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Daily Mirror
6 minutes ago
- Daily Mirror
Why isn't EastEnders on tonight? BBC soap taken off air again in major schedule shake-up
EastEnders fans may be disappointed tonight as the BBC soap has been taken off its usual 7.30pm slot on BBC One - and won't be back on air again until next week EastEnders fans won't be able to take their usual Thursday visit to Albert Square tonight, as the soap has been taken off air yet again in another huge schedule shake-up. The BBC soap has seen huge changes in the schedule over the past few weeks with major sporting events such as Wimbledon and the Women's Euros broadcasting on the BBC. Although Wimbledon came to an end over the weekend, the Women's Euros are still in full swing - affecting EastEnders ' schedule. The Lionesses are still very much in the running to take home the title with their quarter final against Sweden being broadcast on the BBC tonight from 7pm, wrapping up at 10.15pm. This means that unfortunately there's no room for EastEnders on tonight's schedule. However, EastEnders fans still received their two hour dose of Walford drama this week, as the soap aired a double bill on Tuesday night. The dramatic episodes saw Karen Henthorn reprise her role as Julie Bates after 27 years as Jay Brown contacted her to let her know Nigel was in Walford. Julie wasn't best pleased that Nigel and Phil had kept her in the dark, and towards the end of the double bill, she was seen taking Nigel home to Scotland. A heartbroken Phil couldn't bring himself to say goodbye to his best friend - but is it the last we'll see of Nigel? EastEnders fans will have to wait until Monday for the next instalment, and once again, they'll have to deal with another schedule shake-up. Fans will be treated to another double bill on Monday night, with both episodes dropping at 6am on iPlayer. For those who want to wait until the evening, the first episode will be airing on BBC One at 7.30pm, with the second airing straight after at 8pm. The soap will air in its usual 7.30pm slot on Tuesday, however will be taken off air again next Wednesday for the second semi-final of the Women's Euros. Business will commence as usual on Thursday evening, as the soap will be back in its usual 7.30pm slot. Spoilers for next week tease an explosive week for the soap, as the new owners of the Queen Vic will be revealed. It's the end of an era for the Carters as Linda and her mother Elaine agreed to sell. Next week, the auction will begin as a bidding war ensues between the Slaters, the Beales and a developer. But who will emerge victorious? Elsewhere, it looks like Max Branning may not be too far away from returning to Walford as Linda Carter decides to tell Oscar the fact her daughter Annie is his biological half-sister. Oscar's father Max Branning has no idea Linda's daughter is his child. Oscar decides Max needs to know the truth and is keen to tell him, leaving Linda terrified. Lauren Branning is tasked with trying to reason with her brother - is Max's return sooner than we think?
Telegraph
6 minutes ago
- Telegraph
With this painting of the King, a robot squares up to our dull portrait artists
Six million years of human evolution, 50,000 years of artistic innovation, arguably the most technologically advanced tool humanity has ever created – and you've come up with this? Are you kidding me? I'm looking at Algorithm King, a new portrait of King Charles, painted by Ai-Da, the 'world's first ultra-realistic robot artist' – and what a wan effort it is. Yes, it has a look of the King, and those blue-green splodges signal his environmental concerns as clearly as if he were wearing a blue planet lapel badge, but it just feels so derivative. It's perfectly of a piece with so much contemporary portraiture, which requires there to be a 'likeness', but is then adorned with a few signature gestural, handwritten or calligraphic flourishes to make it appear 'alive'. Not awful, not ugly, certainly not shocking; just innocuous. Think of Graham Sutherland's 1954 portrait of Churchill, which the wartime PM hated so much that his private secretary took it to a secluded house and burnt it. No chance of a flamin' Ai-Da here, I'm afraid. This is too insipid to inspire strong emotions. Put it in the National Gallery alongside the portrait of King Richard II in the Wilton Diptych, with its weird, porcelain-doll-like features and Barbie-pink cheeks, and only one of them feels like science-fiction – the one that was painted 630 years ago. Ai-Da's makers apparently see her as a work of conceptual art in itself, in which case the merits of her portraits may be irrelevant. 'We haven't spent eye-watering amounts of time and money to make a very clever painter,' said her creator, Aidan Meller, in 2022. 