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Poppy Jay & Rubina Pabani, stars of BBC Sounds podcast Brown Girls Do It Too, announced as hosts

Poppy & Rubina have been confirmed as the hosts of this year’s Audio Production Awards ceremony to be held on Wednesday 23rd November.

The Awards, sponsored by Audible, will be held at a gala evening at the BFI on London’s South Bank.

The APAs, organised by AudioUK (the trade body which champions and supports independent audio production businesses in the UK), celebrate outstanding achievement in audio production across a huge range of audio content including; podcasts, audiobooks, sound design, radio, presenting and more.

Producer, Sound Designer and Presenter Axel Kacoutié received nominations across three categories, as did Producer Victoria Ferran, nominated for Best Arts & Culture Producer, Best Entertainment Producer and Producer of the Year.

Presenter category nominees include talkSPORT’s Lianne Sanderson for Best New Voice, Claudia Winkleman and Rob Beckett for Best Presenter,...

A review of the "Rectify" season finale — and thoughts on season 3 as a whole — coming up just as soon as there's no kettle corn... "Would you try and forgive yourself? You did the best you could, under the most unusual of circumstances." -Daniel This season began with Daniel having 30 days to leave his hometown forever. With the episode order rolled back to 6, and with the leisurely pace at which Ray McKinnon and company have told the stories of Daniel, Amantha, Tawney, and everyone else, it was conceivable that we could have gone several seasons beyond this one before Daniel was faced with that deadline. Instead, Daniel and Janet hit the road midway through the finale, and he winds up in his new home in Nashville at the end of it. And at the same time, Carl makes an impressive amount of progress in untangling the deaths of both Hannah Dean...

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Sundance’s Rectify is television as known unknown. Like any program that has a couple years under its belt, the show’s third season (premiering July 9th) features many of the touchstones that define the series: patient dialogue, dreamy photography and a pace that makes time feel dilated. The contemplative nature of Rectify took many viewers (at least, many among the show’s pitifully small total audience) by surprise when it first premiered, but certain expectations have since been established. Season 3 finds Rectify the same show it has been for two years now, but grappling with what exactly that show is still makes for a unique, at times transcendent TV experience.

Season 3 opens with a candy bar getting stuck in a vending machine, a handy, no doubt purposeful metaphor from creator Ray McKinnon (who pens the first two hours) for what you should...

Rectify Season 2, Episodes 7 & 8 “Mazel Tov”/”Weird As You”

Written by Chad Feehan (“Mazel Tov”) and Coleman Herbert (“Weird As You”)

Directed by Jim McKay (“Mazel Tov”) and Sanaa Hanri (“Weird As You”)

Airs Thursdays at 10pm Et on Sundance

Part of Rectify‘s appeal in its short first season was its intense focus, be it on a specific character, idea, or even just a singular image. It obviously wasn’t the show’s only strength, but it’s extreme attention to character over plot (a list of characters that included Paulie, Georgia) allowed it to dig deep – a level-headed exploration of faith, the legal system, and the nature of existence rarely found in any form of media.

Season two of Rectify has been quite different: with the scope of the show pulled back in every way, there isn’t as much to draw from and explore. Right down to the...