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Disappeared Review โ€“ Even Kaley Cuoco Can’t Save This Ridiculous Mystery | television

Disappeared Review โ€“ Even Kaley Cuoco Can’t Save This Ridiculous Mystery | television

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Fasten your seatbelt, buttercups! Three hours of stuffed nonsense divided into four 45-minute batches is about to come quickly.Gone stars Kaley Cuoco, who rose to fame on The Big Bang Theory from 2007 to 2019 and then starred in The Flight Attendant a few years ago. Coco played an ordinary, albeit alcoholic, stewardess who finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time, ensnared in an ever-deepening mystery, and then deadly danger. She found unexpected reserves of courage and…
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Vladimir and Young Sherlock: The seven best shows airing this week | TV and radio

Vladimir and Young Sherlock: The seven best shows airing this week | TV and radio

โœจ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,TV streaming ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Choose the weekVladimirLiterature professor Rachel Weisz M is experiencing middle age and is worried that she may never have a "spontaneous erection" again. Worse still, her academic husband John (John Slattery) not only continues to take advantage of their open marriage situation, but loses his position as a result. Into this chaos comes Vladimir (Leo Woodall), a charming, married professor. Through him, M sees her past โ€“ sexy, youthful, unfortunately irretrievable โ€“ and becomes dangerously obsessed. Vladimir is adapted…
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‘We’re going to a dark place’: British awards artists express concern over rise of reform in UK | BRIT Awards

‘We’re going to a dark place’: British awards artists express concern over rise of reform in UK | BRIT Awards

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Brit awards,Music,Culture,CMAT,Wet Leg,Reform UK,Politics โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Artists including CMAT, Wet Leg, Loyle Carner, Wolf Alice and Self Esteem have expressed concern about the rise of Reform UK on the Brit Awards red carpet, saying artists should feel empowered to be political.CMAT, who was nominated for International Artist of the Year at the ceremony in Manchester, said she was "not a big fan of anyone trying to say that art is not a political place".โ€œEverything is politics. But art is politics more than ever, because…
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Lala Lala: Heaven 2 Review โ€“ Depressed Popper Alternative Fights the Urge to Run | music

Lala Lala: Heaven 2 Review โ€“ Depressed Popper Alternative Fights the Urge to Run | music

โœจ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Music,Indie,Pop and rock,Culture ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: HeyRestless and impatient, Lala Lala - the UK-born, US-based Lily West - announces her intention to leave. โ€œGet me out of America,โ€ she whispers in frustration at the opening of Car Anymore. However, West's fourth album (and Sub Pop's first) is about stillness โ€” or trying to fight the urge to run.Artwork for Heaven 2 is by Lala Lala. After bouncing between Chicago, New Mexico, Reykjavik and London, West found love in Los Angeles and began putting down roots.…
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Olivia Deen sweeps the 2026 Brit Awards, winning four awards including artist, song and album of the year | BRIT Awards

Olivia Deen sweeps the 2026 Brit Awards, winning four awards including artist, song and album of the year | BRIT Awards

๐Ÿš€ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Brit awards,Music,Pop and rock,Dance music,R&B,Culture,K-pop,Awards and prizes,Olivia Dean,Sam Fender,Wolf Alice,Dave,Skepta,Fred Again,Sault,Rosalรญa,KPop Demon Hunters,Bruno Mars,Mark Ronson,Noel Gallagher,Ozzy Osbourne,UK news,PinkPantheress,Geese โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Olivia Deen was the big winner at the 2026 Brit Awards, taking home awards for Artist of the Year, Best Pop Act, Song of the Year for her Sam Fender duet Rein Me In, and Album of the Year for The Art of Loving.In less than a year, Dean catapulted to the forefront of British pop thanks to her second album, The Art of Loving.…
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Ben Markovits: ‘I used to think that any book concerned with people falling in love couldn’t be very good’ | books

Ben Markovits: ‘I used to think that any book concerned with people falling in love couldn’t be very good’ | books

โœจ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Books,Culture,Benjamin Markovits,Fiction ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: My first memory is readingI was reading Donald Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown stories with my mother. It's a classic American children's series about a boy detective and his adorable friend Sally, who protects him as they face off against their nemesis, Bugs Minnie, a sort of high school bully version of Professor Moriarty. We would sit in the kitchen together and try to solve crimes. Of course, for me it was also an opportunity to spend time with my mother. I am…
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Bill Bailey’s review of Vietnam โ€“ A tour of temples, tourist traps… and a strange, eerie silence | television

Bill Bailey’s review of Vietnam โ€“ A tour of temples, tourist traps… and a strange, eerie silence | television

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Television,Bill Bailey,Culture,Television & radio,Vietnam holidays โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: TThis was the time when Michael Palin was the only famous travel presenter โ€“ and if watching this charming sweet talker on his way to ships wasn't your bag, well, tough. These days there are celebrity-oriented travel stories to suit every taste and inclination. Want giddy joy? Sandi Toksvig has you covered. Spot of Sark? That would be Richard Ayoade. And if you're looking for a smart introvert with a dash of "can't I just sit down?" connection,…
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Speed โ€‹โ€‹Dates isn’t a weak, full-on action video game – it’s a bold art film, subtitles and all | games

Speed โ€‹โ€‹Dates isn’t a weak, full-on action video game – it’s a bold art film, subtitles and all | games

โœจ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Games,Culture,Xbox,PC,Dating ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I I spent Valentine's Day not with my wife, but with 18 Turkish women. No, wait, I can explain. It's a new game called Speed โ€‹โ€‹Dates โ€“ Winter Edition, which I only found by chance when I searched "Winter Games" on Xbox Live in hopes of getting some Olympics fare. And boy, did I find it!The game is in Turkish, with English subtitles. It really feels like art. Like those movies Channel 4 used to show with a red triangle in the…
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Watch Watership Down on Acid with Bez: Shawn Ryder Releases New Memoir 24 Hour Party Person | books

Watch Watership Down on Acid with Bez: Shawn Ryder Releases New Memoir 24 Hour Party Person | books

โœจ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Books,Culture,Shaun Ryder ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder has published a new memoir and will personally sign each copy.โ€œI've written more books now, I think, that are kind of Shakespearean,โ€ Ryder said, announcing the release of 24 Hour Party Person.In the book, Ryder goes from the fun Monday era โ€“ where he recalls taking cocaine for the first time in New York while on tour โ€“ to appearing on Celebrity Gogglebox alongside bandmate Bez. โ€œDodging bullets in Jamaica, surviving a gunpoint…
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Growing Pains: The industry has shown that bigger is not always better | television

Growing Pains: The industry has shown that bigger is not always better | television

๐Ÿš€ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Television,Drama,Culture,Television & radio ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: THere's the much-talked about Growing Up in Industry, the hit HBO/BBC drama series about the cutthroat financial world of London. The characters are poetic and quietly incoherent (to the average person) about stocks, shorts, asset values โ€‹โ€‹and private money. Charismatic entrepreneurs sell the latest green energy pioneer or democratic bank, or, in the words of one particularly unsavory character on a show full of scoundrels, โ€œthe Paypal of bukkake.โ€ Everyone embraces and sanctifies the profit motive.Naturally, there is a lot…
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