Poldark review: AIDAN TURNERs protein-rich hero is starting to verge on parody
Appropriately for Easter Sunday this weeks Poldark ended on a note of resurrection, with the impossibly handsome couple Ross (half-man, half-wolf Aidan Turner) and Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson ��� the girl from Brave made flesh) hoping to rise again and .
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9 P.M. (Starz) THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS (2009) George Clooney (above left with Kevin Spacey), outfitted with a heavy mustache, a range of haircuts and a variety of comic tics, plays Lyn Cassady, a recruit in an experimental Army program centered on parapsychology and developed by Bill Django (Jeff Bridges), a Vietnam vet, with the support of a gonzo general (Stephen Lang). Ewan McGregor is Bob Wilton, a journalist who heads to Iraq to find meaning in his life after his marriage goes bust -- and who thinks hes just stumbled upon the perfect story subject. Adapted from the nonfiction book by Jon Ronson, the film is directed by Grant Heslov, Mr. Clooneys frequent producing partner, with whom he wrote Good Night, and Good Luck. What makes this a story worth telling, it emerges quickly, isnt the journalist but the men who thought they could travel the world or stop a goats heart with their minds, Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times of this likable, lightweight, absurdist comedy. The journalist hook is an easy way into the material, but both Bob and the flashbacks, which probably account for some of Mr. Heslovs unsteadiness, get in the way. 10:30 A.M. (13) RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY Betty Rollin reports on the work of mediators who help divorcing interfaith couples with the religious upbringing of their children. Kim Lawton visits the First Baptist Church in Chalmette, La., which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and rebuilt by volunteers from 34 states and is now trying to reinvent itself after losing 97 percent of its congregation after the storm.
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“Talkshow with Spike Feresten” on Fox, a Saharan documentary on the History Channel, “Handy Manny” on the Disney Channel and “Hammered” on HGTV.
AIDAN TURNER is not engaged to girlfriend Sarah Greene.
Aidan Turner had fans in a meltdown when, just last week, he was rumoured to have secretly popped the question to his long-term girlfriend Sarah Greene.
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10 P.M. (Cinemax) NIGHTS IN RODANTHE (2008) Pass the hanky, please. Richard Gere and Diane Lane, above, so good together as the tormented husband and wife in Unfaithful (2002), team up again to play lost souls who find each other at an inn along the stormy and scenic North Carolina coast in this adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel. Writing in The New York Times, Manohla Dargis said that the stars were defeated by the scripted clichés and lack of focused direction from George C. Wolfe, formerly of the Public Theater in Manhattan. Whatever the case, she added, its a shame that beautiful movie suffering has gone the way of the durable hack, the kind of studio lifer who knew that action meant, you know, action, and came equipped with a cinematographer who could turn light and shadow and all those glistening tears into a night to remember. 10 A.M. (CNN, Fox News) FUNERAL MASS FOR SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDYPresident Obama will eulogize Senator Kennedy at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston. The cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the tenor Plácido Domingo and the soprano Susan Graham will perform. At 4 p.m. on CNN and 5 p.m. on Fox News, coverage continues with the burial of Senator Kennedy near his brothers Senator Robert F. Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Aidan Turner opens up about his relationship with Sarah Greene: Well stay.
Dublin actor Aidan Turner has insisted he and girlfriend Sarah Greene arent interested in showing off their romance. The Poldark star has been dating the Cork actress Sarah for three years, and already their relationship has hit the headlines. Just.
Poldark set to return for second series with AIDAN TURNER.
Fans of Poldark need not fear as Aidan Turner has been confirmed to star in a second series of the Sunday night drama.
Poldark returns for second series with Aidan Turner
Poldark: Aidan Turners dark secret · ��� BBCs #AskPoldark descends into farce. The modern adaptation achieves ratings of around eight million, and the BBC said today Poldark had helped BBC One to its highest audience share in a decade. Aidan Turner has .
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9 P.M. (Hallmark) LIES BETWEEN FRIENDS (2010) When Joss Jenner (Gabrielle Anwar), an art authenticator, joins six college friends for a bridal shower weekend, old jealousies are stirred up, and buried secrets resurface -- resulting in the murder of her freshman roommate, Cait (Thea Gill), who had begged to speak with Joss and reveal everything. Now Joss is intent on solving the crime. Craig Sheffer, above, with Ms. Anwar (with whom he has a daughter in real life), plays Sheriff Zack Watts, who is put in charge of the investigation. NOON (13) RICHARD HEFFNERS OPEN MIND In the second of three programs, Burt Neuborne, the legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, discusses the First Amendment and the ruling by the United States Supreme Court that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.
