5 h. ago Game of Thrones star 'apologised after every scene' for reason making fans melt

Charles Dance appeared in HBO's Game of Thrones for several seasons – with Dance playing the role of the sadistic Tywin Lannister and often apologising for his dialogue

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32 h. ago The Thicket review – Peter Dinklage is a bounty hunter in harsh western with unusual chill

Peter Dinklage and Juliette Lewis star in a horse opera set in a snowbound world of bars, brothels and wide open spacesHere is a western starring Peter Dinklage, but forget hot sun-baked gullies and leather-skinned cowboys riding sweatily through rattlesnake country. The Thicket takes place in a hard, snowbound wilderness interspersed with equally hard, snowbound little townships consisting mainly of bars and brothels. You can see the breath in the air and the blood on the snow. The plot is staple horse opera: a kidnapped maiden must be rescued by a motley group of good-ish guys with mixed motives, headed up by Dinklage playing a bounty hunter character offering a similar vein of dry, world-weary cynicism as his breakthrough role as Tyrion in Game of Thrones, only much less aristocratic. He is joined by Gbenga Akinnagbe as his right hand man, with whom Dinklage has nice chemistry, and Levon Hawke, as a naive young Christian whose sister has been kidnapped by ruffians.The ruffians ar...

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3 d. ago Why resurrect the dire wolf when existing animals are facing extinction? | Martha Gill

It’s not as sensational as recreating long-dead species, but conserving modern-day fauna is far more pressingThe parable of the Mars mission: we’d rather spend trillions sending ourselves to a yet unlivable planet than look after the one we have. And swiftly on its heels, the parable of the dire wolf. We’d rather resurrect a 12,500-year-old species from the dead than save our existing wild animals. Of course we would. Recycling is boring; doing the very thing 90s science fiction movies warned us not to do is fun.We are not quite on the verge of bringing back ancient species. But last week the PR campaign for doing so began in earnest. Colossal Biosciences – a company known for trying to revive the dodo, the mammoth and the thylacine – has unveiled three large adorable white puppies, claiming it has created “the world’s first successfully de-extincted animal”: the dire wolf, made famous by Game of Thrones. It invited author George RR Martin to look; he duly burst into tears. Continue...

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4 d. ago Woolly mammoths could be walking among us in just a few years time

Woolly mammoths could soon be reintroduced to the wild as the team behind the de-extinction of dire wolves sets their sights on another prehistoric – and very dangerous – animal

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5 d. ago Digested week: It’s 35 years since the ‘tax man’ conceded married women were independent beings

Let’s celebrate the feminist wins and thank goodness dire wolves are back, since DNA is simpler to understand than tariffsIdeally, for diary purposes, it would be today, but we cannot allow simple chronological misfortune to allow yesterday to go unmarked. For 6 April 1990 was the day that married women became recognised by HMRC as beings – get this! – independent from their husbands, and started having their incomes taxed separately from their spouses’. Of course, many said the rot would set in and it’s true that just a few short years later rape in marriage became a crime, as people started to think that maybe wives’ bodies as well as their earnings were their own and things briefly started looking up all round. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer films gritty new ITV drama about Sarah Ferguson's killer nanny

EXCLUSIVE: Brand new ITV drama The Lady is set to tell the story of the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson's dresser Jane Andrews, who was convicted of brutally killing her lover

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5 d. ago Pedro Pascal’s rapid rise to stardom is about to either make or break him

Almost overnight, the affable ‘Game of Thrones’ star seems to have become the most in-demand actor in Hollywood. Louis Chilton looks at the reasons behind his success – and the trial by fire he now faces

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5 d. ago Bella Ramsey used to ‘cringe’ watching work on Game Of Thrones

Ramsey also spoke about the stunts they have done as an actor, hinting that there will be more in the upcoming season of The Last Of Us.

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6 d. ago Scientists say the dire wolf has been brought back from extinction

It’s a resurrection story made for the headlines, but beneath the dramatic narrative lies a more nuanced story

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7 d. ago Full list of extinct animals being brought back to life by scientists after dire wolf breakthrough

A genetic engineering company has stunned the world by bringing the ancient dire wolf back from extinction, but it won't stop there. Here are the next three species Colossal Biosciences will resurrect.

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7 d. ago Game of Thrones author George RR Martin broke down in tears meeting ‘de

Scientists have revived a wolf species closely resembling that of the extinct dire wolf made famous by Martin’s ‘Game of Thrones’

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8 d. ago Dire wolf made famous by Game of Thrones brought back from extinction after 10,000 years

The dire wolf is a mainstay of fantasy settings in pop culture but came to prominence in the popular HBO series, based on George RR Martin's book series.

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8 d. ago Prehistoric dire wolf brought back to life in astonishing world's first de

Boffins behind an audacious plan to bring the woolly mammoth back to life say they have successfully bred three dire wolves, which were wiped out 12,000 years ago

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8 d. ago Dire wolf has been brought back from extinction, say US scientists

Colossal Biosciences’ chief executive Ben Lamm called the development a ‘massive milestone’

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8 d. ago Game of Thrones' dire wolves brought back from extinction after 10,000 years

A biotech company has hailed its breakthrough of resurrecting the species

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8 d. ago Scientists announce dire wolf species has been brought back from extinction after 10,000 years

The extinct animal was made famous in the TV series Game of Thrones

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8 d. ago Scientists announce they have brought back dire wolf from extinction after 10,000 years

Colossal Biosciences’ chief executive Ben Lamm called the development a ‘massive milestone’

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8 d. ago Scientists announce dire wolf has been brought back from extinction

Colossal Biosciences’ chief executive Ben Lamm called the development a ‘massive milestone’.

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1 week ago Game Of Thrones star Natalie Dormer claims cast are 'fed up' of being asked about TV show

Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer confessed that she has come to terms with the fact that she will forever be asked about Game of Thrones nine years later

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1 week ago The Capture starring Holliday Grainger to return for third series

Game Of Thrones actor Joe Dempsie joins the cast for season three of the surveillance thriller.

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