‘Dear Edward’: Connie Britton On Peeling Back The Layers Of Grief With Jason Katims To Develop Her Character’s ‘Rich Journey’ To Episode 4

There is WAY more to the Drew Sidora and Ralph Pittman divorce. As we reported Wednesday, the Real Hou

Coronation Street have recast Jackson Hodge after six years as the character is set for a return, leaving Faye Windass in turmoil. Viewers will recall that Jackson is the father of Faye's daughter, Miley, who she gave birth to in 2015 when they were both teenagers. However, soon after Miley's Christening service, Faye struggled with being a young mum as the Hodge family offered to look after the youngster.

Divorce court is in session!

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic For 25 years, I have never been much of a Guy Ritchie fan. I found the in-your-face-and-over-the-top crime dramas that made his reputation — “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” “Snatch,” “Revolver,” and “RocknRolla” — to be empty-flashy exercises in the too-muchness of genre kinetics, overly infatuated with their post-Tarantino cutthroat cool. It was clear that Ritchie had talent, but the way just about every shot in his movies was designed to remind you of that turned the films into layer cakes that were more frosting than cake. After a while, he dropped the badass glitz and settled into a more conventional career, and some of those movies were okay. I confess that I enjoyed his remake of “Swept Away” (yes, the one with Madonna), and he had fun applying what was left of his high-froth ADD style to the Robert Downey Jr. “Sherlock Holmes” franchise. Yet I could never escape the feeling that Guy Ritchie had trapped himself on a hamster wheel of trying too hard. I’ve liked a few of his films. But I’ve never loved one.

Carolyn McCall, CEO of U.K. media conglomerate ITV, doesn’t have her own office. Instead, on the open-plan top floor of ITV’s West London headquarters, she shares a desk with her executive assistant and her chief of staff. Right now, she’s sitting in a communal alcove around the corner while employees bustle past. It’s par for the course for a woman who “always wanted to be the visible leader,” as Alan Rusbridger, her former colleague at The Guardian, says. McCall, who is being recognized as Variety’s International Media Woman of the Year in honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, has made a habit of taking on the top job in the toughest of circumstances. She became chief executive at Guardian Media Group in 2006, just as the internet was blowing up the newspaper industry. Four years later, McCall joined budget airline EasyJet as CEO, then steered the multinational company through Britain’s departure from the European Union. In 2018, just as linear television was coming under assault from global streamers and social media companies, she moved to U.K.-based broadcaster and producer ITV.

EastEnders viewers have joked Mick Carter is "back from the dead", and that his whereabouts have finally been revealed after a new video starring soap star Danny Dyer was released. Fans were left in shock as last year's Christmas episode of EastEnders saw Danny's character Mick trying to save his ex-wife Linda Carter, who he had just reunited with, after she and Janine Butcher drove off a cliff and into the English Channel, where he disappeared at sea.

Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly were treated to a serious dose of nostalgia on Friday morning as they sat down with one of the first ever Britain’s Got Talent contestants – 17 years after first meeting. Appearing on Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden, the Geordie duo caught up with Connie Talbot, now 22, who had previously met the stars when she was just six years old! The pint sized pop star first auditioned all the way back in 2007 when she managed to win over the hearts of the judges, including Simon Cowell himself, with her performance of Somewhere Over The Rainbow.

Former EastEnders actor Danny Dyer has teased Mick Carter's return to the show after leaving in a dramatic episode on Christmas Day. Danny, 45, who is about to become a grandfather for a second time, opened up on the Jonathan Ross Show about leaving EastEnders after being on it for nine years. Danny said: “It’s a very emotional thing, it’s such a big part of me.” He added: “I tell you what it is, I’m lazy.

Is Britney Spears thinking about getting back into acting? Because she is working on her accent game, y’all!

Chuck Jackson, an R&B singer who took “Any Day Now” to the Top 25 in 1962 and had some two dozen singles hit the Hot 100 during the decade, has died. He was 85.

There were lots of celebs in attendance at the Burberry fashion show during London Fashion Week, including hot couple Jason Statham and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

EXCLUSIVE: Sky has picked up UK rights to Jason Statham and David Ayer action film The Beekeeper from Miramax.

Hugh Jackman has stated his belief that it is “inevitable” Australia will become a republic in the future. The actor shared his views while appearing on the BBC One politics programme Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. “I think Australia will become Republican at some point.

Jason Alexander will make his Broadway directing debut this summer with Sandy Rustin’s comedy The Cottage. Starring will be Eric McCormack, Laura Bell Bundy and Lilli Cooper.

APPOINTMENTSArmada Music has appointed two new General Managers, Dan Smith in New York and Ben Malone in London. Says Maykel Piron, CEO of the Amsterdam-headquartered dance music label: “We have been actively working the US and UK territories with our own teams and offices for a while now, and those teams have always been managed by the Dutch management team.

Savannah Guthrie says her matching friendship tattoo with Drew Barrymore was at least a year in the making. As to whether she'll get another one down the road, she says that's not likely to happen.Speaking with ET at the Michael Kors Fashion Show in New York City, the co-host said the new ink is «so light and so thin,» but, nonetheless, a tattoo she and Barrymore had been talking about getting for some time now.«We did it like two weeks ago, but it's so light and so thin, but yeah we did it,» Guthrie said. «We talked about it for a year and a half and then just finally decided to do it.

Zack Sharf Idris Elba ignited a firestorm on social media after he told Esquire UK that he has stopped calling himself a “Black actor” because it creates limitations for his career. While some accused Elba of renouncing his Blackness, others came to the “Luther” actor’s defense and agreed with him regarding Hollywood’s penchant to put labels on and stereotype Black actors. “Star Wars” alum John Boyega recently took to Twitter to tell his followers that Elba’s detractors were having the wrong takeaway from his comment. “I think we should fixate on who is typecasting and putting actors in boxes because of this,” Boyega wrote. “Not on making weird adjustments for them. We continuously focus on what we have to do so they don’t do this or that. Very worrying. We BLACK and that’s that.”

John Boyega has responded to Idris Elba‘s recent comments, where the latter said he had “stopped describing [himself] as a Black actor”.During a recent chat with Esquire UK, the Luther star said people are “obsessed with race”, and that “can really hinder people’s aspirations,” adding that being described as a Black actor “put [him] in a box”.“If we spent half the time not talking about the differences but the similarities between us, the entire planet would have a shift in the way we deal with each other,” the star began.“As humans, we are obsessed with race. And that obsession can really hinder people’s aspirations, hinder people’s growth.”Elba added: “Racism should be a topic for discussion, sure. Racism is very real.

Her whole world! Britney Spears may be a global superstar, but when it comes to her boys — she’s just Mom.

Whitney director Kevin Macdonald has struck a multi-project deal with rebranded Banijay label Workerbee Group.