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Scrubs review – Silly gags and volcanic fury bring medical sitcom back from the dead | television

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,TV comedy,Zach Braff 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: forThe sick Lawrence is on the verge of tears. This is the man who gave us Ted Lasso and Shrinking, and who is just days away from the launch of Rooster, the Steve Carell sitcom that HBO already sees as the anchor for its comedy output. At this point in his career, Lawrence could blow his nose and the contents of his handkerchief would become a beloved, heart-warming sitcom.So it's interesting that out of all the options available…

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“The world is still bent and corrupt”: Our friends in the north return to the stage | stage

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Newcastle,North of England,UK news,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IRegarded as one of the greatest British television series of all time, it explores the decline of the Labor Party, corruption, social decay, dodgy developers, injustice, and how idealism can easily turn into disillusionment and cynicism.Our friends in the North will return this year in a new guise and will be just as important, his writer believes, as they were 30 years ago.“It's not because I'm particularly perceptive in any way,” Peter Flannery told The Guardian. "That's because everything…

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Tonight’s TV: A poignant film about the Dunblane massacre 30 years on | television

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Dunblane Bars9pm on Channel 4March marks the 30th anniversary of the murders of 16 children and one teacher at Dunblane Primary School. This poignant documentary explores the day and its aftermath, when parents campaigned for a ban on handguns for private use in the UK. It's a positive ending, but the horror is inevitable and it's clear that many are still traumatized. “These children were given to my care, and I did not protect them,” says deputy headteacher Fiona Edington.…

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Easy Virtue review – Trevor Nunn recreates Noel Coward’s divorce drama in style | stage

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Noel Coward,Trevor Nunn,Greta Scacchi,Comedy 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 'WWhat's the use of arguing and bickering like that?" a husband asks his wife in easy virtue. "It leads nowhere." He's wrong, of course: it's the kind of verbal jousting and escalating anger that would catapult 25-year-old Noel Coward to stardom.Audiences may not know this early work, but in Trevor Nunn's lavish new production they will know exactly where they stand. Simon Higlett's lavish drawing room set comes complete with a marble staircase for somber exits and dramatic…

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Palestinian Comedy Club Review – Touring collective performance finds light in the darkness | film

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Palestine,Middle East and north Africa,World news,Culture,Comedy,Comedy,Stage ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: ISure, at times, it seems to all involved that the name should be “Palestinian Tragedy Club” — but this theater group, founded by Alaa Shehadeh from Jenin in the northern West Bank, and Sam Bell from the United Kingdom, is all about laughter. They explore the nature of comedy and stand-up as a response to being Palestinian now. This documentary follows the group as they attempt to organize a national tour, with shows in Ramallah,…

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“Party and Political”: Abraham Lincoln and the Art of the Deal | Politics books

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Politics books,Abraham Lincoln,History books,US politics,Books,Culture,US news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SSome historians are afraid to discuss their work in light of recent events, comparing subjects to current political players. Not Matthew Pinsker of Dickinson College, author of the major new book, Boss Lincoln: The Party Life of Abraham Lincoln, and the spinoff What Would Lincoln Do?.“I'm not running away from it, that's for sure,” said Pinsker of Carlisle, Pennsylvania."Obviously, with any historical analogy, there are more differences than similarities, and history never repeats itself. And I don't…

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Pieced Together review – A touching narrative game that brings together the sweet and bitter parts of friendship | games

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,Indie games,PC 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: THere are some of the saddest things from the end of a close friendship. Whether it happens in a sudden moment of betrayal or after years of gradual separation, feelings of loss can stay with you for life.That's the theme of Pieced Together, a quiet and charming narrative game about best friends Connie and Beth, who meet at school in the 1990s and form an instant, seemingly inseparable bond. Through the innovative medium of interactive scrapbooking, we take on the role…

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Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson says Bafta told him ‘any swearing will be removed from broadcast’ | Baftas 2026

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Baftas 2026,Baftas,I Swear,Tourette syndrome,BBC,Awards and prizes,Culture,Film,Media,Society ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: John Davidson, the Tourette Syndrome (TS) campaigner who has been at the center of the Baftas N-word controversy, says that Bafta and the BBC “should have known what to expect” from Tourette Syndrome, and that he was told that any offensive words would be removed.In an interview with Variety, Davidson said BAFTA told him "that any expletives would be removed from the broadcast." “I've made four documentaries with the BBC in the past, and I feel they…

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After a turbulent year, Australian Khaled Sabsbi presents two works at the Venice Biennale Venice Biennale

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Venice Biennale,Khaled Sabsabi,Art,Australia news,Art and design,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Australia's show at the Venice Biennale in May will be a "nurturing experience" designed to bring people together – following one of the most turbulent and divisive periods in the country's 72-year history, at the prestigious international art festival.Artist Khaled Sabsbi and curator Michael D'Agostino, who were controversially excluded and then reinstated as Australia's representatives, will present two major works at the Venice Biennale in May – both informed by Sabsbi's practice as a Sufi Muslim and…

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Reality Bites: Why the Deadliest TV Shows of the 2000s Are Now Haunting Us | Reality TV

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Reality TV,Documentary,Factual TV,Television & radio,Television,Culture,US news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: CAuction: The 2000s have become a crime scene. The reality TV that my generation once watched as an escape from comfort – built hastily and clumsily, before anyone knew the rules – is now being dusted off for fingerprints by a younger generation who have mastered the language of hurt, confident that cruelty was the point. The past six months have brought a flurry of thoughtful post-mortems like The Biggest Loser, Catch a Predator, and America's Next…

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