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First trailer for Peaky Blinders star Sam Claflin's new rom-com movie Book of Love.

This month, our front cover article focuses on one of the biggest alternative rock bands of the last 40 years: R.E.M. Frontman Michael Stipe and bassist

David Quantick 46 Views Naffness in rock is an odd thing. We can all identify the super-naff, the naff basic, of popular music. Nobody, other than some dick selling individual Weetabix to hipsters in East London, is ever going to claim that, say, Jive Bunny are cool or that Stars On 45 were ahead of their time (I mean they were: they invented the proto mash-up). But what about The Wombles? Enough pop kids have grown into middle-aged rock critics to acknowledge the craft that went into t...

Last modified on Tue 16 Mar 2021 05.52 EDT Henry Lloyd-Hughes’s Twitter bio states that he is “the most famous actor you’ve never heard of”. It is a line that appeared in a magazine profile of him last year. There is another profile, from five years earlier, that says roughly the same thing. He is a fantastic actor with a near flawless CV; if only he could somehow land that career-defining role that would push him over the top. “It’s remarkable,” laughs Lloyd-...

Tweets of the week Tweets of the week Been snowing for 2 days, but it cant afford to settle in London. — Richard Vranch (@richardvranch) February 9, 2021 not one banksy since captain tom died. coincidence? — Rondelle Hobbs (@RondelleHobbs) February 11, 2021 The #SuperBowl is great, but the Hyperbole is a billion times better. — Pundamentalism (@Pundamentalism) February 7, 2021 Personally I don’t like French Food, but then it’s horses for courses. — Gary Delaney (@GaryDelaney) Februa...

BBC/SundanceTVs The Split to Call It Quits After Season Three - Global Bulletin Jamie Lang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In today’s Global Bulletin, BBC and SundanceTV announce the third and final season of “The Split,” Sky and XYZ Films prepare to shoot “Book of Love” and VIS Distribution adds 750 hours of content following its acquisition of Israel’s Ananey Studios.  TELEVISION Sister’s “ Abi Morgan and produced by Jane Featherstone (“Chernobyl”), Lucy Richer (“S...

Fortitude) are set to star in the upcoming romantic comedy Book of Love, which will be a Sky Original in all markets of the Comcast-owned European pay TV giant. Set to go into production in March, the film — being made in association with BuzzFeed Studios — is co-financed by Sky and XYZ, which is handling international distribution in non-Sky markets and will introduce the project in advance of the upcoming European Film Market, the market of the Berlin Film Festival. Book of Love follow...

Just 11 years after its first episode aired, Triangle’s pilot was rebroadcast as part of BBC2’s TV Hell – a night dedicated to some of the worst British television ever made. Among those also on the smorgasbord of rubbish telly were various embarrassing clips dug out from the Top of the Pops archive, Churchill’s People – a 26-part historical drama that was so poorly watched it changed how the BBC would commission dramas from then on, and Club X – a Channel 4 magazine show that was p...

The comedy duo have a fizzing chemistry in a new one-off Radio 4 drama  Credit: REX When the days are cold and dark and the times are bleak, you have to take the laughs where you can get them. So thank goodness for Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, charging to the rescue like knights on a white stallion – or perhaps more like two drunk aunties on a pantomime horse. French and Saunders have had fizzing comedy chemistry together on TV and stage since the Eighties, but radio drama is a less...

Graham Norton “Radio 2 has made such a fuss,” Graham Norton pointed out during his last show on the station. “They’ve put up tinsel.” After 10 years as the mid-morning Saturday DJ, Norton has decided to move on (to Virgin Radio, as it happens). Last Saturday was his last show. “This is it ,” Norton announced, one song in, “the end of an error.” Anything but. Since Norton took over from Jonathan Ross in the Saturday morning slot, he has been a safe pair of hands (not some...