[ad_1] Gladiators, the beloved Saturday night TV staple, is returning to UK television screens. The reality TV show involves a host of superhuman contestants testing their strength and speed against the Gladiators through a series of gruelling physical challenges. During its original eight-year run (1992-2000), it attracted an audience of 14 million to watch ordinary…
[ad_1] The Traitors is back for its second series after last night’s episode saw three more contestants eliminated from the Scottish castle. Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the BBC reality TV show sees 22 strangers battling it out to win a jackpot of £120,000 – the final amount dependent on the success of various “missions”. Initially,…
[ad_1] Richard Strauss’s Elektra is the operatic reworking of a play by Sophocles, and is one of the great landmarks of musical modernism. Its score shifts ceaselessly between gritty atonality and majestic full-throated tonalism, and its densely-wrought libretto – by the fin de siècle poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal – mines the unconscious with morbidly Freudian…
[ad_1] Love him or hate him, the treacherous and cruel – his words – Paul has made for excellent television January 12, 2024 6:35 pm(Updated 6:48 pm) Paul has shown himself to be highly adept at playing the villain (Photo: BBC/Studio Lambert/Mark Mainz) There are many things to love about The Traitors: Claudia Winkleman’s outfits,…
[ad_1] The second series of The Traitors is back with a bang, accompanied by tears, drama and some top-grade treachery taking place in the confines of Ardross Castle. The hit reality TV series involves 22 strangers being transported to the Scottish Highlands and competing to win a jackpot of £120,000. Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, three…
[ad_1] Contenders, ready! Gladiators – the hit 90s Saturday night staple is set to return to television screens very soon. The reality TV show involves a host of superhuman contestants testing their strength and speed against the Gladiators through a series of gruelling physical challenges. It’s been more than 20 years since Gladiators aired, with…
[ad_1] The Traitors is back with a hefty dose of treachery to light up the dark January nights. Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the BBC reality TV show sees 22 strangers competing to win a jackpot of £120,000 in a game of trust and betrayal. Three of the contestants are secretly selected by Winkleman to become…
[ad_1] Rarely has there been a wetter beginning to a TV show than in ITV’s After the Flood. Opening with the now all-too-familiar news bulletins about inundated streets in the UK, the rain bucketed down on the fictional Yorkshire town of Waterside as its sodden police force battled through the torrents to evacuate residents. Sophie…
[ad_1] Emma Stone’s Golden Globe was entirely deserved for her starring role in this uproarious and thought-provoking film about women, medical morals and sex. Lots of sex. Stone is Bella Baxter, a young woman in Victorian England with the mind of an infant. She lives with her proxy father Dr Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe, sporting…
[ad_1] Society of the Snow failed to win at the Golden Globe Awards this year despite a nomination in the non-English language film category. But the Netflix movie, released on 4 January, has re-ignited a fascination in the true story behind it – the 1972 Andes flight disaster. Based on the 2008 book La Sociedad…
