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British nuns stuck in the Himalayas, living in a crumbling palace where the former local ruler had kept his harem and going slowly mad with pent-up passion over a handsome Englishman.  What’s not to love? This new retelling of Black Narcissus, the 1939 Rumer Godden novel that was turned into an Oscar-winning film starring Deborah Kerr in 1947, is utterly compelling, from the scenery to the simmering sexual tension. The movie was banned in Ireland, censored in America and described by Martin ...

Black Narcissus cast: Who stars with Gemma Arterton in the series, when it’s on BBC One and filming locations The i 12/27/2020 Alina Polianskaya A new adaptation of the classic story Black Narcissus is starting on BBC One this Sunday. But in the remote mountainous setting, repressed desires surface for the nuns and things escalate quickly. Here’s everything you need to know about who’s in the cast, where it was filmed and when it’s on. What is it about? The story fo...

New Tom & Jerry Poster: Best of Enemies, Worst of Friends Warner Bros. Pictures has released a brand new Tom & Jerry poster for Tim Story’s upcoming live-action/CGI-hybrid film adaptation of the iconic animated series, featuring the titular rivals as they go on a New York City adventure. Originally scheduled for a March 5, 2021 release, the Chloë Grace Moretz-led film is currently set to debut on February 26, 2021, in theaters and on HBO Max. Check out the full poster in the gallery belo...

Link copied Christmas is usually a time to spend with loved ones but sadly this year will be a little different with fewer family members able to mix thanks to the Tier 4 restrictions. This means great Christmas TV is needed more than ever, so what should everyone be watching? Heres a line-up of the best shows which are going to be shown tomorrow, Thursday, December 24, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Trending Christmas Eve Worzel Gummidge: Saucing Nancy To kick off the celebration...

Patsy Ferran collecting the best actress award, for her performance in Summer and Smoke at the Almeida theatre, at the 2019 Olivier awards. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian Actor Patsy Ferran was born in Valencia in 1989 and studied drama and theatre arts at Birmingham University before going to Rada. She graduated in 2014 and made her West End debut in that same year playing Edith, in Treasure Island at the National Theatre. She recentl...

Once upon a time there was a little girl called Julia who had two ambitions in life. One was to be an actress and the second was to meet Mick Jagger.  She spent several hours in pursuit of the first and many, many weeks attempting the second by standing outside lots of stage doors. Julia Donaldson does now get to act out her own stories to children and adults all over the world, and while she never met Mick, thanks to his many children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren he’s now mor...

All Creatures Great And Small: Christmas Special This drama series about vets in the chocolate-box Yorkshire Dales is first-class comfort viewing (Callum Woodhouse, above)  This drama series about vets in the chocolate-box Yorkshire Dales is first-class comfort viewing. It’s Christmas Eve and James is trying to come to terms with the fact that Helen is marrying Hugh in the morning – although she doesn’t seem very happy about it. Tuesday 22, Channel 5, 9pm   Worzel Gummidge: Saucy Nancy ...

Rating: Simon Russell Beale – an actor normally associated with the classical repertoire – is in his element as Scrooge in this cast- of-three version of A Christmas Carol. Normally the old skinflint is played by a manky-looking actor.  Sir Simon is more elegant. He comes on in a smart suit, nose raised, giving us a deep, un-hammy sneer of misanthropy that sets him up for his amazing conversion at the end. This is a story of Scrooge’s frozen emotional lockdown. The Christmas novella –...

Sun 13 Dec 2020 05.30 EST It was as if all the doors of an advent calendar had been flung open at once. Last week, after the month of darkness, theatres rescheduled their openings, and scrambled over one another to pack everyone in – which is to say, arrange their diminished spectators so that the gaps between them felt like a healthy breath rather than the reminder of a threat. Excitement! Anxiety! And a sea change. Not only the spacing, not only the choreography, but the sound of the stalls...

Verdict: A delicious nut roast   Rating: The first of this year’s cornucopia of Christmas Carols opened this week with the revered Simon Russell Beale as Ebenezer Scrooge at London’s Bridge Theatre. And, wholesome and nourishing though Sir Nicholas Hytner’s adaptation of Dickens’s festive tale is, it is, in all honesty, more nut roast than turkey with all the trimmings.  I suspect the story’s appeal is that like Scrooge, we’re all hoping to awake from the nightmares we’re endu...