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tired of the world

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London [UK], January 5 ( ANI ): From playing a boxer, a serial killer to a superhero, and most recently, a world-weary Army captain in the dark western 'Hostiles', Christian Bale has done it all, but there is one thing he says he won't take up and that is a 'rom-com' drama.
"Jagannathan will play the world-weary and tough Norah Ahmad, who comes to the US to fulfil a single irrepressible need.
WALTER BBC1, 9pm One-off comedy drama, starring Adrian Dunbar as world-weary detective inspector Walter Gambon, whose workload increases when he is handed the cases of an officer who recently committed suicide - and ends up trying to track down yet another fellow officer who has gone so far undercover, nobody knows where he is.
WALTER (BBC1, Friday, 9pm) THIS one-off comedy-drama centres on DI Walter Gambon (played by the brilliant Adrian Dunbar), a world-weary detective and father to teenager Lily, who, with an answer for everything, manages to keep him on his toes.
Walter (BBC1, Friday, iday, iday 9pm) THIS one-off comedy-drama centres on DI Walter Gambon (played by the brilliant Adrian Dunbar), a world-weary detective and father to teenager Lily, who, with an answer for everything, manages to keep him on his toes.
Hallyday plays a world-weary war photographer who, after years of familial negligence, wraps up his high-impact career snapping cow portraits from a posh Rhone-Alps chalet, and hoping to make amends to his four girls, each born to a different mother and named after a different season.
Flashes of War has features dynamic, believable human characters, from a struggling Afghan mother to a world-weary U.S.
Now they're both adults, and perhaps somewhat world-weary; Ethan is more emotionally damaged than she is, having returned from his service as a doctor in Afghanistan bitter, missing a leg, and unable to believe in love.
It's hard not to be impressed by Roth, unshaven and world-weary, as an assassin in a raincoat with a taste for cigars and Cuban music.
How do we account for that world-weary aphorism, "there are lies, damned lies and statistics"?
At the Emporium, managed by the naive Dulay family, three world-weary and hardened convicts are mending the roof.
The menfolk are funny - friendly funny - and the women are drop-dead gorgeous, The world-weary traveller found rest.
He first appeared as Peter Robinson's world-weary cop in a two-parter last year, but now we can enjoy six new episodes, split into three cases starting with Playing With Fire.
Sirens (C4, 10pm) This new six-part comedy follows the lives of three world-weary paramedics dealing with drunks and accident victims in downtown Leeds.
But his role as world-weary copper Jack Frost saw off challenges from Doctor Who actor Matt Smith, Ashes to Ashes man Philip Glenister and Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch.
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