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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Parminder nagra - The Untold Story

Bend It Like Beckham sequel in works more than 20 years after first film

Director Gurinder Chadha OBE says she has finally found the right story for a follow-up

The Independent UK

Bend It Like Beckham follow-up in pipeline more than 20 years after original film was released

More than two decades after the release of Bend It Like Beckham, writer and director Gurinder Chadha OBE has announced she is planning to revive the hugely popular story

The Guardian - UK

The 11 Best Soccer Movies of All Time

The world's most popular sport has plenty of movies about it. From "Bend It Like Beckham" to "Offside", these are the best of the bunch.

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How to watch DI Ray season 2 online: stream the Parminder Nagra crime thriller from anywhere now

Parminder Nagra and Jamie Bell star in the gritty police procedural. Here's how you can watch DI Ray season 2 online.

WhatToWatch

How to watch DI Ray season 2 online: stream British crime drama

DI Rachita Ray is back, once again fighting prejudice inside and outside the force. Here's how to watch DI Ray season 2 online and from anywhere.

TechRadar

DI Ray season 2: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interview and everything we know

Parminder Nagra is back on ITV and ITVX for DI Ray season 2.

WhatToWatch

7 inspiring sports movies to stream ahead of the Olympics

These sports movies go for gold, including "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Cool Runnings"

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Bend It Like Beckham: the film that ignited a love for football in so many women and girls

When this unassuming comedy came out in 2002, women’s football wasn’t a professional sport in the UK or Australia. It’s worth revisiting as the Women’s World Cup approaches

The Guardian - AU

The surprising way Harrison Ford unknowingly helped get Bend It Like Beckham made

Film’s director, Gurinder Chadha, said Ford had a brilliant response when she finally got to thank him at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

The Independent UK

The surprising way Harrison Ford unknowingly helped get Bend It Like Beckham made

Film’s director, Gurinder Chadha, said Ford had a brilliant response when she finally got to thank him at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

The Independent UK

ITV axes big budget medical drama after just one series as ratings plummet

Maternal - which followed the lives of three medics as they returned to work after maternity leave - won't be returning for a second series on ITV, with the medical drama not recommissioned

Daily Mirror

'Moving medical drama Maternal is a timely love letter to the strained NHS'

Sara Wallis says ITV show Maternal is a no-holds-barred exploration of the ultimate juggle of three mothers working in post-pandemic medicine at City General Hospital

Daily Mirror

Maternal on ITV: What it's about, filming locations, cast and where you've seen them before

The new medical drama is a six-part series about three female doctors returning to the post-pandemic frontline

Manchester Evening News

’I think motherhood puts a bomb under who you are and your relationships' says writer of new ITV drama series Maternal

The six-part medical drama is set in Manchester and was filmed in St Helens and Liverpool

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Liverpool Echo

Full list of new series on ITV, BBC and Channel 4 this week including Love Island

Love Island, Dancing on Ice and Bad Education are all returning with new series

Daily Mirror

Sexism and trauma in ITV drama Maternal are true to life, say docs who inspired it

New ITV show Maternal, starring Bend It Like Beckham favourite Parminder Nagra, follows female surgeons battling to save mothers and babies while dealing with sexist attitudes and tragic deaths

Evening Standard

Blood, tears and sweat: inside the making of ITV’s new drama Maternal

The cast and crew discuss what went into the making of the show

Liverpool Echo

22 unforgettable films that turned 20 this year from Spider Man to Bend It Like Beckham

Before Tom Holland was Spiderman and the Harry Potter franchise was complete

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The Guardian - UK

Bend It Like Beckham: 20 Years On review – this lighthearted doc made me rewatch the film (and weep)

In 2002 I felt the movie had nothing to say to British Asians like me, or my football-mad mum. This engaging doc shows how much, and how little, has changed

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: DI Ray; The Staircase; The Dry; Prisoner C33

Parminder Nagra’s spirited DI battles a thicket of social issues; a raked-over US murder is overplayed as drama; and drink addiction fuels a sharp new Irish dramedy

Bristol Post

DI Ray star Parminder Nagra had no interest in football before changing the world in Bend It Like Beckham

Nagra, now 46, is wowing audiences with her portrayal of the determined DI Rachita Ray in DI Ray

Wales Online

ITV's DI Ray: Where has Parminder Nagra been since shooting to fame in Bend it Like Beckham?

The star has been leading the cast of new ITV drama DI Ray

Daily Mirror

DI Ray viewers ‘can’t believe’ Bend It Like Beckham star's transformation decades after film

Parminder Nagra is back on our screens as DI Rachita Ray in new ITV drama DI Ray, two decades after she first shot to fame after starring in Bend It Like Beckham alongside Keira Knightley

The Guardian - UK

DI Ray review – like Line of Duty, but with racism at every turn

Parminder Nagra stars as a heroic cop facing constant prejudice in this fresh twist on the police drama, full of tangled motivations and box-ticking bosses

Wales Online

DI Ray full cast list: Who stars alongside Parminder Nagra in new ITV drama?

Gemma Whelan, Jamie Bamber, Maanuv Thiara and Ian Puleston-Davies star in the new ITV drama produced by Jed Mercurio

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