3 h. ago Dad's Army reboot for very special reason as fans divided despite 'amazing' cast

As the VE Day celebrations continued on the 80th anniversary, fans watching on BBC were treated to a star-studded reboot of classic wartime sitcom, Dad's Army

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3 h. ago Wartime star Dame Vera Lynn would want young people to help others – daughter

Dame Vera lifted troops’ spirits with concerts in Egypt, India and Burma during the war.

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9 h. ago The Wedding Banquet is a warmer, sillier take on Ang Lee’s Nineties romcom

Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang and Star Wars actor Kelly Marie Tran lead this spirited remake that plays a bit more conventionally than its predecessor – but is also happy to relax into the warm embrace of its cast

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12 h. ago How Andor created a ‘French’ planet in the Star Wars universe

The planet Ghorman draws upon history from the French revolution and World War II

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14 h. ago Luke, I am an INTJ? Darth Vader would slice hurtful colleagues in half – not take them to an employment tribunal

An NHS worker received £28,989 after being compared to the Sith Lord because of a Star Wars-themed Myers Briggs test. But I’d rather be Darth than Obi-WanThis is undeniably a bad time to be Darth Vader. A few weeks ago, Tony Gilroy revealed that Vader would not be appearing in his Andor series, despite fans assuming that he would play a significant part in its climax. A few days ago, the White House shared an AI-generated image of Donald Trump as a confusingly musclebound Sith Lord, subtly undermining Vader as the go-to Star Wars baddie. And now a woman has been awarded almost £30,000 for being compared to him.Yesterday, it was reported that NHS blood donation worker Lorna Rooke had received £28,989.61 from a Croydon tribunal after complaining that a colleague had taken a Star Wars-themed Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test on her behalf online, and then informed her that her results aligned with Darth Vader. This upset Rooke and made her feel so unpopular that she resigned...

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16 h. ago London NHS worker awarded £29,000 after being likened to Darth Vader

‘Darth Vader is a legendary villain of the Star Wars series, and being aligned with his personality is insulting,’ a judge found

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34 h. ago Loose Women star Kaye Adams reveals warning sign that shows a panellist 'won't last' on the show

Loose Women star and original panellist Kaye Adams has revealed the one warning sign that shows a new face "won't last" on the popular daytime chat show.

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35 h. ago NHS worker compared to Star Wars villain Darth Vader by a co

Blood donation worker Lorna Rooke was made to feel 'unpopular' after her colleague Amanda Harber took a a personality quiz on her behalf and told staff she fell into the same category as the Dark Lord.

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37 h. ago Andor is ‘genuinely the best Star Wars has ever been’ say amazed fans after devastating new episodes

Fans say showrunner Tony Gilroy is ‘achieving things in the Star Wars universe that nobody else ever has’

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38 h. ago Woman wins £30,000 compensation for being compared to Darth Vader

Croydon employment tribunal rules NHS worker Lorna Rooke suffered workplace ‘detriment’Comparing someone at work to the Star Wars villain Darth Vader is “insulting” and “upsetting”, an employment tribunal has ruled.A judge concluded that being told you have the same personality type as the infamous sci-fi baddie is a workplace “detriment” – a legal term meaning harm or negative impact experienced by a person. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Destiny 2’s Renegades expansion is Star Wars themed as community is left torn

Destiny 2's new saga was revealed last night, but fans are torn on Renegades, a Star Wars inspired expansion that's slated to launch in December 2025 — here's all we learned

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39 h. ago The Empire Strips Back at Riverside Studios review: this Star Wars parody is hardly titillating stuff

A row of fishnetted derrieres isn’t that erotic when the women involved are also wearing Imperial Stormtrooper masks

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42 h. ago By calling a genocide a genocide, Andor just made its most political point yet

Tony Gilroy’s Star Wars show has repeatedly felt like it was ripped from today’s headlines – but Mon Mothma’s radical speech was written two years agoWarning: this contains spoilers for episode nine of Andor season twoSince it started in 2022, the Star Wars spin-off Andor has proved an unexpectedly bolshie addition to the Disney-owned mega-franchise. By portraying worker uprisings, surveillance states, sexual violence and prison industrial complexes, showrunner Tony Gilroy added fresh political nuance and human stakes to George Lucas’s endless galactic civil war.And since its April premiere, the show’s second and final season has only doubled down. In the first episode, viewers saw smarmy spin doctors from the Empire’s “Ministry of Enlightenment” discuss how to “weaponise” galactic opinion to manufacture public approval for ethnic cleansing on the planet Ghorman. News anchors parrot Imperial talking points, while the military plots a long game: to provoke an uprising from “rebels yo...

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48 h. ago Justin Baldoni hit with major setback amid legal battle with Blake Lively

Justin Baldoni's Wayfarer Foundation is shutting down  - amid his legal war with former It Ends with Us co-star Blake Lively.

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52 h. ago Donald Trump’s latest tariffs will be devastating for the British film industry and beyond

Editorial: It will – if it can ever be made workable – do grievous damage to the economies of America’s allies and to the US entertainment sector. It will not ‘make Hollywood great again’ but lay waste to the thriving and symbiotic film sectors in other nations

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55 h. ago Star Wars legend George Lucas risks Anna Wintour's wrath after wearing $60 sneakers on Met Gala red carpet

Star Wars legend George Lucas walked the Met Gala carpet alongside wife Mellody sporting a very unique footwear choice.

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61 h. ago Star Wars fans point out the irony of JD Vance being a fan of the prequel trilogy

‘Deja vu,’ joked one fan

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61 h. ago Radio 2's Vernon Kay issues Scott Mills stern warning about Rylan Clark

Vernon Kay has issued a stern warning to his BBC Radio 2 co-star Scott Mills ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals, which will see him team up with Rylan Clark

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66 h. ago ‘Full of Sith’: Luke Skywalker’s Mark Hamill piles on Trump for bungled Star Wars post

Luke Skywalker weighs in on derided Trump post

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3 d. ago Star Wars spaceship travel between galaxies could be reality in next century, say boffins

Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre believes instead of moving through space a ship could bend space itself using a real-life 'warp drive' like in the films

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