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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “An Evening with Joseph Conrad” begins with the poet seeing a man in an elevator who looks a bit like Conrad. Its four pages name-drop (among others) Hardy, Euripides, “the Gorkys”, Eugene Lyons, Goethe, Freud, the poet HD, Achilles and Lacan, who’s quoted … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE George Clooney has now directed as many features as David Lynch or Paul Thomas Anderson – nine, to be precise. An awful lot of faultlessly charming Q&As may have greased the wheels, but if we were presented with just the films themselves, teasing … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE This is an anxious, furious, forensic contribution to the study of the assassination of US president John F Kennedy. Forensic, because Haverstick has spent a dozen years learning how to read the US National Security Archives; furious, because the subject of this work, … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “I make no apology,” roars Roger Lewis, “for this being a visionary book, a fierce book, a prose version of a portrait in pinks and lilacs and orange and yellow…” He could perhaps apologise for it being such a very long book – … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE But, to return to the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. Among its other treasures – from its Pharos Lighthouse (the last of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World and, for centuries, the tallest man-made building), to the lavish, and now lost, tomb … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Dead relly… dead relly… dead relly’s teddy,” drawls Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), pointing out the portraits of his ancestors hanging in his family’s country estate. The last of these catches the eye of his desperately common visiting friend Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) – … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Why are our contemporaries so keen on buying, and presumably reading, new translations of the Iliad’s Iron Age reminiscences of Bronze Age combat? Some years ago, I asked the same question at the start of a lengthy article on the composition and editing … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE It was not a tremendous start for Martin Johnson and co in Grand Slammers, ITV1’s documentary in which members of the 2003 Rugby World Cup-winning squad reunite to assemble a rugby team inside HMP The Mount in Hertfordshire. “Hello, mate. You interested in … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Boys, which has delayed its fourth season owing to the Hollywood writers’ strike, is savagely satirical. Its most famous character, Homelander, is essentially a gonzo cross between Superman, Donald Trump and Hitler. Gen V is nowhere near as ferocious. But there are … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Had Edward I been a cricketer, argues David Mitchell, he would have played spin badly: “A smasher of the ball, not one for glancing or nurdling, or using his pad. Any edge he got on a delivery would have flown straight into the … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE *spoilers below* The showstopper challenge was to make a cake in the shape of an animal; for Bake Off aficionados, this summoned fond memories of Cecil the Bread Lion in series six. Only Amos chose an animal that could kill you – an … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Michael Wolff is the biographer who, in his 2018 book Fire and Fury, brought us the image of Donald Trump tucked up in bed by 6.30pm, watching three screens simultaneously while eating a cheeseburger. Never mind the politics, it’s that image of the … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE On 3 December 2006, Mark Blanco, 30, fell from the balcony of a flat in east London. The flat was known to police as a crack den frequented by the then-vastly famous rock star Pete Doherty, who on CCTV was seen, like others, … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Lydia Davis did not invent flash or super-short fiction; think of that one-line story sometimes attributed to Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” But she has, in recent years, become its most successful and prominent practitioner. Her work often plays with the … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE What to do with a Strictly winner? It’s an an age old question that has vexed the BBC over the years, often failing to capitalise on the surprise popularity of the winner of the coveted Glitterball. How else did Bill Bailey get stuck … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Strictly Come Dancing 2023 week one: Golden oldies know how to get the party started . