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This sitcom about two warring white men trying to take down their black, female boss revels in politically incorrect humor but has a mean streak a mile wide
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The Canadian rapper’s challenge to UK chart-topping record-breakers Wet Wet Wet and Bryan Adams is a reflection of the way we consume music in the digital age
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Britney’s new tune, plus Katy Perry’s Olympic anthem, confirm that the days of frantic BPM are truly over and a more mellow tempo is taking over the charts
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The blockbuster space saga is in London to celebrate 40 years since the filming of 1977’s Star Wars – here are some takeaways from Friday’s key event
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Zayn Malik and Robbie Williams Exploring the planet orbiting two stars
Dave Schilling in Los AngelesThey’re both tattooed, left massive boybands and they’re both into aliens – what is it with northern British pop stars and their extraterrestrial preoccupations? -
The Star Wars actor and ‘internet’s boyfriend’ is in talks to star in The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, about the origins of the secular Italian state
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The audacious Australian star, known for emotionally open Hollywood performances, proves in Guys and Dolls that she’s more than ready to take on lead roles
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Once the writer of dreamy songs about pixies and a member of Throwing Muses and the Breeders, Tanya Donelly now makes a living helping new mothers. But alongside the day job, she’s reforming her beloved 90s alt-rockers
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Amid a climate of fundamentalism and fear, photographer Peter Sanders shows how integrated Muslims and non-Muslims can be
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From the walkie-talkies to Winona Ryder herself, the new Netflix show is fun, creepy – and couldn’t be more of a retro-fest if it had neon eyeshadow or a glowing fingertip
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Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart give excellent performances as an on-the-make New Yorker and the woman he falls in love with in Allen’s likable romance
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How on earth do standups keep up with our leaders’ antics and a political upheaval that develops minute by minute?
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The Creation, staged with Garsington Opera and featuring stunning designs by the artist Pablo Bronstein, features more than 40 Rambert dancers. See how they found the moves to match Joseph Haydn’s celebrated oratorio
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Exploring the elements behind the American artist’s piece of ‘soft sculpture’
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The Farm Security Administration documented America from 1935 to 1943 in an unparalleled project which aimed to ‘introduce America to Americans’
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In a series of wild self portraits, Raqib Shaw has turned Old Masters paintings into unhinged tableaux of colour, energy and spirituality
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Richard and Cherry Kearton were possibly the world’s first professional wildlife photographers. The brothers’ pioneering photos include the first shot of a bird’s nest with eggs and the first Masai lion hunt
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The director-star of Garden State and new film Wish I Was Here – and of course Scrubs – has answered your questions on Kickstarter, Scottish independence and ghosts’ nether regions
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She’s the soul star loved by everyone from Elvis to Will Oldham, who saw her career resurrected by a song she recorded for a weight-loss documentary. She answered your questions about being an old man’s sweetheart, Beyonce and Elvis.
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Back with a new show at White Cube, modern art's most inseparable duo joined us live from the gallery, to talk about painting, politics and why good things often come in pairs
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Standup, panel-show regular and Stephen Fry's favourite Canadian funnywoman ... on Tuesday, Katherine Ryan will be joining us in the hotseat. From her Comic Relief turn as Nicki Minaj to her Beyoncé obsession, ask her your questions now
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Damian Lewis performs Antony’s funeral oration for Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s tragedy – one of a new set of films to mark Shakespeare 400
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In a speech taken from the first scene of All’s Well That Ends Well, Sacha Dhawan’s Parolles stresses the importance of losing one’s virginity
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Camille O’Sullivan plays Constance in King John, who laments the loss of her son, Arthur, but disputes the suggestion that she has gone mad
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Paterson Joseph speaks Shylock’s lines from The Merchant of Venice, in which the moneylender reminds Antonio of the times he has insulted him
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Joanna Lumley speaks Viola’s soliloquy from Twelfth Night in which, disguised as a page boy, she wonders whether Olivia has fallen in love with her
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David Threlfall speaks Prospero’s speech in which the sorcerer contemplates the end of life – and the playwright, perhaps, considers the end of his career
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