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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs we all keep our fingers crossed for a full return to things like music conferences, the South by Southwest Music Festival (SXSW) has announced a second round of showcasing artists invited to perform at the 36th annual event.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor and musician Eliot Sumner (No Time to Die) has been tapped for a recurring role opposite Andrew Scott and Johnny Flynn in Ripley, Showtime’s drama series based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling quintet of Tom Ripley novels, from The Night Of’s Steven Zaillian.

Jane Seymour is revisiting her days as “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”.

EXCLUSIVE: Ubisoft Film & Television announced today that it has appointed Jordan Cohen as Senior Director of European Live-Action Film and Television.

Charlie Amter For a band from England, Glass Animals, Variety’s Group of the Year, has spent so much time touring the United States, it may as well be American.“I feel comfortable here, and I get to eat all the food I grew up with, like Hot Pockets,” says Dave Bayley, the quartet’s ringleader and songwriter-­producer, on a Zoom call during a break between two sold-out shows in Santa Barbara in late October.Bayley did grow up in America, partly in Texas, where he says he was “very much exposed

EXCLUSIVE: What started out as a Polish university project about two LGBTQ+ women in a country ranked first by Rainbow Europe in its human rights abuse list will soon be available around the world on Discovery+.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorApple Music has unveiled its biggest songs of the year with its annual Top 100 charts, which not only include the most-streamed songs — topped by BTS’ smash “Dynamite” but it has also shared its “Top 100 2021: Fitness” chart—spotlighting the most-played workout music across Apple Music and Fitness+— its top 100 most-Shazamed songs and its top 100 most-read Lyrics.Following “Dynamite” in the top 5 are Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” (which had the most-read

Two men have been arrested after police found the body of a woman during their search for teenager Bobbi-Anne McLeod.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAmazon has a new delivery for fans of “Thursday Night Football.”The tech behemoth, which currently enjoys rights to stream “Thursday Night Football” and will next year gain exclusive access to the NFL property, will test interest in interactive fan polling during this evening’s game between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons.Fans who watch the stream-cast via Amazon Prime on Android phones will be able to respond to polls once before kickoff and once

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorLaura Molen is using November to pitch Madison Avenue as if May were just around the corner.The NBCUniversal ad-sales president (above, pictured) is ready to unveil two new advertising formats for Peacock, the company’s streaming-video hub, as well as tout a host of new efforts to incorporate advertiser data; new quality standards; and partners like DV360, OneView, The Trade Desk, and Yahoo that will help so-called “programmatic” marketers using algorithms to get

Tyson Fury has been ranked third in the list of the top 25 boxers in the world, which has been updated following Canelo Alvarez's victory against Caleb Plant.

Marta Balaga Zdzisław Najmrodzki, who died in 1995, was one of the most infamous Polish criminals of the communist period. Called the “King of Thieves” and “Master of Escapes,” he evaded pursuit 29 times.

Scots ref John Beaton was forced to issue a red card after just 20 seconds of Poland's clash with Andorra.

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A delighted Scots dad has told of 'tears streaming down his face' as he saw his five-year-old daughter sit up unaided for the first time in her life following life-changing surgery in Poland.