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE While the current fashion is for micro-history that examines a particular group’s relationship to the Empire, there’s much to be said for the kind of top-down vision that this book provides. For the colonisers, this is often deeply unflattering – no attempt is … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Given the widespread hostility to the costly occupation, the civilians of the Control Commission for Germany and the British Armed Forces stationed in the ravaged country had to produce tangible results fast. The men and women charged with that task form a colourful … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In the nave of Salisbury Cathedral is a 13th-century stone effigy, worn and faded. This is the tomb of William Longespée, an illegitimate son of King Henry II. Despite being one of the most powerful nobles of his day, Longespée met an unexpected, … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Apple TV has become the unofficial home of the thinking person’s sci-fi epic, courtesy of shows such as Foundation and Silo. But the streamer has also emerged as a production line for quietly affecting sitcoms which cast a wry eye at contemporary life. … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The director of the new Expendables film was one Scott Waugh – but in fairness, the job was never going to go to a Scott Peace. A former stunt performer in 1990s action titles like Last Action Hero and Speed, Waugh is just … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Mel Gibson’s biggest success was directing a gory retelling of the Crucifixion in The Passion of the Christ. So it’s fitting that Gibson should himself be subject to a bloody resurrection as one of the stars of The Continental: From The World of … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The exhibition putting a human face on Britain’s prisons . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The 1922 Committee may not excite most people, but this account of its first century – for, as Philip Norton writes, it was actually founded in 1923 – exhibits impeccable scholarship and a degree of charm. Norton has not only, as a Conservative … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The horrific story of infected blood in the NHS (and beyond) . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Tina Turner, Dairylea Lunchables, RuPaul’s Drag Race, a Shetland pony. Dolmio sauce, a protractor, Abraham Lincoln, Alison Hammond. This is Picture Slam, a new Saturday teatime quiz, for which the four answers would be: BBC One, shiny studio, Alan Carr, just-killing-time-until-Strictly-comes-on. Whoever commissioned … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Winter 1610, in the new Jamestown colony of Virginia, and the inhabitants are dropping like flies: bitterly cold, starving and diseased. One snowy night, under the cover of darkness, a desperate young servant girl rejects the inadequate protections of the fort, and flees … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In 1911, Ethel Proudlock, a married British woman living in Kuala Lumpur (then in British Malaya), shot dead a local manager called William Steward in the grounds of her bungalow. Proudlock claimed that Steward had tried to rape her; yet she was found … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Wúràolá is a doctor from a wealthy Lagosian family, cruising through the early stages of her medical career. Yet her family are more fixated on her fast-approaching 30th birthday and her marriage prospects to Kúnlé, a superficially charming family friend who in reality … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Tolstoy said that all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way, but anybody who reads a lot of novels may well think they’ve seen every possible permutation of familial unhappiness. Not the least of Paul Murray’s many achievements in his fourth novel, … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Incredible hypocrisy by Boris Johnson.” “Baroness Hale’s behaviour was disgraceful.” “There are many words I’d use to describe what Michael Gove did. Betrayal. Deceitful.” Plenty of the salty old tunes came out again in Laura Kuenssberg: State of Chaos (BBC One) as a … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE We start with the main twist, in that there’s no Agatha Christie story called A Haunting in Venice. Kenneth Branagh’s latest Poirot outing has been quite loosely inspired by her 1969 novel Hallowe’en Party, transposed to Venice in 1947 with a radically different … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In a satire of his own imperial predecessors, the fourth-century Roman emperor Julian described the first, Augustus, as a “chameleon”. It was an apt metaphor. An emperor had no written job-description, and much of his success lay in his ability to adapt – … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Rory Stewart was never going to be prime minister. He had far too many glaring flaws. For one, he’d held a variety of difficult jobs in the real world (soldier, diplomat, professor at Harvard), rather than becoming a Spad straight out of Oxford, … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE ‘I didn’t expect to come to a sex party and leave thinking about my relationship with my mum,” sighed 26-year-old Yewande Biala, half way through Secrets of the Female Orgasm (Channel 4), a tender documentary about female sexual pleasure. But, raised in a … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE It has been eight years since a new Michael Mann film played in cinemas – his last, the monstrously underrated techno-thriller Blackhat, opened in 2015. And for the first stretch of Ferrari, which had its world premiere tonight at Venice, it feels a … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Mick Brown, longstanding feature writer at this paper, most often covers art, culture and music; but he has an equally established sideline in the history of spirituality and religion. His previous books include American Heartbeat: Travels from Woodstock to San Jose by Song … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Prisons, like schools and hospitals, make good settings for drama because they gather disparate characters into one place and trap them there. But prison dramas add an extra