Benedict Cumberbatch Addresses His Future as Doctor Strange in the MCU

A new outdoor gym has opened in the grounds of a Wishaw park.

A five-year-old child has been rushed to hospital after a horror smash involving a police car shortly after lunchtime today.

Lanarkshire MSP Clare Adamson wants consumer and workplace safety to be a priority as part of Scotland’s Circular Economy.

Coronation Street bade farewell to another of its beloved characters after one of the show's stars decided to move on. Lorna Laidlaw, who portrayed Aggie Bailey, quietly left the ITV soap, The Sun reported on Thursday.

UEFA have reportedly given the boot to the Argentinian referee who turned Scotland's penalty shout against Hungary - along with his team of VAR officials who were on duty that night.

My guest on 20 Questions this week is Anthony Michael Hall.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Entertainment has selected four Fellows for the 2024 Fox Writers Incubator, an initiative designed to nurture diverse and creative voices, as well as provide support to four writers of all genres, including comedy, drama and animation. Ava Anderson, Jon Lazar, Ronald Matellus and Kirsten Rezazadeh-Jakob were named as the 2024 FWI Fellows. They were selected from over 1,400 submissions.

Queer advocacy group Out In Hollywood has released its fourth annual list of unproduced queer-focused television pilot scripts of the past year.

EXCLUSIVE: C. Thomas Howell (SEAL Team) and Michelle Hurd (Star Trek: Picard) have signed on to star alongside Trevor Donovan and Ashley Elaine in Where the Wind Blows, a romantic Western based on the USA Today bestselling novel by Caroline Fyffe.

EXCLUSIVE: Gersh announced on Thursday that Catherine Benoit Masraff has been hired as Head of Human Resources. The agency has also promoted Kenji Shishido to the role of agent in the Below the Line/Production department, as well as nine others to coordinator in various departments.

EXCLUSIVE: Hyphenate Media Group has appointed Rachelle Mendez as the new Head of Unscripted.

Kinky Friedman — the Texas-raised musician, writer, satirist, dog lover, gubernatorial candidate and overall provocateur — died after a battle with Parkinson’s on Thursday at his Echo Hill Ranch in TX, according to a post on his X account. He was 79.

Comedian Ricky Gervais on Thursday announced “Ricky Gervais: Mortality“,” a tour he’ll head out on later this year, which will run through the end of 2025 and culminate in a new special for Netflix.

The murky world of Silicon Valley is to be the backdrop for AMC’s latest original.

Sunny Side of the Doc, the world’s biggest documentary-focused marketplace in the world, wrapped its 35th edition Thursday, after gathering 2,100 participants over four days in La Rochelle, France.

EXCLUSIVE: We’re getting word about a series in the works from Sony Pictures Television‘s AFFIRM television and Revelations Entertainment which is centering around the Biblical Nazarene movement.

The White House Correspondents’ Association is urging CNN to allow at least one print pool reporter inside the studio for the duration of tonight’s presidential debate, after the network rejected previous requests.

By It’s not shocking that Alex Warren and Kouvr Annon’s wedding would make for some good . The couple are both creators with approximately 40 million combined followers across their various platforms and even starred in the surprisingly depressing and introspective Netflix docuseries in 2022.But it turns out that even TikTokers have their limits as to how much of their lives can be filmed.

Lady Jane has landed on Prime Video today (June 27) and here’s every song on the show’s soundtrack.The new series is partly based on history, centring on Lady Jane Grey, a Tudor noblewoman who briefly claimed the English and Irish throne in 1553.Known as the ‘Nine-Day Queen’, she was beheaded but in Prime’s new show, “the damsel in distress saves herself.”A synopsis says it is “a radical retelling of English royal history, in which King Henry VIII’s son Edward does not die of tuberculosis, Lady Jane Grey is not beheaded, and neither is her rascal of a husband Guildford”.All eight episodes of the show will land on Prime at 8am on June 27 and the series features a cast including Edward Bluemel, Jordan Peters, Dominic Cooper, Anna Chancellor, Rob Brydon, Jim Broadbent, Henry Ashton, Isabella Brownson, Robyn Betteridge, Kate O’Flynn, Abbie Hern, Máiréad Tyers, Joe Klocek and Michael Workeye.Check out the trailer for the new series here:The track listing for the new show can be found below. The show also released its score today (June 27) as well.

Childish Gambino has confirmed the release date of his next new single ‘Lithona’ from his forthcoming album ‘Bando Stone & the New World’.The rapper-actor-comedian, real name Donald Glover, took to Instagram Live last night (June 26) to announce that the new single is set for release on Tuesday (July 2) and opened up about his annoyance with the streaming service Audiomack for allegedly leaking it ahead of time.“‘Lithonia’ is coming out July 2nd,” he said (transcribed by Hiphopdx). “That got leaked. It kinda pissed me off, to be honest.

The Bear has just landed in the UK on Disney+, and the soundtrack to the latest show features classic songs from bands including Radiohead.The highly anticipated third season arrived in the US yesterday (June 26) ahead of schedule, and is now available to stream in the UK today (June 27) on Disney+.The popular comedy-drama – which has been hailed a huge commercial and critical success since its premiere two years ago – stars Jeremy Allen White as a chef who returns to manage his late brother’s chaotic sandwich shop in Chicago.Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach also star in the show, which debuted in 2022 and returned for a second season in 2023. It’s since racked up 10 Emmy and four Golden Globes, including Best Performance awards for stars Allen White and Edebiri.A synopsis of the new season reads: “Season three of FX’s The Bear follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri) and Richard “Richie” Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) as they do what it takes to elevate The Bear, their beef stand turned fine dining establishment, to the highest level, all while doing their best just to stay in business.

