ESPN And NCAA Set New 8-Year Media Rights Deal Worth $920M, Extending College Sports Run That Began In 1979

A petition has been launched and the president of Perth City Swim Club has accused Perth and Kinross Council of selling the public short with a "devastating scaling-back" of sports provision.

Celtic hero John Hartson hit out at what he claimed was “unfair pressure” being put on his former team-mate and Parkhead legend Neil Lennon’s son Gallagher ahead of a potential debut against Rangers for new loan club Dumbarton.

Netflix’s new k-drama series The Bequeathed has been released to streaming today (January 19).The six-episode show was first announced back in October, and it is based on a popular webtoon by Kang Tae-kyung. It is co-written by Hellbound and Train to Busan creator Yeon Sang-ho, alongside Hwang Eun-young and series director Min Hong-nam.The trailer for the series was released earlier this month, featuring the lead character Yoon Seo-ha being informed of the death of an uncle that was previously unknown to her.“That crazy bastard is killing people around me one by one to inherit that burial ground all by himself,” Seo-ha tells the police in the trailer, but still things in her life slowly spin out of control.“Give me the family burial ground.

Fallout Shelter, The Elder Scrolls: Castles, has been announced.The news was announced on the official X (formerly Twitter) Bethesda account, with the post stating that the team is “excited to finally share The Elder Scrolls: Castles, our new mobile game from the team behind Fallout Shelter. The team has been hard at work on it for the last few years and we absolutely adore it.”The game allows you to control and expand your castle over various generations, making decisions that dictate exactly how your citizens perceive you and whether or not they attempt to overthrow your regime.

Post Malone will sing ‘America The Beautiful’ at next month’s Super Bowl LVIII, it has been confirmed.The traditional pre-game performances of ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ and ‘Lift Every Voice And Sing’ will be performed by Reba McEntire and Andra Day respectively.Super Bowl LVIII will take place at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday, February 11.Performing the famous halftime show will be Usher, who said: “It’s an honour of a lifetime to finally check a Super Bowl performance off my bucket list.”

Melissa Barrera is sharing her thoughts on her exit from the Scream franchise and what her current relationship with the cast is like.

Theda Hammel’s latest dramedy at Neon Stressed Positions stars Hammel, John Early, Qaher Harhash, Amy Zimmer, Faheem Ali, and Rebecca F. Wright follows Bahlul, a queer Moroccan-American model that everyone wants to meet. While moments emerge showing the glimmer of an insightful character study, the film quickly dissolves into an endurance test drowned out by superficial noise. One must tip the cap to Hammel’s sheer feat of micro-budget production, but his organic style choices bewilder more than enlighten.The film follows Bahlul (Harhash), a 20-year old  Moroccan, American model, spending his time in recovery from a broken leg with his uncle Terry in Brooklyn, Ny. Terry is not Moroccan, but American and white and are family by marriage. The injured Bahlul meets a cast of eccentric characters, including Terry’s best friend Karla (Hammel), Carla‘s girlfriend, Vanessa (Zimmer), Terry’s husband Leo (Roberts), Ronald (Ali), the local GrubHub delivery guy, and Coco (Wright), the woman living in the apartment above them. 

A teenage girl was raped at Center Parcs after her family let a man stay in their campervan. Caden Crossley was granted permission to stay in their lodge after he was kicked out of his own cabin by his partner, following a row in the summer of 2022.

A car park is to be dug up in the search for a missing Royal Navy sailor feared to be a victim of a serial killer.

Fresh calls are being made for another 'Awaab's Law' to help tenants in private rented accommodation. It's one of a number of 'urgent' recommendations being made today (January 19) by a cross-party committee of MPs as part of a new report.

Temperatures will start to slowly rise in Greater Manchester today after a freezing cold snap.

“I’m just so grateful on what I got to infuse in the franchise, and that’s something I’ll be proud of forever,” Melissa Barrera told Deadline at Sundance tonight, indicating no bad blood after being severed from the Scream series by Spyglass Media last month.

Jacob Elordi is sharing his thoughts on the “Jacob Elordi’s Bathwater” candle that has gone viral on the internet.

Nikki Reed is on TikTok and her first video is a hit!

