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The hottest French TV of 2013: The Returned
'The Returned satisfyingly combines a variety of genres, most obviously including zombie horror but also crime drama, because a serial killer seems to be at loose.' Photograph: Jean-Claude Lother/Haut et Court/Canal+ It's four years since a coach taking
Why marathon productions are big among the YouTube generation
Gatz, an eight-hour production in which every single word of The Great Gatsby is read out on stage, was a sellout when it opened in London last summer. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Two artistic marathons are taking place this weekend. Theatregoers at the
TV review: Henry VIII's Enforcer: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell
I've become quite the Thomas Cromwell expert – albeit a confused one – over the past couple of nights. He played a major part in The Last Days of Anne Boleyn on Thursday, with several of the participants arguing he was cynical, corrupt, spread fear throu
R is four months sober
'My mind is consumed by guilt – I feel I’m bringing up an emotionally unstable family.' It's my husband's birthday and we're celebrating with ginger beer. I would prefer alcohol, and I know he would too, but he's been almost four months sober and it's pa
Ask a grown-up: what do fish do all day?
Alex Cliffe|: 'We encourage the fish to behave like they would in the wild.' Photograph: Philip Partridge/GNM Imaging Here at London Zoo, we encourage the fish to behave like they would in the wild. The lights go on as the sun rises, and this lets the fi
Retailers v MasterCard and Visa in battle of the fees
Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich … her battle looks like peanuts compared to the action by American retailers on credit card fees. Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext Collection Are MasterCard and Visa ripping us off every time we make a payment usi
The Measure
Hi-top wedge trainers: 'Comfortable, yes, but their fashion stock is in freefall.' Photograph: Getty Going upShaun Leane cherry blossom earrings Oh-so-pretty, with this season's punk touch. Dreamy. Will Arnett Back on our screens as so-awful-he's-sexy Go
Arrested Development's 10 best gags – video
CHICKEN DANCE Reading this on mobile? Click here to view All of the family do their own individual variation of the chicken dance throughout the show's run, usually in order to mock Michael. However, as Michael frequently points out, none of them look an
Arrested Development: meet the people who brought the Bluths back to life
The cast of Arrested Development Season four A man mauled by a bow tie-wearing seal. A truck with a staircase to nowhere. A lawyer who feigns blindness. A frozen banana stand. An on-call understudy for the Blue Man Group. Incest as a recurring subplot. P
Horrible Histories is back and it's as brilliant as ever
Photograph: Rory Lindsay Eleven months after it clattered off on a horse called Blazing Historical Irreverence – and two years after it won best sketch show at the British comedy awards – Horrible Histories (Monday, 4.30pm, CBBC) is back for a fifth seri
The new Heineken advert
Reading this on mobile? Click here to view Heineken was once a kindly brand, which merely promised in elderly, Teutonic tones that its brew refreshed the parts other beers cannot reach. That amiable nonsense has been replaced with a more frenetic, turbo-
Next week's radio: from Rebels – Guy Burgess to The North (And Almost Everything In It)
Guy Burgess. Photograph: Getty To mark the 50th anniversary of Kim Philby's defection, Radio 4 Extra dips into the riches of its archive to present a raft of programmes under the title The Cambridge Spies. Via both documentary and drama, it reminds us ju
Catch-up TV guide: from Sisa: Cocaine Of The Poor to YouTube Comedy Week
Grim: a sisa user taking a hit. Photograph: Henry Langston Video: Sisa – Cocaine Of The PoorAnother Vice doc looking at homemade narcotics. This time it's about sisa, a potent form of crystal meth that is plaguing Athens, and killing its addicts. Users a
Christine Lagarde not charged in embezzlement investigation
Christine Lagarde: 'I always acted in the interest of the state and according to the law.' Photograph: Jacques Demarthon/AFP/Getty Images Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, has not been charged after two days of questioning b
Woolwich suspect's friend arrested after appearing on Newsnight
Abu Nusaybah: 'I believe that certain events that happened to [Adebolajo] recently had an impact in shaping the changes.' Photograph: BBC A friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of the men suspected of killing Drummer Lee Rigby in a London street on Wednesday
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