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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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The Simpsons go to Downton Abbey

By | Posted on May 17th, 2013
Where do The Simpsons end and Downton Abbey begins? (Screen Shot)

The pixels were barely dry on P. Diddy’s parody video of Downton Abbey before a new one popped up on YouTube, this time featuring those paragons of elegance and gracious living, the Simpsons.

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‘Fashion Star’ Louise Roe: Who I’d Cast in a Updated Video for George Michael’s ‘Freedom’

By | Posted on May 17th, 2013
Louise Roe at the 2013 Academy Awards. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision/AP)

Media types toiling away at keyboards, there’s a light at the end of that tunnel: British-born Louise Roe has parlayed her background in fashion journalism into a gig as MC of NBC’s Fashion Star, which just completed its ...

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Brit Binge Watching: Five Sci-Fi Dramas You Can View Online

By | Posted on May 17th, 2013
(E4)

Are you geared up for the Season 7 finale of Doctor Who airing this Saturday, May 18 at 8pm Eastern? If you’re all in a tizzy and can’t sit still, then maybe these other sci-fi dramas will keep you busy until then?

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