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David Somerset

Win ‘The Office’ Series 1 on DVD!

The Office star Ewen Macintosh is back in An Audience with Barry, a series of ten new light-hearted videos from personal safety solutions experts 3M showing how to manage your Health and Safety challenges in the workplace. To celebrate, we’ve got a copy of The Office‘s first series on DVD to give away to one … >

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Heroes vs villains: Will you pick the winner?

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes at the movies, from Emmet in The Lego Movie to Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy (even if those two both sound suspiciously like a certain Parks & Recreation actor). Everyone loves to hate a good villain too, from The Amazing Spider-Man 2‘s Electro to The Captain America: … >

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Win Graham Norton’s new memoir!

To celebrate the release of Graham Norton’s new memoir The Life and Loves of a He-Devil on 23 October, we’ve got copies of the book to give away to three of our Twitter followers ahead of publication! For a chance to win, just follow @CultBoxTV on Twitter and tweet the following text: Follow @CultBoxTV and … >

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Top 5 team-up movies

With Stallone, Statham, Schwarzenegger and nearly every other action star of the past few decades reunited this summer in a third instalment in the Expendables franchise, we decided to take a look at some of Hollywood’s most impressive team-up casts.   The Expendables III (2014) Who’s in it? Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Terry … >

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Infographic: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hacking

Norton have put together a new infographic explaining the history and dangers of hacking, based on Douglas Adams’ cult book series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The guide has been designed help users stay protected against hackers, using examples from the likes of Weird Science and WarGames! The first hack ever recorded was in … >

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Win a trip to Texas with ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’!

Get interactive at the cinema with Transformers: Age of Extinction and you could be off to Texas! To celebrate the UK release of Transformers: Age of Extinction, out now, Paramount Pictures has teamed up with Texas Tourism and Opodo to offer ODEON, Cineworld and Vue guests the trip of a life-time. If you’re heading to … >

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The best and worst US remakes of British TV shows

With Broadchurch’s American remake, Gracepoint, drawing ever closer to its US premiere, we look at some of our other TV exports. Some proved to be hits with stateside audiences, while it seems some British shows just cannot lend themselves properly to America…   The Best   The Office (2001-2003) US version: The Office – An … >

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Top 5 ‘Coronation Street’ moments

Nobody could have foreseen the huge success the TV soap opera Coronation Street would turn out to be when it first aired on Granada Television in December 1960. In November 2010 it officially became the longest-running TV soap opera in the world. The series is set in the fictional town of Weatherfield, which is based … >

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