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Explained: Why the first woman chess grandmaster is suing The Queen's Gambit
•Nona Gaprindashvili, the first woman to be named a grandmaster, has sued the Netflix show for "erasing her many successes against male opponents."
Creative Arts Emmys 2021: Claire Foy, Courtney B Vance win big
•Claire Foy was honoured for The Crown and her reprisal of Queen Elizabeth II, the role that won her a lead actress Emmy in 2018. Vance won for his role in Lovecraft Country.
Spain chessboard maker's sales soar after Netflix's Queen's Gambit success
•Rechapados Ferrer, a small family-run business, is struggling to keep up with demand since its boards appeared in the award-winning Netflix miniseries, The Queen's Gambit
Following Netflix success, The Queen's Gambit to be turned into a stage musical
Fp Staff •The story revolves around the orphan Beth Harmon, who discovers early on her preternatural talent for chess and chronicles her adventures from a small town in Kentucky to Moscow whilst battling an addiction to pills.
The dysfunctional and the delayed: From A Star is Born to Honey Boy, there's a pattern in the symptoms of the shattered
Rahuldesai •It’s difficult to script a human who flouts the social norms of age, as opposed to a character who flaunts a sustained resistance to time.
How TV industry in the US adapted to pandemic shutdown of new and ongoing scripted shows
•Due to the pandemic, every platform, broadcast network and cable channel has taken a hit in production. For some people in Hollywood, not to mention many viewers, the pause is not unwelcome.
The Girl On The Train and the rise of the functioning yet flawed female character
Karishmaupadhyay •With The Girl on The Train, and recent series such as The Queen's Gambit and Sharp Objects, creators have refused to define their heroines by their vices or flaws.
Golden Globes 2021 nominations: David Fincher's Netflix film Mank in lead with six nods; see full list
Fp Staff •The 78th annual Golden Globe Awards will air on 28 February.
2020, the year of sumptuous TV style: From The Queen's Gambit to A Suitable Boy, small screen fashion made a statement
Swareena Gurung •The TV series that offered the most compelling sartorial splendour this year also showed us that to be truly fashionable, clothes have to move beyond visual delight.
In life as in The Queen's Gambit, why chess becomes a metaphor for duty, love and conflict
•But this is not the only modern work that deploys chess in this fashion. Star Wars, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Blade Runner, to name just a few, use versions of the game at key moments to show a character’s growth or to stand in as a metaphor for conflict.