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From Better Call Saul to Bates Motel and Mary Beard's new doc: The best on demand TV this week

It's rare that a prequel matches its progenitor, but Better Call Saul has gradually, at times achingly slo-o-o-wly, proved the equal of parent show Breaking Bad .




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From No Such Thing As A Fish to The Allusionist: This week's top podcasts

This blockbuster podcast began as a spin-off to QI. Every week, four of Stephen Fry's mythical elves huddle around a mic to reveal remarkable trivia they have uncovered in their research.




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Hilary Mantel, Michelle Gallen and Marina Lewycka: This week's best new fiction

Fans can exhale - the final instalment of Mantel's trilogy is a cracker: powerful, propulsive and amply worth the eight-year wait. Despite topping 900 pages, it spans just four years.




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From Rami Malek in Mr Robot to a Unabomber doc and Endeavour: The best on demand TV this week 

Rami Malek is now best known for his Oscar-winning performance as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, but he first found fame via this Golden Globe-winning series.




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From New Amsterdam to Baghdad Central and Dirty Money: The best on demand TV this week   

Based on the book Twelve Patients: Life And Death At Bellevue Hospital, this medical drama stars Ryan Eggold as the new medical director at one of America's oldest public hospitals.




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Sebastian Barry and Abi Daré: This week's best new fiction

Set in rural Tennessee in the period after the Civil War, A Thousand Moons is a strange and beautiful story, narrated by a young Native American girl who has been adopted by two Irishmen.




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From Liz Hurley on My Wardrobe Malfunction to the The Reality Tea & RHLSTP: This week's top podcasts

Every week on this fun new podcast by Susannah Constantine (of Trinny fame), a guest digs into his or her relationship with their wardrobe.




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Louise Erdrich, James Scudamore and Louise Hare: This week's best new fiction 

It's 1953 and Thomas Wazhushk leaves Turtle Mountain Reservation and travels to Washington, striving to defeat legislation that would abolish native tribes and relocate Native Americans.




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Anton Du Beke on why he's so happy it makes him cry

Anton Du Beke, 53, is happily married to businesswoman Hannah Summers and they have two-year-old twins, George and Henrietta. He is so happy, he says, that he is often moved to tears




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From Sue Perkins: An Hour Or So With... to Happy Mum, Happy Baby: This week's top podcasts

Comedian Perkins rustles up a celebrity guest and indulges in 'good old-fashioned conversation' for an hour or so. Her interviewees range from podcast king Adam Buxton to economist Tim Harford.




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From Julian Fellowes' The English Game to Mrs Fletcher and Spooks: The best on demand TV this week

Not content with writing terrestrial TV's big show of the week with Belgravia, Julian Fellowes is also behind this six-part drama series charting the origins of football.




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From Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian to Big Little Lies: The best on demand TV to watch this week

'Is it true that you guys never take off your helmets?' a prisoner asks his captor, the eponymous Mandalorian in the first episode of this eight-episode Star Wars spin-off.




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From Jo Brand on Table Manners to the eight-part drama Blackout: This week's top podcasts

Every week on this big-hearted podcast, singer Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie invite a celebrity guest to Ware's home in east London to chew the fat and tuck into a three-course meal.




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Maggie O'Farrell, Evie Wyld and Anakana Schofield: This week's best new fiction 

This radiant, immersive novel is anchored in its author's fascination with Hamlet . It begins one summer's day in 1596, when 11-year-old Judith comes down with a fever in Stratford-upon-Avon.




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From the useful new Coronavirus Global Update to Mel Giedroyc Is Quilting: This week's top podcasts

Covid-19 may have come from China but its spread has been horrifyingly global.




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Polly Samson, Sarah Butler and Nazanine Hozar: This week's best new fiction

To a teenage girl from England, in mourning for her dead mother, the Greek island of Hydra seems like an earthly paradise.




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From Wallander to The Honourable Woman: The best on demand TV to watch this week

It's set in Sweden and is based on books by a Swedish author, but can this version of Wallander really be described as Scandi-noir?




