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  • Yesterday launches new family history series

    Yesterday launches new family history series

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    A new family history show which sees members of the public discover they’re related to someone involved in a major historical event, starts Thursday (October 20th) on history channel Yesterday. Hosted by Strictly Come Dancing 2009 champion Chris Hollins, the 10-part Find my Past will take three people on a journey to discover how they are…

  • Boardwalk Empire now available to pre-order on Blu-ray and DVD

    Boardwalk Empire now available to pre-order on Blu-ray and DVD

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    The first season of HBO’s Prohibition crime drama Boardwalk Empire will be be available on Blu-ray and DVD from January 9th 2012. The series, which airs on Sky Atlantic in the UK, is Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of The Sopranos. Steve Buscemi (Armageddon, The Big Lebowski)…

  • First Look: My Week with Marilyn

    First Look: My Week with Marilyn

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    Coming to cinemas on November 25th, My Week with Marilyn is the tale of a love affair with the world’s most famous woman, Marilyn Monroe. Based on the diaries of Colin Clark, it features an all-star cast including Michelle Williams as Monroe, Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier, Dame Judi Dench as Dame Sybil Thorndike…

  • Cinema release for ITV’s The Scapegoat

    Cinema release for ITV’s The Scapegoat

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    ITV is adapting Daphne du Maurier’s period novel The Scapegoat, the story of two very different men, John Standing and Johnny Spence, who have one thing in common – a face.  The pair, exact replicas of each other, meet by chance in a station bar while both at a crossroads in their life. The charming…

  • Blackberry users receive free apps for service outage

    Blackberry users receive free apps for service outage

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    Blackberry makers RIM are offering users £60 of ”premium” apps as an apology after they experienced three days of service interruption. Last week UK Blackberry owners were unable to access websites and emails do to a failure within RIM’s network infrastructure. On Monday RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis announced firm would be making an “expression of…

  • Future clocks up 2m Apple Newsstand downloads

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    Titles from specialist magazine publisher Future Publishing have been downloaded more than two million times since the debut of Apple’s Newsstand feature as part of last week’s iOS 5 update. Newsstand allows iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch users to find digital newspapers and magazines in the App Store and organise them on one bookshelf. Last…