United Kingdom Entertainment News API

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            "title": "Chapters shrink to suit short attention span of TikTok readers",
            "description": "The length of first chapters in bestsellers have declined since the Fifties, when Lord of the Flies and The Catcher in the Rye were published",
            "content": "It found that while first chapters are crucial gateways to the story, establishing the main characters and the world in which they live, readers are becoming more impatient for a plot to develop.\nWilliam Faulkner’s 1940s epic The Hamlet had the longe... [3019 chars]",
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            "title": "Jade Franks on how cleaning toilets at Cambridge inspired her hit show: ‘I’m not watering down the fury - just sneaking it through the back door’",
            "description": "The Merseyside comic used her experiences of Oxbridge to create the fringe hit Eat the Rich, but struggled in ways her well-off contemporaries didn’t. Now she’s determined to use success to bring more working-class voices into comedy",
            "content": "Jade Franks was scrubbing loos while her peers were playing polo. A working-class student at Cambridge, living a double life as a cleaner alongside full-time studies, she has parlayed her experience into her winningly titled play Eat the Rich (But Ma... [8225 chars]",
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            "title": "The Rip to The Ballad of Wallis Island: the seven best films to watch on TV this week",
            "description": "Ben Affleck and Matt Damon star in an incredibly tense thriller about two narco cops who make a wild discovery, while Tim Key works his kooky charm in the heart-warming Britcom",
            "content": "Pick of the week\nThe Rip\nA propulsive cop thriller whose selling point is Ben Affleck and Matt Damon starring together for the first time since 2023’s Air. They play best friends and officers in a Miami tactical narcotics team – one maverick, the oth... [3542 chars]",
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