Jason Momoa has revealed his hopes to star in a “really good film” that will be appreciated by the awards circuit.Speaking to Variety about his new unscripted series On The Roam, Momoa told the publication that despite starring in blockbuster films and hosting Shark Week and more throughout his career, he doesn’t feel like he has really “done anything so far”.“I don’t really think I’ve done anything so far,” he said, telling Variety that On the Roam just highlighted “what I’d be doing on my off days.” Momoa added: “I’m not going to be able to master all of these things. I’m a solid C+ to B- at everything. But I like doing a lot of different things, and I’m not an A at one thing.”For now, he’s focused on comedy: “I really went after comedy.

Reacher arrived on Amazon Prime Video today (January 19), but what is the future of the show? This latest adaptation of the book series by Lee Child stars Alan Ritchson as the former US Army military policeman, who possesses formidable intelligence and strength and now lives as a drifter. Reacher was developed by Nick Santora, who has written and produced episodes of The Sopranos, Law & Order, Prison Break, Scorpion. More recently, Santora led the Netflix series Fubar starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The first season of Reacher arrived in February 2022, while the second season premiered in December 2023, with its concluding episode hitting streaming today.

Siddhant Adlakha Few issues have defined and divided the United States this decade like policing, and Yance Ford’s “Power” seeks to explore its origins. With few exceptions, the Netflix documentary/visual essay is more factual than emotional — let alone revelatory in its examinations — but the film covers enough historical ground to function as a contemporary cinematic flashpoint, aimed at a wide audience who isn’t already steeped in its academic analyses (which have become a fixture of social media these last few years).

Sundance soaked up the sun on Thursday’s opening day. With plenty of powder to lend an idyllic backdrop to selfies and social media updates, the festival crowd was buzzing in line for the day’s largest film opening: “Freaky Tales,” taking the coveted early evening spot at the Eccles Center.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic If Ann Landers had it right, and hanging on to resentment amounts to letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head, then “Your Monster” is what happens when you kick open the door and let those feelings run amok. Drawing from personal experience, writer-director Caroline Lindy delivers a clumsy metaphor of a movie, in which a promising young actor named Laura Franco (“In the Heights” star Melissa Barrera) has her Broadway dreams derailed by a cancer diagnosis, only to discover a ferocious inner strength, courtesy of the beastly creature she finds hanging around her childhood home.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Hailing from the country that gave us such grim social critics as Michael Haneke and Ulrich Seidl (fittingly, the latter serves as a producer here), Vantablack Austrian satire “Veni Vidi Vici” opens with a senseless homicide. It’s a startling scene, no less upsetting than the Scorpio killing that kick-starts “Dirty Harry” — except that in this case, the incident is calibrated as the darkest sort of comedy.

Kristen Stewart is being honored with the visionary award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival opening night gala, a prize that is a bit unusual for the actor to accept. Speaking to Variety‘s Angelique Jackson, Stewart said her job is to serve the vision of filmmakers and not to always have her own sense of vision. “When I saw that I was being given the visionary award I was like, ‘What a word!'” Stewart said during Variety On The Carpet, presented by DIRECTV.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Robert Downey Jr. trekked to Sundance Film Festival‘s opening night gala to reveal that a “terrible tragedy” has befallen Christopher Nolan. But don’t worry about the filmmaker behind “Oppenheimer.” His hardship is really just a bad case of the blues, and it’s because Nolan — as Downey explained on Thursday while bestowing Nolan with the first-ever Trailblazer Award — “has become recognizable on the street.” According to Downey, the critical and commercial success of “Oppenheimer” causes the British director to recoil, “as though from a hot flame, from this new and unwelcome reality.” Well, Nolan may not be retreating from the spotlight anytime soon.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic “Taking from an elderly person is as bad as stealing from a child,” growls Jason Statham in “The Beekeeper,” reinforcing the image of “helpless” old people in need of defending. (He spends the rest of the movie knocking heads after scammers steal money from his gullible landlady.) With “Thelma,” writer-director Josh Margolin tries out a different approach, casting nonagenarian character actor June Squibb as an unlikely yet satisfying action star.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer “Veni Vidi Vici” — a jaw-dropping Austrian shocker that’s part of this year’s Sundance Film Festival – came, saw and conquered at its Thursday premiere. The film follows a ruthless and charismatic billionaire family whose patriarch guns down innocent citizens in his free time, and left many speechless at the Egyptian Theater in Park City. Directed by Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann, the movie features intensely provocative moments including infanticide and brutal public shootings.

