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TV review: Love Life; Mary's Bottom Line

15 March 2012 5:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

It's got starry names – and lots of pillows – but this love story just isn't very good

At the start of new romantic drama Love Life (ITV), traveller Joe returns from a round-the-world trip full of dull stories and photos of Mount Everest. Hang on, that's not Everest, it is not even in the Himalayas by the looks of things. You would have thought they'd have got that right. Or maybe Joe's a liar, and he is not the big adventurer he pretends to be.

Anyway, he goes out on the lash with the lads and bumps into his ex, Lucy, whose decision to come off the pill was what prompted him to skedaddle in the first place. Personally, I think it also had something to do with her penguin-print onesie. Lucy's like that – cosy, homely, a nester, enough to send any man round the world. Now she has got herself knocked up, »

- Sam Wollaston

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Katherine Kelly: from Rada to the Rovers – and back to the stage

17 February 2012 8:58 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

After five years as Coronation Street's feisty barmaid Becky, the actor has made an effortless leap to the National as star of an acclaimed new production of She Stoops to Conquer. But there's much more to her act than northern grit…

When Katherine Kelly arrives for our lunch, vibrant, friendly, in a sweet colourful dress, the first thing you notice is the hair. Gone are the bleached blond tresses, sometimes with tatty hair extensions, of her fabled Coronation Street character, Becky, to be replaced with a shiny, brunette, tied-back bob. It's transforming – from streetwise Weatherfield, to Parisian chic, via one bottle of hair dye. "I think this is my natural colour," grins Kelly wryly. "I can't quite remember – it's been years!"

We haven't much time, and order food quickly. But then, Kelly appears to have natural brio, which doubtless served her well playing the irrepressible Becky –one of the »

- Barbara Ellen

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Winter arts calendar 2012

31 December 2011 4:04 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The Observer's critics pick the season's highlights. What are you looking forward to?

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January

6 Film: The Iron Lady Meryl Streep, working again with Phyllida Law, director of Mamma Mia!, adds Margaret Thatcher (in her prime and her dotage) to her personal portrait gallery.

10 Classical: Nigel Kennedy The Orchestra of Life and the violinist's own Nk Band play his ever evolving smash-hit version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons and more. At the Regent, Ipswich tonight,then touring to 23 January.

10 Theatre: Man in the Middle Billed as "a Wikiplay, sourced from the public domain, refracted and redacted by playwright Ron Elisha", Man in the Middle tells Julian Assange's story at Theatre 503, London to 4 February.

11 Theatre: Travelling Light Antony Sher is a director looking back on his early east European life and the beginnings of movie-making. A new play by Nicholas Wright directed by Nicholas Hytner at the National to 6 March. »

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