5 d. ago Line of Duty creator 'ditches plans for Lucy Letby drama' over baby murder convictions doubts

Lucy Letby, 35, was last year given 15 whole life sentences for her crimes - but medical experts have since come forward saying they believe the former nurse did not commit the murders

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6 d. ago Line of Duty creator shelves Lucy Letby drama amid doubts over her conviction: Case is more complicated than we first thought, say insiders at Jed Mercurio's TV production company

A drama about the Lucy Letby case by the creator of Line of Duty has been paused because of growing doubts about the nurse's convictions.

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6 d. ago Asda issues urgent product recall for popular food that may cause 'health risk' for customers

It comes after the company (pictured, file photo) realised the product might contain milk and sulphites - which were not declared on the packaging.

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8 d. ago Google illegally monopolized online advertising markets, US judge rules

Federal judge deals blow to tech giant and paves way for government to break up company’s advertising productsAlphabet’s Google illegally dominated two markets for online advertising technology, a judge ruled on Thursday, dealing another blow to the tech giant and paving the way for US antitrust prosecutors to seek a breakup of its advertising products.The US district judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, found Google liable for “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in markets for publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges which sit between buyers and sellers. Publisher ad servers are platforms used by websites to store and manage their ad inventory. Antitrust enforcers failed to prove a separate claim that the company had a monopoly in advertiser ad networks, she wrote. Continue reading...

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1 week ago A24: The best of the cult studio’s films ranked, from Moonlight to Lady Bird

The American production company and distributor has become shorthand for bold, stylistic and narrative gambles, from ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ to ‘The Lighthouse’. As the studio releases the polarising action film ‘Warfare’, Louis Chilton and Adam White rank their best movies so far

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2 w. ago US small business owner says China tariffs endanger her company: ‘I could lose my home’

Beth Benike, whose products are manufactured in China, is ‘terrified’ what Trump trade war will mean for Busy BabyBeth Benike knew the tariffs were coming.The Minnesota veteran invented a placemat with bungee cords that hold toys or utensils, keeping them off the floor when babies toss them. It’s one of several products she created for Busy Baby, a company she runs with her brother. They are manufactured in China. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Adolescence season two: Brad Pitt’s production company begins talks

A follow-up to the record-breaking Netflix series might be in the works with hopes that it will ‘not be repetitive’Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B is in talks to develop another season of Adolescence, after the British show became a runaway hit on Netflix.Speaking to Deadline in their first interview since the show took off on the streaming platform last month, co-presidents Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner said they are speaking to director Philip Barantini about the “next iteration” of the show, a critical success that has ignited conversations about children’s susceptibility to toxic masculinity online. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘HillmanTok’: how The Cosby Show inspired resistance to Trump’s war on Black education

Inspired by the university setting of A Different World, the world’s first crowd-sourced HBCU is expanding onlineIn 1987, the Cosby Show spinoff A Different World made its US TV debut and followed the elder child, Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet), as she studied at her parents’ alma mater. The fictional historically Black college (or HBCU), Hillman, would go on to become a byword for Black excellence. “The influence of kids wanting to go to school, period, I think is very powerful,” one of the stars of the series, Jasmine Guy, said while touring HBCU campuses with her former castmates in 2024, 35 years after the sitcom ended. “Because they could see themselves there.”Hillman College is credited with driving record levels of enrollment at actual HBCUs in the 1980s and 90s, and remains a source of inspiration for Black creatives to this day. The actor-screenwriter Lena Waithe had the fabled campus in mind when she launched her production company, Hillman Grad. “I want to call it something...

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2 w. ago Jeremy Clarkson's Hawkstone beer recalled over 'possible health risk'

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued a recall notice for two products made by The Cotswold Brewing Company

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2 w. ago National Weather Service no longer translating products for non

The National Weather Service is no longer providing translations of its products after its contract with an artificial intelligence company was allowed to lapse

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2 w. ago UK company considers moving some production to US to reduce tariff impact

The company said it has ‘a number of options open to it to mitigate impact’ of Donald Trump’s tariffs

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2 w. ago Two Easter eggs recalled from UK supermarkets over fears they may contain metal pieces

The company said the product is being removed from shop shelves but is calling anyone who has already bought one to not eat it in case it contains metal pieces

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3 w. ago Apple's intriguing rule that 'blocks' certain characters having iPhone in movies

While the biggest Hollywood films may include some of Apple's products for placement, the company has reportedly put a strange rule in place to show the company in a good light

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3 w. ago Michael Sheen's Welsh National Theatre announces its first two plays

Michael Sheen has announced the first productions from his new theatre company

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3 w. ago Michael Sheen unveils plans for new Welsh National Theatre as he takes on role of a lifetime

The actor revealed the company's first two productions, which will be Owain & Henry and Our Town

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3 w. ago Detroit production of Mozart opera turns its female characters into automatons

Audiences at the Detroit Opera House expecting their performance of “Cosi fan tutte” to begin with the overture may be surprised to hear instead a product launch from a tech company CEO

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3 w. ago From Hollywood’s goofy stoner to serious satire: the reinvention of Seth Rogen

The former manchild’s performance as an industry suit in new series The Studio shows how far he has come in HollywoodIn Seth Rogen’s new satirical series, The Studio, Rogen plays the newly appointed head of a major Hollywood production company – and there was a time when that alone would have been the joke.The goofy, schlubby, pre-eminent manchild of mainstream comedy, handed the role of a powerful industry suit – the fish-out-of-water jokes would have written themselves. But Matt Remick, Rogen’s character in The Studio, isn’t a manchild but a man: a pretty regular middle-aged one, trying to do good, honest work in a sour, cynical business. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Pentagon nepotism fears as Defense Secretary’s younger brother given key adviser role

Phil Hegseth's past experience includes founding his own podcast production company

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