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Piers Morgan: TV’s fearless firebrand who refused to be gagged

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One fateful evening in July 2016, TV presenter Piers Morgan took a pint of bitter and an outside table at the Scarsdale Arms in Kensington, West London. He was joined there, under the pub’s celebrated cascading hanging baskets, by U.S. actress Meghan Markle — a stranger who had approached him on Twitter, seeking friendship and … Read more

Cate Blanchett’s firebrand makes Thatcher look like a hippy, says TV reviewer CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

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Mrs America Rating: Penny Dreadful: City of Angels  Rating: Two schools of thought prevail about historical drama on TV. One holds that, while facts can be simplified, the characters must be faithfully portrayed, with gratuitous cameos for the famous: ‘Why, isn’t that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, lunching with Virginia Woolf?’ That is how The Crown … Read more