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Sanditon star Rose Williams: ‘It’s the fans who saved the show’

After ITV’s Austen adaptation Sanditon was cancelled, Rose Williams said goodbye to her character Charlotte Heywood. But then the fans mobilised, with petitions, letter writing and sand art, and the producers had a change of heart

Evening Standard

‘It’s dopamine’: why we love to track our watching and reading habits

Sites such as Letterboxd and GoodReads encourage us to document our cultural consumption. But does gamification get in the way of actually enjoying the arts?

The Guardian - UK

First look at Battersea Power Station’s restored Art Deco Control Room where King’s Speech scene was filmed

It has already played a starring role in The King’s Speech standing in for the BBC studio

Evening Standard

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Emmys 2022: Limited series race again offers too many choices, not enough slots

Here we are, six months into the year and the front-runners in the limited series categories remain the same shows we watched and loved from 2021 — HBO's sharp satire of entitlement, "The White Lotus" (which premiered nearly a year ago) and two series from October, Netflix's intimate drama "Maid"…

Los Angeles Times

Our favorite new Darcy is on Fire Island

How a queer, Asian lawyer gives the role that launched a thousand Firths a run for its money

Salon

“Egregious fabrications”: Michael Peterson blasts HBO’s The Staircase

Shots fired: Peterson joins a long line of people who are seriously miffed by the production

Evening Standard

TV tonight: a magnetic Colin Firth gears up for the finale of The Staircase

The actor’s hypnotic turn as Michael Peterson continues to thrill, as the family endures unbearable scrutiny. Plus, Big Boys concludes. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Queen's Jubilee: Top royal shows and films on Netflix, Disney + and Amazon Prime

Whether it's a first-rate Hollwood Oscar winner, intriguingly candid documentary, or a polarising musical, there's something for everyone in our handy regal list

Daily Mirror

Same old true story: why have TV shows turned into Wikipedia entries?

An overstuffed season of fact-based dramas, from Winning Time to Under the Banner of Heaven to The Staircase, has been more miss than hit

The Guardian - US

From high school dropout to Colin Firth co-star: Odessa Young’s big gamble

The Australian ditched her final year of school to chase her acting dream, then did nothing for a year. Now she’s crossing continents for roles and trying not to cry

The Guardian - AU

Patrick Schwarzenegger wins praise as he defeats 'bad acting' in HBO's The Staircase

Actor Patrick Schwarzenegger receives rave reviews from fans and followers for his role in the gripping drama starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette

Daily Mirror

TV tonight: Mary Berry has something new for Bake Off fans

Who will win the competition to invent a dessert marking the platinum jubilee? Plus: Colin Firth drama The Staircase has more twists. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Operation Mincemeat stars Colin Firth in a straightforward retelling of a WWII strategy to trick Nazis with a decoy corpse

A grisly scenario is brought to life in this polite but predictable dramatic thriller — with lashings of pitch-black humour — from the director of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

ABC News

‘Operation Mincemeat’ review: How Colin Firth and company faked an invasion and helped win WWII, now on Netflix

With any war movie, the safe audience bet typically favors the immediate, graphic horrors of battle. That way, when you see a title such as “Hacksaw Ridge,” you know a director (in that case Mel Gibson) will be operating with a cinematic license to slaughter.

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Movie review: ‘Operation Mincemeat’ a nicely crafted telling of fascinating slice of British deception during World War II

It is said that dead men tell no tales.

Daily Mirror

Operation Mincemeat Netflix: Bizarre true story of how a corpse fooled Hitler

Operation Mincemeat is a daring tale of wartime intrigue and deception. A film starring Colin Firth looks into the top-secret World War 2 operation that helped changed the course of the war

Bangkok Post

A tale of betrayal

Inspired by the 2004 docuseries of the same name by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, HBO recently released the first episode of The Staircase, a crime drama starring Toni Collette and Colin Firth and created by Antonio Campos. The Staircase is based on real-life events and the infamous murder of Michael Peterson…

The Guardian - UK

TV takes a dark turn as true crime is turned into primetime drama

Infamous real-life British cases are providing inspiration for a suite of new fictional series

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The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: DI Ray; The Staircase; The Dry; Prisoner C33

Parminder Nagra’s spirited DI battles a thicket of social issues; a raked-over US murder is overplayed as drama; and drink addiction fuels a sharp new Irish dramedy

The Guardian - UK

Shagged, married, arrived: how Chris and Rosie Ramsey turned their life into comedy gold

Chris and Rosie Ramsey make one of the country’s most-loved weekly podcasts, with more than 100m listeners. Now they are taking their own brand of self-deprecating humour to the BBC. And no one is more surprised than them...

Daily Mirror

'Staircase drama is a real step up as it moves a great documentary forward'

Sara Wallis says a new incarnation of The Staircaseon Sky Atlantic - with Colin Firth and Toni Collette heading up the cast - is a starry A-list dramatised version

The Guardian - UK

What links a 2001 murder to Donovan and Claire Danes?

With cult true-crime story The Staircase returning as a miniseries, take a dive down the rabbit hole with some British folk and an Oscar nod

The Guardian - US

‘I was literally shocked’: the true story behind new TV drama The Staircase

The confounding, and unsolved, case of a man accused of killing his wife that inspired a landmark docuseries has led to a star-studded new crime drama

The Canberra Times

As the The Staircase starts streaming on Binge, there is so much to discuss and unpack

The iconic documentary is streaming on Netflix and the dramatised series has just started on Binge

Tribune News Service

Column: With Colin Firth and 'The Staircase,' HBO Max turns true crime into truly riveting drama

In these times of Extreme Peak TV, true crime is the streaming gift that keeps on giving.

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