Luke Macfarlane & Partner Hig Roberts Share Rare Photos Together After Completing NYC Marathon

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Amazon‘s Prime Video and Premier Boxing Champions announced a multiyear rights agreement to bring top pay-per-view boxing events to U.S. viewers. Launched in 2015, PBC features over 150 active fighters across various weight divisions, including top contenders and current world champions.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor London-based international documentary sales and production outfit Dogwoof has boarded world sales for Shiori Ito’s feature documentary, “Black Box Diaries,” which will receive its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The film follows director and journalist Ito’s courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Starting next year, major marketers such as Geico or General Mills could find themselves running commercials alongside popular Amazon programs like “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” or “Jack Ryan” that were previously untouched by advertising.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “The Summer With Carmen,” Zacharias Mavroeidis’ queer comedy, has been acquired in major territories since world premiering at the Venice Film Festival. The movie, which is represented by Be For Films and had its North American premiere at AFI, recently won three prizes at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. It will be released next year by Cinobo in Greece, Epicentre in France and Xenix Filmdistribution in Switzerland.

Selome Hailu Moonbug Entertainment, the studio behind “Cocomelon,” has set its first project in collaboration with game and toy company Toikido: animated preschool series “PeaKeeBoo.” “PeaKeeBoo” focuses on sounds and visuals from nature and draws inspiration from the children’s game peek-a-boo. Season 1 will debut on the Moonbug Kids YouTube channel in 2024.

Josh Rogin, a longtime former aide to senior House Democrats, will join the Motion Picture Association as senior vice president of federal government affairs.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran action icon Jean-Claude Van Damme is set to star in sequel Kill ‘Em All 2, which will shoot in the Caribbean island of Antigua from January.

EXCLUSIVE: Another two senior execs at The Apprentice UK producer Naked have exited – commercial boss Tamara Howe and Head of Formats Cam de la Huerta.

Michael Westmore is ready for his career closeup.

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock has picked up sports documentary Mission to Burnley. Check out a trailer below.

ITV is to publish a talent “charter” setting out key standards expected from its high-profile presenters following the publication of the long-awaited Phillip Schofield review, which rejected the notion that there was a “toxic culture” on This Morning and that ITV knew anything of his affair.

EXCLUSIVE: London-based sales and production outfit Dogwoof has boarded world sales for Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan’s Nocturnes, which will get its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. 

Cillian Murphy has paid tribute to Peaky Blinders co-star Benjamin Zephaniah, who passed away this morning aged 65.

Diplo has been accused of distributing nude photographs of a woman without her permission, it has emerged.As reported by Pitchfork, the DJ was named in a police report filed with the Los Angeles Police Department in August, and in November that case was submitted to the Los Angeles city attorney’s office, where it is currently under review.The woman, Shelly Auguste, has been in a legal battle with the producer – real name Thomas Wesley Pentz – since 2020. She had previously accused him of distributing revenge porn, but Pentz was not charged criminally on that occasion.Diplo denied the original allegations in 2021.In the new case, Auguste is suing Pentz for sexual battery, gender violence, intentional intrusion into private affairs, battery, assault, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and fraud.

Tidal has laid off 40 members of staff across multiple departments, amounting to 10 per cent of its total staff.The music streaming service is owned by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s company Block, which has been making layoffs across its many branches, which also include Square and Cash App.As reported by Bloomberg, the layoffs include Jeff Benjamin, a former member of Tidal’s editorial team, along with other members of the editorial staff.In a statement from the company, they said: “As part of Block and its recent announcement to cap the number of employees at the company to focus on business growth, TIDAL has carefully considered how to right-size our team to ensure we are able to continue to build and invest in critical areas of the business.”“We do not take these decisions lightly, and we are sincerely grateful for the contributions of our impacted teammates.”Earlier this week, Spotify also announced that they were cutting down 17 per cent of its workforce in order to save costs. The streaming platform had previously laid off 6 per cent of its staff earlier in the year.Spotify chief executing Daniel Ek said that the recent decision was made as economic growth had “slowed dramatically”.

Taylor Swift as a surprise guest at this year’s event, but instead brought out an impersonator.On Tuesday (December 5), the Michigan city’s edition of the annual iHeartRadio concert series took place at the Little Caesars Arena. Usher, Flo Rida, Lil Durk and (G)I‐DLE were among the acts on the line-up.As MLive reports, iHeartRadio’s ‘Mojo In The Morning’ introduced a “special guest” in the form of Swift lookalike ‘Trailor Swift’ at one point in the Jingle Ball.

