5 h. ago BBC viewers told to watch 'bingeable' drama dubbed 'Top Boy for kids'

The new drama has been praised for being educational and entertaining

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9 h. ago Motherland fans told to binge 'highly addictive' comedy drama hailed 'one of a kind'

If you're looking to fill the Motherland-shaped hole in your life, there's a "delightfully funny" series whose two main stars have a "winning chemistry" – and it's streaming now

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5 d. ago The Madame Blanc Mysteries on Channel 5: What Series 4 of Sally Lindsay drama is about, full cast list and where you've seen them before

Sally Lindsay is back for the fourth series of the comedy crime drama

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6 d. ago Adolescence star Owen Cooper, 15, has already filmed his next TV role alongside White Lotus star

The actor is set to star in romantic comedy-drama Film Club, alongside White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood (who plays Evie) and House of the Dragon star Ralph Davis. (who portrays Noa).

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6 d. ago Support programme aims to address ‘highly addictive’ nature of modern gambling

Chapter One has been developed by Gambling with Lives, a charity founded in 2018 by families bereaved by gambling suicide.

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7 d. ago Piper, no! Parker Posey’s viral White Lotus accent is a gift to us all

The actor’s lorazepam-fueled North Carolinian line delivery in the comedy drama series has taken the internet by stormEvery season of The White Lotus has its thing: a moment that takes off and becomes its own monster until long after the end credits roll on the finale. Season one was the suitcase poop scene, an effect so bizarrely groundbreaking that other showrunners wound up publicly musing on how much it must have cost. Season two’s thing was Jennifer Coolidge saying, “These gays, they’re trying to murder me,” which you will see replayed three times a minute whenever you look at anyone’s Instagram stories.It might be too early to definitively state what season three’s thing is – The White Lotus always goes from a standing start to a nutso finale, and we still have three episodes left for things to really ramp up – but there are already a couple of contenders. For a while, it looked like it might have been Jason Isaacs’ penis, until he forcefully shut down the conversation last we...

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8 d. ago M&S shoppers rush to get hands on 'incredible' spread that's 'highly addictive'

Sweet treat fans are racing to M&S to get their hands on a viral pistachio spread that launched last month - as people say it is 'highly addictive' and offered it a rating of 10/10

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9 d. ago Happy Valley’s Siobhan Finneran: ‘We’re all a bit of a mess, blundering our way through stuff’

After the whirlwind success of ‘Happy Valley’, Siobhan Finneran is stepping up to a long-overdue leading role in an ITV police thriller. She talks to Katie Rosseinsky about delving into the secretive world of witness protection, why Sally Wainwright’s work struck such a chord, and juggling hard-hitting drama with comedy

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1 week ago ‘I’ve always felt a little neurospicy. But it’s my factory setting!’ Natasha Rothwell on taking The White Lotus by storm

The comedian and former drama teacher was only expecting to do one series of HBO’s hit comedy-drama. Now, as Belinda, she’s stealing season three. She talks ADHD, big breaks and micro-resistancesNatasha Rothwell pops up on video from the US looking super-glamorous in a silvery-grey dress, with her hair and makeup on point. Did we miss a memo about a dress code for our interview? “I’ve just come from an event and thought, even though you’re not filming this, you could at least admire,” she laughs. “You know what they say: share the hair and never waste a face.”Rothwell is currently stealing the show as spa manager Belinda in season three of HBO hit The White Lotus – reprising her role from season one, for which she was Emmy-nominated. Having endured the whims of Jennifer Coolidge’s needy heiress in Hawaii, Belinda has now travelled to the titular resort in Thailand to take part in its wellness training programme. She’s “cosplaying as a guest”, as Rothwell puts it – and in the process...

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1 week ago Checking out early: who is going to die in this season of The White Lotus?

