Bert Newton (1938–2021), legendary Australian TV host

New restrictions on access for the unvaccinated and increasing mandates to be inoculated are sending protesters to the streets in Europe, Australia and other countries.

IDLES have announced they’ll tour Australia and New Zealand in October and November of next year in support of latest album ‘CRAWLER’.The band will kick the run of dates off in late October with three shows in New Zealand – Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. The tour will then continue to Australia, where the band have shows booked in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth.See tour dates below.

The 44-year-old has been notoriously private since packing up and leaving Australia in 2012. It was there that he met his now-wife, whose father was the former New York Attorney-General, Eric Schneiderman.

Glass Animals have announced a three-date Australian tour to celebrate the release of their 2020 album, ‘Dreamland’.The tour will see the Oxford band perform arena shows in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne across July, marking their biggest Australian gigs to date. Curiously, the tour appears to coincide with Byron Bay festival Splendour in the Grass, the full line-up of which is yet to be unveiled.Tickets for the tour go on sale from 2pm AEDT this coming Tuesday (November 23) through Untitled.

Sarah Snook’s acting skills totally fooled Ellen DeGeneres.

Big Brother VIP Hotel, but most remember him slogging it out as the fan-favourite on Australian Survivor in 2017 and Australian Survivor: Champions v Contenders in 2019.WATCH: Survivor's Luke Toki opens up about his familyEnding his first stint on Survivor in 7th place, Luke was determined to take home the crown two years later when he reappeared on the show for the Champions v Contenders season.Throughout his fight for the $500,000 prize money, Luke reiterated that he entered the competition

The service is being attended by 500 mourners, with Bert's family, friends, former showbusiness colleagues and some of the biggest names in the Australian entertainment industry expected to be in among the crowd. 

th November.While 500 guests are expected to be in attendance, so many more will be watching via their screens as the TV veteran is remembered in an official send off at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne at 10am.The funeral is to be live streamed, with major networks Nine, Seven and 10 all sharing footage from the ceremony.While we don’t know exactly who is attending as of yet, there are bound to be many of Bert’s industry pals there to say their goodbyes. But front of everyone’s minds is

Rebecca Davis editorChinese distributor CMC Pictures said Wednesday that it will release jingoistic Chinese war film “The Battle at Lake Changjin” in North America next week.The film is currently the highest grossing title in the world and in China so far in 2021, having already earned RMB5.60 billion ($877 million) in its home market alone.

Lorde has announced she’s been forced to postpone the Australian and New Zealand legs of her ‘Solar Power’ world tour to February and March 2023.The tour was originally planned to kick off in New Zealand and Australia in March of next year before continuing on to the rest of the globe in April.

Courtney Barnett has shared a cruisy new single titled ‘If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight’, announcing alongside it a suite of tour dates for her native Australia.Leaning further into her folk and country influences, the new track shines with twangy lead guitars and soaring vocal harmonies, a dry and punchy bassline thumping along in the background.

Bert will be given his official send off next Friday at 10am at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, according to entertainment reporter and Bert's longtime friend, Peter Ford.

There’s been a serious turn on Vanderpump Rules with the last few episodes centering on Scheana Shay‘s fiancé, Brock Davies.

The Strokes have announced two Australian sideshows alongside their performance at festival Splendour in the Grass next year.The band’s shows in Melbourne and Sydney will follow their co-headline set at Splendour in the Grass, the line-up of which also includes Tyler, The Creator and Gorillaz. The Strokes will be supported by Aussie acts The Chats and The Lazy Eyes.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEuropean media giant Antenna Group has appointed veteran European TV executive Bert Habets, a former CEO of Germany’s RTL Group, as its CEO.In his new role, Habets will oversee the free- and pay-TV, OTT, content, radio, digital, music, publishing and education divisions on all platforms for the group, which has operations in North America, Europe and Australia, and reaches a global audience of more than 150 million.Antenna, which began in 1988 as a sole

Olivia Newton-John is mourning the loss of fellow Australian legend, Bert Newton, who passed away at the age of 83 on Saturday.MORE: Olivia Newton-John opens up about health amid cancer battleTaking to her Instagram page on Monday, the 73-year-old actress expressed her sorrow as she paid tribute to the TV icon – whom she knew from the start of her glittering career.WATCH: Olivia Newton-John gets real about her cancer diagnosis"Bert Newton was a kind, funny, quick-witted man whom I was lucky