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06/12/2023

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The Homecoming: Jared Harris is a menacing patriarch in Pinter’s striking portrait of stricken masculinity

Matthew Dunster’s revival of Pinter’s 1965 play is stylishly expressive, and boasts a real star turn from the Crown and Mad Men alumnus

06/12/2023

📺 Meet TV’s (very unlikely) new King Arthur

Iain De Caestecker discusses The Winter King, starring in Coronation Street as a schoolboy, and why one BBC drama sent him into therapy

06/12/2023

📚 The best Ukraine books of 2023, from histories to pictures of carnage

Year two of the war produced breathless tales of resistance, rebuttals to Russian propaganda, and the death of a promising young writer

06/12/2023

🎸 Rock’s longest players: Gov’t Mule, the jam band that conquered the world

Their shortest songs last 20 minutes, they rarely play the same set twice and they’re always on tour. How have they lasted this long?

06/12/2023

⭐️ I'm a Celebrity, day 17 review: Nigel Farage admits being a 'remainer' before karaoke st******se

As Farage sang I’m Too Sexy and opened his shirt, it seemed viewers had seen more of him than they bargained for...in terms of flesh

06/12/2023

Denny Laine, the guitarist for the Moody Blues and Wings, has died aged 79, his wife announced on Tuesday.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/05/denny-laine-guitarist-moody-blues-and-wings-dies-aged-79/

06/12/2023

📺 Almost one-third of BBC One’s programming across the Christmas period will be previously-aired shows

06/12/2023

⭐ 👑 A star-studded crowd came out to celebrate the ending of The Crown at a premiere in London

05/12/2023

🍫 'The brains behind Paddington – plus a charming Timothée Chalamet – give Dahl a Goon Show-ish prequel full of irresistible velvety sweetness'.

Read our 5⭐ review here👇
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/wonka-review-timothee-chalamet-huge-grant/

04/12/2023

🎥 Director Paul King revealed that, unlike in previous adaptations, every sweet in the new film can be eaten - as his waistline now proves.

Read more here👇
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/04/wonka-chocolate-is-all-real-director-reveals/

03/12/2023

🐳 'Taking in the whale populations of the Azores, Bahamas, South Pacific, Mauritius and Mexico, this Sky Nature series is a winner'.

Read our 4⭐ review here👇

03/12/2023

🎥 'This impressive documentary weaves through archive and new interviews with those at the scene of Lennon's shocking murder in NYC in 1980'.

Read our full review here👇

03/12/2023

🎥 The Paris, Texas director on losing his sight, his homage to Anselm Kiefer – and the shame of growing up in the shadow of the N***s.

Read the interview here👇
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/wim-wenders-interview-german-anselm-kiefer-perfect-days/

02/12/2023

✍️ 'Dickens in December usually means A Christmas Carol – but here, Lionel Bart's evergreen musical brings just as much festive food-for-thought' | Writes Mark Brown

Read our 5-star review here ⬇️
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/oliver-leeds-playhouse-consider-us-delighted-festive-treat/

02/12/2023

🔴 Pop pin-up, theatre superstar, creative dynamo. Why is this extraordinary talent so forgotten?

02/12/2023

🎶 'Decades in the making, but anything but overworked, this ranks with Gabriel's very best work – and there is no higher praise'.

Read our 5⭐ review here👇

02/12/2023

🎻 Formed as recently as 2006, the ensemble showed the Cadogan Hall audience that it has more than found its feet.

Read our 4⭐ review here👇

01/12/2023

📺 I'm a Celebrity: Nigel Farage’s worst nightmare comes true – not in the rodent challenge but as his nemesis Nella Rose is elected leader

01/12/2023

🩰 'A lost night on YouTube has inspired an astonishing dance work that passes like an exquisite, unsettling dream'.

Read our 4⭐ review of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan: Lunar Halo here👇

01/12/2023

🎵 Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé review: The overlong sections between songs seemed to suck the energy out of the actual performance, writes Neil McCormick

30/11/2023

📺 I'm a Celebrity, day 12: A cage filled with spiders made Josie Gibson break down, while shockwaves of celeb departures rumbled throughout camp

30/11/2023

📺 REVIEW: "Brainless teenage-boy's fantasy nonsense is a new low for Netflix

"The only explanation for the sheer awfulness of this all-guns-blazing military drama is that it was dreamt up by intoxicated adolescents" | Writes anitathetweeter ⤵

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2023/11/30/obliterated-netflix-review-nick-zano-shelley-hennig/

29/11/2023

🎶 Richard Branson's cash-in compilation albums were once a musical rite of passage. Why hasn’t streaming killed them?

29/11/2023

❄️ Settle down in front of the fire (and the box) with Bernard Cornwell's Arthurian epic, a furry Julia Donaldson and Ncuti Gatwa's 15th Doctor

28/11/2023

👑 As the popular series draws to a close it charts the ‘beginnings of a new Royal fairy tale’ between the Prince and Princess of Wales

28/11/2023

🎤 Never made it as a wise man? What exactly is a ‘semolina pilchard’? Test your knowledge of pop music's biggest poetic crimes

27/11/2023

🎭 'Traditionally, the Lyric Hammersmith is one of our leading purveyors of panto - and this joyous production marks a return to form'.

Read our review here👇

27/11/2023

🎥 "Scary dolls, repressed sexuality, and stuffed squirrels are a potentially heady mix but even strong lead performances can't save this period bore."

Read our 2 ⭐️ review of Paramount+'s The Doll Factory here ⬇️

26/11/2023

📺 The first week of I'm a Celebrity ended with an episode that played out like a greatest hits of the season so far

26/11/2023

👑 "The trick with those types of characters is to find something you can connect with which allows you to inhabit their world.”

As he makes a rare appearance on the British stage, the actor talks alpha males, his hellraising father and ‘humanising’ a dying George VI👇
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/there-are-still-hellraisers-like-my-father-in-hollywood/

25/11/2023

🔴 Some of the proceeds from Christian Craighead’s book will be donated to the US charity Frontline Healing Foundation

24/11/2023

📚 Looking for a Christmas present? From history to crime, and politics to poetry, our critics count down the literary offerings of the year

24/11/2023

✍️ 'The former Daily Show host, who sparked controversy last year, avoided UK politics this time in his warm, infectious and refreshing set' | Writes Nick Ferris

Read our review here ⬇️

24/11/2023

📚 Never mind the A-list – this year’s best books came from unsung names, indie presses and odd archival depths.

Read our highlights here👇

24/11/2023

🎥 Benita Alexander thought Paolo Macchiarini's pioneering surgery was going to change the world. Then his patients started dying....

Benita's story is now the subject of two upcoming TV programmes👇

24/11/2023

🎶 Everyone from Taylor Swift to The Who has brought their own strange twist to the genre. But who made it into our top 10?

Find out here👇

24/11/2023

✍️ 'Think televised leadership debate but on very little food, even less sleep and not so much as an elderly Dimbleby to referee' | Writes Judith Woods

Read our comment piece here ⬇️
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/11/23/im-a-celebrity-is-politics-as-pure-entertainment/

24/11/2023

📺 Charles III: The Coronation Year, set for release at Christmas, will be narrated by Helena Bonham Carter

23/11/2023

🎭 Riding high with two critically garlanded works on in London, the playwright talks drama, dating apps and taking liberties with the truth