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The big shift is now towards micro-dramas which are popular in China and fit well with TikTok teens used to sharing their own micro-dramas of their lives on socials fortune.com/asia/2025/02...

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Big focus on soaps at moment with EastEnders’ 40th, changes to ITV soaps and now Neighbours cancelled again. In these attention-deficit times soaps now have to pedal twice as hard.When was last time a new soap launched? Any new one should be 5 mins long per ep www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Dr No way! End of an era for James Bond. Interviewing Barbara Broccoli & Michael Wilson in 2023 was a real delight & their love & care for the brand was evident - so sad they are stepping back deadline.com/2025/02/amaz...

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BBC.com is there for them - and perhaps later BBC broadcasts on shortwave, listened to at night at low volume ….

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NYT analysis: Remarkably, the Trump administration appears to be engaging with Russia’s message without demanding payment up front. + Russia’s top investment manager tells Rubio there is likes of hard cash to make in Russia www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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Anyone use the Spread app and if so what do you like about it? All thoughts gratefully received 😊

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Synopsis for Succession the film released. Jeremy Strong already workshopping this scene in particular 🤯 www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

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Unlikely to be recommended by many careers advisors though

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Oh god I’ve got to the age where I now have a favourite mug for my tea #sendhelp

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Am I using Deep Research wrong? Trying it out with what I thought was a simple task and frankly right now it’s looking like a Google search in new clothes. Cheered to see Martin Lewis comes top, but results show no wonder some AI firms want to ‘mine’ trusted journalists’ content

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I love how Trump, Vance and Musk style themselves defenders of free speech, while simultaneously banning government agencies from mentioning climate change or diversity (inc biodiversity!), equity and inclusion, or even possessing maps which show the Gulf of Mexico. Torquemadas the lot of them.

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Main pic on today’s Guardian newsletter giving Morecambe & Wise ‘Bring Me Sunshine’ vibes

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Can’t stop watching Victoria Derbyshire’s iconic eye roll during her patiently-brilliant interviewing of Victoria Coates on Newsnight

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All the puns (knock-out cast, hit drama etc) for Disney+ show A Thousand Blows - billed as Peaky Blinders x boxing x girl gangs from the pen of Steven Knight & his team of writers 🥊 Captivating acting from Erin Doherty, Malachi Kirby & Stephen Graham and a script that packs a pun-ch 👊 Starts Feb 21

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Welcome to another news cycle of outlandish proposals

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Job ad of the year just dropped: its only BLACK ROD housesofparliament.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

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Watched an old episode of Sale of the Century for work reasons & anyone who says TV was better in the old days never saw ‘a terracotta and mushroom two-piece' and a ‘grey suit with matching grey & pink tie’ being offered as TV quiz prizes. Banging theme tune though www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHIL...

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ITV’s soaps to be cut by an hour a week and move to 30min eps as “viewing habits continue to change” says ITV media & ents boss Kevin Lygo. From Jan 2026 Coronation Street & Emmerdale will have a soaps ‘power hour’ Monday to Friday with 30min eps each. Means 5 hours of soaps per week rather than 6…

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Channel 4's Go Back to Where You Came From is shocking. I’m glad it was made | Gareth Benest

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Stop the rich and powerful abusing legal processes through SLAPPs. Sign the petition calling for standalone legislation to tackle Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation. #StopSLAPPs www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...

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Go Back to Where You Came From arguably most dangerous reality show on TV: took year to plan, had 7 security advisers, insurance touch & go, Channel 4 bosses Alex Mahon & Ian Katz had to sign off late night risk assessments & so much paperwork it crashed.. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Bluesky’s billionth post is intriguing and involves a dog, which comfortingly says it all I think

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Imagining a parallel universe where Apprentice presenter Alan Sugar runs Britain with the shadow of tech bro Clive Sinclair looming over him.

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Channel 4 boss calls for TV industry to unite against profit-seeking ‘tech titans’. Alex Mahon accuses firms such as TikTok, Meta and YouTube of ‘wanton abandonment of the pursuit of truth’ in speech at C4 and Royal Television Society event www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

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