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Bearded Riff-Raff Invade The Chelsea Flower Show

By | Posted on May 21st, 2013
Celebrity Gnomes at the Chelsea Flower Show. You can tell which one Sir Elton made, can't you? (AP Images)

See these hirsute little men? See their pointy hats? I’m ashamed to admit that they have been allowed entry into one of the finest events in the British horticultural calendar: the Chelsea Flower Show, for the first time ever.

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Wait, Wait, John Barrowman’s New Show Is Called WHAT!?

By | Posted on May 21st, 2013
John Barrowman

If you’re a person with eyes, ears and critical faculties, you may have noticed that television schedules are already rather full of competitions in which people sing into microphones for the benefit of four imperious people in a ...

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George Michael Falls Out Of A Car At 70mph

By | Posted on May 21st, 2013
George Michael has still got it! (Photo via AP)

George Michael, singer of hit songs, and former leader of the ’80s pop duo Wham!, has been leading an interesting life in the past few years, and despite a series of events that looks fairly disastrous on paper, has managed to ...

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12 British Actors Who Got Started In Soaps

By | Posted on May 20th, 2013
Joanna Lumley on 'Coronation Street' (Granada TV)

Never mind the Billboards, the real trophy-doling fun of the weekend happened on Saturday night, at the British Soap Awards, in which the great, the good and the downright torrid rubbed fake-tanned shoulders and practised the most ...

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J.K. Rowling’s Handwritten Notes Up for Auction

By | Posted on May 20th, 2013
(Sotheby's)

When first re-reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, author J.K. Rowling went back and made some notes in the margins. Now, those notes, are up for auction.

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‘Call the Midwife’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 8

By | Posted on May 20th, 2013
Season two of Call the Midwife comes an end. (PBS)

There were happy endings and new beginnings even as possible threats gathered on the horizon by the time the end credits rolled on the Season 2 finale of Call the Midwife, the popular BBC-produced series that airs on PBS in the U.S.

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Diet Facts: Benedict Cumberbatch Is A Chicken

By | Posted on May 20th, 2013
Star Trek, Benedict, FINAL

OK OK, so we’ve lured you into reading this story under a false pretext, namely the truism that you are what you eat. Because, according to Benedict Cumberbatch, during the filming of Star Trek Into Darkness, he pretty much ate ...

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‘Doctor Who’ Recap: ‘The Name of the Doctor’

By | Posted on May 19th, 2013
The Name of the Doctor

NOTE: Doctor Who fans, here’s your last weekly chance to win a set of Eleventh Doctor novels containing Tommy Donbavand’s Shroud of Sorrow, Nicholas Briggs’ The Dalek Generation, and Justin Richards’ Plague of the ...

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‘Merlin’ Recap: ‘The Drawing of the Dark’

By | Posted on May 18th, 2013
Kara and Mordred

We begin, as we often do, in a forest. Arthur and his men are returning from a trip, and Merlin has a cold. However, something is wrong. There’s smoke, evidence of fighting, and dead bodies.

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WATCH: Britain Missing From Competition at Cannes

By | Posted on May 17th, 2013
'The Selfish Giant' is one of the few British films getting buzz at Cannes, but it's not in competition. (Photo: Agatha A Nitecka)

Carey Mulligan was in Cannes on opening night; Clive Owen, Tilda Swinton, Emma Watson and Tom Hiddleston are among those Brits to have films at the festival. But in some quarters, as we move into the festival’s first weekend, ...

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