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Rivals season 2 review – Thrusting buttocks and heaving bosoms… Jilly Cooper’s escapist romp is back

Rivals season 2 review – Thrusting buttocks and heaving bosoms… Jilly Cooper’s escapist romp is back

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter “I like persons better than principles,” Lord Harry Wotton, the libertine mentor in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, tells his impressionable friend. “And I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.” This manifesto of decadence could well serve as the county motto for Rutshire, whose randy residents form the ensemble of Disney+’s Rivals, returning this week for its eagerly awaited second outing. In the wake of the first skirmish between Corinium Television – led by Lord Baddingham (David Tennant) – and Venturer – proposed by the ragtag trio of Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell), Declan O’Hara (Aidan Turner) and Freddie Jones (Danny Dyer) – the battle for the airwaves is heating up. “1987 is a franchise year and we are at war,” Baddingham tells his staff, as he recovers from a head injury sustained in …

Max Cooper’s show at the Royal Albert Hall was a visual spectacle

Max Cooper’s show at the Royal Albert Hall was a visual spectacle

Published by Sam Flores

The former computational biologist has long been a proponent of audio-visual art (he even runs his own company, Mesh, dedicated to the same), and that experience was on show here. In terms of sheer sensory overload, this was it: as music played, audiences watched as the massive screen raced to keep up, displaying neon cityscapes one minute, and migrating birds the next, all of it soundtracked by Cooper’s own music. Source link

Alex Cooper’s New YouTube Reality Show: Cast and Premiere Date

Alex Cooper’s New YouTube Reality Show: Cast and Premiere Date

Published by Daniella Wilson

Alex Cooper‘s Unwell Network has revealed a new YouTube reality competition series that will feature a group of “polarizing” reality TV stars and influencers. Unwell Winter Games will follow 16 contestants living at a luxury chalet in Park City, Utah, where they will compete in a series of “mental and physical challenges over four days,” according to the company. The series will see the competitors split into two teams, with one team taking home the final prize. Participants will also compete for individual cash prizes throughout the challenges. “The show promises fierce competition, unexpected alliances and the kind of unfiltered drama that has defined Unwell across its programming slate,” the company said of the show. Castmembers include Dakota Mortensen, from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, who has recently made headlines over multiple domestic violence investigations involving ex Taylor Frankie Paul. (Paul was also the lead of season 22 of The Bachelorette, but ABC pulled the season after a leaked 2023 video showed her attacking Mortensen.) Love Island USA‘s Huda Mustafa, Russian-born convicted con artist Anna Delvey …

John Bishop explains why Bradley Cooper’s film about life is “like watching a memory”

John Bishop explains why Bradley Cooper’s film about life is “like watching a memory”

Published by Daniella Wilson

Is This Thing On? is in cinemas on Friday 30 January. With his first two films as director, Bradley Cooper took on some pretty major projects. For his debut behind the camera, he helmed A Star Is Born – the latest remake of one of Hollywood’s most beloved musical stories, starring alongside pop superstar Lady Gaga in a film that would go on to build a legion of devoted fans and receive a glut of awards nominations. His follow-up was no less ambitious, this time a biopic exploring the life – and marriage – of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein, with Cooper again taking on the lead role and the Oscars again rewarding it with a number of major nods. But for his third film as director, Is This Thing On?, Cooper went in a slightly different, perhaps more low-key, direction. This time around, the inspiration was none other than popular UK comedian and one-time Doctor Who star John Bishop, with Will Arnett playing a man who goes through loosely the same experiences as the Scouse …