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Leaving Neverland and our need for chaos
TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 8th March 2019
In the summer of 2002 Michael Jackson came to Exeter, my hometown, where I was living again having just finished university. In a series of events that are ludicrous in hindsight, some businessmen had bought Exeter City FC out of administration and installed Uri Geller as a co-chairman. Geller duly brought Jackson and David Blaine down for a public appearance, in which they drove round the pitch in an open-topped car with a load of children.
I didn't go. But I do remember watching it on TV, noting that, despite the hit his image had taken from the Jordy Chandler trial, he was still surrounding himself with children wherever he went. And thinking: "No one in this guy's life ever pulls him aside and says, 'Listen, Mick: maybe ease up on the kids in public, eh?'" -
Six things that might actually be bloody going on in True Detective
TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 31st July 2015
Yeah no, the bit where he gets shot by a crow? That's a metaphor for ... I want to say the war in Iraq? Don't worry, I'm all over this.
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Game of Thrones to "stop shoving boobs in your face"
TV News | Iain Robertson | 7th April 2015
When Game of Thrones returns to our screens next week, fans might notice a subtle change regarding the costumes of their favourite characters. Namely that they'll be wearing them.
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"Boardwalk Empire? No, never heard of it," says Frank Vincent
TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 16th October 2014
Closer research reveals this is the 2010 film Chicago Overcoat, repackaged for its UK DVD release in 2013. It's almost as if they were trying to capitalise on Boardwalk Empire's popularity over here. (Though it isn't especially popular over here, so nice job all round.)
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Man very good at pretending to be other man
TV News | Ed Williamson | 14th October 2014
I should like to draw your attention to the fact that a 29-year-old Yorkshireman called Marc Pickering is currently playing a young Nucky Thompson in Boardwalk Empire's flashback scenes, and giving the best Steve Buscemi impersonation you're likely to see.
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The recipient of this week's 'Nice try, asshole' award for sneaky marketing
Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 9th September 2014
Jesus, the fences even line up.
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Period detail on new Boardwalk Empire not what it was
TV News | Ed Williamson | 3rd August 2014
They've got the clothes out of storage again but the cost of rebuilding the sets was a bit toppy so they just shot it in the car park.
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King of Spain abdicates after Game of Thrones marathon
TV News | Ed Williamson | 2nd June 2014
"Have you bloody seen what happens to the king when he's hung about a bit too long?" King Juan Carlos remarked to a servant after smashing two seasons of Game of Thrones in a long weekend. "A sword sandwich without the chorizo, that's what. Fuck that noise, I'm Audi." His son Prince Felipe will succeed him, even though everyone likes his brother the badass dwarf much better.
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Bad Neighbours
Movie Review | Matt Looker | 1st May 2014
In a matter of months, I will be a dad. And, just like Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne's characters here - two new first-time parents putting up with a college fraternity that have moved in next door - I worry about what will become of my social life. Will I have to miss out on all the fun things I want to do in order to take care of my child? Will I just never leave the house again? Will I lose my cool, youthful edge? Luckily, Bad Neighbours has shown me a fool-proof plan: just be a really fucking terrible parent.
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Wedding magazine slammed for Game of Thrones spoilers
TV News | Ed Williamson | 15th April 2014
Game of Thrones fans have criticised the publishers of Wedding magazine for ruining the latest episode by introducing into their minds the idea that things sometimes happen at weddings.
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