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Break Clause: A darkly funny tale of post-graduation heartbreak and flat-share hell

Lara Ricote and Samuel Bottomley star in Break Clause, a darkly funny six-part comedy-drama about a couple forced to live together after breaking up on their first day in a shared London flat. The series launches on on 1 October.

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Digger's Risky Gambit: Rebranding Bad Reviews as Evidence of Genius

Digger's marketing campaign attempts to reframe critical rejection as evidence of artistic boldness, echoing a failed strategy from Megalopolis. The film was designed as a prestige satire, not a deliberately divisive work.

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Three artists transform incarceration through quilts, embroidery and ceramics

Three exhibitions at Grand Rapids Art Museum present work by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists—Julie Green's ceramic plates documenting death row final meals, Gary Tyler's quilts created during four decades in Angola prison, and Ray Materson's intricate sock-thread embroideries—explo...

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Gaza Documentary NAZA Dominates Italian Box Office, Surpassing Avengers Rerelease

A documentary on Israeli military targeting systems has topped Italy's box office, drawing 146,720 admissions and €1.1 million in revenue, surpassing Marvel's Avengers rerelease and prompting cinemas to extend its theatrical run indefinitely.

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Five free gallery shows: colour explosions, cold war dread and intimate provocation

Five free commercial gallery exhibitions showcase Gabriel Orozco's fragmented conceptualism, Mary Ramsden's explosive colour abstractions, Martine Syms' brand identity investigations, Colin Self's Cold War paranoia, and Somaya Critchlow's evolving erotic portraiture.

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Gears of War: E-Day review – combat shines but repetitive design drains the experience

Gears of War: E-Day showcases the franchise's best combat mechanics but suffers from repetitive level design, environmental reuse, and a campaign that runs out of ideas early. The prequel launches October 6 on Xbox and PC.

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Crime drama, archaeology and Las Vegas: tonight's TV highlights

Tonight's television includes the premiere of Winter, a new ITV detective drama starring Richard Armitage and Annabel Scholey; archaeology documentary The Shaman's Grave; and the second episode of Martin Compston's Las Vegas travel series.

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Turner's 'Great Love Letter' to Rome Returns Briefly Before Record-Breaking December Auction

Turner's 'Rome, From Mount Aventine' returns to the Italian capital after nearly 200 years for a brief display before its international tour and December auction, where it is expected to fetch £50m and set a new record for the artist.

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Kikuyu Land: How Colonial Tea Plantations Still Exploit Kenya's Kikuyu People

A new documentary exposes how Kenya's tea plantations, built on colonial land theft, continue to exploit Kikuyu workers under multinational corporate control. The film premiered at Sundance 2026 and has already won major festival awards.

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Es Devlin: The Designer Behind Beyoncé, the Olympics and Everything In Between

Es Devlin, the designer behind Beyoncé's stages, Olympic ceremonies and major fashion shows, opens her first major UK retrospective at the Design Museum in October 2026. The exhibition will showcase 30 years of work spanning theatre, sculpture and public art.

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Strictly Come Dancing 2026: First live show brings new presenting trio and 15 couples to the floor

Strictly Come Dancing 2026 launched its first live show on 26 September with a new presenting trio and 15 couples competing for the first time. The revamped team of Emma Willis, Johannes Radebe and Josh Widdicombe took over from the previous line-up.

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How To Catch a Predator Became TV's Most Controversial Show—and Inspired Pattinson's New Film

Lance Oppenheim's Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, examines how To Catch a Predator became a controversial 2000s television phenomenon. The film explores ethical questions about justice, voyeurism and society's treatment of offenders, while Hansen and others involved dispute ...

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