Three years after the fifth and final season of BBC America’s Orphan Black went off the air, the cast and creators are reuniting for a good cause. The entire cast, including Emmy-winning actress Tatiana Maslany, will return for a live-streamed table read of two episodes on Sunday, May 17 at 3 PM ET on the … Read more
More than 90 frontline NHS workers are confirmed to have died during the coronavirus pandemic. Although Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that 78 NHS workers had died, this is only a partial picture. Tributes from local NHS trusts and loved ones have confirmed the deaths of 94 people … Read more
An American college student was horrified to learn — too late — that her professor can read all of the ‘private’ messages she sends on Zoom. The young woman, Faith, has been trading casual messages — with some profanity — with other students, thinking that that the words were kept between them. But when she … Read more
What we all need in unsettling times like this is a good laugh. And in this cracking collection of comic novels you’ll find the dry, ironic wit of Jane Austen and her meddling heroine Emma; the knife-sharp comedy of Kingsley Amis and his hapless hero Jim Dixon; the eccentric absurdity of the Starkadders in Cold … Read more