Poldark star talks sexist obsession with Aidan Turners body.
CAPTAIN Ross Poldarks hot body may have gained millions of viewers, but Heida Reed is NOT impressed with the attention that her co-star has been getting.
Media Monkey: AIDAN TURNER, Benedict Cumberbatch and.
Aidan Turner, star of Being Human, The Hobbit and now Poldark, was mobbed at a BFI screening of the BBCs reworking of the 70s drama set in the 18th century, after which much of the QandA was devoted to a nude swimming��.
For This Family of Pros, the Con Is Everything
“The Riches” is so compelling it deserves to be a hit, generating as much media attention and Internet chatter as “Deadwood,” “Nip/Tuck” or “24.”
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9 P.M. (HBO) BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE Dee Browns 1971 epic history of the displacement and decline of the American Indian has gained a new character in this adaptation, the better to attract a wide audience. At the storys heart now is Charles Eastman (Adam Beach), a Dartmouth-educated part-Sioux doctor who is shown at the Battle of the Little Bighorn but in real life was nowhere near it. Anna Paquin plays Elaine Goodall, the white schoolteacher Eastman marries; Aidan Quinn portrays Senator Henry Dawes, who sponsored the General Allotment Act of 1887, which authorized the government to survey and divide tribal lands; and August Schellenberg, above, is Sitting Bull, the Lakota chief who refused to budge.
We HAD to make Aidan Turner go topless to keep it realistic, Poldark makers claim
Besides, we didnt audition him with his clothes off.��� His comments came after viewers complained about Sunday nights penultimate episode in the BBC1 series, because Turner kept all his clothes on. One wrote on Twitter: I miss half naked Aidan Turner.
Chest hair, fake tan and tattoos: How Aidan Turner was transformed into.
So to get in on the action, Radio Times spoke the shows Bafta-winning make-up and hair stylist Jaqueline Fowler about how she got everyone talking about (and lusting after) Aidan Turner. First of all, was it clear to everyone on set that Aidan would.
Eager Poldark fans proposition Aidan Turner during chaotic Twitter QandA
During a Twitter QandA, Poldark heartthrob Aidan Turner was propositioned on more than one occasion by an eager fan of the BBC period drama. The Poldark actor has become the subject of thousands of womens affections after stripping off and showing off .
Poldark gets second series after ratings help BBC1 to 10.
Winston Graham adaptation, starring Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson, has pulled in 8.1 million viewers over course of season so far.
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10 P.M. (Cinemax) (500) DAYS OF SUMMER (2009) Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, above, with Zooey Deschanel) is an unapologetic believer in true love, soul mates and other touchstones of greeting card mythology (and romantic comedy ideology), A.O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. Summer Finn (Ms. Deschanel), he said, is skeptical of such notions and refuses to promise commitment or even consistency, but she does seem to want more and more of Toms company, and this leads him to believe that her carefully maintained barriers to intimacy are beginning to fall. That pretty much sums up the romance between these two seemingly made-for-each-other semi-hipsters, whose breakup is told in scrambled chronology, with the occasional musical number. Mr. Scott went on to describe this film from Marc Webb, who directed music videos for Miley Cyrus and My Chemical Romance, as a shimmering soap bubble, a movie that is, for the most part, as mopily, winningly seductive as the Regina Spektor songs on the soundtrack and at its best as unexpectedly lovely as the views of Los Angeles captured by Mr. Webb and his director of photography, Eric Steelberg. 10 A.M. (MSG) THE GAME 365: ANDRE DAWSON MSG commemorates the induction of Andre Dawson, a former center and right fielder with the Montreal Expos and the Chicago Cubs as well as the 1977 Major League Baseball rookie of the year and the 1987 National League most valuable player, into the Hall of Fame on Sunday. A daylong marathon, honoring past Hall of Famers like Johnny Bench, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays, ends at 5:30 p.m. with The Game 365: George Steinbrenner.
Hapless scyther Ross Poldark and other TV characters who.
Cutting comments have been made about Poldark star Aidan Turners scything technique. But Ross is not the first TV character to prove less than accomplished at his job.
Aidan Turner on prepping for The Hobbit and possibly leaving
A-Turner-320.jpg Image Credit: Touchpaper Television and BBC AmericaThe U.K. version of Being Human returned last night with a big shocker: While saving Annie (Lenora Crichlow) from Purgatory (where shes been stuck��.
