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Apple TV+ has reportedly signed two new stars for the second season of Slow Horses.
Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Kadiff Kirwan are both reportedly in line for roles in the new season.
There is no indication of when the second season of the popular Apple TV+ show will debut.

That second season doesn’t have a release window yet, but it does have some new stars.

Apple TV+ has reportedly added two new stars for the upcoming second season of Slow Horses with one coming straight off the back of the Peaky Blinders finale.

The first season of Slow Horses has now drawn to a close but all eyes are already on what we can look forward to in the form of a second season. That season will now have two new stars, according to a Variety report — former Peaky Blinders star Aimee-Ffion Edwards and This is Going to Hurt actor Kadiff Kirwan.

Although it has not yet been confirmed which parts Edwards and Kirwan will play, season 2 of the show about a group of MI5 no-hopers is …

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The UK is making moves to give regulators more control over streaming companies like Netflix and Apple TV+.
A new code will require that streamers adhere to standards surrounding privacy, complaint procedures, and more.

Streamers offering a UK service will need to behave in the same way as traditional TV companies.

The UK has further outlined its intent to increase its regulation of video-on-demand (VOD) services to ensure that they adhere to the same rules as traditional television channels and providers.

In a newly-published whitepaper, the UK outlined plans to bring the likes of Netflix and Apple TV+ under a new Video-on-demand Code, essentially ensuring that they will have to meet the same standards as traditional television companies. Those companies already follow Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code with the whitepaper suggesting both codes are ”similar” to one another.

Video-on-demand services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video provide huge value to U…

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Apple’s latest Apple Watch Activity Challenge kicks off today.
The company is celebrating International Dance Day with an activity challenge.
The event challenges Apple Watch owners to dance for at least twenty minutes.

Dance your way to winning the latest Apple Watch Activity Challenge.

Apple is celebrating International Dance Day with a new Apple Watch Activity Challenge.

Today, Apple launched the International Dance Day Activity Challenge for anyone with an Apple Watch. In order to complete the challenge, Apple Watch users must complete a dance workout for at least twenty minutes.

Time to groove! Earn this award by recording a Dance workout of 20 minutes or more on International Dance Day, April 29. Record it with the Workout app or any app that adds workouts to Health.

As with any Apple Watch Activity Challenges, you can use any exercise app that integrates with Apple’s Health app. This means that you can complete the challenge with Apple’s own W…

Visual Look Up is an iOS 15 feature that lets you get information on various things in your photos. Here’s how to use it.

There are many improvements to existing features in iOS 15, including FaceTime, Messages, Focus, and more. Some of the brand new features include Live Text and Visual Look Up, which kind of go hand-in-hand with each other. Visual Look Up uses machine learning and intelligence to give users information on various objects, places, animals, flowers and plants, and more in their pictures in the Photos app.

Visual Look Up is a very useful and informative feature that will help many people learn more about what they have photographed. This is going to be particularly handy to have when you take a picture of something because you can’t identify it — Visual Look Up will come to your rescue.

Here’s how to use Visual Look Up on iPhone and iPad.

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”It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown” is now streaming on Apple TV+.
The 1976 Peanuts special has made its streaming debut on Apple’s streaming service.
It celebrates environmentalism by turning a baseball field into a garden.

The gang throws Peppermint Patty off her game in this one.

”It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown” is now streaming on Apple TV+.

The Peanuts special, which originally debuted in 1976, has made its streaming debut on Apple’s video service. The special celebrates environmentalism as Charlie Brown’s baseball team ”turns the field into a lush garden, throwing Peppermint Patty off her game.” The streaming date for the special was announced back in March when Apple revealed ”It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown,” a new special for Earth Day.

In addition, the classic Peanuts special from Mendelson/Melendez Productions, ”It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown,” is also coming soon to Apple TV+ in celebration of the environment, and will make its Apple TV+ de…

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”Make or Break” is now streaming on Apple TV+.
The new surfing documentary series follows the stories of a group of professional surfers.

Watch the triumph and heartbreak play out at one surfing championship.

”Make or Break” is now streaming on Apple TV+.

The new documentary series, which features a number of the world’s top surfers, follows all of their stories as they compete for the championship. Some of the surfers featured in the series include Kelly Slater, Stephanie Gilmore, Gabriel Medina, Tyler Wright, Italo Ferreira, and Tatiana Weston-Webb.

”Make or Break” offers behind-the-scenes access and intimate deep dive into the aspirations, challenges, accomplishments and personal lives of the surfers who compete to remain on the elite 2021 Men’s and Women’s WSL CT, and takes viewers on a journey to stunning surfing locations across the globe. The series follows the 2021 competition, navigating as the league responds to the global pandemic, while exp…

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”Shining Girls” is now streaming on Apple TV+.
The new psychological thriller series stars Elisabeth Moss.
It tells the story of a reporter whose reality shifts as they hunt down their attacker.

Elisabeth Moss makes her Apple TV+ debut.

”Shining Girls” is now streaming on Apple TV+.

The psychological thriller series, which stars Elisabeth Moss, tells the story of a Chicago reporter whose reality begins to shift as she hunts down the person who attacked her.

Based on Lauren Beukes’ bestselling novel, ”Shining Girls” follows Kirby Mazrachi (Moss) as a Chicago newspaper archivist whose journalistic ambitions were put on hold after enduring a traumatic assault. When Kirby learns that a recent murder mirrors her own case, she partners with seasoned, yet troubled reporter Dan Velazquez (played by Wagner Moura), to uncover her attacker’s identity. As they realize these cold cases are inextricably linked, their own personal traumas and Kirby’s blurred reality …