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The Toffees secured a 3-1 victory over the Magpies on home soil in the Carabao Cup last Thursday to book a quarter-final tie with League Two Fleetwood Town. David Moyes will be hoping his team can carry their cup form…
It is among recollections in a memoir that Mal Evans had planned to publish, with the band's permission, before his death in 1976, aged 40, in a shooting by the Los Angeles police. Distraught over the breakup of his…
Which is remarkable, given what their characters would have to do to each other in Onwards and Sideways. In the Norfolk-set BBC film directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), Ifans would have to nearly throttle…
But what will this mean for his marriage to wife Ruby (Beth Cordingly)? Conniving Sadie - not content with trying to ruin Nicola King's (Nicola Wheeler) life - stuck around the village to form an alliance with vengeful…
Amid all the vitriol hurled her way, the BBC's political editor turned presenter has largely kept her counsel. She rarely complained even when she needed security to do her job unobstructed at Labour party conference…
The film centres on three important figures in her life: her mother, Margarita; her aunt, Juana; and her sister-in-law, Faustina. Each is from a different generation, yet they have all suffered at the hands of…
"But then Lucy Green ruined my life." So begins this intriguing 10-part drama of bite-size episodes, executive produced by Sharon Horgan. It rewinds to Tim escorting millennial pop star Lucy (Bel Powley) to rehab in…
The teen grew close to former copper Craig Ingram (Matthew James-Bailey) amid her step-mum Denise Fox's (Diane Parish) battle with acute myeloid leukaemia battle. He discovered that she was the one who attacked Joel…
The Gilded Age has now happily embraced its own lack of real nutritional value and, towards the end of the third season, its ratings swelled as a result. In the opener, Agnes is scheming to retain her position in society…
The Golden Compass diluted Philip Pullman's theological bite, Warcraft thought that just explaining its world would make us care about it, and The Dark Tower compressed Stephen King's sprawling mythology so ruthlessly…