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  • Catherine Tate and Tracy-Ann Oberman to play Bette Davis and Joan Crawford

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  • Ashes to Ashes drops to 4.9m
  • BBC3 acquires La La Land [subscription required]
  • David Abraham to start as chief executive of C4 next month [subscription required]
  • Idris Elba calls for more diversity on British TV
  • Survivors cancelled

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Monday’s Pompeii and Egypt news

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Monday’s Pompeii and Egypt news

The Daily News will return on Wednesday

Film

Commercials

TV

British TV

US TV

Film reviews

Review: Clash of the Titans (2010, 3D)

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Do you remember Clash of the Titans, a delightful 1980s film loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda? It starred Harry Hamlin and Lawrence Olivier among others, but is best known as the last movie to feature the stop-motion talents of Ray Harryhausen.

A lot of people are very fond of it, but few people are so fond of it that they’d remake it. Which is what Warner Bros, writers Travis Beacham, Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, and director Louis Leterrier have done.

The question is: is it as good or is it better than the original? And does 3D make it a better movie than it would have been? Here’s the trailer:

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