Poldark sparks viewer complaints on Twitter��� because.
As the final episode of BBCs historical Sunday night drama Poldark draws closer, the penultimate episode left fans disappointed in one regard ��� a lack of scenes in which lead actor Aidan Turner takes his top off to go and till��.
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9 P.M. (Starz) THE RUNAWAYS (2010) Kristen Stewart portrays Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning (left, with Ms. Stewart) is Cherie Currie, the guitarist and lead singer for the real-life band of the title in this biopic set in Southern California in the mid-1970s. Girls cant play the electric guitar, a teacher informs Joan. This is not about womens lib, counters Michael Shannon, as the promoter Kim Fowley, who takes the girls under his wing and preaches a brand of macho feminism. Its about womens libido. Reviewing this feature-film debut from Floria Sigismondi, based on a memoir by Ms. Currie and with Ms. Jett as an executive producer, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times: Shot (by Benoît Debie) with a grainy, smeary look that evokes the decade as effectively as the clothes and haircuts, The Runaways balances nostalgia for wild bygone times with a cautionary sense of their less heroic side. Acknowledging the brazen, rebellious energy of rock n roll at the dawn of punk, Ms. Sigismondi also tallies the costs that an ardent, ambitious love of the music can exact. He added: The movie may be a little too tame in the end, but at its best it is just wild enough. 5 P.M. (TNT) N.B.A. ALL-STAR GAME AT 60 The N.B.A. leads up to its 2011 All-Star Game (Sunday night at 8:30) with an evening of specials, starting with this showcase of highlights from six decades as well as memories from the former stars Charles Barkley, Kevin McHale and Chris Webber. The programming continues with Ultimate N.B.A. All-Star Fantasy Draft, in which Mr. Barkley, Mr. McHale, Mr. Webber, Steve Kerr, Reggie Miller and Kenny Smith assume the role of general manager to create their ultimate teams from a pool of former all-stars. The Lost Dunks, at 7, looks back at the most spectacular dunks by players who failed to win the annual slam dunk contest. N.B.A. Tip-Off, a pregame show at 8, introduces N.B.A. All-Star Saturday Night: From Los Angeles, at 8:30, featuring a three-point shootout, a skills challenge, and the dunk competition with DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors, Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers, Serge Ibaka of the Oklahoma City Thunder and JaVale McGee of the Washington Wizards.
Poldarks Aidan Turner in egg commercial as nerdy 18 year old
These days he is setting hearts fluttering as the smouldering hunk Ross Poldark on BBCs drama series Poldark. But Aidan Turner, 31, wasnt always the heartthrob he is now, as an ad for eggs starring a then 18-year-old Aidan has revealed. The.
6 Things You Probably Didnt Know About Poldarks Aidan Turner
Even if youve not binged on BBCs latest remake of 1970s classic Poldark ��� youve probably heard of its leading man ��� Aidan Turner. So, heres a few things you may not know about televisions favourite heart-throb. Sorry, ladies - but Aidan is very.
BBCs Poldark remake: stars speak of pressure of 1970s hit.
The White Queens Eleanor Tomlinson and The Hobbits Aidan Turner lead new version of classic Cornish drama.
No Small Roles: The Hobbit Announces Its First Cast Members
Wherever his Hobbit movies get made, Peter Jackson wants you to know he has a cast to appear in them.. While news of The Hobbit has lately focused on a labor dispute delaying the films, Peter Jackson announced the actor Martin Freeman will play the title character of Bilbo Baggins.
Aidan Turner to star as Ross Poldark for second series of BBC
MILLIONS of viewers will get the chance to see even more of Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark after the BBC signed him up for a second series of the Cornish saga.
Poldark finale watched by 6 MILLION as AIDAN TURNER drama attracts rave reviews
Poldark finale watched by 6 MILLION as Aidan Turner drama attracts rave reviews. 13:27, 27 April 2015; By Sherna Noah. BBC1 won the ratings battle in the 9pm slot on Sunday and had its highest audience share for a decade. Share; Share; Tweet; +1 .
Poldarks Aidan Turner Is Not Engaged to Sarah Greene.