Given this rising age of anxiety we’re in, where problems of uncertainty and instability feel like they’re global and yet local, intimate, and personal too, writer/director Sam Esmail’s unnerving global collapse thriller, “Leave The World Behind,” feels like it arrives at an all-too-perfectly timed moment. Its opening moments are arresting.

There’s more Food Network news with regard to their original TV show content.

Green Day have shared a new single called ‘Dilemma’ – you can listen to it below.The song is the third preview of the trio’s 14th studio album ‘Saviors’ (out January 19), following on from recent tracks ‘The American Dream Is Killing Me’ and ‘Look Ma, No Brains!’.“‘Dilemma’ was one of those songs that was kind of easy to write because it was so personal to me,” frontman Billie Joe Armstrong explained in a statement.“We’ve seen so many of our peers struggle with addiction and mental illness. This song is all about the pain that comes from those experiences.”The single comes with an accompanying black-and-white video, which finds Armstrong passed out on the ground as he slurs out brutally honest lyrics.

We learned that Selling Sunset was renewed for an eighth season last month, and now, we’re learning more about the expected cast members.

BBC News presenter Maryam Moshiri was caught giving the camera the middle finger live on air in what she says was a “private joke” gone wrong.Moshiri was momentarily seen with a raised middle finger as BBC News switched to the studio for the headlines. Realising that she was live on air, she quickly scrambled to compose herself and then told viewers: “Live from London, this is BBC News.”The blunder has been clipped and shared by various X (formerly Twitter) accounts, and has since gone viral.

Madonna played the final show of the UK and European leg of her ‘Celebration’ greatest hits tour with a mammoth set at London’s The O2 last night, where she invited Stella McCartney out on stage. See footage from the show below.A spokesperson revealed that the icon travelled by London Underground to the show at the North Greenwich venue, where she was feeling in a particularly reflective mood.“London: oh my god, it’s our last show,” Madonna told the crowd, sipping on a Budweiser while introducing the song ‘Burning Up’.

Twenty-seven patients waited longer than 23 hours in Forth Valley Royal’s A&E and Minor Injuries Unit in October, NHS bosses revealed.

Gary Lineker says Manchester City were ‘comprehensively outplayed in every department’ by Aston Villa as he heaped praise on Unai Emery’s side.

Emmerdale viewers appear to have called Tracy Metcalfe's bluff as she continues to ramp up her affair with Caleb Milligan. She only recently tied the knot with Nate Robinson but a sudden clinch with his uncle last month has seen Tracy unable to stay away since.

Coronation Street fans have been left confused by Simon Barlow's interference in Daniel Osbournes love life - seemingly forgetting their family link. During Wednesday night's trip to the cobbles, Daniel was left heartbroken as he discovered the truth about fiancee Daisy Midgeley and Ryan Connor.

Openreach has announced that another 167,000 homes and businesses across Scotland are set to get access to full fibre broadband. The company is announcing a further £50 million investment across 25 new locations, including Bannockburn in Stirling, Lochgelly in Fife and Clydebank in West Dunbartonshire.

A three-year warning has been issued to millions of homeowners as mortgage costs are expected to rise once again. Almost five million UK households are set to see their mortgage repayments jump by hundreds of pounds over the next three years, the Bank of England has said.

Coronation Street appears to have confirmed an 'exit' for one of its most much-loved stars in its latest pre-Christmas spoilers. It appears Tyrone Doobs is set to spend the main part of the festivities away from the cobbles this year after his wife Fiz's departure earlier this year.

Alejandro Garnacho sent an encouraging message to Bruno Fernandes after the Manchester United captain's missed penalty in Wednesday's 2-1 win at home to Chelsea.

Plans are progressing to deliver a proposed new primary school for the Craigshill area of Livingston by 2027.

BBC News presenter Maryam Moshiri has said sorry for showing her middle finger on live TV. She said she didn't mean to "offend or upset anyone".

Fashion giant Chanel booked out one of Salford's most iconic landmarks to host a star-studded party in Manchester ahead of its eagerly anticipated fashion show.

Big Brother viewers have been left shocked after 2023 winner Jordan Sangha appeared to snub his former 'best mate' in the house.

Phoebe Violet has always dreamt of one day walking the catwalk but never in her wildest dreams did she think a Chanel runway would appear on her street.

A crime clan member who stashed more than £1m of dirty money at the home of his ex-River City star sister has been jailed for two years.