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Questionable career move: how Claudia Winkelmann’s show ended the presenter’s winning streak | television

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,BBC,Claudia Winkleman,Television & radio,Culture,Graham Norton,Timothée Chalamet,Matthew McConaughey,BBC One,Media,Television industry ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SNine weeks ago, before Claudia Winkleman launched her talk show on BBC One on Friday night, media profiles regularly referred to her “Midas touch” in television formats. She has left one gold programme, moving away from Strictly Come Dancing, but her portfolio still includes three other winners: the hugely successful The Traitors, a popular BBC show, and Channel 4's The Piano.After six sofa conversations, Winckelmann hasn't quite suffered the fate of the mythical…

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Can a new biopic change your mind about Michael Jackson? | Michael Jackson

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Michael Jackson,Music,Michael Jackson trial,Culture,Film,Musicals,Musicals,Pop and rock,US crime,Janet Jackson,Lynn Nottage,Leaving Neverland,Miles Teller 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In December 1993, Michael Jackson’s genitals were photographed by the Santa Barbara county sheriff’s department and the Los Angeles police department (LAPD). The pop music titan had been accused of sexually abusing Jordan Chandler, a 13-year-old boy who had accompanied Jackson on his Dangerous world tour and regularly shared a bed with the singer. Chandler had made a drawing of distinctive markings and blotches on Jackson’s crotch which matched the photos, law…

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The story of black British music is writ large in the first exhibition at the V&A East| Exhibitions

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Exhibitions,V&A,Museums,Art and design,Black British culture,Music,Culture,London,England,UK news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Jacqueline Springer stands in the middle of the Victoria and Albert Museum's new exhibition space and looks wistfully at a pair of drain pipe trousers, a tailored suit jacket and a pig hat, creating the unmistakable silhouette of Pauline Black, lead singer of the group 2 Tone the Selector.Springer is the curator of the Victoria and Albert East Museum's inaugural exhibition, 'Music is Black', a historical survey of black British music, which opens this weekend. It starts…

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No generation is safe from the nostalgia industry – just look at the disappointing Malcolm in the Middle reboot | Johan Koshy

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Disney+,Media,US news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOne day in the near future, millennials like me will move into nursing homes. Once we're in, what will we do to pass the time? Narrative podcasts from the 2000s will likely be beamed into our bedrooms as the evening approaches, with early albums by Arctic Monkeys and Strokes available on demand. Paperbacks about the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and the disappearance of flight MH370 will line the bookshelves. In the TV room, the struggle for the remote…

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Michael Jackson’s film is set to be a controversial success

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💥 Explore this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: However, these allegations remain part of Jackson's life story, complicating the attempt to turn his life into a nine-figure Hollywood blockbuster. But given the pop star's current demand, he's likely to be a hit, too. Industry analysts expect Michael to be even bigger than Bohemian Rhapsody.worldwideMichael is produced by Graham King, who had a huge hit with Bohemian RhapsodyIf King had any initial doubts about the wisdom of giving Jackson the "Bohemian Odyssey" treatment, those doubts may have been dispelled by his soaring popularity since…

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Kae Tempest on creativity and his gender transition: ‘I’m just glad to be alive’ | Kae Tempest

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Kae Tempest,Fiction,Culture,Poetry,Theatre,Books,LGBTQ+ rights,Stage,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Kae Tempest sidles into a pub near his house on a weekday afternoon and orders a pint of mineral water. At his side is Murphy, an enormous, 14-year-old alaskan malamute dog with startling blue eyes who settles down on the floor next to his master and goes to sleep. “He’s all right,” Tempest says. “He’s very friendly. He won’t even put his nose up.” The rapper, performance poet, playwright and novelist has a ginger beard and is wearing Timberland boots, baggy jeans and…

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Heart Wall Review – Sadness Knocks Family Karaoke Reunion Off Key | stage

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Bush theatre,Stage,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: YYou can hear this play before entering the hall. Inside, the karaoke session is in full force as the crowd sings Friday night pub bangers on stage. The singing resumes when Kit Withington's family drama begins, with karaoke serving as the glue that holds the emotionally opposing characters together.Exploding sausages...Olivia Forrest as Charlene in Heart Wall at the Bush Theater. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianMany of them are at odds with themselves as well, including Frankie (Rowan Robinson), who visits her parents'…

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Winners and judges out of their money as £20,000 writing awards appear to have closed | Prizes and prizes

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Awards and prizes,Money,UK news,Poetry,Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A competition for new writers that promised a £20,000 prize fund appears to have stalled, leaving winners and judges, including the Booker Prize-winning novelist, out of pocket.Established in 2022, the Plaza Awards last year presented 10 awards judged by “the world’s best poets and writers.”However, some judges in the 2025 competition say they have not been paid, and a number of winners say their entries were withdrawn after they were accused of using artificial intelligence to create their works,…

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TV Tonight: Minnie Driver makes crime look good in exciting new drama | TV and radio

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Minnie Driver,Television,Queen Elizabeth II,Colin Farrell,Margot Robbie,Audrey Hepburn ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Kill line10pm on ITV1Minnie Driver is a gun-toting criminal with an impeccable pop figure in this Canadian thriller (formerly titled The Borderline). In his riverside town, cop Henry Rowland (Stephen Amell) discovers that a childhood friend is linked to a drug operation, which leads him to a meeting with crime family matriarch May Ferguson (Driver). Throw in a double murder and we have exciting drama. Holly RichardsonSecret Africa: Into the Wild7pm on Channel 4This…

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Diverse Women Artists: Asili ya Mama Review – Tanzanian Field Recordings Tell Women’s Stories with a Lively Rhythm | music

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Folk music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: FCollecting folk songs by women has a long history, but it also represents an exciting present, as this collection of 10 active Tanzanian field recordings demonstrates. Created by documentary filmmaker Ruth Ndito and musician Mseferi Zaos (brother of Bindu of the illustrious Queens of Zaos, and son of the late folk pioneer Hukui), Mother's Descent showcases the rhythmic, melodic and harmonic invention of the Wagogo, Waluguro and Wasamba women. Here are songs that "carried culture and music into everyday life," as…

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