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5 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Rebecca Nicholson
This documentary is a meat-and-two-veg slice of British television, comfortable and familiar and sturdy. It’s the sort of TV that doesn’t ask much of you, only that you raise an eyebrow, nod along, and say yes, that is an interesting fact about bananas, I’d never thought about that before. The statistics are plentiful and free-flowing, so much so that without them being breathlessly relayed every few seconds, you suspect it could have been a 20-minute show.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Rebecca Nicholson
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Rebecca Nicholson
It’s never a good sign, is it, to see a young woman going for a run in the woods at the start of a gritty European crime drama? The Black Forest Murders takes the real-life killing of two young women in the south of Germany as its basis, and turns it into an extremely thorough police procedural.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Rebecca Nicholson
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Rebecca Nicholson
It all fell into place for me around the shoe montage. Roughly halfway through the third season of And Just Like That, there is an on-screen procession of footwear, strident and unapologetically far too long. Carrie has been accused by her downstairs neighbour of walking too loudly on the floor above his bed. A parade of sandals, boots and mules strut back and forth across a polished and expensive wooden floor.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Rebecca Nicholson
In the 1990s, Michelle Mone saw an opportunity. She was in her late 20s, so the story goes, on holiday with her young family in Florida, and flicking through a magazine, when she saw an advert for the “Monique”: a breast-enhancing bra insert, or what we’d now call a chicken fillet. It sounds like the unlikely start of a business empire, but what began there would ultimately grow into Ultimo, the lingerie brand established by Mone and her first husband, Michael.
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2 weeks ago | 
empireonline.com | Rebecca Nicholson
SYDNEY SWEENEY VEERS BETWEEN worlds. To her 25 million followers on Instagram, she’s a glamorous, polished, pin-up type, and there’s something of the old-school, old-fashioned movie star about her public image. She leaned into that in the first season of The White Lotus, as the acidic pool-lounger Olivia; warred with and, duh, fell for, Glen Powell’s beefcake in crowd-pleasing romcom Anyone But You; and played a youthful superhero-in-waiting in Madame Web.
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Rebecca Nicholson
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Rebecca Nicholson
I have long held a soft spot for Faking It, the 00s proto-reality series that was conceived as a modern-day Pygmalion. Twenty years ago, it saw people exchanging one job for another, though its idea of what constituted a polar opposite seems almost quaint now. There was a decorator trying their hand at fine art, a posh student who became a bouncer, a ballet dancer who turned into a wrestler.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Rebecca Nicholson
Inside Our ADHD Minds is a follow-up, of sorts, to Chris Packham’s memorable 2023 documentary, Inside Our Autistic Minds. In that earlier film, the wildlife and nature presenter used his own experience of neurodiversity to help other people explore and demonstrate the impact of autism on their lives, for the benefit of their family, friends and a wider TV audience.
