HBO’s ‘Winning Time’ Scores Series High for Third Week in a Row With 1.4 Million Viewers

BBC prison drama Time star Sean Bean has beaten It’s A Sin lead Olly Alexander and his Time co-star Stephen Graham to the coveted Leading Actor award at tonight’s BAFTA TV Awards.

Ray J is not holding back any more.

Parminder Nagra made a welcome return to TV screens recently, with the actress taking centre stage in new ITV drama DI Ray. The 46 year old stars as DI Rachita Ray in the four-part series which focuses on Birmingham’s ­criminal underworld, with the first episode airing on Monday 2 May. Parminder shot to fame as Jess Bhamra in the 2002 hit film Bend It Like Beckham, starring alongside Keira Knightley.

Naomi Judd, the Kentucky-born singer of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, has died. She was 76.

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are taking over Italy!

demanded a retraction and an apology for how he’s being portrayed on the show. He is played by Jason Clarke in the series and is depicted as dedicated to the Lakers but tightly wound and frequently angry during the 1979-1980 basketball season covered in the show’s first season.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterEntertainment-focused private investment firm Coral Tree Partners has closed its inaugural round of funding with committed capital of approximately $470 million, well above the initial target of $350 million.Per Coral Tree, inaugural fund was “significantly oversubscribed above its original hard cap” and “received strong support from a range of high‐quality institutional investors, including endowments, foundations, insurance companies, pension plans, institutional family offices and funds‐of‐funds.”Founded by former Shamrock Capital Advisors partners Will Wynperle and Alan Resnikoff, Coral Tree Partners is focused on investments in the media, entertainment, marketing services, and communications industries, lower middle market buyouts, and late state growth equity investments. Currently, the Los Angeles-based company has two investments to its name: Loaded, a Santa Monica, Calif.‐based global talent management and marketing firm that works in the gaming influencer market, and Subject Matter, a Washington, D.C.‐based strategic communications, creative content, advertising and government relations firm.Along with Wynperle and Resnikoff, the Coral Tree Partners team includes Mike DiLorenzo, Matt Greenzang and Jake Simons, who have worked with the founders previously, as well as a group of executive advisors comprised of several CEOs, including the former CEOs of Giant Creative, Learfield Sports, MarketCast and Questex.“Our investment experience in our sectors combined with our lower middle market focus differentiates us in the market,” Wynperle said.

HBO is making major changes to its upcoming music industry drama series from The Weeknd and Sam Levinson.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Colorful floats and flamboyant dancers are delighting tens of thousands jammed into Rio de Janeiro's iconic Sambadrome, putting on a delayed Carnival celebration after the pandemic halted the dazzling displays.Rio de Janeiro’s top samba schools began strutting their stuff late Friday, which was the first evening of the two-night spectacle.Ketula Melo, 38, a muse in the Imperatriz Leopoldinense school dressed as the Iemanja deity of Afro-Brazilian religions, was thrilled to be back at the Sambadrome.“These two years were horrible. Now we can be happy again,” Melo said as she was about to enter Friday night wearing a black and white costume made of shells that barely covered her body.Rio's Sambadrome has been home to the parade since the 1980s, and is a symbol of Brazil's Carnival festivities.

Idris Elba is taking on a new role!

series, which the “Terminator” star will also executive produce. Baruchel will play Emma’s (Barbaro) unassuming kindergarten teacher boyfriend, who is clueless to her CIA role and is under the impression that she works for a nonprofit organization. The show, from “Scorpion” creator Nick Santora, follows the aftermath of a father and daughter finding out they’ve both been working as clandestine operatives and don’t know anything about the other’s real lives.The eight-episode drama will also feature Aparna Brielle (“A.P.

Idris Elba will play a hostage negotiator in Hijack, a new seven-part drama series announced for Apple TV+.The series will follow the journey of a hijacked plane as it makes its way to London over a seven-hour flight, according to a press release, with negotiator Sam Nelson (Elba) using his experience in the business world to attempt to save the lives of the passengers.Written by George Kay (Lupin, Criminal) and directed by Jim Field Smith (The Wrong Mans), who also executive-produced the series alongside Elba, the project forms part of the Suicide Squad actor’s first-look deal with Apple TV+ and his Green Door Pictures.Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta and Kris Thykier are also set to co-star.Elba’s Green Door has several recent TV credits, such as BBC2’s Idris Elba: Fight School, which launched in the UK last week, as well as Netflix comedy Turn Up Charlie. Earlier this year (February 22), Elba said that he is planning on “leaning away from the acting work” to focus more on his music in the coming years.The Luther and The Wire actor founded the record label 7Wallace in 2015, while he regularly performs DJ sets (including a slot at Coachella in 2019) and has released a host of solo and collaborative records in recent years.“Some may think, ‘Well, it will be the death of your acting if your music’s shit’,” the 49-year-old told Vanity Fair.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Netflix spy series led by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Monica Barbaro has set its main cast, Variety has learned.Appearing in series regular roles in the series are: Jay Baruchel, Aparna Brielle, Andy Buckley, Milan Carter, Fortune Feimster, Barbara Eve Harris, Gabriel Luna, Fabiana Udenio, and Travis Van Winkle. Additionally, the following actors will appear in recurring roles: Devon Bostick, David Chinchilla, Rachel Lynch, Stephanie Sy, and Scott Thompson.Full character descriptions for all the new cast members can be found below.The untitled spy drama was ordered at Netflix in May 2021, with the streamer giving the one-hour show an eight episode order.

Netflix and Skydance Television have set the cast of the untitled Arnold Schwarzenegger spy adventure series, signing nine actors as series regulars to join Schwarzenegger in his first TV series role, and previously announced female lead Monica Barbaro. The list includes Travis Van Winkle (You), Gabriel Luna, reuniting with Schwarzenegger after starring together in Terminator: Dark Fate, Fortune Feimster (The Mindy Project), Jay Baruchel (This Is the End), Milan Carter (Warped!), Fabiana Udenio (Jane the Virgin), Barbara Eve Harris (Station 19), Aparna Brielle (A.P. Bio) and Andy Buckley (The Office).

K.J. Yossman “Luther” star Idris Elba is set to star in and executive produce thriller series “Hijack” for Apple TV+.The seven-part drama will be the debut project to emerge from Elba’s first-look deal with Apple.

Luther star Idris Elba will turn hostage negotiator in a tense thriller drama series for Apple TV+.

Matt Bomer has signed on to star in a brand new Showtime series.