Licence fee payers were previously unimpressed with the festive offerings when the schedule was released a few weeks prior. Taking to Twitter, one licence fee payer wrote: “What an absolute joke the BBC used to be the channel to watch at Christmas. Not anymore. “Why on earth do we have to pay an extortionate license […]
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Lorraine dealt cruel blow as rival BBC Morning Live launches with record-breaking figures
ITV‘s Lorraine has long been a pinnacle of daytime TV, with the Queen of daytime herself fronting it. But it appears Lorraine Kelly may have competition now BBC have launched their very own rival program Morning Live, which made its splash on-air on Monday morning. Presented by former Coronation Street actress Kym Marsh and Gethin […]
Britain’s Got Talent release voting figures that show landslide win for Jon Courtenay
The 13th series of Britain’s Got Talent came to a close on Saturday night, with Ant and Dec‘s golden buzzer act Jon Courtenay being crowned the winner. The singer and pianist walked away with the whopping £250,000 price money and a place on the Royal Variety Show, but some believed the title should have gone […]
Manifest’s Shadow Figures Revealed!
The following recap contains Manifest spoilers. Manifest this Monday night (at least partially) resolved a mystery nearly two seasons in the making. Back in October 2018, during the NBC series’ second episode ever, a family drawing of Cal’s featured an inexplicable “smudge” standing behind him and between his two parents. At the end of that […]
The towering political figures who died in 2018
REUTERS/Adrees Latif 2018 witnessed the deaths of several internationally-renowned figures who, for the past century, shaped the world’s political stage for good or bad. Here are 10 of the most prominent politicians, civil rights leaders, dictators, and activists who passed away this year. George H.W. Bush Matt Sayles, File via AP George H.W. Bush, the […]
9 Trumpworld Figures That Should Fear Mueller the Most
After Michael Cohen’s sentencing, plenty more people and entities in Trump’s orbit potentially sit in the special counsel’s crosshairs. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c112df95021782da245e02a/master/pass/Security-Cohen_sentencing-1072150526-w.jpg
Tesla Faces Deepening Probe Over Whether It Misstated Production Figures
Tesla, with a fresh civil fraud settlement now behind it, faces a new legal problem: a deepening criminal investigation.
Study of U.S. hospital figures links pot use with increased risk of stroke
New research is being presented at a conference in Montreal today linking recreational cannabis use with an increased risk of stroke.
HTGAWM Recap: Father Figures
Need to catch up? Read our previous How to Get Away With Murder recap here. There’s a whole slew of How to Get Away With Murder characters who are weighed down with daddy issues. Asher? Yep. Laurel? For sure. Bonnie? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. But on Thursday’s episode of the ABC drama, it was Nate’s […]
MIT machine vision system figures out what it’s looking at by itself
Robotic vision is already pretty good, assuming that it’s being used within the narrow bounds of the application for which it’s been designed. That’s fine for machines that perform a specific movement over and over, such as picking an object off of an assembly line and placing it into a bin. However for robots to […]