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Wednesday, May 22

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Samsung The Frame TV (2024) review

www.tomsguide.com

Samsung The Frame TV 2024 is a beautiful TV for displaying artwork with a dynamic refresh rate, even if it’s not the best TV performance-wise you can get for the price.

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Review: THE GARFIELD MOVIE Is a Fun New Take on the Classic Fan Favorite Character

geektyrant.com

I got to take the family to an early screening of The Garfield Movie starring Chris Pratt as the lasagna-loving cat we grew up with. I used to read Jim Davis’s Garfield comic strip in the weekend comics as a kid, and I grew up watching the…

TV review: Shay Mitchell's cocktail series doesn't have enough punch

www.startribune.com

"Thirst With Shay Mitchell" debuts on Max Thursday.

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Sonos ace headphones hands-on: Our early review

www.independent.co.uk

Sonos ace can switch your audio from your TV soundbar to your headphones at the press of a button

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TV Q&A: Does retired KDKA anchor Stacy Smith star in an Ozempic TV ad?

triblive.com

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review.

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Buying London review – probably the most hateable TV show ever made

www.theguardian.com

I usually love to gawp at rich people and their wallpaper, but this British version of the real-estate reality show Selling Sunset is tired, tone-deaf and shamefully crass. Watching it will work you up into a total rage

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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Proof oldies can cut it on a TV contest - and they've got better stories to tell

www.dailymail.co.uk

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: This is the Sewing Bee's tenth series and it features the oldest contestant yet, 84-year-old retired scientist Don.

Tuesday, May 21

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TRYING S4 Review: So You Still Want to Be a Parent?

screenanarchy.com

Rafe Spall and Esther Smith star in a warm and witty British series, now streaming on Apple TV+.

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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: This real-life fugitive's tale is more absurd than any Coen Brothers film

www.dailymail.co.uk

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Just suppose for a moment that Arthur Knight is telling the truth. He isn't a fugitive and convicted sex offender from the U.S. suspected of faking his own death.

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TV Smith: Handwriting – Album Review

louderthanwar.com

Former Advert singer TV Smith may be decades after his first band broke through, but he has never sounded more urgent with this great set of songs that spark with emotive melody and brilliant lyrics.

Monday, May 20

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Imposter: The Man Who Came Back from the Dead review – the absolute zenith of true-crime TV

www.theguardian.com

Fascinating and terrifying, this tale of a man who woke from a Covid coma in Glasgow accused of being a serial sex offender on the FBI’s most wanted list is the most bizarre, mind-boggling true-crime series yet

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‘The Apprentice’ Review: Sebastian Stan And Jeremy Strong Soar As Young Donald Trump And His Ruthless Mentor Roy Cohn In Devilish Origin Story – Cannes Film Festival

deadline.com

Don’t be confused about the title The Apprentice. This is not a movie version of the NBC reality TV series in any way, but instead a smart, sharp and surprising origin story of the man who hosted it. In this case the actual “apprentice” is…

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WATCH | Ignition TV reviews the 2024 Kia Seltos

www.timeslive.co.za

Join Ignition TV presenter Francisco Nwamba as he tests the recently updated Kia Seltos.

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Robin/Red/Breast review – frights and folklore with a mesmerising Maxine Peake

www.theguardian.com

Aviva Studios, Manchester Daisy Johnson adapts a 1970 TV play into a poetic and disturbing exploration of childbirth’s physical and emotional impact

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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews this weekend's TV: Violent, drunken, disloyal . . . this cop is so nasty he's all but unwatchable

www.dailymail.co.uk

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Richard Rankin (no relation to the author) gets much closer to the character on the page. Trouble is, he becomes so deeply nasty that the show is all but unwatchable.

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‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1’ Review: Sprawling Yet Thinly Spread, the First Part of Kevin Costner’s Western Epic Feels Like the Set-Up for a TV Miniseries

variety.com

It feels like the seedbed for a miniseries. Much of what happens is wispy and not very forceful; the film doesn’t build in power, and it seldom seems to be aiming in a clear direction. Costner, as an actor, doesn’t show up until an hour in…

Sunday, May 19

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Review: JSAUX Docking Stations are Solid for Gaming Handhelds

geektyrant.com

Last year, I was fortunate enough to get a Steam Deck OLED and I absolutely love it. There have been times though when I want to put the games on the TV instead of playing in handheld or going back to my gaming PC. I just want to sit on my…

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The week in TV: Better Off Dead?; Bridgerton; The Gathering; The Big Cigar – review

www.theguardian.com

Assisted dying is shockingly unpacked by Liz Carr; Nicola Coughlan moves centre stage in Netflix’s Regency romp; Skins meets Euphoria in a Liverpool psychodrama. Plus, the trouble with a ‘mostly true’ Black Panthers drama

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TV REVIEW Bridgerton flatters to deceive in stuttering season three

www.express.co.uk

Bridgerton season three is saved by the injection of a new character Lord Debling played by rising star Sam Phillips

Saturday, May 18

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Justin Timberlake Delivers Peak Performance at Hits-Filled L.A. Forum Show: Concert Review

variety.com

“What you are about experience may or may not be real,” reads a caption on a TV that Justin Timberlake gazes upon during an introductory vignette for his Forget Tomorrow world tour. At Los Angeles’ Kia Forum on Friday night, the pop star…