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Firefighters took half an hour to reach Ann Bradshaw in home piled to the ceiling with hoarded items
Tuesday 24 April 2012
A TV drama about serial killer Fred West headed the shortlist for the TV Baftas today with nominations for four awards.
Sunday 22 April 2012
Give us a villainous vampire we can get our teeth into, not one of these winsome wimps
Friday 20 April 2012
Adam Brody has come a long way since The OC – but his appeal with the ladies shows no sign of waning, says Kaleem Aftab
Thursday 19 April 2012
Sir David Attenborough is to take on Keith Lemon and Sherlock for a TV Bafta.
Thursday 12 April 2012
We've had a lot of ersatz maritime disaster over the last few days, what with the Titanic centenary, but The Sinking of the Concordia: Caught on Camera could proudly boast that it was the real thing. "No director, no camera crew, no reconstructions," promised the voiceover at the beginning of this collage of home videos of the event. It relied for its raw material on two features of modern life: the ubiquity of hand-held video cameras in the age of smart-phones and the readiness of some people to experience their entire holiday from behind a view-finder. As this film proved, some of them won't even press the pause button when their own children are weeping with fear in front of the lens.
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Wednesday 04 April 2012
Former Doctor Who star David Tennant will play a French spy in a new two-part Second World War-era drama by Likely Lads writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Tuesday 03 April 2012
Roberto Mancini knows all about players who would spill blood for a Manchester City manager. He saw it in those players he inherited in 2009, struggling to transfer their loyalties from Mark Hughes to him. He still views that time as perhaps his toughest at City.
Tuesday 03 April 2012
The comedian Justin Lee Collins is to stand trial for allegedly harassing his former girlfriend.
Tuesday 03 April 2012
Manchester City manager considers the striker to be a fellow member of the genius club
Monday 02 April 2012
Hope lives on among fans that the franchise will be revived but perhaps it's better not to go back – even today the first two Earthworm Jim games are jewels of the genre, always there to pick you up when you need a little rampant absurdity in your life.
Friday 30 March 2012
If the term family festival conjures the unwelcome image of bouncy castles and entertainers, Camp Bestival might change your view.
Friday 30 March 2012
Anne Heche already has a cult following but now she's got some on-screen members to go with her fan base.
Wednesday 28 March 2012
At his age, the shock might have killed him. Straight up, Rupert Murdoch could have gone out like a light on learning that the rich and powerful can buy access to a Prime Minister. So praise be that his naive heart survived the epiphany, sparing him to confide his thoughts on the latest demi-scandal bedecked with the scintillatingly fresh suffix of "-gate". "What was Cameron thinking?" he tweeted. "No one, rightly or wrongly, will believe his story."
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