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  • First look: Tarantino’s Django Unchained

    First look: Tarantino’s Django Unchained

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    Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained satrs Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead…

  • LexisNexis launches new ebook law library

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    Law book publishers LexisNexis has partnered with ebook distributers OverDrive to make their law content available as ebooks for desktops and mobile devices. The company says its LexisNexis Digital Library “is an innovative new service that offers legal professionals access to the largest collection of authoritative legal eBook content on all major mobile devices and…

  • Tor UK follows US and drops DRM

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    The UK division of Tor books is following its US parent and dropping DRM from ebooks. Earlier this week Tor US announced it will drop DRM from ebooks from July 2012. The imprints are owned by publishing house Macmillan “We know that this is what many Tor authors passionately want. We also understand that readers…

  • Russell Tovey to star in new ITV sitcom

    Russell Tovey to star in new ITV sitcom

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    Former Being Human star Russell Tovey is to star in The Job Lot, a new ITV sitcom set in a busy West Midlands Job Centre. The series, which focuses on the relationships between the people who work there, and the people who don’t, also stars Sarah Hadland (Miranda) and will air on ITV 1 next…

  • Trailer: Whitney Houston’s Sparkle

    Trailer: Whitney Houston’s Sparkle

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    Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks star in Sparkle, a tale of a musical prodigy (Sparks) struggles to become a star while overcoming issues that are tearing her family apart. From an affluent Detroit area and daughter to a single mother (Houston), she tries to balance a new romance with music manager, Stix (Derek Luke). At…

  • Sky Atlantic to screen Armando Iannucci’s Veep

    Sky Atlantic to screen Armando Iannucci’s Veep

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    Armando Iannucci’s Veep, described by some as a US-version of The Thick Of It, is to air on Sky Atlantic later this year. In the sitcom Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays US Vice President Selina Meyer who, having recently taken up the post, soon realises the job entails a lot more than she bargained for.
 
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