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Programme Name: Line of Duty S6 - TX: n/a - Episode: Line Of Duty - Generics (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: DI Kate Fleming (VICKY MCCLURE), DS Steve Arnott (MARTIN COMPSTON), DC Chloe Bishop (SHALOM BRUNE-FRANKLIN), Superintendent Ted Hastings (ADRIAN DUNBAR) - (C) World Productions - Photographer: Aidan Monaghan/Steffan HillBBC/World Productions/Aidan Monaghan/Steffan Hill I can’t believe I have to say this, but, no, Line Of Duty, the most-watched drama on British TV in 13 years, is not endin...

Published: By: Advertisement Is it the end of the Line? Is our tour of Duty coming to an end? Is it really R.I.P, LOD? When the credits roll at around 9.58pm on Sunday, will our beloved heroes be hanging up their waistcoats and lanyards for good? For the love of the wee donkey, please say it isn’t so. As we hurtle towards the white-knuckle series finale with more questions than an AC-12 interview, many pundits are confidently predicting it will be the last episode ever. Well, like a...

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Off Menus Ed Gamble and James Acaster Will Take Your Order To celebrate 100 episodes of their food podcast, we met the duo at their dream-restaurant Paul Gilbey Over a century of episodes, Ed Gamble and James Acasters podcast Off Menu has become a bit of a phenomenon. Podcast charts and awards are one way of judging these things, but the fact theres a No Context Off Menu Twitter account is probably the real laure...

Last modified on Fri 16 Apr 2021 05.06 EDT In the happy run-up to last Monday’s grand reopening of restaurants and pubs, a fleck of disquiet seeped into the shallower end of my brain. I have craved many things over these recent months of confinement – printed menus, petits fours, the chance to wear smoky eye kohl – but one thing I’d not missed was Fomo (that’s “fear of missing out”, should you not be up on modern acronyms). Fomo is the pernicious, all-consuming suspicion that othe...

Enough rhetoric: if the Labour leader wants to create a better future, he must act Keir Starmer’s Labour ‘must make palpable a post-carbon society that offers something for all.’ Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Keir Starmer’s Labour ‘must make palpable a post-carbon society that offers something for all.’ Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Sun 11 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT There is little to object to in Keir Starmer’s article; there is even less to be inspired by, ...

The ELL Guide to Dining and Drinking Outdoors from Monday We have made it through four months, ladies and gents. And finally, our long lockdown wait is definitively over and from Monday we can eat and drink together in pubs and restaurants.  Pic: Drew Beamer April 12 is the day when food and our social lives can lawfully coalesce again. But only outdoors of course.  While this is exciting, here are a few safety guidelines in place for the current allowance of terrace and outdoor d...

More recently she has portrayed a drug-addicted traveller, straight out of jail, living a life of crime in the American south in The Riches. And then a middle-class British mother with a wheelchair-user son in the comedy Speechless (there is a very funny episode featuring John Cleese as her dad). While she says “the 50 films and television shows on my IMDb are literally the 50 yeses, out of thousands of nos,” it must feel good to be allowed to push in so many directions. “Oh yeah...

The delicious secret behind the huge success of food podcasts Their growing number is testament to our appetite for this genre, but just why do we love to listen to people talking about food? Jessie Ware and her mum, Lennie, host food podcast, Table Manners Credit: Table Manners “We live in really divisive times, and sometimes it’s just less stressful to ask someone what they had to eat today,” muses comedian James Acaster. It’s a sentiment that will resonate with many people – and n...

MasterChef viewers in tears as BBC show dedicates semi-final to late food critic MasterChef fans were left in shock on Friday evening as the latest edition of the BBC cookery show paid tribute to food critic Charles Campion following his tragic death 17:08, 3 APR 2021 Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Daily Stars Inside Hot TV newsletter sees Ed Gleave send you tellys hot takes straight to your inbox every SundayInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Yes,...

Minnie Driver. Makeup: Sofia Tilbury @ Charlotte Tilbury. Hair: Carlos Ferraz @ Carol Hayes Management. Photograph: Sophia Spring/The Guardian Minnie Driver. Makeup: Sofia Tilbury @ Charlotte Tilbury. Hair: Carlos Ferraz @ Carol Hayes Management. Photograph: Sophia Spring/The Guardian The British actor shot to fame in Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon, but didn’t fit the Hollywood mould – and she’s fine with that Sat 3 Apr 2021 04.00 EDT Minnie Driver first realised the film indu...