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Channel 4 announces casting on The Devil’s Whore’s sequel, New Worlds
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Channel 4 has announced casting for its latest historical drama, New Worlds a follow-up to its 2008 BAFTA-nominated series The Devil’s Whore. Jamie Dornan (The Fall), Freya Mavor (Skins, The White Queen), Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures) and Joe Dempsie (Southcliffe, Game of Thrones) will star as young idealists during the Restoration period in the four-part…
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Virgin Media offering BlackBerry Q5 from just £20 per month
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Virgin Media is now offering TV, broadband and home phone customers the new BlackBerry Q5 smartphone from just £20 per month. The BlackBerry Q5 smartphone runs the new BlackBerry 10 operating system and includes ever-popular BlackBerry Messenger app, a 3.1” touch screen and a classic BlackBerry QWERTY keyboard, which has been re-designed to give customers…
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Ofcom to require more callers to use local dialling code
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Fixed-line phone users in Aberdeen, Bradford, Brighton, Middlesbrough and Milton Keynes will soon have to include their local dialling code when making calls. Phone regulator Ofcom is proposing the change order to free up new numbers where supplies are running low. The change would require callers in the affected areas to include the area code…
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Royal Albert Hall announces new Star Trek Live in Concert dates
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The Royal Albert Hall has announced additional dates for its upcoming performances of J.J Abrams’ Star Trek and its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness – Live in Concert. The events feature live music from the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra and Chorus played alongside a high definition screening of the films. Tickets for the original dates,…
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BT Sport announces new programme details
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BT has announced details of some of the programmes airing on its new sport channels which launch next month. Broadcast from the Olympic Park in East London, the channels launch on August 1st and will offer football fans 38 Barclays Premier League matches per season. They’ll also carry exclusive Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) coverage and…
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Final call for Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series entries
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Bombay Sapphire is encouraging budding filmmakers to enter its Imagination Series film competition. Now in its second year and presented in association with the Tribeca Film Festival®, the competition offers filmmakers the chance to have their own short film made. Entrants must interpret and build upon a script written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Geoffrey…