ABC Drama Pilot ‘Promised Land’ Casts Cecilia Suárez, Augusto Aguilera

David Beckham, 46, left fans swooning on Thursday after sharing a steamy shirtless photo from inside a sauna.SEE: Victoria Beckham's £6million country house is a family party pad – with a lakeIt's likely the star took the snap from his £12 million Cotswold's estate, where David and Victoria Beckham escaped to the countryside with their family this week while their youngest daughter, Harper Seven, is on half term. The Beckhams have decked out the country retreat with everything they'd need for an indulgent break, where David invested in an extra-special log cabin for the garden.WATCH: See inside David and Victoria Beckham's gorgeous Cotswolds bathroomThe structure is fitted with a sauna and steam room. Perfect for some rest and relaxation.Taking to Instagram to share a moody selfie, David revealed several of his tattoos, many of which are dedicated to his family."Early morning sauna.

Just because Mark Wahlberg got COVID, his family wasn’t about to give up their vacation.

A tiny frog has been found in a bunch of bananas at a primary school - having journeyed 5,000 miles to get to the north west.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Osaka Asian Film Festival has unveiled its biggest ever program – a total of 76 films – to unspool next month (March 10-20, 2022).Its competition section includes the acclaimed Korean debut film “Aloners,” which offers an exacting critique of the alienating effects upon life of modern capitalist economies; Hong Kong biopic “Anita”; the world premiere of “Angry Son,” which combines LGBT and mixed race themes in a heartwarming comedy; Kong Dashan’s new take on “Journey to the West,” as a ragtag group of people on a UFO hunt; “Mama’s Affair,” the second film by Kearen Pang, whose 2017 debut “29+1” won Osaka’s audience award, “No Land’s Man” from Mostofa Sarwar Farooki and festival circuit hit “Barbarian Invasion.” The spotlight section includes ten titles. Among them are “The Ground Beneath her Feet” from Bangladesh’s Mohammad Rabby Mridha; “A Room of Her own” from China’s Xie Yiran; and Carlo Francisco Manatad’s “Whether the Weather is Fine.”The largest component section is the twenty-title Indie Forum, a platform for Japanese indie films that allow the winner to claim the Japan Cuts Award.

Charlotte Dawson has been wowing fans while on holiday thanks to her regular social media updates.

The speed limit on Mancunian Way has been reduced significantly this week and we'd like to know what you think of the decision.

A train operator is 'strongly urging' people not to travel on the railways tomorrow as Storm Eunice hits the UK.

Celtic outcast Boli Bolingoli could finally be set for the exit door as it's reported he's in talks over a move to Russia.

Storm Dudley wielded it’s power yesterday afternoon as the plane transporting Manchester City back to the UK was forced to abandon its landing.

BBC Radio 2 fans have been left devastated after hearing that host Paul O’Grady is being taken off air after 23 years and will be replaced by comedian Rob Beckett.

A bustling Ferguslie Park community hub is urging groups in the area to apply for a share of £25,000 funding to help reduce isolation and increase health and well-being.

A music teacher guilty of a campaign of rape, abuse and grooming against six female pupils has been jailed for 11 years.

An internal candidate has been appointed to a lucrative council job.

Alec Baldwin is in "complete denial" and refuses to accept "any responsibility" for the death of "Rust" cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, her family's attorney says. Hutchins was killed on Oct.

