10 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing LIVE: Star dealt heartbreaking blow just moments before show begins

Strictly Come Dancing is back for another edition of the BBC Latin and ballroom competition, with Blackpool edging ever closer for the remaining nine stars

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10 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing LIVE: Strictly star breaks down as another feeling the 'pressure'

Strictly Come Dancing is back for another edition of the BBC Latin and ballroom competition, with Blackpool edging ever closer for the remaining nine stars

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10 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing LIVE: Strictly fans fume at 'overmarked' star in new BBC show row

Strictly Come Dancing is back for another edition of the BBC Latin and ballroom competition, with Blackpool edging ever closer for the remaining nine stars

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11 h. ago Scotland fall short of historic New Zealand win as All Blacks break hosts’ hearts again

Scotland 17-25 New Zealand: Damian McKenzie’s crucial late try and penalty earned victory for New Zealand after a fine fightback from Scotland

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11 h. ago Damian McKenzie edges All Blacks home after scare to crush Scotland comeback

Scotland 17-25 New ZealandAll Blacks squander 17-point lead before late tryA 33rd attempt, a 31st defeat and crucially still no win for Scotland against the All Blacks. And so the search will go on. Let us not resort to that familiar lament, if Scotland could not win it here, will they ever? It is true, they had as gilt-edged a chance as they may ever have, New Zealand forced to play a total of half an hour a man down, having been shown three yellow cards. It is true, Scotland showed remarkable spirit to recover from 17-0 down at the break to level on the hour. But the All Blacks remain deadly, deadlier than Scotland.This Scotland team is deadly too, but it is a question of deadliness when it matters. That is where they continue to come up short. New Zealand wrote the manual – and did that a long time ago. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Scotland v New Zealand live: All Blacks break Scottish hearts with dramatic win in Murrayfield thriller

Scotland 17-25 New Zealand: The Scots came agonisingly close to ending 120 years of hurt against the All Blacks but Damian McKenzie’s late try snatched victory for the visitors

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1 week ago Big Brother horror that will 'have you on the edge of your seat' by Black Mirror legend

A horror series set in the Big Brother house from the creator of Black Mirror has been branded as "outstanding" by viewers

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2 w. ago Down Cemetery Road to Jimmy Carr’s Am I the A**hole? The seven best shows to stream this week

Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson team up in the cracking new thriller from Slow Horses creator Mick Herron, and Jimmy Carr’s new comedy will draw gasps by the minute. Plus: there’s a new Witcher!When a gas main explodes in a quiet Oxford street it initially comes as a merciful respite from the awkward dinner party being hosted by Sarah Tucker (Ruth Wilson). But soon, the fallout from the explosion becomes more disconcerting. Sarah (by day, a bored art historian) turns detective when an attempt to deliver a card to a child injured in the blast drags her into a conspiracy; soon she’s in cahoots with Emma Thompson’s spiky PI Zoe Boehm and getting entirely out of her depth. As befits a thriller adapted from a novel by Slow Horses creator Mick Herron, it’s an enjoyably astringent, increasingly nervy mixture of edgewalking intrigue and unsentimental, pitch-black humour. Apple TV, from Wednesday 29 October Continue reading...

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3 w. ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing LIVE: Star dealt cruel blow just hours before show

Strictly Come Dancing's live show is back yet again with the class of 2025 taking to the dancefloor in the hopes of edging one step closer to Blackpool and the grand final

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