The Guardian Culture

‘I was on the loo when I got the news!’ Strictly Come Dancing’s new hosts spill their scandalous secrets

After a year of frenzied conjecture, the new hosts putting the razzle back into Strictly are Johannes Radebe, Emma Willis and Josh Widdicombe. They talk night sweats, sparkly pants – and the hilarious fake show cooked up to fool the pressJohannes Radebe, one of the three new presenters of Strictly Come Dancing, can barely contain his glee. Asked where they were when they heard they’d got the job, Radebe is quick to wind up his co-hosts. “We’ll never forget that call,” he grins. “It was a weekday

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The Guardian Culture

Big hits, massive ballads and titanic emotions: Celine Dion’s greatest songs – ranked!

As the French Canadian superstar returns for her first concerts since she was diagnosed with stiff person syndrome, we count down the best of an unabashedly romantic catalogue. Wind machines at the ready!When Céline Dion’s era as a foolproof hitmaker ended, she seemed weirdly liberated and more willing to take risks. Witness the video for Ashes: an impressively atmospheric ballad from the soundtrack to Deadpool 2, in which she gently mocks her own image in the company of Ryan Reynolds, in charac

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Variety

How Irish Indie ‘Lemonade’ Landed Barry Keoghan in Between Beatles Shoots and Gave Him ‘Closure’ About Care System (EXCLUSIVE)

Casting BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan in Irish indie feature “Lemonade” was surprising straightforward, but did come with one key demand: Do not touch his hair. This was the strict stipulation given to filmmaker Kim Bartley when making her narrative feature debut, a deeply compassionate and emotional film following a Dublin teenage boy […]

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Variety

Video Game Industry Revenue Expected to Reach $214 Billion in 2026 With ‘GTA 6’ Release, New Report Finds

Across mobile, PC and console platforms, the video game industry is estimated to reach $213.9 billion in revenue this year — and the highly anticipated November release of “Grand Theft Auto VI” is a major reason why. According to gaming industry market research firm Newzoo’s “Global Games Market Report 2026,” gamers are eager to return […]

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Variety

Sumerian Acquires North American Rights to Eivind Landsvik’s Cannes Film ‘Low Expectations,’ Starring Marie Ulven, aka Girl in Red (EXCLUSIVE)

Sumerian Pictures has acquired North American rights to Norwegian writer-director Eivind Landsvik’s feature debut “Low Expectations,” starring Marie Ulven (also known as the musician Girl in Red) and Anders Danielsen Lie (“The Worst Person in the World”). Landsvik previously directed the short films “Tits” (2023), which premiered in Cannes’ Official Selection, and “Sofia, Last Summer” […]

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Variety

Harry Styles Announces Global Stadium Tour for 2027, With Openers in U.S. Including Kylie Minogue, Lainey Wilson and Tinashe

All residencies must come to an end someday, but that doesn’t mean Harry Styles is anywhere near done performing live in the era of “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.” His Together, Together Tour, which in 2026 consisted mostly of extended runs in a handful of cities, will continue into the spring and summer of […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Nat Geo May Have Its Most Beautiful Wildlife Series Yet With ‘Africa: Earth’s Wild Home’ — Watch Trailer (Exclusive)

Someone get that elephant away from the waterfall.

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Hollywood Reporter

Harry Styles Announces 2027 Stadium Tour

The Together, Together Tour will play 25 dates in 12 cities next year, including Phoenix, Dallas, Los Angeles, Toronto, Atlanta, Chicago, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Dublin and London.

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The Guardian Culture

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf review – ‘choreopoem’ of sisterhood

Yard theatre, London Starkly staged panorama of Black female experience rushes through its scenes but is delivered with feeling by terrific castIt has been 50 years since this “choreopoem” by Ntozake Shange premiered on Broadway and brought the emotions and experiences of Black women to the stage. And yet, until now – in this production directed by Diane Page for the Yard theatre’s reopening – it has never received a major London run.Collectively, the poems form a rich panorama: tales of domesti

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Variety

‘No Other Land’ Co-Directors on Their New Hot-Button Doc ‘NAZA’ and Interviewing 24 Israeli Soldiers in ‘Total Secrecy’: ‘There Is Still So Much Denial of What Is Happening’ in Gaza

Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor — who are two of the four co-directors of 2025’s Oscar-winning doc “No Other Land” — are at the Venice Film Festival with new hot-button documentary “NAZA.” Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film shows “in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing […]

