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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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The Guide

Populist: Items of interest this week

Surreal estate

After Glee and Nip/Tuck, Ryan Murphy switches gears again with American Horror Story. Jessica Lange and Frances "Six Feet Under" Conroy add class to the gory haunted house show. Starts on FX in November.

@humblebrag

Slowly killing off Twitter, one faux-modest "sorry my life's SO GREAT" RT at a time.

Korallreven

Victoria Bergsman (Peter Bjorn And John's Young Folks) guests on Korallreven's As Young As Yesterday: all happy/sad vocals, skittering beats, and synth whooshes to ease us into autumn.

Muppet Movie countdown

Statler and Waldorf's grumpy balcony tweets, the Pig With The Froggy Tattoo trailer, The Green Album – is there any way the new Muppet film is going to live up to their drip-feed of Kermit hype?

In development: Source code – The TV show

Maybe they could do an episode where they take a quantum-sized leap into Scott Bakula's head?

'I will not have a three-way cuddle with a struggling comedian'

It's high time we had more of Jason Schwarzman's stoner PI antics. Bored To Death is back in November, Sky Atlantic.

Half a Fiery Furnace?

Eleanor Friedberger's debut solo album is out in a couple of weeks.

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