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Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic There are now less than three days left in January, which means the announcement of the DCU’s first wave of projects under the freshly-installed James Gunn and Peter Safran regime will be announced imminently. Obviously, the filmmaker has been facing a barrage of demands to unveil the upcoming slate from the second we entered 2023, but even the most impatient of franchise fans will surely be able to breathe a sigh of relief knowing that there are under 72 hours to go…

Whizzing around the fictional town of Cabot Cove in Maine in neat but mundane beige trousers, a blue blouse and gold earrings, Angela Lansbury first appeared on American television screens in 1984 as the author-turned-detective Jessica Fletcher in Murder She Wrote. Back then, no one imagined that nearly 40 years later her character’s wardrobe would still be influencing how TV crime detectives dress. For 12 seasons and over 200 episodes, shoulder-padded blazers, button-down shirts and oversized spectacles formed the…