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As celebrations of Jane Austen's 250th birthday intensify around the world, a new wave of productions of some of her most famous stories is in the works. Netflix is busy making a new limited series adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, BritBox is adapting The Other Bennet Sister, a
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The Telecommunications Relay Service (commonly referred to as TRS) is likely unfamiliar to those who do not have someone in their life who is deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, or has speech disabilities. The American Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has provided this program to enable individuals with disabilities to communicate
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The name Kathryn Bigelow may not be instantly recognizable to those outside the entertainment industry, but most people have probably seen her films. The first woman to ever win an Academy Award for Best Director, she took home that honor in 2009 for the Iraq War film, The Hurt Locker,
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Bridgerton Season 4 has wrapped filming, but Netflix has been adamant that the new season will not arrive until at least 2026, leaving fans with months to wait. Though the ~18-month gap between seasons is relatively the same as between Seasons 2 and 3, that wait didn't feel
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Not every fan of Downton Abbey knows that the series theme song has a name and lyrics, beyond just "The Downton Abbey Suite." When the original soundtrack was released in the UK in 2011, it included a version of the track titled "Did I Make the Most
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Despite the hype around Peaky Blinders — both the film and the recently announced Season 7 — star Cillian Murphy has thus far stayed faithful to making indie films and small offbeat awardsbait projects that are far more arthouse than Oppenheimer's commercial blockbuster. Naturally, having won an Academy Award, production
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen adaptations come in generational waves. In the 1990s, notable adaptations included Andrew Davies' definitive Pride & Prejudice miniseries, Gwyneth Paltrow's Emma, the Ciaran Hines-Amanda Root adaptation of Persuasion, and the Emma Thompson-Kate Winslet adaptation of Sense & Sensibility.
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Actor Brett Goldstein's performance as the gruff, surprisingly romantic Roy Kent is one of the best things about Apple TV+'s award-winning comedy Ted Lasso. And while he's set to return to our screens as Roy Kent sometime in the not-too-distant future, Goldstein is keeping
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In America, The Hunchback of Notre Dame has been co-opted by the Walt Disney Company, which adapted Victor Hugo's enormous tome-sized novel into one of its standard-issue animated musicals in the mid-1990s. (One that has not yet been chosen for a live-action remake, small mercies.) However, the Disney
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British actress Ruth Madeley is set to portray the iconic American disability rights activist in the forthcoming Apple Films feature, Being Heumann. The film tells the story of Judy Heumann, the woman known as the "Mother of the Disability Rights Movement," who played a pivotal role in bringing
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The film Billion Dollar Spy was only officially announced as being in production in March 2025, but the first image is already out, and the period film already looks like it's worth as much as its title. Adapted from the bestselling 2015 book by David E. Hoffman, The
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We've officially reached the 100-day mark until the release of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, the third and, as the title desperately insists, final big-screen installment* of the beloved franchise that began 15 years ago on ITV and PBS. A series that consistently surprised both producers and critics