Sunday 5 April 2015

BBC plans to beat The Voice jinx and make winner a star with hit song





BBC chiefs hope to give a lasting voice to last night’s prime-time talent show winner.


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Lost his razor? Bearded Sting’s new look for On Stage Together tour with Paul Simon





A BEARDED Sting looked more hipster than rock star when he took to the stage with Paul Simon last night.


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BBC announces child star Bonnie Langford will join EastEnders cast in Albert Square





BONNIE LANGFORD is set to swap the West End for Albert Square when she joins EastEnders.


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Bonnie Langford to join EastEnders cast as Kush Kazemi's mother Carmel





BONNIE LANGFORD is set to swap the West End for Albert Square when she joins the cast of EastEnders later this year.


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Bob Marley and Johnny Nash stirred it up in suburban school in the seventies





THESE amazing pictures show Bob Marley before he became famous visiting a London school to play a concert with soul legend Johnny Nash.


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Todd Rundgren, The Lilac Time and Brian Wilson: Album reviews





EVEN a partial return to form by Rundgren, one of the finest singer/songwriters of the past 40 years, would have been a revelation. But Global, his 25th solo album, turns out to be a gem, largely due to a clutch of beautiful songs on the latter part of the record and the general impression that for the first time in decades, 66-year-old Todd is contented.


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Reece Shearsmith on his dark comedy Inside Number 9:'Our love of the anthology show'





THE FORMER League of Gentlemen star can be seen in the second series of his dark comedy Inside Number 9.


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Reece Shearsmith on his dark comedy Inside Number 9:'Our love of the anthology show'





THE FORMER League of Gentlemen star can be seen in the second series of his dark comedy Inside Number 9.


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TV round-up: The Ark, House Of Fools and Caribbean reviews





HUNKY guys frolicking around in the sunshine on a riverbank, and having a laugh in an extremely manly fashion. No, not Poldark, but the opening scene of The Ark ,a re-telling of the Biblical epic for Easter Week, for modern audiences who need their religious tales related in a soapy style.


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A full-blooded performance:Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor by the Aurora Orchestra review





THE full-blooded performance of the Requiem showed that Hall One at Kings Place is a cramped space for a 26-strong orchestra and a 28-strong choir.


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A monotonous trudge: Royal Ballet Triple Bill review





APPALLING programme planning turned the Royal Ballet’s latest Triple Bill from an exciting celebration of the company’s versatility to a monotonous trudge.


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Theatre round-up: Death Of A Salesman, Sweeney Todd and Spend spend spend reviews





RSC stalwarts, Sir Antony Sher and Dame Harriet Walter, abandon their familiar Shakespearian regalia to return to the Stratford stage as Willy and Linda Loman, a quintessential American middle-class couple, in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.


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A dutiful documentary: Altman review and trailer





ALTMAN is a dutiful ocumentary about maverick filmmaker Robert Altman


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A painfully well observed portrait of growing old: While We’re Young review and trailer





BEN STILLER has never mined desperation as acutely and uncomfortably as he does in While We’re Young, a painfully well observed portrait of growing old in a fast-changing world from writer-director Noah Baumbach .


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An ambitious period drama: The Water Diviner review and trailer





YOU CAN'T accuse Russell Crowe of taking the easy option with his directorial debut, The Water Diviner. The picture is an ambitious period drama, intriguingly set during the break-up of the Ottoman empire, and almost oppressively sad.


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Saturday 4 April 2015

Former fireman Stevie McCrorie crowned winner of The Voice in live TV finale





STEVIE McCrorie has emerged as the winner of this year’s The Voice.


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'People think I'm stupid and superficial' Megan Fox on the harsh price of beauty





MEGAN FOX feels judged for her looks and wants to be taken more seriously, but she admits that she hadn't a clue what she was doing on screen in Transformers.


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Former drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd dies in wreck

CARTERSVILLE, Georgia (AP) " The former drummer for the Southern hard rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, Robert Burns Jr., has died in a car crash in Georgia.Georgia State Patrol spokeswoman Tracey Watson said Burns' vehicle went off a curve...


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Time for more hot and heavy scenes on screen: academic

When it comes to sex on television, it would appear size does matter.Fat people are rarely seen being intimate on screen and this reinforces negative attitudes towards them, says Dr Cat Pause, a senior lecturer and fat studies researcher...


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'I couldn't care less about colour schemes' Andy Murray left wedding planning to Kim Sears





THEY are set to walk down the aisle in a week, however it is unlikely there would have been anything for guests to attend if had been left up to Andy Murray.


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