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Colin Farrell has opened up about his role in Apple TV+'s noir mystery Sugar, saying he relished playing a "tender" character.

You can imagine how the pitch meeting for Sugar (Apple TV+) went. “Colin Farrell,” say the show’s creators, “as a cool LA private eye in a glistening homage to Golden Age film noir. He drives a vintage Corvette, he drinks whiskey like it’s going out of fashion, he…” Greenlit! The producers shake hands and head for the pastries.

Some 70 years after the term "film noir" was first coined to describe a uniquely American phenomenon, we found the 100 best.

The first weekend of this year’s Fringe World kicked off with a madcap performance by a circus troupe who showed their chops - and a whole lot more.