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Nine talking points from Series Mania 2025: “The scripted TV market is not going down any further”

Screen Daily 28 Mar 2025
European Audiovisual Observatory research unveiled at Series Mania revealed that over half of fiction titles produced in Europe in 2023 were commissioned by public service broadcasters (55%), followed ...
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An Iranian American Rom-Com That Breaks the Mold

The Atlantic 26 Mar 2025
Other elements of the book break free from the mold of typical Iranian, and Iranian American, fiction. For one thing, the narrator is of mixed ethnicity (she is half Indian and half Iranian), which you rarely see depicted in such stories.
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Adolescence, the backlash: the nightmare of making hit TV in terrifying times

AOL 26 Mar 2025
Related ... Related ... But because fiction often interrogates events and beliefs, culture is on the frontline of ideological tensions. Fiction is dangerous. So Salman Rushdie is half-blinded and otherwise mutilated for his defence of free writing and speech ... .
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10 key trends shaping the European film and TV industries

Screen Daily 25 Mar 2025
TV fiction production in Europe has reached a turning point ... Over half of fiction titles produced in Europe in 2023 were commissioned by public service broadcasters (55%), followed by private broadcasters (31%) and global streamers (14%).
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Royal Air Force engineers shamed by judge over theft of Paddington Bear statue

Wtop 25 Mar 2025
In fact, two men who had been drinking kicked and yanked on a statue of Paddington, the fictional orphaned bear who came to England from Peru, until it broke in half ... The two spirited away half of the ...
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Charles Collingwood reflects on 50 years on The Archers

BBC News 25 Mar 2025
Half an hour, forty minutes is an event.". Set in the fictional Midlands village of Ambridge, it has been recorded at various locations in Birmingham since 1950, including making its home at The Mailbox, in 2004 ... .
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With new 'Wicked' book, Gregory Maguire talks Elphaba legacy, 'tender moments of agony'

Usatoday 25 Mar 2025
“I was never going to do anything with them, but in the last 30 years – that's almost half my life – I have seen my little aberration, my little fan fiction attempt to go to Oz and see what it looks ...
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'Ed Gein, the Musical' from Omro-raised Dan Davies will get theatrical play debut in Oshkosh

FDL Reporter 23 Mar 2025
Wisconsin Lore. The Plainfield Butcher, Ed Gein ... Doors open a half an hour before each show. Gein’s story has inspired many fictional serial killers in movies such as "Psycho," "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Con Air.".
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The high cost of waiting: How supply chain delays hurt airlines’ bottom line

TravelDailyNews 21 Mar 2025
Airbus’ order backlog is still 43% more than Boeing’s ... Times this simple and reductive example by 10 to make it a five-year delay and the costs are over half a billion for just one fictional carrier ... The article The high cost of waiting ... .
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A remedy from history

China Daily 20 Mar 2025
It was not until the latter half of 1971, ... In concise and vivid language, Liang uses what he calls a mix of half fiction and half nonfiction to present key historical moments in scientific advancement.
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Where to start with: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Observer 19 Mar 2025
Adichie’s second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, not only won the Orange prize for fiction (now the Women’s prize for fiction) in the year I was a judge, but also its Winner of Winners in 2020, and was ...
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American Pravda: Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?, by Ron Unz

The Unz Review 17 Mar 2025
However, Alice Arden, the villainous protagonist who shared many characteristics with the fictional Lady Macbeth, was actually North’s own half-sister, so his likely authorship greatly ...
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Celebrate new ideas at Shreve Memorial Library

Shreveport Times 15 Mar 2025
A King Oliver Novel by Walter Mosley (fiction) ... Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver (fiction) ... Lightfall by Ed Crocker (fiction) ... the Grays came out of nowhere, wiping out half the population in a night.
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It’s Women’s History Month, so read like it

The Hofstra Chronicle 12 Mar 2025
Over the past year and a half, I have begun to lean on non-fiction to learn more about topics that are important to me. Reading women’s non-fiction has opened my eyes to the ways in which women are targeted by society every day.
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