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14 votes
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge unveil a global prize to tackle climate issues in the next decade
8 votes -
How Germany reacted to Dortmund's coup – teenage sensation Erling Haaland's shock move to the Bundesliga is dominating the sports pages
4 votes -
Author and Norway princess's ex-husband Ari Behn dies aged 47
5 votes -
Book nooks: Take a look behind the 'small doors to imaginary spaces' within bookshelves
6 votes -
Australia heatwave: State of emergency declared over bushfire crisis
18 votes -
YouTube star PewDiePie has announced he is taking a break from the platform, saying he is "feeling very tired"
24 votes -
Exit poll suggests Conservatives are set to win an overall majority of eighty-six in the UK general election
33 votes -
"World's first" fully-electric commercial flight takes off
13 votes -
UK General election 2019: Ads are 'indecent, dishonest and untruthful'
9 votes -
Art Basel: Maurizio Cattelan's $120,000 banana eaten by artist
12 votes -
Sweden's telecoms giant Ericsson has agreed to pay more than $1bn to resolve allegations of bribery, the US Department of Justice has announced
4 votes -
Iceland's prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has urged governments to adopt green and family-friendly priorities, instead of just focusing on economic growth figures
11 votes -
Norwegian convicted of spying in Moscow says he was wrong to trust an intelligence officer who recruited him to pass on payment for secrets about Russia's submarine fleet
4 votes -
Denmark has for the first time put mineral-rich Greenland top of its national security agenda, ahead of terrorism and cybercrime
10 votes -
Who is Greta Thunberg, the #FridaysForFuture activist?
6 votes -
Statue of Zlatan Ibrahimovic at Malmö's stadium has been vandalised on the day it was announced he had bought 25% of the shares in Hammarby
3 votes -
Mount Erebus disaster: The plane crash that changed New Zealand
10 votes -
Why is Instagram deleting the accounts of hundreds of porn stars?
24 votes -
Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished
18 votes -
Environmental activist, Greta Thunberg is to appear as one of the Christmas guest editors of Radio 4's Today programme
6 votes -
Peter Kay's Car Share
This is another British comedy that I think people will enjoy. The title is weird: Peter Kay is the stand up comedian, but he's playing a character in this sitcom. IMDB calls it "Car Share", but...
This is another British comedy that I think people will enjoy. The title is weird: Peter Kay is the stand up comedian, but he's playing a character in this sitcom. IMDB calls it "Car Share", but BBC calls it "Peter Kay's Car Share". It's British, so weirdly small number of episodes: only 12 (and this includes all the specials).
The setup sounds like it's going to be unbearably claustrophobic, a series long bottle episode. A supermarket sets up a car sharing scheme, and we watch John and Kayleigh share a car as they drive to work everyday. But this creates intimacy and we get to learn about the characters. It's heartfelt and lovely. It's well acted, and I think it's very funny.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4635922/
4 votes -
An island group that's part of Papua New Guinea is about to vote on independence. And, if the poll goes as expected, Bougainville could become the world's next country.
9 votes -
Kenya Airways stowaway: Mystery of the man who fell from the sky
5 votes -
Former UK consulate worker says he was tortured in China
12 votes -
Why do billions of people still not have glasses?
6 votes -
Prosecutors in Sweden have dropped an investigation into a rape allegation made against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange in 2010
8 votes -
Detectorists - "unremarkable lives gone slightly awry"
I'm currently re-watching all episodes of Detectorists and it's one of my favourite tv things ever, so I thought maybe Tildes would be interested. Detectorists is a single camera sitcom about two...
I'm currently re-watching all episodes of Detectorists and it's one of my favourite tv things ever, so I thought maybe Tildes would be interested. Detectorists is a single camera sitcom about two men and their friendship around their metal detecting hobby.
Here's the link to the BBC Four webpage for it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06l51nr
Some review sites -
Rotten Tomatoes 100% (few reviews), 99% audience score: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/detectorists
IMDB 8.6 : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4082744/
Guardian review (because she writes about it far better than I can): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/dec/09/detectorists-rich-portrait-unremarkable-lives-gone-slightly-awry-mackenzie-crook
Detectorists is about nothing and everything. Made with palpable love, it’s about people and their passions; camaraderie and community. As a portrait of male friendship, it is closer to documentary than drama, delving beneath the topsoil of mid-life ennui via the sparsest of exchanges. You won’t find a laughter track, or smart-arse punchlines or an oh-so-subtle veil of irony here; instead of begging for your attention, Detectorists is notable for its avoidance of snark. It’s the drama least likely to culminate in alpha plonkers blowing up cars, taking down baddies or ravishing beautiful women.
Instead, it lingers lovingly over dewdrops on grass, magpies on gateposts, scudding clouds and gently fluttering leaves. Even an alfresco wee takes on a painterly aspect, viewed solely through the steam cloud billowing from behind a sunlit tree. Meanwhile, the camera makes high art out of Lance’s face in closeup, crestfallen as he unearths a scaffolding bracket instead of an Anglo-Saxon nugget, and from Andy’s silent incredulity when a colleague jokes about Richard Attenborough when he means David.
Radio Times review https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2017-12-13/detectorists-series-3-review/
If all British programmes took this much care over their tone, look and overall distinctiveness, the golden age of television would never go away.
Modern comedies are often predicated on cruelty: laughs are hard, clanging or sharp as barbed wire. In its quiet, undemonstrative way, Detectorists has ploughed its own furrow. Buried in its field of fun are evergreen truths about life, and the things we don’t say but should. So if kindness and companionship are unfashionable, I know which side of the hedge I’d rather stand.
13 votes -
Protests erupt over Iran petrol rationing: Demonstrators take to the streets in many cities as petrol prices go up by at least 50%
6 votes -
Mexico ambush: How a US Mormon family ended up dead
8 votes -
Electric car future may depend on deep sea mining
8 votes -
Bolivian opposition senator Jeanine Áñez has declared herself interim president of the country
4 votes -
Thousands of egg-shaped balls of ice have covered a beach in Finland – the result of a rare weather phenomenon
6 votes -
Blade Runner: How well did the film predict 2019's tech?
11 votes -
Icelander livestreams ten-year-old McDonald's cheeseburger – Hjörtur Smárason bought his McDonald's meal in 2009 to see how long it would take to decompose
13 votes -
In-form Sierra Leone striker Mohamed Buya Turay scored a second half equaliser to help Djurgården win the 2019 Swedish league
4 votes -
Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges
14 votes -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
4 votes -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
13 votes -
De-branding my body. The former sex slaves transforming their tattoos
12 votes -
A newly-discovered species of beetle, Nelloptodes gretae, has been named after young climate activist Greta Thunberg
5 votes -
Canada election: Justin Trudeau's Liberals win but lose majority
19 votes -
Danish Rubjerg lighthouse moved inland on skates – coastal erosion from North Sea winds threatened to topple it into the sea
9 votes -
What can the UK learn from Norway's EU border? Its border, with EU member state Sweden, is over a thousand miles long.
4 votes -
From failures in Europe to Finland great, the fall and rise of the Norwich striker Teemu Pukki
5 votes -
Eliud Kipchoge breaks two-hour marathon mark by twenty seconds
7 votes -
A patient admitted to hospital in Sweden with a possible case of the Ebola virus has tested negative
3 votes -
Ringed on all sides by the UK but not actually part of it, residents of the Isle of Man value their independence
9 votes -
How a horrible goose topped the gaming chart
11 votes -
China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits
7 votes