TV If you only watch one, make it … House of Guinness Netflix; available now Fionn O’Shea as Benjamin Guinness, Louis Partridge as Edward Guinness, Anthony Boyle as Arthur Guinness and Emily Fairn as Anne Plunket in House of Guinness. Photograph: PA/Netflix Summed up in a sentence “Like Succession but about a booze dynasty in 19th-century Dublin, Steven Knight’s latest …
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“Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight has returned to Netflix with his latest drama, “House of Guinness.” Set mainly in Dublin, Ireland, and loosely based on the real-life Guinnesses, the historical series focuses on the famous brewery and the family behind it following the death of their patriarch. Although well-acted and engaging, the show fails to pack the same explosive punch …
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Louis Partridge is feeling protective of George Wickham, the notorious knave he plays in Netflix’s all-star adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice,” currently in production. “Yeah, he is a bit of a shit … but I think he possibly means all the lovely things he says to girls before he leaves them,” suggests the Londoner somewhat optimistically. Not only is Partridge …
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You seem to have a predilection to play real-life characters who die prematurely. Who would you like to play who lives to old age? NeilHVWell, I don’t know if that’s true. Captain Crozier [from The Terror] didn’t die, and Lane Pryce [from Mad Men] wasn’t real. I would love to play [the 19th-century US president] Ulysses S Grant. His history …
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Taylor Swift broke the internet in her podcast appearance on New Heights with boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason. And now the feat has been recorded for the history books in the Guinness Book of World Records. Swift’s longform podcast appearance with the Kelce Brothers on New Heights was arguably one of the biggest pop culture events of the summer. The …
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