquestionably a show of power. Or at least it would be, were it not for a new report claiming that Apple TV+ is currently losing a billion dollars a year. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Florida mayor drops threat to evict cinema over No Other Land screening

The Oscar-winning film, about a Palestinian community resisting displacement and violence from Israeli forces, has become the latest focus of a culture war in the stateAfter a week of controversy, the mayor of Miami Beach decided to withdraw his initial proposal to cancel the lease and block a small cinema’s funding due to its screening of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.Residents packed city hall to make public comments, and regardless of their backgrounds and opinions, the majority, including city commissioners, agreed that censorship, eviction and defunding of O Cinema were not the answer or the path forward. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago ‘I’m all for strange’: Sister Midnight’s Karan Kandhari on his punk rock debut, two decades in the making

The director talks about his genre-trampling film Sister Midnight, the hilarious and gory story of a female force of nature stifled in an arranged marriageOne of the most powerful scenes in Sister Midnight is also a quiet and unexpected one. The protagonist, Uma, sits idly with her neighbour Sheetal outside their adjoining homes in Mumbai. To pass the time, the bored housewives pretend to be divorcing one another. Amid the role play, Uma turns to her confidant and says: “I’m tainted goods, I’m a divorcee. But it’s OK. I’ll wear this like a badge and go forth to the hills, form a manless nation and build a monolithic altar to the pussy.”The statement captures what is so provocative about the film – it turns societal norms on their head and dares to ask: what if we did things differently? At its core, the film feels quite feminist. “That word comes up a lot,” says director Karan Kandhari. “I’m happy people can see the film like that, but I didn’t set out to make something with an agen...

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