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If you've been missing great Aussie Drama since "Offspring" or "Packed to the Rafters" you might want to get on board with "Five Bedrooms" and the good news is there's a whole season sitting there waiting for you to binge it.

This surrogate family are more fiercely loving and functional than your average biological clan. The arrangement that began as a risky short-term solution is now an empirical success, a genuine long-term prospect, and maybe even a preferable version of family and life? 

There's the fallen socialite, Liz (Kat Stewart), laconic tradie, Ben (Stephen Peacocke), firecracker middle-aged mum, Heather (Doris Younane), cautious doctor, Harry (Roy Joseph) and tragic romantic, Ainsley (Katie Robertson).

This group of five misfits first found each other at an all-too-familiar setting, the dreaded singles’ table at a wedding, where liquid courage gave them the ballsy bravado to pitch in and buy a house together. In a communal approach to Australia’s property crisis, they split the impossible cost of homeownership five ways. 

Season two of Five Bedrooms dives hard into themes that resonate globally. There's a new home, a DIY renovation, a DIY renovation injury, two pregnancies, an ex-husband, a workplace bullying complaint, an unexpected tragedy, love found and love lost.

This is Australian drama at its best. 

Season Two Of Five Bedrooms drops weekly from Wednesday, 25 May At 8.30 pm On 10 And 10 Play On Demand.

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Paramount+ has dropped a new trailer for the documentary-style ten-episode series “Players”.

From the Peabody Award-winning creators of "American Vandal," Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, PLAYERS is a comedic documentary-style series that follows a fictional pro "League of Legends" esports team, as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache.

To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.

Misha Brooks, Da’Jour Jones, Ely Henry, Holly Chou, Stephen Schneider, Peter Thurnwald, Youngbin Chung and Moses Storm star.

“Players” will premiere on June 16th exclusively on the Paramount+ service.

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Apple has discontinued the iPod music player after more than 20 years on the market.

The most recent version of the device - the iPod Touch - has not been updated since 2019 and many of its features are now incorporated into other Apple devices and services.

Apple said it would continue to sell the Touch, the last remaining generation of the iPod on sale, "while supplies last".

When it was introduced by late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 2001, the iPod was the first MP3 player capable of storing 1000 songs and came with 10-hour battery life.

The tech giant went on to produce multiple versions of the device - including the iPod mini and iPod nano - but many experts have long predicted it was unlikely to remain in production in the long term because of the rise of the iPhone and other smartphones which have cannibalised dedicated music players.

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Greg Joswiak, Apple senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, said the iPod had "redefined how music was discovered".

"Music has always been part of our core at Apple, and bringing it to hundreds of millions of users in the way iPod did impacted more than just the music industry - it also redefined how music is discovered, listened to, and shared," he said.

"Today, the spirit of iPod lives on.

"We've integrated an incredible music experience across all of our products, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch to HomePod mini, and across Mac, iPad, and Apple TV.

"And Apple Music delivers industry-leading sound quality with support for spatial audio - there's no better way to enjoy, discover, and experience music."

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A view of atmosphere during Christie's announcement that they will offer Andy Warhols Shot Sage Blue Marilyn painting of Marilyn Monroe at Christies, New York, NY, March 21, 2022. The work comes to Christies from the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation Zurich and all proceeds of the sale will benefit the foundation for its charities. (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)

A view of Andy Warhol's Shot Sage Blue Marilyn painting of Marilyn Monroe (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA) 

Pop artist Andy Warhol's famed 1964 silk-screen portrait of Marilyn Monroe has sold for $US195 million ($A279 million), a record for a work by an American artist sold at auction.

Shot Sage Blue Marilyn is one in a series of portraits Warhol made of the actress following her death in 1962 and has since become one of pop art's best-known pieces.

Held in the collection of Swiss art dealers Thomas and Doris Ammann, it was sold by Christie's at an auction in New York on Monday. Pre-sale estimates had reached as high as $US200 million.

The painting sold for a hammer price of $US170 million. Added fees gave it a final price of $US195 million.

The sale broke the previous record for an American artwork at auction of $US110.5 million set in 2017 for a 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

"Shot Sage Blue Marilyn is the absolute pinnacle of American Pop," Alex Rotter, chairman of 20th and 21st century art at Christie's, said in a statement announcing the auction.

"The painting transcends the genre of portraiture, superseding 20th century art and culture."

The painting is built on a promotional photo of Monroe from the 1953 film Niagara, screened with bright colors over her eyes, hair and lips.

Its title refers to an incident in which a woman shot at a stack of four Marilyn portraits in Warhol's studio with a pistol, although Shot Sage Blue Marilyn was not struck by a bullet.

Monroe was one of Hollywood's best-known stars before her death of an overdose at her home in Los Angeles on August 4, 1962.

Warhol died in 1987.

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