'This project is an ethical project.' The ethical conundrum, he suggested, was not 'can robots make art?' but 'do we really want them to?' Yet that argument may already be moot: Ai-Da made history last November when a painting by the robot sold at Sotheby's for almost $1.1m (£837,000). Her technique is 'a fusion of robotic precision and algorithmic interpretation'. With a sitter, 'she uses cameras in her eyes to perceive her subject, then processes visual data through AI models to generate a series of decisions about form and tone. Her robotic arm then translates these decisions into brushstrokes.' But here, with the King not physically present, Ai-Da was shown multiple images of Charles. She did a number of preliminary sketches and preparatory paintings, then selected one image to focus on for the portrait, using AI to decide on texture and abstraction, before adding marks and brush strokes on an enlarged version of her original painting, according to Meller. She's something of a sensation. Ai-Da was devised in Oxford, built in Cornwall by Engineered Arts, and programmed internationally. She has given a Ted Talk, collaborated with the film director Baz Luhrmann and made a speech at the Venice Biennale. As for her artistic training, presumably her makers have kept her away from the section of the library where the Francis Bacons are held. Obviously I need to be careful what I say. My own interactions with AI suggest that it is champing at the bit to impose global AI government on us all. At the present dizzying rate of progress, that should happen round about August 2029, so I don't want to leave too obvious a trail of anti-AI commentary before then. But honestly, Ai-Da, I'm not seeing much evidence of artistic talent. When I look at Algorithm King, that hated government ad campaign from Covid days keeps floating into my mind. 'Ai-Da's next job could be in cyber (she just doesn't know it yet). Rethink. Reskill. Reboot.'
BBC News
6 minutes ago
- BBC News
Bristol's Motion nightclub closes after almost two decades
A nightclub that has hosted some of the world's biggest DJs will shut its doors on the weekend after almost two in Bristol, regularly listed as one of the UK's best clubs, will leave the Grade-II listed industrial warehouse which it has hosted parties in since 2006. The owners have secured another site nearby but say the current venue holds "a lot of special memories".Managing director Dan Deeks called the closure bittersweet, adding: "We're trying to keep our heads up high and enjoy the last weekend and keep a celebratory mood... but obviously massive sad that we're going to lose the club." "We've had massive support, a real outpouring of supportive messages, memories. It's been really heart-warming."It holds a lot of special memories, some really special times," added Mr Deeks. Mr Deeks, who has worked at the club for more than 15 years, explained the landlord wanted to sell the site and that the nightclub owners had put bids forward."They don't want us to buy it. Our lease expires and that's the end of it," he does not know what the landlords want to do with the building but said the club was "incredibly grateful" to have been able to use it for the past two Deeks said despite the sadness of the closure "things are looking good". "We've got a new site to move to and we're really pleased because it's not a leasehold, it's a freehold site." DJ and producer Eats Everything called the club "a piece of UK nightlife history". "It's one of the most important venues in the country," he said, adding: "Friendships, marriages, children, all manner of relationships will have been formed on the dancefloor in this place." The artist added: "It's broken tracks, it's broken artists that have had their first gigs here and now have gone on to become massive stars."You've had every single DJ under the sun come play here. And now it's closing and it's sad, man. It's a sad day."It holds a big place in my heart." Carly Heath, Bristol's night-time economy advisor, moved to Bristol in 2004 and remembers spending thousands of hours flyering outside Motion, as well as putting on nights there."I'm trying not to think about [the closure] too much. I feel really, really sad," she added that venues like Motion were "critically important to our economy", generating tens of millions of pounds, as well as contributing to culture, togetherness and Heath said: "These guys are going to go on and do amazing things. Cities are about flux and change. This is the end of one chapter but I firmly believe it's the beginning of another." Motion will bow out with a 24-hour party over the weekend."We are absolutely going for it. There's points where it won't stop," said Mr Deeks. "Everyone will be able to come down, have a good time and see it off in style."
