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[Link] Hellbound: the South Korean death-fest that wipes the floor with Squid Game

Read: 27/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The easiest thing in the world would be to call Hellbound the new Squid Game. After all, they’re both South Korean dramas, they both deal in violent death and they’re both smash hits on Netflix.

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[Link] Mr. Robot ‘Plugs’ uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups

Read: 22/11/2021 torrentfreak.com

The latest episode of award-winning TV show Mr. Robot includes a nod to online pirates. The main character Elliot is shown pirating a movie using uTorrent, while his movie folder lists movies from various pirate groups including YIFY.

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[Link] The Pirate Bay Story Will Be Turned Into a TV Series

Read: 21/11/2021 torrentfreak.com

The Pirate Bay's turbulent history will be turned into a six-part TV drama. The Swedish production is scheduled to start filming next year and will be aired by public broadcaster SVT. The makers will base their story on input from various insiders but the site's founders are not part of the crew.

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[Link] An Olive Branch to My Enemy Mayim Bialik

Read: 18/11/2021 www.gawker.com

Twice now, I have used my platform to decry all things Mayim Bialik. I don’t think she’s very charismatic, and I think her whole nerdy contrarian thing is extremely grating. However, I am not above admitting that there is one acting role that clearly should have gone to her.

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[Link] The Simpsons’ showrunner Al Jean reveals how show will end

Read: 17/11/2021 www.news.com.au

With its 33rd season currently on the air, The Simpsons is the longest-running prime-time series in American history. But showrunner Al Jean is giving some thought as to how the iconic animated sitcom should end, New York Post reports.

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[Link] Advertising Is Content: Taskmaster Edition

Read: 8/11/2021 www.techdirt.com

Many, many years ago on Techdirt, I wrote a lot about the idea of advertising being content (and content being advertising).

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[Link] Streamer SquidGame losing work over Netflix show association

Read: 7/11/2021 www.pcgamer.com

Imagine signing up for a social media site in 2010, picking a username that you liked and spending the next decade gradually building up a following under that brand. Then out of nowhere, 2021 hits and the biggest television show of the year also happens to be your exact handle.

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[Link] ‘I had to watch it with my therapist’: when real-life horrors get turned into TV

Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The dark new drama The Shrink Next Door tells an almost unbelievable story. Almost, of course, because it actually happened.

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[Link] Why would anyone hate Ted Lasso?

Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Ihave a degree in English literature, which is to say I left university with no life skills apart from the ability to be pretentious at the drop of a hat.

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[Link] The newest 'Simpsons' character is a hypnotherapist breast cancer survivor with 'uniboob.' Here's her inspiring backstory.

Read: 25/10/2021 www.yahoo.com

An episode of beloved comedy The Simpsons is about to get serious about breast cancer awareness. In a groundbreaking moment for survivor visibility — specifically of women who have undergone mastectomies and opted to stay flat rather than choose breast reconstruction surgeries — the Oct.

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[Link] The Big Bang Theory Star Explains Their Falling Out With Neil Patrick Harris

Read: 17/10/2021 comicbook.com

Retelling, and giving more detail to, a story she has told before, The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik took to late night recently to revive an old conflict she had with How I Met Your Mother's Neil Patrick Harris.

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[Link] Actors ‘told they’re too disabled’ for disabled roles in UK television

Read: 24/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Actors have been told they are “too disabled” to play disabled roles in popular television series, with parts instead going to able-bodied people, according to a leading screenwriter who has called for television companies to adopt quotas for people with disabilities.

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[Link] ‘Ted Lasso’ Makes Me Want to Be a Better Person

Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com

Most days, I think I’m a decent-enough person.

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