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Emma review – a Regency comedy as light as a pillow fight

Set in a nonspecific Austenland inspired more by Hollywood than history, this is an energetic, puppyish production that is easy to like

The Guardian - UK

Oregon Court Strikes Down Limit on Vape Pen Packaging

From Bates v. Oregon Health Authority, decided yesterday by the Oregon Court of Appeal (Judge Scott Shorr, joined by Judges… The post Oregon Court Strikes Down Limit on Vape Pen Packaging appeared first on Reason.com.

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Netflix adds critically acclaimed Toby Jones drama that's been criminally forgotten

Capital, now on Netflix, boasts an amazing cast including the Mr Bates vs The Post Office star

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Sky Arts Awards: Mr Bates v Post Office and comedian Fern Brady among winners at inaugural event

Audiences were treated to performances by The Darkness and Lemn Sissay

The Independent UK

National Television Awards 2024: Winners list in full from Strictly to Mr Bates vs The Post Office

All the victorious shows and actors from star-studded ceremony

The Independent UK

The week in TV: Art Matters; Surviving the Post Office; The Decameron; Time Bandits – review

Melvyn Bragg makes an impassioned plea to save the arts in Britain; wronged subpostmasters tell their story; a medieval romp channels Covid and The White Lotus. Plus, a time-travelling Lisa Kudrow

The Guardian - UK

Mr Bates v Post Office star Will Mellor says he is still ‘angry’ about Horizon scandal

‘Innocent people were made to feel like criminals’ said the actor

The Independent UK

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Crime drama preview 2024 — 26 binge-worthy shows still to come this year

Our round-up of all the must-see mysteries and true-life-inspired stories still set to hit our screens in 2024.

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Are we witnessing the death of ‘distinctive’ British TV?

ITV had a huge hit with the powerful real-life drama ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ back in January, but the broadcaster believes that it’s getting harder and harder to make ‘very distinctively British’ shows. Katie Rosseinsky explores why series like this might be a dying breed

The Independent UK

OPINION - It’s vital that culture can continue shedding important light on undersung campaigns

A run of recent dramas based on real-life issues - including ITV’s galvanising show Mr Bates vs the Post Office, and James Graham’s new play Punch - remind us of the incredible power of culture

Evening Standard

Mr Bates wins plaudits for ITV but ad market 'in recession'

A tough advertising market saw profits plunge at ITV this year with CEO Carolyn McCall pledging to “reshape” the cost base of the broadcaster behind Coronation Street and Love Island.

Evening Standard

It’s Kemi Badenoch v the Post Office, the show where ministers sweep everything under the carpet

Whatever the truth in the latest ‘he said, she said’ row, one thing’s clear: the government has no intention of tackling this institutional rot, says barrister Sam Fowles

The Guardian - UK

Horizon scandal victim uses Brits appearance to urge faster compensation

Jo Hamilton presented a music award alongside Monica Dolan, who portrayed her in Mr Bates vs The Post Office

The Guardian - UK

ITV greenlights infected blood scandal drama to follow Mr Bates' success

The show will look into one of the worst miscarriages of justice in NHS history

Evening Standard

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No sympathy for striking doctors? Watch ITV’s Breathtaking and ask: have we paid our debt to them?

The Covid drama should do for the medical profession what Mr Bates did for Post Office victims, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Evening Standard

Breathtaking on ITV: this searing drama about the NHS during Covid should be compulsory viewing

This three-parter, co-written by Jed Mercurio, drags us all down into the trenches on the frontline of the pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Home Office test scandal students to pitch Mr Bates-inspired TV drama

Group believe dramatisation could help ignite wider interest in ‘huge injustice that most people still don’t know about’

Evening Standard

Croydon Council apologises as up to 3,000 overcharged for parking and traffic fines

The blunder may have impacted 3138 PCNs given out between mid-October and the start of December 2023, according to the borough’s mayor

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The Guardian - UK

Monica Dolan: ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office affected people because they saw their worst nightmare unfold’

The actor, 54, tells Hayley Myers about her scientific parents, missing Live Aid, working on accents and Velma, her Siberian husky

The Guardian - UK

We’ve all felt like ‘skint little people’ against the system – that’s why the Post Office drama broke our hearts

Faceless computers have replaced vengeful gods, But the rules of Greek tragedy still apply: the powerful can wreak havoc on human lives, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Mr Bates vs the Post Office: Britain needs more state-of-the-nation TV

Editorial: In a world dominated by global streamers, the search for international audiences must not crowd out domestically focused drama

The Guardian - UK

What next for woke ITV after the Post Office drama? Danny Dyer v the sewage scandal?

Mr Bates Vs the Post Office showed us the power of culture to force change. We should use it on our polluted waterways, and Suffolk’s art budget cuts

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak must now compensate infected blood scandal victims, politicians demand

After the prime minister acted to help hundreds of postmasters wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office, he has been told to roll out compensation to victims of the infected blood scandal

Evening Standard

OPINION - The ripple effect of Mr Bates vs the Post Office shows the impact of drama. Why are we trying to destroy it?

Chronic underfunding and shrinking production budgets mean this kind of triumph will be all too rare in the future

Woman & Home

How to watch Mr Bates vs The Post Office from the US, Australia, and anywhere in the world

How to stream Mr Bates vs The Post Office - the show that's caused a huge outcry from the British public - from anywhere in the world

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