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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20050731
Author:Iain Millar

The world has turned upside down, and not just because some people continue to try and blow up the rest of us on public transport. Who could have imagined that a former member of an Eighties boy band (no, not Robbie) would land a lead acting role alongside William Hurt, Donald Sutherland and Julie Delpy in a new adaptation of a classic literary work? Or that some damn fool commissioning editor at BBC3 would landed us with a second series of The Smoking Room? And " quick, send the children to Canada " that on University Challenge's 'professionals' spin-off, civilisation would take a body blow ...

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