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  • 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…

  • Paul Nicholls joins Law & Order: UK

    Paul Nicholls joins Law & Order: UK

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    Former EastEnders and Harley Street star Paul Nicholls is joining the cast of ITV1’s Law & Order: UK. Nicholls will play headstrong young cop DS Sam Casey who is brought in to investigate the shooting of Matt Devlin (Jamie Bamber).                  The former Secret Diary of a Call Girl actor joins existing cast members Bradley…

  • Digital publisher unveils Christmas ebook gift set

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    Digital publisher Blasted Heath is hoping to add the personal touch to ebook gifting this Christmas with a five book gift set contained on a branded USB stick and shipping in a presentation pack. included titles include are: All The Young Warriors by Anthony Neil Smith, Dead Money by Ray Banks, Phase Four by Gary…