Call The Midwife Christmas special first look as BBC to air two-part episode - delighting fans

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, one of the most successful musicals in Broadway history when it ended its 35-year run in 2023, is coming back to North America in a tour featuring a reconfigured version.

Charter Communications CEO Chris Winfrey said the company’s ongoing integration of streaming services for Spectrum TV and internet customers will have “a pretty significant impact on acquisition and retention.”

A callous fraudster who targeted an elderly couple in a brazen £25,000 banking scam has been jailed for 18 months.

Shortly after Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her first Budget in Parliament on October 30, the Treasury outlined three ways the announcement would put more money into the pockets of people in and out of work. Their key areas are the living wage, expanding the Help to Save scheme for those on certain means-tested benefits and reducing deductions to Universal Credit payments.

Academics based at Stirling University are set to take part in a special free first screening of a new BBC documentary exposing 'dark secrets' of the perfume industry.

It was all creepy crafts and spooky stories for the free pop-up Hallowe’en fun day at Dumfries Museum – and the kids loved it.

Tracker's Reenie and Colter on the about a lone-wolf survivalist with tracking skills who makes his living helping law enforcement and private citizens for reward money. Fiona Rene plays Reenie, an attorney who works with him in solving these high-stakes cases.“I mean, as a woman, the minute that there are emotions there and both parties know about it, the stakes are higher,” tells Glamour over Zoom from her place in Vancouver, Canada, where Tracker films. “It is treacherous territory [for these two].”As anyone who watches Tracker will tell you, Reenie is Colter's () left arm, and he's the one person who can get under her skin.

Forget about HBO‘s various “Game Of Thrones” spinoffs, Westeros may finally appear on the big screen. THR reports that Warner Bros.

When Operation Mincemeat, the lauded West End musical comedy, begins previews on Broadway this February, the original London cast will be reprising their acclaimed performances for New York audiences.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix will attempt to unravel an 18-year-old mystery surrounding the death of Nora Dalmasso, a mother of two who was found strangled in her home in an affluent Argentinian city.

Liz Cheney condemned Donald Trump‘s use of a violent scenario as he described her as a “war hawk.”

Manchester United interim manager Ruud van Nistelrooy has left fans scratching their heads with his gesture on camera.

Manchester United are expected to confirm the make-up of Ruben Amorim's backroom staff in the coming days following the 39-year-old's appointment as manager.

A firefighter who was caught behind the wheel over the drink drive limit claimed she was haunted by a series of 999 tragedies she had to deal with during her shifts.

Ruben Amorim has been confirmed as the next permanent head coach of Manchester United, and is now set join from Sporting CP later this month.

Brat is a word that you have probably seen everywhere over the past year alongside slime green flooding your social media news feeds.

Finding the perfect winter coat is no easy task. A decent cold weather coat should keep you as dry as it does warm, and feel comfortable enough to layer over jumpers, hoodies and chunky knitwear.

Ruud van Nistelrooy's long-term Manchester United future remains uncertain following the appointment of Ruben Amorim as the club's new head coach.

Two brothers who used an encrypted messaging system to purchase and sell huge amounts of cocaine worth as much as £1.4 million now face a decade behind bars.

A teenager who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in an alleyway has been jailed for life.

Hugh Jackman has been announced as a headliner for BST Hyde Park 2025 – you can find all the details below.The Wolverine star’s UK-exclusive headline slot will take place on Sunday, July 6. Coined ‘From London with Love’, the show will see him performing songs from musicals including The Boy From Oz, The Greatest Showman, Les Miserables, and The Music Man, alongside other surprises.Tickets go on general sale at 10am GMT Wednesday 6 November, and will be available here.

Saoirse Ronan has said she doesn’t feel safe going to watch films at cinemas in the US because of gun violence.The four-time Oscar nominee told Variety for their Awards Circuit Podcast that she finds it “horrifying” that she’s scared to go to the cinema because of gun violence. In the US, there have been several shootings at cinemas including at screenings of The Dark Knight Rises in 2012 and Trainwreck in 2015.Ronan explained: “There are people I’m close to who don’t feel safe and can’t go to New York anymore because they’re just randomly getting attacked in the street for TikTok content.“I don’t feel safe going to the cinema because I’m not sure if someone’s going to pull a gun out.

are the best celebrity Halloween costumes, hands down. This is just a fact. The supermodel is the , offering up intricate, memorable costumes year after year.

Kelly Rizzo is getting candid on the wisdom shared by her late husband Bob Saget.The travel blogger revealed that while she was married to the comedian, who passed away at age 65 in 2022, he taught her that communication is key.“Just being very open about communicating,” Rizzo exclusively told The Post at the Scleroderma Research Foundation’s “Cool Comedy • Hot Cuisine” event Tuesday. “If there is something you’re going through just share it, talk about it and be honest and open about it because keeping things in and letting things fester is the worst thing you could do.”And she took this piece of advice over into her relationship with Breckin Meyer, 50, who she started dating in February, two years after Saget’s death.As for what Rizzo wants the “Full House” alum’s legacy to be known for? The podcaster shared, “I want him to be remembered as an incredible, selfless friend, father, husband, and someone who all he wanted to do was to make people laugh and to make people happy.”“Especially the last few years of his life,” Rizzo confessed. “Especially during the pandemic, all he wanted to do was like, ‘The world is hurting and I just want to make people laugh.’ And not only was that the biggest burning desire in his soul but he also just loved his family and his friends so endlessly and fearlessly and he would do anything for them.”She added, “He just had the biggest heart.”But despite wanting to make the world laugh, Rizzo revealed fans may be surprised to know that Saget had low moments as well.“A lot of people think that comedians are always laughing,” she explained, “and they’re always happy and they’re always telling jokes all the time and that is not the case.

