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The BBC is set to revisit the world of Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' with a new spinoff based on Lizzy's sister Mary Bennet.

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The 166th and final chapter is scheduled for November 14 in this year's 50th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine. The 16th and final compiled book volume will ship in Japan on December 18.

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Original Title: TIL there’s a secret material called FOGBANK that is used in nuclear warheads. "The material is classified. Its composition is classified. Its use in the weapon is classified, and the process itself is classified.”

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Original Title: TIL of An open air school in 1957, Netherlands. ⁣In the beginning of the 20th century a movement towards open air schools took place in Europe. Classes were taught in forests so that students would benefit physically and mentally from clean air and sunlight.

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"Entsprechend ist das Urteil vieler Sachverständigen bei der Anhörung im Bundestag ausgefallen. Dennis-Kenji Kipker @[email protected] von der Universität Bremen spricht von einem „sicherheitsbehördlichen Daten-Supergau“, die Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte @[email protected] Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider von einem Gesetz, welches „morgen in Karlsruhe kassiert wird“, und Christoph Sorge von der Universität Saarland von einer „Superdatenbank“, was „so rechtlich nicht haltbar“ sein dürfte. (...)

Bei der geplanten Erfassung von persönlichen Daten würde der Ausnahmefall zum Regelfall gemacht. Man käme dem viel befürchteten „gläsernen Bürger“ näher als jemals zuvor. Eine solche zentrale Superdatenbank würde also jede Art der bisher diskutierten Vorratsdatenspeicherung in den Schatten stellen und könnte anlasslos jeden Bürger, jede Bürgerin treffen. Nach der Rechtsprechung zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist diese im Sicherheitspaket vorgesehene Maßnahme weder mit dem Grundgesetz noch mit Europarecht zu vereinbaren.

Es drängt sich der Eindruck auf, das Bundesinnenministerium und die Sicherheitsbehörden nähmen die derzeitige Stimmung zum Anlass, ihre Befugnisse derart zu erweitern, wie sie es in der Vergangenheit schon oft (erfolglos) versucht hatten."

Artikel von Sabine Grützmacher @[email protected] & Tabea Rößner @[email protected]

Die Geburt unserer Erde - Planet aus Eis - Erstes Leben - Das Ende der Dinosaurier - Zeitalter der Menschen

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Film cans containing unseen footage of the Thunderbirds TV show have been found in a garden shed.

A family found the cans - light-tight containers used to enclose film - in a Buckinghamshire shed belonging to their father, who was an editor on the show and died recently.

Stephen La Rivière, from Century 21 Films which received the 22 old cans, said they mainly contained Thunderbirds material from the 1960s, including an alternative version of an episode that was never broadcast.

It is hoped the footage - filmed on the Slough Trading Estate in Berkshire - can be shown to the public as part of the series' 60th anniversary next year.

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We had mixed feelings about the news in August that Disney+ had cancelled its Star Wars spinoff series The Acolyte after just one season. At the time, it seemed steadily declining ratings were to blame, particularly given the high production costs. More budgetary details have trickled out since then, indicating that the streaming series spent far more than previously reported, topping $230.1 million—roughly $28.7 million per episode—before post-production had even been completed. That's significantly more than the original $180 million reported budget, or about $22.5 million per episode.

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Writing at Forbes, Caroline Reid noted that The Acolyte was hampered from the start by a challenging post-pandemic financial environment at Disney. It was greenlit in 2021 along with many other quite costly series to boost subscriber numbers for Disney+, contributing to $11.4 billion losses in that division. Then Bob Iger returned as CEO and prioritized cutting costs. The Acolyte's heavy VFX needs and star casting (most notably Carrie Ann Moss and Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae) made it a pricey proposition, with ratings expectations to match. And apparently the show didn't generate as much merchandising revenue as expected.

As the folks at Slash Film pointed out, The Acolyte's bloated production costs aren't particularly eye-popping compared to, say, Prime Video's The Rings of Power, which costs a whopping $58 million per episode, or Marvel's Secret Invasion (about $35 million per episode). But it's pricey for a Star Wars series; The Mandalorian racked up around $15 million per episode, on par with Game of Thrones. So given the flagging ratings and lukewarm reviews, the higher costs proved to be "the final nail in the coffin" for the series in the eyes of Disney

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