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NPR Culture highlights Parton’s catalog as more than hit-making, framing her work as a sustained account of everyday life in the United States through music.
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Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Paramount UK’s content chief Ben Frow addressed a dispute involving Channel 5 and the collapsed 5 crime drama “Blackbox,” saying his team takes contributor welfare “very seriously” even when it means changing or ending productions.
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CBS News reports that during a Tuesday performance in the United Kingdom, audible audience reactions followed news that singer-songwriter Dolly Parton had died.
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A new Guardian readers’ roundup of real-life documentaries and whodunnits spotlights Damien Nettles’ case as well as the widely discussed “Joe Exotic” story, reflecting how audiences return to true-crime narratives for answers and closure.
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In a new tribute-style roundup by Alexis Petridis, The Guardian spotlights 10 of Dolly Parton’s recordings spanning country and pop, highlighting how her songs reshaped common country-music tropes.
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The Guardian reports that Cusk’s latest work, starring an actor character named M and built around an after-hours bookstore gathering, is being discussed as part of a tradition of celebrity satire that ranges from Virginia Woolf to fashion-industry pop culture.
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MGM+ has acquired North American, Latin American and Italian streaming rights for the five-part British spy thriller Secret Service, starring Gemma Arterton and adapted from a book by journalist Tom Bradby.
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The dark crime-dramedy, set in the lead-up to Chile’s 1973 coup, premieres next week at the Venice Film Festival, with Steve Buscemi and others appearing as CIA-linked figures.
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A film review published by The Guardian on Aug. 26 characterizes Amazon’s latest romance title as plot-light and overly melodramatic, while noting the movie’s bright setting and wealth-driven summer-fling premise.