Throughout November, Dumfries and Galloway Council will run events across the region inviting struggling families and individuals to go along and help themselves to free warm winter clothes.

As Fubo‘s legal battle against Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery continues, the pay-TV operator reported better-than-expected third-quarter results.

“Welcome to this week’s edition of Deadline International Insider! As we navigate through the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, it’s clear that AI is not just a buzzword but a transformative force reshaping industries worldwide.”

The final jobs report before the 2024 presidential election showed a muddled picture, with job gains dropping significantly in October amid the disruption from major hurricanes and a Boeing labor strike.

It’s that time of year again. NBC‘s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is set to air live Thursday, Nov. 28 from from 8:30 a.m. until 12 p.m. ET/PT. The parade, which begins on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and ends at Macy’s Herald Square flagship store, will also simulstream on Peacock and have an encore on NBC at 2 p.m. ET/PT. 

Busy Broadway producer Ken Davenport (Oh, Mary!, the upcoming Othello, among many other credits) has another project in the wings: A stage musical adaptation of the Oscar-winning 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire is being developed with the movie’s double-Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman.

Sabrina Carpenter covered Olivia Newton-John‘s ‘Hopelessly Devoted To You’ while dressed as Sandy from Grease, complete with Carpenter curls in her hair, a black leather jacket and Sandy’s iconic catsuit, during a stop on her ‘Short ‘N’ Sweet’ US tour.Elsewhere, Heidi Klum once again delivered theatrics during the 23rd instalment of her iconic Halloween parties. This time, Klum and her husband, German guitarist Tom Kaulitz, dressed as E.T.She wasn’t the only one to take inspiration from the Steven Spielberg classic, with Janelle Monae also opting for an E.T.

Daisy Ridley has opened up about the distress she felt following an 2019 interview in which she was asked about her “privilege” growing up compared to her Star Wars co-star John Boyega.Ridley starred as Rey alongside Boyega in three Star Wars outings, films The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019).The comments, which were made in a Guardian interview, came after Ridley was asked by the interviewer about her “privileged” upbringing. The interviewer quizzed Ridley on “if she thinks it has been easier to be confident and navigate her celebrity because of the privilege in her life” including “boarding school and her upbringing.” Ridley attended Tring Park Performing Arts School in Hertfordshire on a scholarship.The interviewer went on to write that Ridley felt there was “little difference between her experience and that of her co-star John Boyega, who grew up in south London to British Nigerian immigrant parents.”Ridley said in the Guardian interview: “John grew up on a council estate in Peckham and I think me and him are similar enough that… no… Also, I went to a boarding school for performing arts, which was different.”Now, in a new interview with The Telegraph, Ridley has opened up about the comments, claiming that her words were taken out of context.She told the outlet: “I literally couldn’t sleep after that came out…because I felt like, honestly, it was a purposeful de-contextualising.

Variety VIP+ staff In an effort to quantify how streaming has impacted the way audiences around the globe are served by different forms of media, Variety Intelligence Platform has collaborated with Amazon Ads on the special report “Entertainment Everywhere.” With entertainment that fills screens big and small — from film, TV and livestreaming to audiocentric media across music and podcasts — the rise of streaming has helped transform content distribution on a global scale. VIP+’s 21-page “Entertainment Everywhere” expands on survey data previously featured in the Amazon Ads report “From Ads to Zeitgeist,” a global thought leadership research study delving into the relationship between culture and advertising, to explore the effects of improved consumer accessibility to content from regions all over the world.

Quentin Tarantino has lamented remake culture in a new interview, saying he refuses to watch series like Shōgun and Ripley or films like Dune, saying: “I’ve seen the story.”The Pulp Fiction director shared his thoughts on remake culture during an interview on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. When asked if he thought Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two was the best film of the year, Tarantino replied that he didn’t know because he hadn’t watched it – and doesn’t intend to.He explained: “I saw [David Lynch’s] Dune a couple of times. I don’t need to see that story again.

Coldplay played ‘The Karate Kid’ live for the first time on Thursday, alongside the star of the 1980s film of the same name, Ralph Macchio.The ‘Moon Music’ track was given its debut at the band’s second show at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on October 31, as the ‘Music Of The Spheres’ world tour begins its Australia and New Zealand leg.Before beginning the song, frontman Chris Martin joked that he was losing his voice and asked if there was anybody out there that could help him sing the next song. With that, Macchio, who played Daniel LaRusso in the original trilogy of The Karate Kid films in the ‘80s, walked on stage to an ovation from the crowd.As the band started the song, Macchio appeared to sing along, but it soon became clear that he was in fact miming to Martin’s own pre-recorded vocals.

Matthew McConaughey has channeled his inner-David Attenborough for a series of trailers promoting new dystopian horror game Exodus.Exodus tells a “thrilling horror infused story about a dystopian alternative timeline of human history” and is being made by developers who helped create Baldur’s Gate, Mass Effect and Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic while at BioWare.“Having fled a dying Earth, humanity has found a new home in a hostile galaxy. Here, we are the underdogs, fighting our final battle for survival.