SAG-AFTRA, Studios Reach Agreement on Successor Contract

Manchester city centre is constantly evolving.

As all those following the Slimming World diet plan will know, finding new recipes to negotiate your way through the rules while sticking to plan is all part of the fun.

When plans to build a luxury golf resort on one of Bolton's most historic green spaces were rejected earlier this week, a sizeable number of local residents rejoiced.

It's a tune that transcends time. An earworm that earned an Aussie soap star five weeks atop the singles chart. A song that cemented Stock Aitken Waterman among pop's most prolific producers.

Manchester United will be looking to win their third league game in a row on Saturday as they host relegation-threatened Watford in the Premier League.

Manchester City return to Premier League action this evening hoping to respond to last weekend's defeat to Tottenham.

Traders in Wigan say the closure of a popular car park is the 'final nail' in the coffin for business owners in the once thriving market town.

My previous experiences of riding the Met have been somewhat colourful.

KANYE West’s new girlfriend Chaney Jones showed off her bare butt in a thong swimsuit on the couple’s Miami getaway. The 44-year-old rapper’s beau resembles his ex-wife Kim Kardashian according to fans.

PETER Andre’s daughter Princess looked just like her mum Katie Price as she appeared in a TikTok video with him. The father, 48, and daughter, 14, duo danced in their kitchen to singer Luude’s track about Australia – Down Under.

PREGNANT Rihanna flaunted her growing bump while in a tiny latex crop top at the Gucci show over in Milan while with her baby daddy A$AP Rocky. The music superstar showed off a different kind of maternity outfit during Milan Fashion Week.

AMANDA Holden celebrated her 51st birthday in style last night – surrounded by her closest pals. The TV star headed to Annabel’s in London for the bash alongside her lookalike daughter Lexi, 16.

MEGAN Fox and her fiancé Machine Gun Kelly have been in the middle of a "struggle" to find the perfect wedding venue as fans claimed they are already secretly married. MGK, 31, spoke about his engagement with Megan, 35, to The Late Late Show host James Corden.

KANYE West's rumored new girlfriend - Kim Kardashian look-alike Chaney Jones - has transformed from a braces-wearing straight-A student into a voluptuous Instagram model and muse. The 44-year-old rapper has been seen with the curvy influencer on multiple occasions in LA and Miami amid his divorce, including during his open relationship with actress Julia Fox.

AFTER being single for 28 years, Love Island star Amy Hart splashed £10,000 on drastic measures to have a baby. But within months of starting the gruelling process, the blonde bombshell met the man of dreams, Sam Rason. She told The Sun: "I say to everyone - if you ever want to meet a boyfriend, spend £10,000 on egg freezing and then you'll meet one.

OLIVIA Attwood has been forced to "shut down" her luxury clothing brand - just three months after its launch. Fans have suffered "severe" delivery delays since the Love Island star's famous pals gathered to celebrate the start-up business - We Are Foolish - in November. The online store has been closed for the past two weeks as it moves to a new warehouse in a bid to improve its services.

SINGER FKA Twigs has called a viral snap from her time as Peter Andre's backing dancer "iconic". Fans were left stunned when an old snap from early in FKA's career emerged on social media showing her in a glittery leotard beside the Mysterious Girl singer, 48.

John Mayer has tested positive for COVID-19 a second time, leading to the next four shows on his ‘Sob Rock’ tour being pushed back to May.The songster shared his diagnosis overnight (February 25), confirming that alongside himself, several members in his band have also wound up with the virus. It comes just days after Mayer’s touring drummer tested positive, with Questlove stepping in to fill his role at the band’s New York City gig.Whelp.

Code Orange have dropped a visually stunning concert film titled Back Inside The Glass, which the hardcore outfit initially premiered as a ticketed livestream event.The one-off gig went down in October of 2020, streamed live – in VR, no less – from the Preserving Underground Church in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. It was particularly notable for its immersive and cinematic visuals, with the band performing to a fave-camera setup on an entirely projection-mapped stage.The show saw Code Orange perform over half of their fourth album, ‘Underneath’ – they’d released it in March of 2020, but couldn’t perform it to a proper crowd until 2021 thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

LCD Soundsystem will be the musical guests on this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live.Set to air tomorrow night (February 26), the episode will be hosted by John Mulaney, marking his fifth time presenting the late night sketch show.It’s the second time James Murphy and co. have played SNL, the first time being back in 2017 when they were promoting their last album, ‘American Dream’.With each episode of the show, the hosts and musical guests get together to shoot a promo for the forthcoming episode.

Turning Red, wherein powerhouse siblings Finneas and Billie Eilish – the former appearing as part of the fictional boyband 4*Town (a tongue-in-cheek riff on *NSYNC) – take fans right back to 2002.Titled ‘Nobody Like U’, the song is an almost scarily accurate pastiche of early ‘00s pop. It starts with washed-out vocals, clicky synth beats and quasi-flamenco strumming, before bursting into a lively bop driven by bold, modulated piano chords and stacked lead vocals.Opening the intently cheesy, ultra-nostalgic track, the fictional 4*Town quintet – flanked by Eilish on backing vocals – croon: “I’ve never met nobody like you / Had friends and I’ve had buddies, it’s true / But they don’t turn my tummy the way you do.”Check out the lyric video for ‘Nobody Like U’, replete with scrapbook-esque nods to relics of ‘00s culture, below:Finneas voices the role of Jesse in Turning Red, with his “bandmates” rounded out by Robaire (as portrayed by Jordan Fisher), Aaron T (Topher Ngo), Aaron Z (Josh Levi) and Tae Young (Grayson Villanueva). The film is set for a worldwide release on March 11.

It’s never going to fit in there, you think. Surely not. But every time, the giant stuffed Chinese answer to a crepe somehow manages to fold its way into the bag, before a plastic fork is jabbed unceremoniously into its innards.

David Robb Labor EditorSAG-AFTRA leaders today called upon police unions to change with the times “or lose all support from their fellow labor organizations and the public at large.”In a joint statement, SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris and national executive director David White said: “We support convening a meeting of affiliate unions, including law enforcement unions, to discuss police reforms and necessary systemic change.

Performers’ union SAG-AFTRA and major motion picture and television studios reached agreement Wednesday on a new three year TV/theatrical deal, the parties announced Thursday, capping six weeks of bargaining via videoconference. The union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers had been operating under a press blackout since talks began April 27.

SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers announced in a joint statement on Thursday that it has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract.The contract will now go to SAG-AFTRA’s national board of directors for approval and then to the guild’s membership for ratification. The existing contract is set to expire on June 30.This agreement ends six weeks of videoconferencing negotiations between the actors guild and Hollywood’s producers led by AMPTP president Carol Lombardini, SAG-AFTRA Gabrielle Carteris and SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and chief negotiator David White.