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  The Independent

  Gangs of London, review: An unholy combination of EastEnders and The Raid that never quite gels

  While it’s titled Gangs of London, Sky Atlantic’s new and buzzy crime actioner may as well have been called “Grrr, Men”. It’s a unrelentingly butch series, as fixated on male brooding as it is discovering precisely what might happen if you smashed a pint glass into your enemy’s chin. It would also be a lot more fun if it didn’t downplay its own silliness.A gangland hit that takes out crime family patriarch Colm Meaney gets things going, setting up a series in which gangsters of all varieties com

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  Tolkien review: Nicholas Hoult stars in sympathetic and sensitive portrait of the Lord of the Rings novelist

  AA Milne wouldn’t have created Winnie the Pooh, George Mallory wouldn’t have attempted to climb Mount Everest, and JRR Tolkien wouldn’t have written The Hobbit if it hadn’t been for the “Great War”. The evocative new biopic Tolkien follows on from such films and books as Goodbye Christopher Robin and Wade Davis’s Into The Silence in foregrounding the effect that trench warfare had on the imaginations and aspirations of British writers, artists and explorers.

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  Good Housekeeping UK

  The Singapore Grip: Everything you need to know

  The makers of Poldark and Victoria are bringing the WW2 novel to TV

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  Digital Spy

  Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Star Trek actors in new ITV war drama

  "It's a privilege to be making this"

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  David Morrissey and Jane Horrocks to star in The Singapore Grip for ITV

  They will be joined by Charles Dance and Luke Treadaway in the adaptation of the novel.

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  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, theatre review: Sienna Miller turns in a faultless performance

  The most centrifugal of Tennessee Williams’s great plays, Cat (1955) requires constant and careful stoking to ensure that the dramatic flame burns brightly throughout all three acts of a bitter game of unhappy families. This West End production from the high-flying Young Vic doesn’t quite manage that, but what it does have is a compelling performance of high-wattage star allure from Sienna Miller. It’s the 65th birthday of bitter, bullying self-made man Big Daddy Pollitt (Colm Meaney) and his

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  The Telegraph

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Apollo Theatre, review: Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connell attempt to break the phwoar-o-meter

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Apollo Theatre, review: Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connell attempt to break the phwoar-o-meter

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  What happened when Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness took a ride on Chris De Burgh's private jet?

  In October 2006, the British and Irish governments met in St Andrews to try and thrash out an agreement on the devolution of power in Northern Ireland. Representatives from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Fein, including Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, were present and the atmosphere was tense.

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  Timothy Spall 'hesitant' about playing unionist Dr Ian Paisley

  Actor Timothy Spall told Sky News he was hesitant about taking on the role of Irish unionist Dr Ian Paisley for a new film. The Harry Potter star plays the politician in The Journey, which imagines a conversation between the founder of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party and his political opposite Martin McGuinness from Sinn Fein. The discussion resulted in the 2006 St Andrews Agreement, which ended Ireland's bloody civil war.

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  The Journey review: a graceless Wikipedian plod through the Irish peace process

  Starring: Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Freddie Highmore, John Hurt, Toby Stephens, Ian Beattie. You might hope that The Journey, an apocryphal drama about one long day late in the Northern Irish peace process, would argue some kind of case – or at least interrogate the entrenched images of both McGuinness, played here by Colm Meaney, and his then-arch-rival Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall), the totemic Protestant leader and head of the Democratic Unionist Party.

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