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TV tonight: Rylan Clark goes witch-hunting in Elizabethan Essex

Prof Alice Roberts joins Rylan to investigate witch trials in Chelmsford. Plus: an exposé of the international dog-fighting trade. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The Substance to The Woman in Cabin 10: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Demi Moore stars in a stunning satire about the tyranny of female beauty standards, while Keira Knightley is a journalist travelling on a luxury yacht when she witnesses someone get tossed overboard

The Guardian - UK

9 TV Personalities Who Never Recovered Financially After a Scandal

Television fame can seem unstoppable until a scandal shatters the illusion in an instant. Some TV personalities make headlines—and then fade into uncertainty or bankruptcy. These aren’t just reputational failures—they’re financial disasters with real consequences. For viewers, it’s a cautionary tale: fame and money can evaporate faster than the ratings…

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Elton John’s “Misguided West End Import” Announces Closure Five Days After Opening Night

Elton John's musical Tammy Faye, based on the life of the famous televangelist, has failed to connect with US audiences. The post Elton John’s “Misguided West End Import” Announces Closure Five Days After Opening Night first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Elton John’s $25m Broadway musical is to close, with announcement coming just days after it opened

‘Tammy Faye’ is set to close next month

The Independent UK

Elton John turns the saga of televangelist Tammy Faye into song for Broadway

When Elton John was on tour in America during the 1970s, there was someone on TV who caught his eye

The Independent UK

Elton John's musical about Tammy Faye Bakker to land on Broadway next season

Elton John’s musical about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is coming to Broadway from London

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Our pick of playwright James Graham’s ten best works, as new National Theatre Gareth Southgate play announced

There are few playwrights doing it better than Graham

Evening Standard

Elton John debuts new musical all about Tammy Faye Bakker ... because of course he did

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Tammy Faye Bakker renaissance shows no signs of slowing down.

Tribune News Service

The week in theatre: Tammy Faye; Hamlet; Marvellous – review

Katie Brayben nails the title role in a musical otherwise lacking edge, Billy Howle makes a princely Hamlet and an all-new West End theatre is launched by an amazing life

The Guardian - UK

Tammy Faye: A New Musical review – Elton John’s hymn to biblical kitsch

Songs belt out deliriously in this romp through rise and fall of the Bakker televangelists and latterday gay icons – so thick and fast the James Graham script and Jake Shears lyrics are sometimes overwhelmed by glitz

The Guardian - UK

Tammy Faye at Almeida Theatre review: praise be, it’s a religious riot

This musical is a carnivalesque takedown of something rotten

Evening Standard

‘Fame, greed, redemption – the story is biblical’: behind the scenes of Tammy Faye

With songs by Elton John and Jake Shears and a script by James Graham, this new musical about the televangelist has a lot of talent behind it. The creative team explain how they brought her dramatic life story to the stage

The Guardian - UK

Musical Tammy Faye tells gay icon’s life story with score by Elton John

Production opening in October portrays US evangelical star who challenged views on Aids and HIV

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Watergate at 50: the burglary that launched a thousand scandals

One of the more curious legacies of the Watergate scandal is so obvious that we barely notice it.

Los Angeles Times

Review: The underappreciated James Gray returns to Cannes with a memoir of '80s New York

CANNES, France — The title of James Gray's "Armageddon Time," which premiered in competition Thursday night at the 75th annual Cannes Film Festival, is a wry reference to a comment made by Ronald Reagan during his first presidential campaign: "We may be the generation that sees Armageddon," he said in…

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Jessica Chastain wins best actress Oscar for The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Chastain’s performance as the televangelist’s wife who rebels against Christian conservatism takes the top acting prize

The Independent UK

The Eyes of Tammy Faye review: Jessica Chastain borders on the ridiculous in glitzy biopic

Oscar-primed drama is the latest attempt to rehabilitate the eccentric televangelist in the public eye

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The Eyes of Tammy Faye review – Jessica Chastain is outrageously entertaining in Christian biopic

The actor is hilarious in a very enjoyable look at the rise and fall of the televangelist’s life with slippery husband Jim Bakker

ABC News

The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield play televangelist power couple in film that champions her perspective

The Eyes of Tammy Faye charts the rise and very public fall from grace of controversial power couple Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker — but its real focus is giving the latter her due.

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