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New C4 documentary follows lives of Notting Hill residents
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Channel 4 has released a great video preview of its new documentary series Seven Days which follows the interwoven lives of some of Notting Hill’s most colourful characters through footage that’s filmed, edited and broadcast in just seven days. An outspoken hairdresser, a budding rapper, two glamorous models, a single mother, a student, two pet…
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Him & Her
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I’m a serial critic (in a bad way) of BBC Three but I’ll admit to enjoying the first two episodes of Him & Her, the new Russell Tovey starring sitcom about “life and love in all its messy, lazy brilliance.”
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New TV ad promotes Kindle’s non-glare screen
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Amazon have released a new US TV ad highlighting the online retailer’s non-glare Kindle with Apple’s highly reflective iPad. The two devices are increasingly being seen as the likely dominant ereaders and Amazon is keen to promote the perceived benefits of the dedicated reader’s e-ink screen over the all purpose, glossy iPad screen. The ad…
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Nikita – first look
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When Luc Besson sat down and write his 1990 film Nikita about a female criminal hired as an assassin by the French government I wonder if he had any idea that it’d soon join that list of concepts TV execs just couldn’t resist. Having already been turned into a (so I’m told) so-so TV series…
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Kobo launches desktop ‘app’
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ebook retailer Kobo has launched a new ‘app’ for Windows and Mac users which will allow them to enjoy their ebook purchases on their regular laptop or desktop computer. The software, available for download from www.kobobooks.com, also allows users to shop for eBooks as well as load books onto dedicated ebook readers such as the…
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Ice Road Truckers goes social for fourth series
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Ice Road Truckers returns to HISTORY for a fourth series this evening with the daredevil drivers journeying across Alaska to Prudhoe Bay, hauling huge loads over the most dangerous of terrain imaginable. Trucker favourites Hugh ‘Polar Bear’ Rowland and Alex Debogorski return to continue their rivalry. Also returning are Jack Jessee and Lisa Kelly alongside…