level of mystery because most of us, Deo volente, never see inside a real one, … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE ‘I’m going to have no space soon,” said David Hockney, 86, to Melvyn Bragg, 83. Space, for artists, tends to mean the place where they show their work. But that wasn’t the sort of space Hockney was referring to. “I’m going to die,” … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Sebastian Faulks is the author of 15 previous novels, four works of non-fiction, and the best line of literary criticism I can remember. “Reading a Penelope Fitzgerald novel,” he once wrote, “is like being taken for a ride in a peculiar kind of car. … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Forget Oppenheimer – meet the wild scientist who invented ‘The Maniac’ . MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Irish writer Paul Lynch’s Booker-longlisted fifth novel, Prophet Song, is a book of encroaching terror, an atmosphere of foreboding seeded from its opening lines where “the dark gathers without sound the cherry trees. It gathers the last of the leaves and the … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Shelter opens with Mickey watching his father die in a car crash. He is promptly whisked from LA to small-town New Jersey, where he is put in the care of his slacker Gen X aunt, Shira (Constance Zimmer). He also makes a girlfriend … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A recent Telegraph feature explored the idea of “eating like it’s the 1970s”. In this instance, it was a sensible consideration on the virtues of smaller portion sizes (as opposed to ‘“portion distortion”), and featured a fillet of salmon accompanied by two lettuce … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE What makes a good documentary? Access to the subject. Compelling characters. A window into a closed-off world. Court Martial: Soldiers Behind Bars has all of this in spades, and shows how far Channel 5 has raised its game in recent years. The setting … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In June 1934, the story goes, the Russian poet Boris Pasternak received a call from Joseph Stalin. Osip Mandelstam – Pasternak’s contemporary, but a more forthright critic of the Soviet regime – had just been arrested. What, the tyrant wanted to know, did … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “No other artist of the day begins to compare,” writes David Ekserdjian, “in terms of the obsessive interest he displays in himself, his own biography… and his surroundings.” This is the artist who painted four self-portraits in an age where most artists didn’t … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Oh no, she’s about to talk to the camera again.” This thought will likely go through your head many times when watching Nicola Walker in Annika, which started life as a Radio 4 drama set in Norway and then became a Scotland-set television … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Salman Rushdie – still recovering from the attack last year that cost him the sight of one eye – has never been shy of confronting the excesses of British imperialism. Nor, quite rightly, has he been alone in doing so. Critiques of Britain’s … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Billions (Sky Atlantic/Paramount+) is back for a seventh and final series. It is not so much a grand farewell as a discreet truck to the glue factory. Having left after series five to spend more time with his family – his wife, Helen McCrory, … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Billions (Sky Atlantic/Paramount+) is back for a seventh and final series. It is not so much a grand farewell as a discreet truck to the glue factory. Having left after series five to spend more time with his family – his wife, Helen McCrory, … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE On waking up one day this January in Valencia, I was cheered by seeing from the window the burning colour of oranges against green leaves. They were just ripe for harvest. For breakfast, I was offered toast smeared with garlic and tomato, sploshed … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Idris Elba saves the day in the finale of Hijack. I don’t think this needs a ‘spoiler alert’ because, really, were you expecting anything else? The ending was signposted from the moment Idris Elba strolled onto flight KA29 in episode one. His character, … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE There have lately been complaints that novelists are spurning old-fashioned children’s adventure stories, in favour of domestic dramas about mental health and family breakdown. The judges of one fiction prize recently complained of a “depressing children’s literary landscape”. But Judith Eagle bucks any … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In 2015, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin warned against the future of his country. “The ‘New Israeli Order’ is not an apocalyptic prophecy,” he told the conference. “This is reality.” The nation risks being divided, Rivlin argued, into “four tribes” – secular, conservative and … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE At a basic level, give them what they paid for, Christopher NolanHis remarkable new film had to have a convincing explosion at its center – and on that front, rest assured, it’s delivered with flesh-shattering aplomb. But in a few seconds you also … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE It takes one minute for Chris Packham to hear the first note of doom Earth, BBC Two’s latest science series. Here it