Editors' picks
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Television
American Doctor Who fans befuddled by Capaldi's accent: 'He should be called Doctor What!?'
As the Glasgow-born star's accent drives Americans to subtitles, we asked speech experts: is it the Scottish twang, or just his voice? -
Music
Steve Reich: 'Radiohead is my kind of music'
Composer Steve Reich talks to Geeta Dayal about the inspiration behind his new album Radio Rewrite and how everyone needs to get over his 'feud' with Philip Glass
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Television
Fall 2014 shows embrace minority leads as networks realise that diversity sells
Brian Moylan: The most-viewed channel's newest shows have largely white casts while ABC and NBC bet big on a range of Latino, African American and Asian characters -
Music
Forget U2: five bands we'd like to see reach 500 million people
iTunes gave U2's latest album to half a billion people, but U2 are already huge. How about giving someone else a chance? asks Britt Julious -
Film
Top Five review: Chris Rock dazzles in full meta jacket
Review: Chris Rock is already No 1 when it comes to money at the Toronto film festival with this charming – and highly bankable – story of a stand-up struggling to reinvent himself -
Film
Jon Stewart: 'I'm doing a movie about torture – I'm not being tortured'
Paul MacInnes: The Daily Show host on Rosewater, his directorial debut about Maziar Bahiar, a journalist who was imprisoned in Iran afer being accused of spying
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