Foxes is the next guest on The Record Club with Bowers & Wilkins, to chat all things about her third album The Kick.

after he recently spoke out against “alarming” drill music.Adams, who took office last month as the 110th mayor of New York City, said last week that he wanted to sit down with social media companies to “state that you have a civic and corporate responsibility” in regards to promoting drill music.“You know, I mean, we pulled Trump off Twitter because of what he was spewing, yet we are allowing music – displaying of guns, violence – we’re allowing it to stay on these sites,” he added.On Tuesday (February 15), Adams met with the likes of Fivio Foreign, Maino, B-Lovee, Slow Bucks and Bleezy to discuss public safety in the city and the gun violence that is impacting the hip-hop community (via ABC News).Speaking to reporters yesterday (February 16), Adams said that the group came to the meeting “with a lot of energy” and were concerned that the mayor intended to “ban” drill music.A post shared by JERMAINE (@mainohustlehard)Adding that he had “a great conversation” with the group, Adams said that he was primarily concerned by drill rappers who make violent threats to their rivals in their music.“Violent people who are using drill rapping to post who they killed, and then antagonise the people who they are going to kill, is what the problem is.”In a video from the meeting that was shared on Instagram, the rapper Maino says: “There’s been a lot of talk about drill rap, drill music in New York City, connecting violence with the culture, and I just wanted to create a conversation with the mayor.”The clip then sees Adams add: “We’re going to roll out something together on the whole conversation, and we’re looking forward to it.”You can see a selection of social media posts from Adams’ meeting with the rappers below.A post shared by

Fontaines D.C. have shared their brand new single ‘I Love You’ – listen to the track below.The song is the latest to be taken from the Dublin band’s upcoming new album ‘Skinty Fia’, which is set for release on April 22 via Partisan Records.The five-piece’s follow-up to the record’s lead single ‘Jackie Down The Line’ has been released today (February 17).

Robert Pattinson has revealed that he was asked to change his original Batman voice.The actor, who makes his debut as the caped crusader in The Batman, explained on Jimmy Kimmel Live! how he originally wanted to do something “radically different” from his predecessors.Speaking on the show, Pattinson said: “Everyone does this kind of gruff, gravelly thing, and I’m like, ‘I’m going to do the opposite, I’m going to go really whispery’.“And I tried to do it for like the first two weeks and it just looked absolutely atrocious, and they told me to stop doing it.”The actor later discovered that Christian Bale also attempted to subvert expectations with his original Batman voice for Batman Begins, before it was later changed. “If you listen to the first Batman Begins teaser trailer, you can hear the original voice,” Pattinson said. “I only found this out a couple of weeks ago.”In The Batman, directed by Matt Reeves (Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes), Pattinson stars alongside Paul Dano as The Riddler, Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot, John Turturro as Carmine Falcone, Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth and Jeffrey Wright as James Gordon.Pattinson recently said he’s discussed the idea of doing a trilogy of films with Reeves.

JennyLee has shared details of her second solo album, ‘Heart Tax’, made in partnership with Record Store Day 2022.The musician, who is also the bassist/backing vocalist in Warpaint, will release her new album on April 23 (pre-order here).‘Heart Tax’ comprises the six singles JennyLee has released over the the last two years and is completed by six new songs for Record Store Day (April 23). See here for a full list of releases for the annual event.The follow-up to 2015’s ‘Right On!‘ features collaborations with Goldensuns, Warpaint, Belief and Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa, Depeche Mode‘s Dave Gahan and Trentemøller.‘Heart Tax’ track list:01. ‘Stop Speaking’02. ‘Tickles’03. ‘Newtopia’04. ‘Heart Tax’05. ‘Clinique’06. ‘In Awe Of’07. ‘Hallows Eve’08. ‘Tickles II’09. ‘Love You’10. ‘I’m So Tired’Songs already released from the album include the Gahan-featuring ‘Stop Speaking‘, the Trentemøller-produced single ‘Tickles’ and B-side ‘Heart Tax’, and ‘Newtopia‘.A description of the record’s germination reads: “A substantial portion of the album was assembled during the last few years of uncertainty, starting in the bliss of southern California, and finished in the quiet of Salt Lake City.“This disconcerting time allowed JennyLee to ‘access the depths’ of her creativity in ways she had never been able to before.

Their rightful roles! Prince Charles and Prince William plan to “guide each other” on their paths to the British throne, a source exclusively reveals in the latest issue of Us Weekly.