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Kate Elizabeth Russell, Annalena McAfee and Nicolas Mathieu: This week's best new fiction

At 60, Eve Laing is a famous artist in crisis. She's working on what she believes is a masterpiece, but her marriage has ended in divorce.




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Lucy Atkins, Matthew Hall and Joe Thomas: Thrillers of the week 

Magpie Lane is where an Oxford college master lives in a grand house with his pregnant second wife, his disturbed daughter from his first marriage and a nanny, who is rather more than she seems.




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Gary Lineker gives his first exclusive interview after the coronavirus lockdown

Even in isolation, Gary Lineker is looking for the positives. Is it his job to help keep our spirits up? 'I am not sure it is part of my job, but I feel it is something I would love to be able to do,' he says




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From The Anthill to Coronavirus: What You Need To Know and BudPod: This week's top podcasts

Why are conspiracy theories so hard to suppress? What is the meaning of nothing? These are some of the questions raised in brainy podcast The Anthill.




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From Flesh And Blood to new Ride Upon The Storm and Flo & Joan: The best on demand TV this week

Broadcast across four nights a few weeks ago, this domestic drama can now be binge-watched in its entirety. An all-star cast bring to life an intriguing story involving love and jealousy.




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From Nobody Panic to Matt Lucas' Bitch Bitch Bitch and Popmaster: This week's top podcasts

Each week, peppy comedians Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates offer advice about how to thrive as a millennial adult.




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A. L. Kennedy, Nikita Lalwani, Carmel Harrington and Ingrid Persaud: This week's best new fiction

Connoisseurs of short stories that pack an emotional punch will find plenty to admire in this fine new collection. The leitmotif is desperation but Kennedy is mistress of many moods.




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From Jodie Comer in Killing Eve to Michael Palin In North Korea: The best on demand TV this week

International hitwoman Villanelle and MI6 operative Eve did not exactly part on the best of terms at the end of last series, and things are not going particularly well at the start of Series Three.




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From Tanya Byron's How Did We Get Here? to The Rachman Review: This week's top podcasts

For better or worse, the pandemic has sent many of us back to our family units, and this podcast could be a lifeline to those looking to detoxify dynamics at home.




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Stephen King, Beth O'Leary, Michael Arditti and Martin Edwards: This week's best new fiction

The title piece in King's latest collection of supernatural tales serves up a vivid metaphor for the media's unhealthy relationship with violent crime.




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Robert Webb, Adele Parks, Ilaria Bernardini and Stephanie Scott: This week's best new fiction

Comedian and memoirist Webb tries his hand at fiction in this romance about a widowed tech expert who travels back to 1992 to warn her future husband about his fatal brain tumour.




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From Katherine Ryan: Telling Everybody Everything to The High Low, This week's top podcasts

Comedian Katherine Ryan admits to being a late adopter who didn't think podcasts would take off. Now she's launched her own, and it's kookily addictive.




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From Rafe Spall in Trying to new Medici: The Magnificent & The Bill: The best on demand TV this week

The streaming service's first British series looks like being one of its best shows to date. The series' pedigree is certainly impressive.




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From Grounded With Louis Theroux to Her Spirit, This Is Money and Babbage: This week's top podcasts

In his new podcast series, the cult documentary-maker Louis Theroux calls up people that he finds interesting and wouldn't necessarily get to interview in normal life.




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Lionel Shriver, Caroline Hulse, Adam Macqueen and Ellen Alpsten: This week's best new fiction

Identity politics, extreme exercise and tattoos are among the fads skewered in Shriver's tale of ageing Boomers. It centres on Serenata and Remington, whose marriage is rock-solid.




