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Sherlock 'could go on for 20 years'
Tuesday 12 February 2013
Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman could still be playing the successful sleuths in 20 years if the show's co-creator Mark Gatiss gets his way.
Film review: Boxing Day - starring Danny Huston and and Matthew Jacobs
Thursday 20 December 2012
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Bindweed to boastful fellow gardeners: Anna continues her handy A-Z of problems and pests
Saturday 03 November 2012
B is for…
The Fashion Audit: Scandi style, knickers for glory and summer scents
Monday 30 July 2012
What we love, we're not sure about, we're buying and can't wait for...
Riccardo Primo, Britten Theatre, London
Life Is a Dream, Argyle Works, Birmingham
Timberbrit, Bussey Building, London
Sunday 01 April 2012
Awkward direction hobbles this Handel collector's item, but it takes more than that to keep a good performer down
And Brett makes three! A new D'Oliveira is making his mark
Sunday 01 April 2012
As a new season starts, Worcester await the third generation of a very famous name
Tim Walker: Mixed-up casting has lost the plot
Wednesday 29 February 2012
By casting an attractive woman as Watson, CBS has neatly sidestepped one enduring source of Sherlock Holmes-based speculation: the seething homoerotic tension between the detective and his sidekick. In the BBC's hit show Sherlock, for example, Watson is frequently obliged to inform presumptuous strangers that he and Holmes are just good friends. By contrast, Guy Ritchie's macho movie adaptations seem convinced of the duo's flagrant heterosexuality.
Dabbous, 39 Whitfield Street, London W1
Sunday 26 February 2012
You won't forget this taste of Dabbous. Just get there before the Michelin men do...
DVD: Holy Flying Circus (15)
Friday 10 February 2012
Tony Roche 's silly and often funny re-imagining of the furore that surrounded the release of Monty Python's Life of Brian received a bit of panning when shown on BBC4 last year.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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