White follows dusty tracks to find blues

10 April 2015 - 02:44 By Tymon Smith

The spoiler seems to be part and parcel of the digital age, and the only way to avoid having the ending of your favourite show ruined is to stay offline until it's finished. That is until Google got involved.The company was recently awarded a patent to work on a search system that will allow users to block out posts that relate to your favourite shows, books and films so that social media and the web won't be able to spoil them for you.His fellow Y Tu Mamá También star, Gael Garcia Bernal, already has a role in the Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle, but now Diego Luna looks set to get his own starring role in another Amazon show.Luna will star in a pilot for a show based on the adventures of the world's most famous lover, Giacomo Casanova, which will be directed by Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet.Guitarist Jack White has teamed up with T-Bone Burnett and producer Robert Redford to make a four-part music documentary series for PBS and the BBC.American Epic follows the trail of recording company talent scouts from the late 1920s as they journeyed around the country making field recordings of early blues, country, gospel and folk tracks.It will be accompanied by a soundtrack and a feature documentary that tracks White and his collaborators' attempts to re-create the sound of 1920s blues.Collaborators include Beck, Nas, Elton John and Merle Haggard...

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