Top 5 political TV characters

Politicians. When they’re not looking like grey and greasy clones of themselves on 24-hour news channels, or being phone-hacked while trying to claim oxygen as an expense, they’re generally busy just being cardboard excuses for people in suits. But in the constituency of TV, where policies don’t matter, political figures are far more attractive. Even … >

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‘Line of Duty’ Season 1 Episode 4 review

Anyone else watch the last moments of tonight’s Line of Duty through their fingers? We might have done. Be glad you still have those fingers. DS Arnott may soon not be so lucky… It’s become apparent that, like a vindictive cinema manager, writer Jed Mercurio does not want you to flat out enjoy watching Line … >

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James Bond rewatch: ‘Live and Let Die’

001. The story Armed with a novelty watch, some flyaway flares and a volatile eyebrow, Roger Moore finds himself in a 1973 blaxploitation pastiche, trying to stop a corrupt Caribbean dictator called Dr Kananga and a Harlem gangster named Mr Big flooding the USA with cheap heroin. After sneakily seducing soothsayer Solitaire via some sleight-of-hand … >

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