is, showing us the perfect landscape. “Just look at this view for a moment: lush green meadows, dense forest, jagged mountain … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer, BBC Four, review – A solid portrait of a historic pioneer. MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “The British are too comfortable. We’re not hungry enough. We’re not desperate enough for money.” This is what the farmer in Simon ReeveReturn to Cornwall (BBC Two), which explains why the seasonal workers who pick cabbages for him in all weathers and seven … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Lewis Capaldi: How I Feel Now Review: A fearlessly candid confession from Britain’s most incredible pop star. MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Inheritance series 4 preview: TV’s most monstrous dynasty comes to an end. MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE On a bright day in Belgium, two 13-year-old boys plow through a field of chrysanthemums, rows of flowers blurring into ragged bands of purple, white and gold. The Phantom is the name of Léo (Eden Dambrine) and Rémi (Gustav De Waele) – Leo … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE ‘Creative Differences’. The delicate euphemism uttered by music PRs says it isn’t. Successful bands don’t break up over chord sequences or middle 8s, but when singer and guitarist would rather wash themselves in boiling oil than play another note together. Such anger was … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A very popular but hardly watched comedy occupies a special place in the history of modern television. From Arrested Development in the early 2000s to the community or weirdos and geeks everyone loves to talk about that beautiful gem that was cancelled too … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Rob Knox was an 18-year-old actor with a bright future ahead of him. He recently landed the role of Hogwarts student Marcus Belby Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Friends, family and teammates remember him as a fun-loving and warm-hearted kid. Rob never … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The conceit is that Levy is a reluctant traveler, a man who prefers the comforts of home to discovering the riches of the world. While traveling, he stays in luxury hotels, which he likes, but has to experience local customs and activities that … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Disney brand is primarily aimed at children, so it seems alarming that Disney+ has dramas where people have sex and send bra selfies to strangers on dating apps. Both of these things often happen in the opening episode Fleishman is in trouble. … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Remember GPO Girl? In 2013, a distressed and mute teenager was found outside Dublin’s main post office. She was picked up by the Garda who concluded that she was a victim of human trafficking. But a few international checks, one media storm and … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The whole world wants a piece Harry Styles. Industry executives want to lure him away from his current label, Columbia; journalists are desperate to interview him; girls and boys from Manchester to Sydney dream of dating him. Dylan, the 23-year-old pop singer who … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE In 1997, a man named Colin Stacey got into an argument with another man over football. Stacey settled the dispute by filling a stocking with snooker balls. He knew the blow was fatal because, he recalls, he “heard his bone crack.” Stacey is … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Ukraine should cease to exist.” “When we kill all the fascists, we will have peace.” On the streets of Moscow, messages from Russian state media seem to be working well. They spew bile and unfiltered from the mouths of pedestrians. Volodymyr Zelenskysays one … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Channel 4 showed Ukraine from above: Secrets from the front. He used drone footage in various formats to show how the conflict unfolded. Sometimes it was on “before and after” shots of Ukrainian … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Dinosaurs, dinosaurs, dinosaurs. Why are there so many dinosaur documentaries around? If you’re a paleontologist, you probably have a queue of television crews outside your door. It wouldn’t be so bad if these shows were their own thing, huh Secrets of the Jurassic … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Reality, the cold-blooded tale of a millennial whistleblower, begins with an overhead view of a nondescript office that day Donald Trump fired FBI chief James Comey: May 9, 2017. Flat screens on the wall show live reports on Fox News, but otherwise an … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Traditionally, the celebrity “Road Trip” in name only is more of a trip for the stars than for the viewers. Countless times we watched as Sue, Robson, Gordon, Gino or whoever else provided the fictional transcontinental merriment with the cameras behind them. We … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Opening the Berlin Film Festival with a rom-com isn’t such a terrible idea, given the commitment to experimental seriousness that often pervades the program. Alas, Rebecca Miller’s She Came to Me is categorically wrong: a silly éclair full of absurd characters that are … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Marcel Puts on the Shell: This kid-friendly story borders on American kitsch. MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE I thought I wouldn’t like it Piano (Channel 4). It follows two grueling rules of TV talent competitions: celebrity judges and hopefuls who only get through the door if they have a heart-tugging story. However, after watching the first episode, I fell for … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE dr. Anna Hutchinson, one of Barnes’ main interviewees, became increasingly concerned that children as young as 10 were being referred to blockers, which were said to be reversible – although they almost always lead to lifelong use of cross-sex hormones. The whole issue … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Good news and bad news for anyone who thinks James Nesbitt appears in too many crime dramas. Good news: better (BBC One) is a crime drama that does not star James Nesbitt. The bad news: Andrew Buchan’s performance doing a James Nesbitt impression. … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The Gold, Review: Sparkling drama Brink’s-Mat turns dirty as it falls for villains. MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Guy Martin’s Power Trip (Channel 4) ended with a bang as our host blew up the power plant. Martin couldn’t hide his childlike joy when he pushed the button to demolish one of Britain’s oldest collieries, Eggborough in North Yorkshire. The slo-mo replays … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Do you still pronounce “diplodocus” to rhyme with “crocus”? All wrong, obviously. These days it’s di-plod-o-cus. Also, the plural of octopus is octopuses, not octopi, but that’s another question you should check with your old Latin teacher. The diplodocus were the stars of … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Finally, here’s the perfect romantic comedy for Hollywood’s current passion-phobic era: one in which the central couple are no less than 2,500 miles apart until the final four minutes. In Your Place or Mine, Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher play Debbie and Peter, … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE There will be strong competition in the documentary category Oscars next month. Movies about volcanologists, Ukrainian orphans, Putin’s opponent Alexei Navalny, and photographer Nan Goldin’s crusade against the Sackler family are shortlisted with a rare and beautiful study from India. With subtlety and … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Sexual harassment is a normal part of school life. This was the conclusion of an Ofsted report a few years ago and is the starting point for Consensus (Channel 4), a one-off drama set in a private school. Perhaps it once was, although … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Another day, another chance to hear Isil’s most famous recruit tell her version of events. The story of Shamima Begum (BBC Two) is a documentary which accompanies a 10-part BBC podcast. “For the first time, she told what happened in the last eight … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE We follow the restaurant’s plans from bright idea to grand opening, with Clarkson thinking of ever more inventive ways to outwit his enemies. “We’re going to have to live in a murky gray area of loopholes and convoluted beeps,” he says. Case in … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Happy Valley Episode 6 Review: A finale of understated, heartbreaking brilliance. MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “Boris, I don’t want to hurt you, but it would only take a minute with a missile.” Not the words of a Bond villain, but of Vladimir Putin, on the phone with Boris Johnson, on the eve of the invasion of Ukraine. This … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE This review contains spoilers for the third episode It’s very clear what HBO wants us to think about episode three post-apocalyptic epic, The last of us (Atlantic Sky). That this is suddenly one of the greatest episodes of TV drama in the modern … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE No doubt fueled by the awesome Capcom Resident Evil 2 remake in 2019, the revival of solo survival horror has become a welcome fad for video games. In an age of hardware that can do fleshy monsters and flickering darkness terrifying justice, developers … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Shotgun Wedding is described twice. As written, this is the story of Jennifer Lopezbig day if he was kidnapped by armed pirates on paradise island – look what they did there. But the production was also a busy search for a replacement groom … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Sharks, wars, dinosaurs, mischievous archaeologists, cuddly Aliens and more. Steven Spielberg movies are nothing if not wide, though listing their subjects isn’t quite the same as pinpointing what they’re actually talking about. In the 52 years since his debut Duel, broken homes have … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Deepfake technology has been used by foreign powers to undermine democracy, and now by ITVX in its new comedy show. I’m not sure which is the greater crime. Deep Fake Neighbor Wars is a series of extended comedy sketches in which celebrity faces … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Being dubbed the “Country Kardashian” turned out to be a curse. Dales duo Clive and Amanda Owen rose to fame on Our Yorkshire Farm, but their 22-year marriage fell victim. Like a muddy remix of a reality soap, the couple went their separate … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The twist is that only teenagers can discover and fight ghosts and bravely – sometimes