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Tributes have been paid to Sarah Hughes, the Observer and Guardian journalist who has died from cancer. Hughes, a mother of two, was a hugely respected journalist whose work ranged from hard-hitting and acclaimed overseas reportage, to the television and entertainment writing that she went on to specialise in. Despite her cancer, she had continued to work, and her final Line of Duty recap was published the day before she died, at 48. An open thread will run for the rest of the television series for readers to discuss the programme, as her expertise and passion is regarded as irreplaceable. She wrote a number of candid pieces for the Observer about her illness. In one article, published in November in the Observer magazine, she spoke of coping with cancer against the backdrop of lockdown, her love for her family and the advice she would give to any reader. ....
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Sunday nights are about to get four times more miserable Nicola Walker – she of the saddest eyes on primetime television – was born to be in a morose yet compelling detective show where the troubled lead copper gets far too involved with a murder case as a neon sign of the words “personal life in tatters” flashes above her head. As was Anna Friel. As was Sarah Lancashire. Where the Hell Is Amy? finds all three working together, battling hangovers and horizontal, out-of-London rain to solve a disturbing mystery: where the hell is their missing colleague and fourth horsewoman of sombre crime dramas, Amy, played by Suranne Jones? ....
Lanre Bakare, arts and culture correspondent TV has traditionally been seen as one of the poorer arts. Derided as something that’s on in between adverts, the prestige of the big screen simply didn’t apply to its smaller cousin. But those boundaries and prejudices – already beginning to fragment before the pandemic – have been shattered during Covid-19. The line between film and TV has completely blurred. Think of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe: was it a TV show or a series of films? Does that categorisation even matter to anyone other than those deciding which awards to put it up for? The small screen is the most accessible and creative area of the arts at the moment, partly because of the restraints of the pandemic but also because there has never been so much focus on making television. ....