The third season of Mike White’s delicious resort-set comedy drama has teased yet another murder but we don’t yet know the whos or the whysAfter a characteristically slow start, we are now halfway through this year’s season of The White Lotus. From what we know of the last two seasons, this means that things are about to get very crazy very quickly. To use season one as a way marker, we are now approximately the runtime of The Brutalist away from watching someone perform the equivalent of a suitcase poop.More than previous runs, however, a number of mysteries still hang over almost every White Lotus character this year. We know that there’s a shooting. We know that there’s a body. At this point, almost every character could be either one of them. It’s time to theorise wildly. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Netflix American Primeval fans told to binge similarly 'unrelentingly brilliant' series

American Primeval is a Western miniseries set in 1857 during the Utah War. If its "rugged, in-your-face style" had you gripped, there's another show you might want to check out

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2 w. ago Netflix Never Have I Ever star opens up on 'leap of faith' for Disney+'s crime comedy

Poorna Jagannathan is best known for playing Nalini Vishwakumar in Netflix's hit comedy-drama Never Have I Ever

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2 w. ago Ben Stokes is cricket’s last action hero – the ODI captaincy can be his Viking funeral | Barney Ronay

Instincts are to protect England’s Test captain, but he’s the functioning brain of Bazball. It’s hard to think of anyone better to lead the ODI teamThis column is about the rise of high-end supermarket cheddar cheese that has delicious and addictive crunchy crystals in it. What are these exactly? And is everything just basically crisps now? This column is about the MCC being needlessly given tens of millions of pounds because the England and Wales Cricket Board sold a hat that isn’t really a hat, just the promise of a brightly coloured future-hat.This column is about cricket umpires being reduced progressively to a theatre of facial expressions, from the brave, wounded “you’re on screen, please reverse your decision”, to the screw-you triumphalism of the confirmatory finger to an empty set of stumps. Michael Caine once said that while doing a closeup you should always stare at a fixed point, always into one eye not both eyes of your scene partner. Do we need to train Joel Wilson in ...

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3 w. ago Major calls for government intervention into ketamine ‘epidemic’ killing off young Brits

Richard Middleton warned that more young adults are at risk of death from the ‘highly addictive and harmful’ drug unless the Home Office takes action

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3 w. ago Oscars in numbers: Anora excels at converting nominations to wins

The romantic comedy-drama won almost every category it was contending.

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3 w. ago Kieran Culkin's bleeped speech revealed after Oscars censored X

The 42-year-old won best supporting actor for the comedy-drama A Real Pain, written and directed by his co-star Jesse Eisenberg.

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3 w. ago Anora dominates Oscars 2025 as The Brutalist and Demi Moore miss out on top prizes

Sean Baker’s comedy-drama completed a near-perfect sweep

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3 w. ago Robert Downey Jr. takes brutal dig at Kieran Culkin's SAG Awards speech onstage during 2025 Oscars

Kieran has swept the awards show circuit for his role in A Real Pain, a comedy-drama written and directed by his co-star Jesse Eisenberg .

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3 w. ago Small Town, Big Story review – Christina Hendricks is terrifying in Chris O’Dowd’s wacky Irish comedy

Hendricks plays a Hollywood producer who returns to her home town to shoot a show in this whimsical comedy drama – and she is not someone you want to crossHow much you enjoy Small Town, Big Story will depend on how you feel first about whimsy and second about genre mashups. If your appetite for both is large, then Chris O’Dowd’s creation (he wrote and directed) has plenty to make you happy. If not, you might find the whole thing a little too underpowered to keep you going.Christina Hendricks, of Mad Men fame, plays hard-bitten TV producer Wendy Patterson. She is in charge of her first big Hollywood production and returns to her tiny home town of Drumbán in Northern Ireland (after 25 years in Los Angeles surrounded by fat-cat bosses and patronising colleagues) to shoot it there. This follows shenanigans by Drumbán’s more colourful and eccentric characters to keep the location scouts from choosing a more tax-advantageous site across the border; these shenanigans include a pig’s head o...

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3 w. ago Queen Máxima's toughest moment to be recreated in season two of 'The Crown of The Netherlands'

Mill Street Films gave fans a sneak peek into season two of Maxima Zorreguieta: Motherland via Instagram, with an image depicting the royal wedding in Amsterdam.

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