fatally – put themselves on the line to save others. But not all ghost hunters are created equal. Trapped in an isolated northern town, psychic Lucy dreams of … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE What do you think of when you hear the word “Holocaust”? This was the question that opened James Bulgin’s film, How the Holocaust began (BBC Two). You will most likely think of somewhere like Auschwitz and the Nazis running the processed mass murders. … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE If you tuned in The Warship: Tour of Duty (BBC Two) expect a serious study of Britain’s naval capabilities, well, there was some of that. But also this: “I have never seen so many penises in my life. You know what I mean?” … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Prisons are not pleasant places. That’s what prisons are all about. So I’m not sure anyone will be surprised Britain’s notorious prisons (ITV1), who brought in a host of ex-convicts to tell us how bleak life can be on the inside. To be … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Hold the front (Sky Max) is a show featuring comedians, Josh Widdicombe and Nish Kumar, gain work experience at local newspapers. Wait! Don’t run away at the mention of Nish Kumar. I know he wasn’t funny on The Mash Report and he’s so … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE ITV is planning to release a number of comedies this year. ITV boss Kevin Lygo recently said the broadcaster has barely commissioned comedies in the last five or six years because audiences are so brutal: “When there’s a new comedy you look at … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE This is going to hurt was an accomplished TV drama based on the bestselling book and featured a usually excellent performance from Ben Whishaw, but it had two faults. The first was the streak of misogyny that ran through Adam Kay’s writing (come … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “There’s nothing more magical than a toy that moves on its own,” we’re told at the start of this occasionally charming Exhibition of antiques (BBC One) Christmas special. It was a reference to clockwork toys, but it could also be about the program … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE This year’s opening sequences Death in Paradise A Christmas special (BBC One) were full of promise. It was Christmas time on Saint Marie, which meant Neville (Ralf Little) was falling over the Christmas tree and turkey on the shore — right. Don Warrington … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE While most UK broadcasters forgo Christmas and fill their schedules with repeats, Sky should be commended for making the effort. Every year he commissions original dramas with a seasonal theme. Unfortunately, A Christmas song (Sky Max) is not among his better offers. The … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE There is a great exchange in the opening episode Litvinenko (ITVX). “I have to report a murder,” Alexander Litvinenko tells the detectives he called to his hospital room. “Whose murder?” one of the officers asks. “Mine,” comes the reply. That’s what makes it … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Are you even middle class if you can’t hold a long conversation about the relative joys of Aldi? My mom spends so much time at the local branch that she might as well move. We all have an opinion on things worth buying … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE It’s complicated as hell to come up with an entertainment format. Often, the new idea will take on a perverted Frankenstein’s monster look, with random body parts from old shows stitched together onto a panel. Recently Unbreakable grimly attracted Mr. and Mrs. on … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE We are not alone (Dave) is a new comedy from Spirits‘ Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond are based on a ridiculous premise. Aliens invaded Earth and those who landed in Britain decided to settle in the “geographical center of the land”: that is … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Instead, the first episode made it clear that – as we’ve seen so often in recent years – he was a big believer in individual freedom himself, a control freak who covered his weird magical castle with cameras and microphones so he could … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “You might be thinking: What am I doing in the middle of the American West with the Spice Girls and an actress?” asked Ruby Wax at the beginning Trailblazers: A Rocky Mountain Road Trip (BBC Two). Ruby, that’s exactly what I meant. And … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The series cannot possibly cover all aspects of 20th century history and politics, so Schama chose two ways to approach his subject: by looking back at his own life and by focusing on art as a force for political change. He begins with … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Controversial comedian Walsh, formerly best known as the Strictly Come Dancing “love rat™”, was a latecomer alongside Hancock. He rehabilitated his image almost as successfully. Walsh was clearly hurt by being dragged over the tabloid coals, neurotic about how he would be perceived … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Funny thing in the first episode Lucy Worsley’s three-part Agatha Christie story he never for a minute questioned Christie’s place in the pantheon of the greats. If you grew up in the 1980s watching endless adaptations of Marples and Poirot – adaptations so … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “I’m offended that Matt Hancock is more popular than me. What the hell is going on? Why am I outside and he is still inside?” The MP beat the DJ as Chris Moyles became the latest scout to receive his marching orders through … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Into the Valley of the Dinosaurs with Dan Snow, Review: The fascinating story of America’s “Dinosaur Rush.” MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE After two and a half weeks of meditating and moaning, Boy George admitted he was “ready to go”. In his exit interview, he named Mike Tindall as his preferred winner and even softened towards Hancock: “He’s just a person in here. He stepped … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE The first series of Upright (Sky Comedy/NOW), Australian comedy-drama created by music comedian polyhyster Tim Minchin, started with a car accident. I remember thinking at the time (2019) that any writer who is so desperate to get two characters into each other’s orbit … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE You can imagine the Netflix meeting that led to Our universe. “We need to do something like the BBC’s Planet Earth. But bigger.” The result is a strange mix of natural history and space science that just doesn’t work. We introduce ourselves to … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE David Baddiel: Jews Don’t Count Review: Well argued but not entirely balanced. MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE American remakes of British comedies are almost never funnybut the American version Spirits (BBC Three) is not bad. It’s a scene-by-scene remake Originala good-natured sitcom in which a young couple moves into a mansion they inherited from a long-lost relative, much to the … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Head judge Shirley Ballas hailed him as “the one to beat”, but he was beaten by Skelton’s thrilling quickstep, racing across the floor with a real pan. Not even a hideous leather outfit could make her dance her best. Have we got our … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Remember the Kilshaws? Alan and Judith Kilshaw were a couple from North Wales who tried to adopt twins from America in 2001 but found themselves in a transatlantic love affair. It transpired that the girls had also been promised to a couple in … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE “I’m Brian Cox. You probably know me from my day job as the Archimedean mogul of all time, my evil twin from TV show SuccessionLogan Roy.” So the actor said for the introduction to his documentary, Brian Cox: How the other half lives … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE This was far from a vintage series The Great British Bake Off (Channel 4). The challenges were complex. The trial was harsh. Halloween Week aired two weeks before Halloween and Mexico Week managed to offend an entire nation. It’s no coincidence that viewership … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Fifth series of Crown begins with a reminder of how it all began: with Claire Foy. A black and white memory of the Queen as a young woman launching the royal yacht Britannia. Those were simpler times, weren’t they? I don’t mean the … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Is Peter Morgan getting bored? You can’t blame him, we’re 49 episodes in and have another series to go. But I don’t know how else to explain his decision to cut out the episode about Charles and Diana’s divorce with regular couples who … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Seventh episode of Crown it involves two people at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to integrity. There’s Martin Bashir, tricking his way into Diana’s confidence to secure the infamous Panorama interview. And we have dr. Hasnat Khan, a heart surgeon … Read more
MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE English (BBC Two) is halfway to a masterpiece. It’s a bold, brutal Western – a revisionist take, because is there any other kind now? – with moments of beauty and ugliness to place it at the top of this year’s TV dramas. But … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE There have been a lot of football stories on TV over the past few years. This is in stark contrast to previous decades when football as drama was dead ground (see the Dream Team or the Goal franchise. Or better yet, don’t.) The … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Today, the small town of Money in the Mississippi Delta has fewer than 100 residents—a quarter of the people who lived there in August 1955. At that time, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old kid from Chicago, was visiting to pick cotton. , made the … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE Emily Brontë (Emma Mackey) sits in the church on a wet Sunday morning and listens to the sermon of the new assistant curate. His name is William Weightman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), and he’s a handsome young graduate with a John Donne style of rhetoric—”God’s … Read more
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MY NUMBER 1 RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE FULL TIME INCOME ONLINE: CLICK HERE A long dark road winds through the snowy desert towards the icy horizon. Welcome, this opening image says unequivocally, to the post-Soviet hell, where women wait in line for meat and abortions, men fight in banks and parliaments, where everyone sells everything to … Read more
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