Manville and Lithgow score top Olivier prizes
Lesley Manville and John Lithgow were among the big winners at the Sunday’s Olivier Awards, the most prestigious event in UK theatre. Lithgow won best actor for his portrayal of…
Meghan’s divisiveness may well work to her advantage
Five years on from Megxit, as the Duchess of Sussex builds her new lifestyle empire, her viewing figures are high but, in the UK at least, popularity levels are low.…
Jean Charles de Menezes: Mum hopes TV drama will ‘show world the truth’
The 80-year-old mother of a man shot dead in a Tube station by police who mistook him for a terror suspect says she will continue to fight for him and…
This City is Ours: James Nelson-Joyce on the ‘Scouse Sopranos’
In This City Is Ours, Liverpool actor James Nelson-Joyce plays a leading gang member who is struggling to balance his criminal career and family life, against a backdrop of changing…
British woman in Netflix’s Con Mum charged in Singapore
The British woman at the centre of a Netflix documentary on how she allegedly duped her son and left him in debt to fund her champagne-sipping lifestyle has been charged…
The whispering woman behind 10cc’s I’m Not In Love
“Be quiet – big boys don’t cry… big boys don’t cry … big boys don’t cry!” Those whispered words are, of course, an essential part of 10cc’s best-known hit single,…
Thousands attend funeral of Malian star Amadou Bagayoko
Thousands of people gathered in Mali on Sunday for the funeral of musician Amadou Bagayoko, of the world-renowned duo Amadou & Mariam. Friends, relatives, fans and fellow artists flocked to…
Adolescence makers to reboot nuclear drama Threads
Warp Films, the maker of worldwide hit TV show Adolescence, is to develop a series based on 1980s nuclear war film Threads, it has confirmed. The Sheffield-based firm plans to…
Blondie drummer Clem Burke dies, aged 70
Clem Burke, the drummer for 1970s new wave band Blondie, has died aged 70 following a “private battle with cancer”, the band’s spokesperson has confirmed to the BBC. Named one…
Corrie legend, social star and an Oscar nominee: Celebrity Big Brother kicks off
Oscar-nominated actor Mickey Rourke, US media personality JoJo Siwa, EastEnders star Patsy Palmer, Love Island’s Chris Hughes and former MP Michael Fabricant are getting to know each other after beginning…