Sundance revved up with the premiere of Freaky Tales tonight, a debut met with rousing applause, including at the film’s last title card that read, “In loving memory of Angus Cloud.”

Oakland’s freaky side emerges in Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s ambitious yet tonally uneven new anthology film Freaky Tales starring Pedro Pascal, Jay Ellis, Ben Medelsohn, Jack Champion, Ji-Young Yoo, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Too $hort’s, and Lenny G. The directors spotlight diverse local subcultures against the backdrop of Too $hort’s hit of the same name. The film intertwines four tales linked by unfolding events and a puzzling supernatural emerald glow permeating the city. Though the gritty visuals and soundtrack immerse in the look and feel of 1987 Oakland, the narrative struggles to weave these stories into a satisfying whole.

Michael B. Jordan has worked with Ryan Coogler many times in his career and they are getting ready to team up for another project.

Brilliant bombshell Hedy Lamarr, the Austria-born Hollywood hottie who carved out a concurrent career as a pioneer of weapons and communication technology in World War II, died on this day in history, Jan. 19, 2000. She was 85 years old.

Arnold Schwarzenegger made it through Munich customs with a few new jokes under his belt.The “Terminator” star attended an auction in Kitzbuhel, Austria, on Thursday where he auctioned off a luxury watch that he reportedly failed to declare Wednesday at the Munich airport, leading him to be briefly detained. Schwarzenegger, 76, kicked off auction with a stand-up comedy routine about the incident, as seen in a video obtained by TMZ.“I mean, we always start things with a lot of drama.

Theo Bair says Motherwell are ready to treat their remaining games as a WAR and won’t take Alloa Athletic lightly in the Scottish Cup.

Rutherglen Glencairn boss Joe Pryce was delighted with a “massive” last-gasp win over leaders Petershill and says draws are like defeats in the West of Scotland First Division.

Wishaw boss Martin O’Neill says his side “aren’t waving the white flag yet” after a ninth game without a win left them six points adrift of safety in the West of Scotland Second Division relegation zone.

Graeme Stewart admitted he was probably a bit of a footballing lunatic when Buckie Thistle took the gamble on appointing him as their manager.

Hamilton Accies Women boss Robert Watson says he hopes to land two new signings after extending deals for a Rangers loan duo until the end of the season.

Single’s Inferno co-producer Kim Jae-won has revealed that controversial season three contestant Lee Gwan-hee originally applied for season two.Netflix’s popular reality dating show Single’s Inferno recently wrapped up its third season last Tuesday (January 11) with its final two episodes, which saw the 12 contestants make their final choices and pair up in order to leave the island of Inferno.Kim Jae-won and Kim Jung-hyun, the producers of Single’s Inferno, recently spoke to The Korea Times about the third season of the show and controversial contestant Lee Gwan-hee, revealing that they originally planned for him to appear on season two instead.“Lee applied for Season two and when we interviewed him, he was a genuine, straightforward and confident man,” Kim Jae-won said. “So we definitely wanted to cast him”.However, according to the producer, the professional basketballer’s training schedule didn’t work out with the production timeline for season two, so they had to “give up” on casting him the first time around.Meanwhile, Kim Jung-hyun spoke about how Lee was “the most honest character” on the latest season and had “showed everything about himself” during his appearance.

Sleep Token have announced a North American tour with Empire State Bastard, marking the band’s first activity since wiping their Instagram earlier this week.Today (January 19), the band took to Instagram for their first post in a supposedly new era, announcing their ‘The Teeth of God’ North American tour. “This April and May, North America shall gather in Worship once again, alongside special guests Empire State Bastard,” read the post’s caption.A post shared by Sleep Token (@sleep_token)The 21-date tour will commence with the band’s slot at Las Vegas’ Sick New World festival on April 27, before the band performs in cities across the country including Albuquerque, Atlanta, St.