4 h. ago Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true

Venice film festivalAl Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage With terrific chutzpah, black-comic flair and cool, cruel unsentimentality, screenwriter Austin Kolodney and director Gus Van Sant have made a true-crime suspense thriller set in the 1970s, tapping into the spirit of both Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network. Apart from anything else, it is a reminder that in that post-Kennedy, post-Watergate age, plenty of lawless and febrile things happened that would now be considered phenomena purely attributable to social media.In 1977, an Indianapolis businessman named Tony Kiritsis, with many acquaintances in the police department, kidnapped a mortgage broker named Richard Hall, and tied Hall’s neck with a “dead man’s wire” to his shotgun, which would therefore go off if police sharpshooters tried to kill him. Kiritsis even paraded his victim like this on TV while...

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15 h. ago ITV Good Morning Britain migrant report sparks rage as viewers fume 'it's a total disaster'

Good Morning Britain delivered a fresh update on the government's 'one in one out' migrant agreement with France on Tuesday morning.

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16 h. ago ITV I Fought The Law fans say the same thing about Sheridan Smith's accent minutes into new drama

I Fought The Law has been a huge hit with ITV viewers, but some have been unconvinced by the accents in the true crime drama

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32 h. ago The Sheridan Smith memes are distracting us from just how brilliant she really is

Smith’s ubiquitous ‘based on a true story’ dramas have become a punchline on social media, but her latest powerful turn in ‘I Fought the Law’ proves once again that she’s one of our brightest stars, says Katie Rosseinsky

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50 h. ago The Inheritance viewers fume over new series with 'complicated' twist

Channel 4's brand new game show with Elizabeth Hurley with Rob Rinder left many viewers confused with the show being described as ‘overly complicated’ and ‘a bit of a faff’

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50 h. ago I Fought the Law review – Sheridan Smith is utterly believable in this true crime story worth sharing with the world

Like the groundbreaking legal case at its centre, the carefully made four-part series can feel slow in parts

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50 h. ago I Fought the Law review – no one does this kind of drama better than Sheridan Smith

This true crime drama about a woman who forced the government to change the law so her daughter’s killer could be jailed is totally elevated by Smith. Her brilliance turns it into genuinely moving TVIs there any comfort to be had in knowing that police incompetence is not a new phenomenon? Not really, no. But it might be all you can find to cling on to during this harrowing, heartbreaking four-part drama. I Fought the Law is based on the true story of Ann Ming ,the murder of her 22-year-old daughter Julie in 1989 and her 30-year campaign to change the double jeopardy law so Julie’s acquitted killer could be tried again for the crime.I Fought the Law has two great strengths. First, the awareness that although the overturning of a law that had existed since Magna Carta is technically the most astonishing part of Ming’s tale, it is not the most televisual. That, for better or worse, will always be the body blows she withstood, from finding her daughte...

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52 h. ago ITV I Fought the Law true story of Anna Ming's fight for justice and where Billy Dunlop is now

The true crime drama based on a mother's fight for justice, premieres on ITV

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53 h. ago ITV The 1% Club viewers fume over 'terrible' question as they say answer is 'wrong'

The 1% Club viewers were left fuming over a question on Saturday's episode, as they claimed the answer was 'wrong'

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66 h. ago I Fought The Law's Sheridan Smith left 'shaking' over 'taxing' ITV true crime drama

Sheridan Smith has opened up about her experience preparing for her latest role in ITV's new true crime drama I Fought The Law, in which she stars as Ann Ming

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3 d. ago What it's like to be the child of a serial killer: Daughter of BTK reveals how learning her 'good guy' father was a murderer made her whole life 'a lie'

Kerri Rawson, the daughter of US serial killer Dennis Rader has spoken about what it's like being the child of a murderer in an ABC 20/20 True Crime Vault podcast episode titled My Father BTK.

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4 d. ago 'Heartbreaking' BBC documentary Dear Viv leaves viewers in tears after tragic death

Dear Viv, a new documentary made in memory of The Vivienne, has left BBC viewers in tears as James Lee Williams' friends and family pay tribute to the late RuPaul's Drag Race UK winner

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5 d. ago Aberdeen true crime event: David Swindle on Peter Tobin, Operation Anagram and murder investigations

True crime fans are in for a gripping night in Aberdeen this September as one of the UK’s most respected former detectives takes to the stage. David Swindle, the man who led the investigation that unmasked Peter Tobin and went on to launch the groundbreaking Operation Anagram, brings his hit live show Murder: A Search for the Truth to The Lemon Tree on Sunday, September 14.

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5 d. ago Netflix fans all have the same complaint as release date for grisly true crime series confirmed

Netflix has announced the premiere date for the latest in Ryan Murphy's true crime anthology series

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5 d. ago Netflix drops release date for grisly true crime series as fans say it's 'top of the list'

Netflix fans are already obsessed with an upcoming horror series based on a chilling true story

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5 d. ago Emmerdale flooded with Ofcom complaints as viewers fume 'it's gone too far'

Emmerdale has been slapped with more than 150 Ofcom complaints after a recent episode that saw a character shot and apparently killed with an arrow

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9 d. ago What connects six disappearances in a picturesque New Zealand town? ‘Everyone has a theory’

Six people have gone missing in the small town of Piha. A true-crime documentary is asking questions – and ruffling some feathersGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOn a squally winter night 21 years ago, 25-year-old Iraena Asher vanished from an isolated beach community, one hour west of New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland.“It was a terrible night like this,” Julia Woodhouse – one of the last to see Asher – tells the Guardian one afternoon in early July, as the rain lashes the windows of her Piha home. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Emily in Paris resumes filming in Venice two days after Netflix show's 'assistant director collapses and dies' in front of horrified crew

On Saturday the show's star Lily Collins was spotted out and about in Venice as filming appeared to resume following the death of assistant director Diego Borella, 47.

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1 week ago Gripping true crime Netflix docuseries about one of UK's biggest terrorist attacks hailed 'must watch'

The four-part documentary explores the four suicide bombings that took place in London on July 7 2005 with never-seen-before footage being exposed.

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1 week ago Katie Price's 'devastating' feud with Peter Andre's doctor wife Emily exposed: Extraordinary rant and 'two

One scene from Princess Andre 's fly-on-the-wall documentary must have left even the most hardened, celebrity-weary cynic a little teary eyed.

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