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BT Sport announces tie-up with Betfred
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BT has struck a deal with high street bookmakers Betfred which will see its three new sports channels available in the chain’s 1,370 branches. The deal is the first commercial contract announced by the broadcaster since the channels went live last week and means all Betfred shops will have access to BT Sport for the…
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Review: The Lone Ranger
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Sometimes a film is so bad that it’s a struggle to review it. The Lone Ranger is such a film. Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer star in this $250m retelling of the classic story of a cowboy who fights bad guys aided by Native American ally Tonto (Depp) and his horse Silver. The threadbare plot…
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Peter Capaldi’s casting is a vote of confidence in Doctor Who
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LIke more than 6m other fans, I tuned into BBC One last night to discover the identity of the actor who would take Doctor Who into its second half-century. While there’s much about Steven Moffat’s era that I’ve disliked – wasting two and a half seasons on a plot-line that boils down to ‘my annoying,…
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TalkTalk adds Japanese, Arabic and Afrikaans content to TV service
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TalkTalk is expending its YouView-based TV service with a new suite of channels offering content to Japanese, Arabic and Afrikaans speaking audiences. The channels, provided by THEMA company, are available in three new ‘Boosts’ from £10 a month: The Arabic TV Boost offers customers access to a selection of 12 channels from major Arabic Networks…
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Review: BlackBerry Q10
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The BlackBerry Q10 is one of the newest handsets from Blackberry, the company formerly known as RIM. Blackberry has had a troubled time of late – its Playbook tablet tanked, its previous generation handsets failed to excite and a promised operating system update was seriously delayed. Against this backdrop of misery, gloom and poor expectations…
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Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi revealed as 12th Doctor
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Peter Capaldi has been named as the new star of BBC One’s Doctor Who. Capaldi previously appeared in the series in an episode called The Fires of Pompeii opposite David Tennant and Catherine Tate and also played John Frobisher in Doctor Who spin-off, Torchwood. He’s currently filming a new BBC One “contemporary take” on the…