Category: 5. Entertainment

Born November 29th, 1935

Died November 3rd, 2025

Diane Ladd – three times an Academy Award nominee – who has died aged 89, was a dynamic presence on stage, screen and television for more than half a century.

In film roles ranging from a biker…

Wild Cherry

9pm, BBC One

Gossip Girl meets Boarders – with a splash of blood – in this dark private school takedown by Bafta-winning writer Nicôle Lecky. It follows two wealthy pupils at Richford Lake, Grace (Imogen Faires) and Allegra (Amelia…

At what point does infatuation tip over into something darker and more destructive? There’s actually a term for it – limerence – and this is the unsettling undercurrent of Tanya-Loretta Dee’s promising debut monologue, in which she also…

Most of us don’t live our lives in accordance with a governing metaphor, but Glenn Close does. The 78-year-old was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, a town in the north‑east of the US that, to the actor’s enduring irritation, telegraphs…

TV

If you only watch one, make it …

The Beast in Me

Netflix

Summed up in a sentence Claire Danes stars as a rage- and grief-filled author whose life is ignited by the arrival of a multimillionaire – played brilliantly by Matthew Rhys –…

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