Poldarks Aidan Turner Is Not Engaged to Sarah Greene Aidan Turner poses with his girlfriend Sarah Greene while attending a panel discussion on acting at the Teachers Club during the Jameson Dublin International Film���
Poldark is a hairo for real men | Fashion | The Guardian
Aidan Turners rugged portrayal of Poldark has won him a legion of fans, a second series ��� and a lot of hate from jealous men. But hes a hero for hairy chested men like me.
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10 P.M. (Cinemax) THE BOX (2009) A stranger (Frank Langella) bearing a gift worth a million dollars arrives on the doorstep of Norma and Arthur (James Marsden and Cameron Diaz, above), a Virginia couple living somewhat beyond their means. All they have to do is push a red button -- after which someone will die. The actors are fine, and to watch Norma trying to persuade Arthur that they need to push the button is to realize that Ms. Diaz should go dark more often, Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times about this adaptation of Richard Mathesons short story Button, Button, by the director Richard Kelly. The Box is alternately fluid and inspired, and rarely dull (though it is a little, on occasion), she added. There are, as with his previous films, various visual gifts, like the spooky image of an airplane hangar glowing in the night and the odd image of Normas little toe waving like a finger. But Mr. Kelly is so busy sampling genres and confusing the issue that he rarely gives you time or space to enjoy them. In the end, he often seems as lost as his characters, trapped in a Pandoras box of his own making. NOON (13) RICHARD HEFFNERS OPEN MIND Burt Neuborne, the legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, concludes his analysis of the First Amendment and the ruling by the United States Supreme Court that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.
AIDAN TURNER interview: I dont think Im dashing
Before Poldark you were perhaps best known as the conspicuously handsome dwarf Kili from The Hobbit. Right. Who had an unlikely romance with Evangeline Lillys elf Tauriel. It wasnt even a storyline that was part of the early scripts at all. You shoot.
AIDAN TURNER and stars turn out for the opening night of Hedda Gabler at the.
Aidan Turner joins a host of well known faces at the opening night of Henrik Ibsens play Hedda Gabler at the Abbey Theatre Dublin. The Abbeys production of the play comes from Mark ORowe who has teamed up with director Annabelle Comyn to create the .
No Small Roles: The Hobbit Announces Its First Cast Members
Wherever his Hobbit movies get made, Peter Jackson wants you to know he has a cast to appear in them. News surrounding Mr. Jacksons planned two-film adaptation of that J. R. R. Tolkien fantasy novel has lately focused on a labor dispute between the filmmaker and actors unions in New Zealand and Australia, and whether he will move the film out of his native New Zealand as a result. But Mr. Jackson and the Hollywood studios behind the Hobbit features threw eager audiences a bone on Thursday by disclosing some of the key actors in the movies.. Director Peter Jackson says Martin Freeman will play Bilbo Baggins and Richard Armitage will play Thorin Oakenshield in upcoming films of The Hobbit; photo (M)
Poldark heartthrob hints at new series: AIDAN TURNER reveals.
POLDARK star Aidan Turner has hinted that the show may return for a second season.
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8 p.m. (11) GILMORE GIRLS To Live and Let Diorama. The relationship between Lorelai (Lauren Graham, right), singlemom innkeeper, and Luke (Scott Patterson), diner owner, is on again, and tonight he turns a house into a temporary museum (which explains the episode title). More important, Lorelai bad-mouths her snobbish mother in a magazine interview, young Rory (Alexis Bledel) has boyfriend problems, and everyone in this imaginary Connecticut town continues to talk like Nol Coward. Carole King gueststars. 8 p.m. (WE) BENNY & JOON (1993). Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), a mentally ill young woman and occasional arsonist, lives with her brother (Aidan Quinn), who is being pressured to put her in a group home. But then a devastatingly good-looking mysterious stranger (Johnny Depp) comes to town, and Joon may have found a lover and caregiver in one. 9 p.m. (9) VERONICA MARS -- Veronica (Kristen Bell, who is also starring in rebroadcasts of Reefer Madness this week), savvy teenage private eye (she moonlights after school), helps a friend search for her Jack Russell terrier and discovers a larger problem. 9 p.m. (31) COLD TURKEY II -- A stockbroker, a mortician and a journalism student are among the participants in the second season of this cruel reality show. Smokers are tricked into thinking they have been chosen for an adventure reality show, then are told that the real game is to move in together and give up cigarettes. 11:15 p.m. (HBO2) SERIAL MOM (1994) -- Kathleen Turner, right, plays a smiling, suburban Baltimore housewife and mother of two who takes her teenage daughter seriously when she says of a boy she likes, I wish he were dead. This is John Waterss special brand of satire, in which a serial killer becomes a pop-culture star. ANITA GATES
Poldark, series 1, episode 6, review: Aidan Turner drunk and topless (again)
Sometimes its hard to relate to the twists and turns of the 18th-century drama ��� in 2015, a man as lovely as Aidan Turner would never marry their maid ��� but this week we discovered that the same old relationship issues have been cropping up for years.
