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The BBC has deliberately killed comedy – it’s run by a coward and the viewers are the people who suffer

TheSun.co.uk 

THIS paper’s TV critic isn’t a huge fan of the BBC’s latest comedy.

Ally Ross has a history of slagging off BBC sitcoms — and the title of Smoggie Queens alone would have had him reaching for the smelling salts.

PASmoggie Queens was the latest disaster sitcom brought to us by a failing BBC[/caption] GettyHumour-phobic BBC director Tim Davie has killed the corporation’s funny bone[/caption]

The Guardian, meanwhile, doing its level best not to slate it, gives it three stars for being nice... Читать дальше...

U.S. charges ex-head of Syrian prison with torture

The Hindu 

Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 72, who has been in the U.S. since 2020, allegedly ran Damascus Central Prison -- known colloquially as Adra Prison -- from approximately 2005 to 2008, where detainees were subjected to horrific abuse

US military flies American released from Syrian prison to Jordan, officials say

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

The U.S. military has brought an American who was imprisoned in Syria for seven months out of the country. That's according to two U.S. officials, who said Friday that Travis Timmerman has been flown to Jordan on a U.S. military helicopter. The 29-year-old Timmerman told The Associated Press earlier Friday he had gone to Syria on a Christian pilgrimage and was not ill-treated while in a notorious detention facility operated by Syrian intelligence. He said he was freed by “the liberators who came... Читать дальше...