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Virgin Media announces TiVo iPad app
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Virgin Media has promised a “major” forthcoming software update will bring expanded capabilities to its TiVo service. Customers who have complained about HDMI wake-up issues and missing basic functions such as the Red Button have been eagerly anticipating the update. Other basic features missing from the box, but available on the cable company’s previous generation…
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Alibi launches major new US crime drama
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Crime-themes digital channel Alibi is screening the UK premiere of US drama Rizzoli and Isles this week. Based on the best-selling books by Tess Gerritsen, the Boston-set drama stars Angie Harmon (Law & Order) as tough-as-nails police detective, Jane Rizzoli, and Sasha Alexander (NCIS, Dawson’s Creek) as prim and proper medical examiner, Dr. Maura Isles.…
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Senna gets blu-ray release
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Ayrton Senna documentary film Senna comes to Triple Play Blu-ray and DVD on 10 October. Catering for every level of Senna fan, the film recounts every high and low of the tumultuous, dramatic and awesome racing career of a legendary sportsman who was in turn spiritual, fiercely patriotic, gentle in private and intensely competitive on…
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Matt Smith to answer fan questions on Facebook
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Doctor Who star Matt Smith is answering questions of the hit BBC One drama on Facebook. Over the next ten weeks Smith will answer five questions on the show’s official Facebook page, with fans then able to upload their own responses. Later on fans will be able to submit questions for the actor to answer,…
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Keira Knightley and Jude Law head Anna Karenina cast
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Film producers Working Title have confirmed that Joe Wright will direct Tom Stoppard‘s adaptation of the epic romance Anna Karenina. Production filming in the U.K. and Russia this month with the film expected to be released in the second half of 2012. Keira Knightley will star as Anna Karenina opposite Jude Law, as Anna’s husband…
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Guardian announces more ebook titles
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The Guardian has announced ten new titles in its Guardian Shorts ebooks range of books for Apple’s iBooks and Amazon’s Kindle. The newspaper launched the range last month with Phone Hacking – How the Guardian Broke the Store, an account of the paper’s role in uncovering phone hacking by the News of the World. The…