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Actress Lucy Punch will reunite with Dame Joanna Lumley for Motherland spin-off
Actress Lucy Punch will reunite with Dame Joanna Lumley for a spin-off from the hit BBC show Motherland, which will follow her character Amanda post-divorce.
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‘He’s the brawling Rebus of the early books’: Ian Rankin’s detective is back – and he’s bad
John Rebus is not one of those coppers who is content to spend his time staring at a screen, sifting JK Rowling’s tweets for offensive content. Before the opening credits have rolled on the first episode of the BBC’s new adaptation of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus novels, he is taking a hands-on approach to reducing Edinburgh’s crime rate: by beating up and attempting to suffocate his nemesis, the gangster kingpin “Big Ger” Cafferty.
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Dua Lipa re-designs her dance routines because she keeps slipping on sweat
Dua Lipa has been forced to redesign some of her energetic dance routines because she keeps slipping on her dancers’ sweat.
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Degas’s dancers don’t just show ballet’s beauty – they reveal a sinister system of sexual exploitation
They draw you in from a distance, promising sheer aesthetic pleasure: pastel tutus, pretty girls. Once you’re there, you look closer. You notice the darkness around the edges; you wonder about the battered foot inside the pointe shoe. Degas’s dancers mesmerise for the same reason as ballet itself.
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What’s on TV tonight: Doctor Who, Rebus, Prince George: A King for the Future and more
Doctor Who BBC One, 6.50pm A regular gun for hire under Russell T Davies since the 2005 revival, Steven Moffat of course took the reins of Doctor Who for the Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi years, and here writes his first episode since 2017. Counterintuitively, it calls upon Ncuti Gatwa to suppress his natural energy and vitality when the Tardis appears on an alien planet at war and his Time Lord promptly steps on a landmine which will explode if he so much as moves.
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Jo Wood: ‘Nobody has any freedom any more. We’re all being censored’
Jo Wood has a sign hanging up in the kitchen: “Glam-ma,” it says. “A glamorous woman with grandchildren who is too young and fabulous to be called Grandma.” It feels appropriate. At 69, the model, entrepreneur and former Mrs Ronnie Wood has 10 grandchildren, to whom she seems devoted – when we speak, a gaggle of grandsons is about to arrive for the weekend – but she also remains much the quintessential rock’n’roll WAG: charming, entertaining and occasionally eccentric company, with long blonde h
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Olivier Award-winner Anjana Vasan: ‘Shakespeare, Ibsen – I see myself in their work’
‘People can be quite selective about ‘authenticity’ in drama,” shrugs Anjana Vasan. “Nobody seems to mind if a prince of Denmark or a duke of Verona speaks like he went to Eton.” But she notes that more questions get asked when somebody with a different skin tone takes on roles in plays by Shakespeare and Ibsen. “People speak about the Western canon being so great that it can speak to anyone. Then they think it’s surprising that somebody like me can see themselves in that world.”
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