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BBC brings back Crackerjack in 6pm slot because children are 'no longer home for five to five'
It’s Friday, it’s five to five… and Crackerjack isn’t on yet. The BBC is to revive the show in a 6pm slot because so many of today’s children are in after-school clubs at teatime.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs review, SEC Armadillo, Glasgow: Greg McHugh's a treat but the show isn't the fairest of all
The former SECC Clyde Auditorium was officially rebranded the SEC Armadillo in 2017. The renaming of what is the biggest panto venue in Scotland was sensible, if overdue, given that the people of Glasgow gave it that particular nickname the moment it opened in 1997 and never let it go. If only the venue’s pantomime could develop a similarly consistent identity.
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Cinderella, SEC Armadillo Glasgow, review: Wee Jimmy Krankie makes this a panto less ordinary
Scotland’s flourishing Christmas theatre tradition puts a premium on the pantomime dame. Things are slightly different at the country’s biggest panto, at the SEC Armadillo, however. Here, the star of the show is not a bloke in a frock, but a 71-year-old woman dressed as a little boy.
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Real Marigold viewers end up slamming Boris Johnson
'Shame Boris isn't more like Stanley.'
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The Real Marigold Hotel: This passage to India is a quirky test for a cheeky, likeable veteran crew
There is a strange story, oft-repeated, that Inuit tribes in the Arctic would put their infirm elderly on to floating ice and push them out to sea to their deaths. The 2011 feature film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel saw a group of English retirees — played by Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith et al — up sticks and head to India to see if the winter of their lives could still bear fruit. This is the third incarnation, and while it is far from riveting television it is pleasant, watchable an
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The Real Marigold Hotel: What a month in India taught me about the country's poverty, history and serenity
The Real Marigold Hotel: What a month in India taught me about the country's poverty, history and serenity
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Ab Fab film: 'Yellowface' isn't racist - it's called acting?
I can think of at least three times in the past month when people furiously demanded questions from Hollywood producers.
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