Death in Paradise star Joséphine Jobert almost couldn't join the show

Dennis Waterman, star of Minder, The Sweeney and New Tricks, has died, aged 74. The news was announced by the actor’s family, who revealed in a statement that he died on Sunday (8 May) with his wife Pam by his side. “We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved Dennis passed away very peacefully in hospital in Spain.

Actor Dennis Waterman has died at the age of 74. A statement said: "We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved Dennis passed away very peacefully at his home in Spain." Dennis was renowned for his roles in Minder, The Sweeney and New Tricks.

Janelle Monáe is set to play entertainer and French Resistance agent Josephine Baker in an upcoming TV series.From studio A24, De La Resistance will follow Baker’s role as a spy for the French Resistance in the Second World War. It will also cover her career as an entertainer, after she became the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture in 1927 silent film Siren Of The Tropics.Jennifer Yale, best known for her work on Outlander, See and Legion, will serve as showrunner on the series.

Michael Appler On Wednesday evening in New York City, Colin Firth and the cast of HBO’s “The Staircase” celebrated its premiere at the Museum of Modern Art.Created by Antonio Campos with showrunner Maggie Cohn, “The Staircase” marks HBO’s turn at the true crime story of Kathleen Peterson, who was found dead at the bottom of her staircase in 2001. The story of what followed and came before — her husband Michael Peterson’s indictment and trial, unearthed secrets, treatment by prosecutors and twisting family drama — was first the subject of a 2004 documentary miniseries, then republished and given new episodes by Netflix, and now fictionalized in HBO’s limited series led by Firth and Toni Collette. “I think about Truman Capote and ‘In Cold Blood,’ which was itself a first of its kind,” Parker Posey, who plays the prosecuting attorney Freda Black in the series, told Variety at the premiere.

Deadline reports. Monáe channeled the star’s 1930s glamour in her retro ensemble at this week’s Met Gala.

EXCLUSIVE: Eight-time Grammy nominee and SAG winner Janelle Monaé (Hidden Figures) is set to star as iconic entertainer and freedom fighter Josephine Baker in TV series De La Resistance, we can reveal.

Former TV presenter Anthea Turner paid tribute to her mother, Jean, after she passed away from pneumonia at 91. Anthea, who is known for her time presenting Blue Peter, Top of the Pops and GMTV, announced her mum’s death on social media yesterday, thanking NHS staff for their hard work to try and save her life.

New York Times reported.Birney first gained mainstream fame in 1972 opposite his future wife Meredith Baxter in the CBS sitcom “Bridget Loves Bernie.” The show was popular — slotted between ratings juggernauts “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “All in the Family — but short-lived thanks to controversial protests by Jewish groups who disagreed with the “intermarriage” of Birney’s Jewish cabbie character, Bernie Steinberg, and Baxter’s Bridget Fitzgerald, a Catholic grade school teacher from a wealthy family.Both divorced at the time, Birney and the futxure “Family Ties” matriarch, who had two children from her first marriage, got hitched for real in 1974. The pair had three kids of their own before getting divorced in 1989.Baxter later claimed that Birney was emotionally and physically abusive in her bombshell 2011 book “Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering.” He vehemently denied her claims, deeming them an “appalling abuse of the truth.”The son of an FBI agent, Birney was born on April 23, 1939, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio.

Arcade by Duncan Laurence is the UK's Official All-Time Most Streamed Eurovision Song Contest entry, Official Charts Company can reveal.

Read more: How Elon Musk made his £200bn fortune before he bought Twitter The 50-year-old entrepreneur’s first six children are shared with Canadian author Justine Wilson, and the last two with singer-songwriter Grimes. Musk met his first wife, Wilson, while they were both students at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.

Creeper have been announced as the special guests on Alice Cooper and The Cult co-headlining tour.Alice Cooper and The Cult announced details of a co-headlining UK arena tour last year. The acts will hit the road in late May and early June for six arena shows.The tour is set to begin on May 23 with a show at the Swansea Arena, before the band play at The O2 in London two days later.Dates in Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham follow before the tour wraps up in Leeds at the First Direct Arena on June 1.Speaking about the tour, Creeper said: “It is somewhat surreal for us to be able to announce today that Creeper will be joining Alice Cooper and The Cult on their UK arena tour next month.“It is a dream come true for a band like ours to tour with our heroes and people who have been such an inspiration to us.

“Becoming Elizabeth,” Starz’s Tudor drama about a young royal, has a premiere date.The new series will debut on Sunday, June 12, the network announced Thursday. It will drop on the Starzapp and on streaming and on-demand at midnight, and air on linear at 9 p.m.

The untold story of the early life of England’s most iconic Queen has set its release date and issued the trailer and key art.

ITV is currently airing The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe which has led to a renewed interest in its subject John Darwin and his then wife Anne. The four-part TV drama tells the true story of the couple, portrayed by actors Eddie Marsan and Monica Dolan. John faked his own death after going out to sea in his red canoe to claim life insurance and avoid bankruptcy, the drama focuses on how Anne became complicit in her husband’s deception.