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Kylie Jenner marks second week in quarantine by filming daughter Stormi Webster's 'tattooed' legs

The 22-year-old reality star's two-year-old privileged princess appeared to be wearing all 24 of a $3 package of Trolls temporary tattoos




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Kylie Jenner marks two weeks in quarantine and shares her baking delights with fans

Kylie Jenner spent her down time baking, with the 22-year-old reality TV star sharing an image of a homemade cookie pie to her Instagram Story on Tuesday.




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Kylie Jenner reveals she missed Paris Fashion Week show last year due to severe strep throat

The 22-year-old reality TV star spoke about her serious illness in a comment she made on a fan account on Wednesday.




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Kylie Jenner shows off her vibrant eyes and butterfly cheeks

The reality star, 22, showed off her ice blue and green eyes as she tried on a 'scary' face filter on Monday.




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Kylie Jenner exposes her roots after weeks in isolation

The mother-of-one sat on the concrete as she modeled a skintight light grey outfit with her highlighted locks falling down over her chest. Her makeup was perfectly on point with Kylie Cosmetics.




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Transfer news: Henry Onyekuru set to leave Everton and join Monaco in £13.7m deal

Everton have held discussions with Monaco over the proposed sale of Henry Onyekuru and have stepped up interest in Southampton midfielder Mario Lemina.




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Ben Okri, Nicolás Giacobone and Kate Furnivall: This week's best new fiction reviews

Okri is always good company and these 20-odd tales showcase his lucid prose and freewheeling imagination.




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Paris Saint-Germain news: Neymar ruled out for four weeks with hamstring strain

Neymar has been ruled out for four weeks with a grade two hamstring strain. The 27-year-old begun his recovery in Paris on Monday after picking up the injury against Nigeria.




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Kim Kardashian, 39, admits she can be 'so mean' to Kourtney, 40, on KUWTK season 17 sneak peek

Their relationship has had ups and downs, including when Kim Kardashian famously told Kourtney she's 'the least exciting to look at' during an argument about the Christmas card.




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Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson are 'getting along great' but they won't be rekindling romance

Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson are said to be 'getting along great' but they won't be rekindling romance... one year after Jordyn Woods cheating scandal.




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Khloe Kardashian flashes a peek of her abs in satin snakeprint co-ord

Khloe Kardashian headed out for dinner with her sister Kim and mother Kris in Malibu on Tuesday and certainly made a style statement during the outing. 




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Khloe Kardashian puts on a cheeky display in a mint one piece... after family trip to Palm Springs

The 35-year-old reality star sent pulses racing with her latest sexy picture, which displayed her bare cheeks and revealed some major side-boob, after spending the weekend in Palm Springs with her family.




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Khloe Kardashian's BFF Malika Haqq shares cute two week update on newborn son

Taking to her Instagram on Saturday, the bestie of Khloe Kardashian seemed proud of what she'd achieved in her first two weeks of motherhood.




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Khloe Kardashian's BFF Malika Haqq cradles Ace in heart-melting snaps as baby nears four weeks old

Khloe Kardashian's best friend Malika Haqq cradled her newborn son Ace in a pair of heart-melting new Instagram snaps Friday. The 37-year-old's baby is one day away from being four weeks old.




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Plates for a pound: Curried fish and leek noodles

Delicious meals that cost as little as £1 a serving - yes really - from chef Miguel Barclay. Pictured, curried fish and leek noodles.




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Former Michelin chef says he has the 'best job in the world' taste testing 100 desserts a week

James Bennington, who spent ten years cooking French cuisine for some of London's top restaurants, now spends his days conjuring up the next big thing in the worlds of desserts.




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Mike Tindall celebrates his 'first week of homeschooling' with daughters Mia and Lena

Mike Tindall, 41, who lives in Gloucestershire with his wife Zara, 38, revealed he was celebrating the first week of homeschoolling his eldest daughter Mia, 5, amid the coronavirus pandemic.




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Million Dollar Listing star Fredrik Eklund puts his dreamy Connecticut mansion for rent

The 43-year-old agent is looking for someone to take his sprawling home located in the town of Roxbury in Connecticut for almost four months for a staggering $150,000.