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Variety

‘Ted Lasso’ Star Nick Mohammed to Host ‘The Traitors’ Stage Play in London

Nick Mohammed will play the host in “The Traitors – Acts of Betrayal,” the West End stage adaptation of the hit competition format, after a video in which Claudia Winkleman swore him in to the role, producers Studio Lambert and Neal Street Productions have revealed. Written by John Finnemore (“Cabin Pressure”) and directed by Robert […]

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The Guardian Culture

The Tubs: Hard Life review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Merge)Britain’s best indie-rockers hold fast to their defiantly old-school sound, slipping wry sideways looks at despair in among hooky melodies that always sound like a good timeOn a track called Heaven or London from the Tubs’ third album, the quartet’s frontman, Owen Williams, offers a blunt self-assessment. He is, he suggests, “the singer of a rip-off band”, engaged in “wanking himself into an early grave”. It’s a strange thing to say given that the Tubs have recently become a critical caus

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The Guardian Culture

The 2026 Proms: tell us about your favourite concerts

Ahead of Saturday’s Last Night, we want to hear what you’ve enjoyed this year. Has any of the new music made it on to your playlists? Which soloists wowed you? Did you sing along to Hey Jude with the Jupiter Ensemble? Share your listening experiences in the commentsWith 86 concerts over eight weeks, the BBC Proms’ claim to be the world’s greatest and biggest classical music festival is hard to dispute. As the 2026 season draws to a close, we want to hear from you. Which proms have you enjoyed in

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The Guardian Culture

‘That was all secret’: the ‘gay mole’ who fought the BBC to show the first queer kiss on kids’ TV

Everyone thinks Byker Grove broke the taboo in 1994, but another teen drama got there first. Here’s the astonishing story of Two of Us, which put a gay relationship on UK screens – and was the original HeartstopperWhen I started looking for anything queer aimed at kids on TV from around the time I was born in 1989, I came across a children’s drama called Two of Us. Directed by Roger Tonge and written by Leslie Stewart, it was surprisingly akin to the 2020s series Heartstopper, both in its plot a

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Hollywood Reporter

Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview With James Talarico Heading to YouTube to Avoid FCC Hassle

The late-night host alluded to ongoing problems between ABC and the FCC as the reason for the decision to move the sit-down with the Texas Senate hopeful from broadcast television.

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The Guardian Culture

Todd Rundgren review – try-anything veteran doesn’t let his freak flag fully fly

Cadogan Hall, London The 78-year-old has astonishing range but gets bogged down in middling rock, though later delivers some gorgeous acoustic songs – and a slinky Marvin Gaye coverTodd Rundgren is a confusing man. After his tune-packed 1972 album Something/Anything? drew comparisons to Carole King and Brian Wilson, he took a pharmacopoeia of psychedelics and made a vexing masterpiece, A Wizard, a True Star, with no singles at all. He’s produced classic albums by Meat Loaf and the New York Dolls

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Hollywood Reporter

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ Dropped by BBC

"We have had to make some very difficult choices," a BBC rep told THR, "none of which have been taken lightly."

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The Guardian Culture

‘Female survival in a terrifying world’: Tilda Swinton’s return in Man to Man

Manfred Karge’s play about a woman acting as her dead husband was a cause célèbre in the 80s. It remains a bracing portrait of a divided person in a divided cultureIt was Pierre Audi, the much-mourned founder of the Almeida, who way back in 1986 sent me a coffee-stained copy of Jacke wie Hose.Manfred Karge’s one-woman play is a study of female survival in a terrifying world. Ella is a working-class woman who takes on the identity of her dead husband, Max, to endure what Brecht memorably dubbed “

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Variety

Woody Norman, Malachi Kirby, Tuppence Middleton, Conrad Khan, Kola Bokinni to Star in Urban Horror Thriller ‘Skag & Bone’; Featuristic Produces, UTA on Board (EXCLUSIVE)

Woody Norman (“C’mon C’mon”), Malachi Kirby (“Small Axe”), Tuppence Middleton (“Downton Abbey”), Conrad Khan (“Sunny Dancer”) and Kola Bokinni (“Ted Lasso”) are set to star in the British urban horror thriller “Skag & Bone.” The film, which is described as “Top Boy” meets “Talk to Me,” “blends the propulsive energy of a youth-infused crime thriller […]

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Variety

Telekom Srbija’s Content Head on Blueprint for Turning Serbian Production Powerhouse Into Global Player

Telecommunications giant Telekom Srbija is looking to position itself as not only the leading production hub in Serbia but a regional juggernaut for the countries of the former Yugoslavia, exporting local content while attracting international productions to the Balkan nation. “Our next chapter is a deeper connection with our international partners, and presenting not only […]

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