Being Human, Where Fashion is Undead
Much has been made lately of the bloodless rise of vampire chic. Rarely have monsters looked so sultry - or so camera-ready, writes Ruth La Ferla, picking up on the generally attractive and well-clad undead of Twilight, True Blood and Vampire Diaries. To wit, a fair number of male models seen in Paris and Milan this season mimicked a pale epicene vampire. But vampires arent the only supernatural beings who contend with an eternity of sartorial choices. Witness Being Human, a new BBC America series about a vampire, a ghost and a werewolf sharing a flat in Bristol, England. What of the other creatures in this monster mash - what do ghosts and werewolves choose to wear forever? The style conundrums of the undead may be a new field of study, but lets sinks our teeth into it, shall we?. The style conundrums of the undead may be a new field of study, but lets sinks our teeth into it, shall we?
Friendship, Thicker Than Blood
In “Being Human,” a witty new series on BBC America that begins on Saturday, three friends — a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost — struggle to blend into normal life.
AIDAN TURNER: BBC3 has been the foundation of really great TV - it would be a.
Before Aidan Turner was Poldark the tin miner, and before he played the upwardly mobile dwarf Kili in The Hobbit, he was the vampire John Mitchell in Being Human. The BBC3 supernatural drama was many viewers first sight of the star, and Turner credits .
Irish Actress Sarah Greene Plays a Mean Bully
Sarah Greenes Broadway debut has not exactly been a demure, polite one.
The Troubles Aren’t Dead; They’re Not Even Past
Buoyant, colorful acting enlivens this moderately contrived but engaging comedy from Marie Jones, the author of “Stones in His Pockets.”
Find out Poldarks Aidan Turners hilarious response to fan.
Poldarks Aidan Turner has never made us laugh this much.
Discover Cornwall: the windswept coast that Poldarks AIDAN TURNER fell in.
Irish actor Aidan Turner, who plays tortured Captain Ross Poldark, recently told HELLO! magazine that he enjoyed filming in Cornwall so much that he wants to live there. He explained that, among other stunning locations, the crew spent a few days on.
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9 P.M. (MTV) T. I.S ROAD TO REDEMPTION: 45 DAYS TO GO T. I. (real name: Clifford Harris), left, the Grammy-winning rapper, was arrested last October on weapons charges by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He was able to reduce a possible 30-year sentence by agreeing to complete 1,500 hours of community service before his sentencing next month, after which he will serve time for a year and a day. This new series follows T. I. as he gives teenagers across the country tough-love lectures on how not to follow in his footsteps. 7 A.M. (NBC) TODAY Lily Allen sings; Kathleen Turner and Ruth Westheimer are the guests.
CHRISTMAS SHIP SAILS FOR ITALY TODAY; Message of Welcome From the Prince of Wales Awaits Tourists Bound for England.
CHRISTMAS SHIP SAILS FOR ITALY TODAY; Message of Welcome From the Prince of Wales Awaits Tourists Bound for England.
Poldarks Hair: A Poem
She sent in the following ode to Aidan Turner, and its so good we had to give it a special reading. But can you do better? With the series ending tonight, we would love to receive your sonnets, villanelles, haikus or limericks (as long as theyre not.
Poldark: We didnt audition AIDAN TURNER with his clothes off.
Poldark actor Aidan Turner says he finds it odd seeing pictures of himself withouty a shirt Poldark actor Aidan Turner says he finds it odd seeing pictures of himself with a peculiar smile and carrying a scythe. Photograph:��.
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Poldarks AIDAN TURNER admits girlfriend Sarah Greene finds attention over his.
Every Sunday night, Poldark fans up and down the country swoon over its leading man Aidan Turner. And now the handsome star has revealed the secret to his rippling physique, and its not all about the hours he put in at the gym. He confessed to The .
AIDAN TURNER - Oh No They Didnt! - LiveJournal
In an interview with Radio Times Aidan says he doesnt read press about Poldark or google himself as he could become obsessed (join us, Aidan!). ���It was quite odd to walk into a newsagent and see myself holding a scythe��.
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