Daniel Craig revealed what the Queen is like in person as he chatted to Stephen Colbert on Wednesday’s “The Late Show”.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe “Obi-Wan Kenobi” series at Disney Plus has cast Maya Erskine, Variety has confirmed.Details on Erskine’s role are being kept under wraps. She joins previously announced series lead Ewan McGregor as well as Moses Ingram, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell and Benny Safdie.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming “Fantasy Island” reboot at Fox has added its first two cast members, Variety has learned.Kiara Barnes and John Gabriel Rodriguez will both star in the series, which was ordered straight-to-series at Fox back in December.The new series is described as a modern semi-anthology series that delves into the “what if” questions, both big and small, that keep us awake at night. Each episode will tell stories about people who walk in with a desire, but end up reborn to themselves through the magical realism of Fantasy Island.Barnes will play Ruby Okoro.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Cuesta (Homeland) has been tapped to direct and executive produce ABC’s drama pilot Promised Land.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAmazon Studios has ordered a YA pilot based on the Harlan Coben novel “Shelter,” Variety has learned exclusively.Shelter” is the first novel in Coben’s Mickey Bolitar book series. MGM has acquired the rights to all the other books in the Mickey Bolitar series as well.

Cecilia Suárez (The House of Flowers) and Augusto Aguilera (Too Old To Die Young) are set as leads opposite John Ortiz in ABC’s drama pilot Promised Land.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCall it the pilot season that wasn’t. One year later, the COVID-19 pandemic is still casting a long shadow over the new crop of broadcast shows.Across the Big Five networks, the majority of the pilots in contention this year are holdovers from 2020. The backlog is still being sorted out, underscoring the disruption of last spring when the public health crisis shut down work for months just as pilot production would have normally reached its peak.

John Ortiz (HBO’s Togetherness) has been tapped as a main lead of ABC’s drama pilot Promised Land.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJohn Ortiz has been cast in a leading role of the ABC drama pilot “Promised Land,” Variety has learned.The show is described as an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California’s Sonoma Valley. Ortiz joins previously announced cast members Christina Ochoa and Mariel Molino.Ortiz will star as Joe Sandoval, the patriarch of the Sandoval family, a wealthy vineyard-owning family in the Sonoma Valley.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“The Last of Us” series adaptation at HBO has added Gabriel Luna to its cast, Variety has learned.Luna joins previously announced series leads Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, who will star as Joel and Ellie respectively. Luna will star as Tommy, Joel’s younger brother, a former soldier who hasn’t lost his sense of idealism and hope for a better world.“The Last of Us” series was first announced as being in development at the premium cabler last March, with the show landing a formal series order in November.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“House of the Dragon,” the “Game of Thrones” prequel series currently in the works at HBO, has added Fabien Frankel to its cast.“House of the Dragon” is set a few hundred years prior to the events of “Game of Thrones” and tells the story of House Targaryen and the Targaryen civil war that became known as the “Dance of the Dragons.”Frankel will appear Ser Criston Cole, of Dornish descent, the common-born son of the steward to the Lord of Blackhaven.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAnika Noni Rose has been cast in the “Let the Right One In” pilot at Showtime, Variety has learned.She joins previously announced cast member Demián Bichir. The series centers on Mark (Bichir), a father and his 12-year-old daughter, Eleanor, whose lives were changed forever 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterChristina Jackson has been cast in a leading role in the FX pilot based on the Sam Greenlee novel “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” Variety has learned.The project was ordered to pilot at FX in February. Jackson will star opposite series lead Y’lan Noel.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNBC has given out a pair of comedy pilot orders, including one starring music superstar Demi Lovato.The Lovato project is titled “Hungry.” NBC had previously given the single-camera show a put pilot commitment back in January. In the show, friends who belong to a food issues group help each other as they look for love, success and the perfect thing in the fridge that’s going to make it all better.Suzanne Martin is writing and executive producing, with Lovato executive producing in addition to starring.