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All the latest news, reviews and interviews about your favourite television series, as well as shows and films on Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+ and other streaming platforms.

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Watching two Hong Kong students help win the UK’s long-running University Challenge TV quiz show, Cliff Buddle recalls the challenges of viewing British TV favourites in Hong Kong in the 1990s.

The Lifetime special reunion aired this month, 5 years after the reality show ended – here’s what alumni such as Nia Sioux and Chloé Lukasiak have been up to since

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Hierarchy on Netflix stars Lee Chae-min and Roh Jeong-eui as students at an elite high school, The Whirlwind on Netflix is a political thriller starring Sol Kyung-gu and Kim Hee-ae, and tvN has The Player 2.

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Ahead of the No Bull Australia tour, some fans assumed that Pippen, Horace Grant and Luc Longley would throw shade at Jordan, who made critical comments in his Netflix docuseries The Last Dance in 2020

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The Bok family once had superpowers, but have lost their gifts. When Do Da-hee (Chun Woo-hee) enters their orbit they are restored. Well written, well acted and well made, how will this Netflix show end?

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The CEO of Singapore-based Evergreen Group Holdings, David Yong made his K-pop debut at age 34, while beauty influencer Noor Naim was the first Arabian YouTuber to reach 10 million subscribers

Glaser got a standing ovation for her set on last month’s Netflix roast of Tom Brady, but she said of Ben Affleck’s performance, ‘I don’t like to watch people bomb. I know what happened: he didn’t prepare’

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A psychologist teams up with her nagging mother-in-law to find out why her family is being threatened by an unknown blackmailer in Bitter Sweet Hell – which, so far, is heavy on style without much happening.

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Glen Powell stars as Gary Johnson, a professor who poses as a hit man to help the police in stings. When he falls for a potential client (Adria Arjona), he gets caught up in his pretend role.

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All eyes are on the rising stars in the Netflix regency romance, who are playing the younger Bridgerton sisters, Hyacinth and Francesca – but what other projects have they worked on?

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Netflix’s Frankly Speaking, a K-drama starring Go Kyung-pyo and Kang Han-na, has the ingredients needed for a good romantic comedy but is lacking in humour and chemistry between its lead characters.

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Thirty five years after the first episode aired, cast members of 90s sitcom Seinfeld have come far in the entertainment industry – so what are they up to now? From Jerry Seinfeld to Bryan Cranston …

Son Suk-ku could be joining Han Ji-min, Lee Jung-eun and Kim Hye-ja in K-drama More Beautiful Than Heaven, while Jung Kyung-ho is set to lead a legal comedy and Byun Yo-han is in the frame for Reborn.

Ex soldier and TV survivalist Bear Grylls confirmed that he recently helped baptise Russell Brand – here’s what you need to know about the man who’s used to pushing celebs out of their comfort zone

In Fellow Travelers, Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey abandons his famous swagger to play a submissive partner in a queer relationship. The actor opens up about how the role has given him strength.

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O’Donnell feuded with ex president Donald Trump and his notorious fixer – then Michael Cohen went to jail and formed a close bond with the actress, who’s now supporting him at the hush-money trial

In Netflix’s Atlas, Jennifer Lopez’s heroine must embrace AI to save humans from Simu Liu’s rogue android. The film offers few surprises and its wholehearted embrace of technology is off-putting.

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Buying London is a new reality show that sees a real estate team selling multimillion-pound mansions as they quarrel and quibble on air – just as they do in LA on another Netflix show, Selling Sunset.

Disney+ K-drama, a prequel to the popular Chief Inspector series of the 1970s and 80s, stars Lee Je-hoon as Detective Park Yeong-han and Seo Eun-soo as his sweetheart Lee Hye-ju.

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Hong Kong director Roger Garcia talks about promoting Asian cinema, why ‘rejection is about 90 per cent of the job in filmmaking’, and how he is helping the next generation of filmmakers find their feet.

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Mai made a name for herself on How Do I Look?, The Real and Dancing with the Stars, but now she’s making headlines for her messy divorce – here’s what you need to know about her

Dodd is being described as the breakout star to come out of Bridgerton ’s third season, which released its first 4 episodes on Netflix earlier this month – but why did she replace Stokes?

Prince Harry’s former friend Hugh van Cutsem Jr surprised fans this week after he was seen on the seventh episode of Jeremy Clarkson’s Clarkson’s Farm TV show

Tomotaka Shibayama’s animated fantasy My Oni Girl on Netflix looks good but feels pedestrian and predictable, and sadly lacks the spark and inventiveness of a Studio Ghibli film.

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Song Kang-ho plays the titular character in Uncle Samsik, a political fixer with a shady past to overcome who tries to get close to Byun Yo-han’s idealistic civil servant.

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Korean actress Chun Woo-hee, currently on screens in Netflix’s The Atypical Family and The 8 Show, has been appearing in films and on TV in Korea for two decades. We look back over her acting career.

TikTok is testing 60-minute video uploads, and has gradually increased its video length limits to 10 minutes for all users. Longer video uploads may shift viewership from streaming services like YouTube.

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Eight strangers, each living on a separate floor in a giant room, play a violent game, whose rules are unclear, to earn prize money in The 8 Show, a stylish Korean drama series that is compulsive viewing.

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