Joe Hisaishi is currently midway through his ‘Music From the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki’ tour that will send him to arenas, concert halls and symphony centers all over North America from now until January 2025.Along the way, he’ll swing into New York City’s Madison Square Garden for three huge back-to-back-to-back shows from July 11-13.At all concerts, the 73-year-old maestro will perform cuts from classic films including but not limited to “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” “Ponyo,” “My Neighbor Totoro,” “Princess Mononoke” and “Spirited Away.”“Regardless of whether one knew each particular movie or not, the performance swept each viewer into a unique and fantastic world,” the Maryland Theatre Guide wrote in a rave review of the show.And if you want to see the beloved conductor bring his classic scores to life with accompanying footage of each motion picture, tickets for all 16 remaining U.S. shows on his 2024-25 tour can be secured as soon as today.Prices start at $78 before fees on Vivid Seats at the time of publication.Other shows have seats ranging anywhere from $80 to $1,293 before fees.Curious how much tickets cost for the Hisaishi concert closest to you?For more information, we’ve got everything you need to know and more about Joe Hisaishi’s 2024-25 ‘Music From the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki’ tour below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found here.(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be

Former The Bachelor contestant Hannah Ann Sluss married NFL running back Jake Funk in Italy!

Paul Walter Hauser is putting Vin Diesel on blast.

Awards Chatter” podcast, and was asked if he thinks the intense fame from his 1960s eponymous sitcom led to him becoming an alcoholic.“I don’t recall that it did, because I’ve known performers who had to have a slug the minute the show was over. But I never needed that,” Van Dyke said.“I don’t know what started it,” he added. “Hanging out with the wrong crowd I think.”THR reporter Scott Feinberg pointed out that sometimes genetics can be a cause for alcoholism.“I obviously am a natural,” Van Dyke admitted.

the accusations that they were “abusive” on the set of “Queer Eye.”In March, a Rolling Stone exposé claimed that Van Ness, 37, is “very difficult” to work with on the hit Netflix series. Sources close to the show used the words “monster,” “nightmare” and “demeaning” to describe the grooming expert.

The 2024 Cannes Film Festival had its fair share of notable premieres, including Sean Baker‘s Palme d’Or winner “Anora” and Francis Ford Coppola‘s “Megalopolis,” among others. But a certain doc made waves in the Cannes Classics roster, quietly collecting a string of positive reviews.

The internet is abuzz this week about the fifth episode of the “Star Wars”/Lucasfilm series, “The Acolyte,” from writer/director Leslye Headland. And for good reason, but we’ll get to that in a second.

Over nearly two decades and three shows, Jared Padalecki has been one of the faces of The CW.  But that doesn’t mean the actor likes where the network is headed.  IndieWire (via Variety) reports that Padalecki didn’t hold back about The CW’s future after the network canceled his latest series, “Walker.” In his eyes, its shift to “easy, cheap content” over shows like “Gilmore Girls” and “Supernatural” that gave Padalecki a career will be a downfall.

Manchester isn’t a city famed for glorious weather, which means as the mercury rises with heat waves predicted to hit in the coming weeks, few households are prepared for the warmer temperatures. Without air conditioning, it can feel impossible to cool down when it’s humid and muggy, but I’ve found a gadget under £25 on Amazon that’s been helping me beat the heat for a second summer in a row.

Roy Keane and Gary Neville have landed a new role on television ahead of England's clash against Slovakia in the Euro 2024 round of 16 on Sunday afternoon. The duo have featured alongside one other on ITV this summer as Euro 2024 unfolds in Germany.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Black Bear‘s management arm has signed Mikko Mäkelä, the Finnish-British writer and director of “Sebastian.” Mäkelä is a rising force in international queer cinema having made movies that explore sexuality and identity. Mäkelä’s directorial debut “A Moment in the Reeds” premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and screened at nearly a hundred festivals worldwide, including Göteborg Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival and Frameline in San Francisco.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large AMC is heading back to Silicon Valley, this time via an untitled drama series from “Succession” and “Bad Sisters” writer Jonathan Glatzer. The project, from AMC Studios, has been given a greenlight by AMC and sister streamer AMC+.

Selome Hailu On April 25, 2014, TMZ released recordings of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling criticizing his assistant V. Stiviano for “associating with Black people.” The following week, Stiviano, a biracial Black woman, sat across from Barbara Walters on ABC News and called herself Sterling’s “confidant,” “best friend” and, most bizarrely, his “silly rabbit.” In a moment that has since been memed into oblivion, Walters asked for a little clarification: “His what?” Stiviano repeated herself, but when Walters asked, “His silly rabbit? Is that what he calls you?” Stiviano gave a quiet, “No.” Cleopatra Coleman has her own understanding of the nickname. “Obviously, he does call her that,” says the actor, who plays V.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SAG-AFTRA is launching a fourth tier of its proposed indie video game contract that covers game developers’ projects in the $15 million to $30 million budget range. The news comes amid ongoing negotiations between the union and gaming giants including Activision, EA, WB Games, Disney and Take Two, among others.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor Christy Hall was a playwright living in New York City — which means she had several side jobs, including walking dogs and bartending. “There’s a great quote saying, ‘you can make a killing in theater, but you can’t make a living,’” she notes. She had always dreamed of working in film and television, but it never felt completely realistic to her.Today, Hall is the writer-director of “Daddio,” an acclaimed two-hander starring Sean Penn as a taxi driver named Clark and Dakota Johnson as his passenger, known only as Girlie.