Hospitals braced for ‘exceptionally low’ staff numbers as nurses strike

Former Coronation Street actor Chris Fountain, best known for playing Tommy Duckworth, posted a series of photos and videos on his Instagram to give his fans a health update. The star is set to undergo heart surgery on Friday.

Shonda Rhimes is in the midst of promoting her latest Shondaland series, “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story”.

Paramount is willing to pay big money for Taylor Sheridan's Universe. Sheridan's shows, which include "Yellowstone" and the spinoff "1923," have proven to be successful for the network, but costly. One episode of "1923," which stars Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, costs Paramount $22 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Drake is selling the last U.S. property that he owns.

After Coronation Street's Amy Barlow was raped by Aaron Sandford back in February, viewers have been watching the youngster trying to get her life back on track as best as she can. It emerged that Amy – played by Elle Mulvany – was raped by once-friend and housemate Aaron – played by James Craven – after getting drunk. But after trying to report the incident to the police and not being taken seriously, she sadly retracted the allegation in the hope she could just move on.

“The King,” told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that the 41-year-old estranged royal is all-systems go on becoming a “power player” in Tinseltown after signing with esteemed entertainment agency WME.“If Meghan doesn’t end up hosting a daytime syndicated talk show, I’ll be surprised,” Andersen told the outlet. “She certainly seems well-suited to that role in particular, and I can easily see her pursuing a career path similar to Oprah’s in the media: a show, a magazine, producing, directing — the works.“She still has a sizeable chunk of the viewing public in her corner,” he added.The news of Markle’s signing comes after Page Six reported that she and her husband, Prince Harry, 38, have been spotted more often in Hollywood in recent months.

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A crucial meeting will be held today between unions and NHS employers which is expected to pave the way for the Government to implement a pay rise aimed at resolving the long-running health workers dispute.

Married at First Sight star Nick Furphy is asking for the public to help pay for his social media account to be restored after it was hacked. Appearing on the fourth season of the Australian version of the reality series back in 2017, the carpenter from Melbourne was matched with business owner Sharon Marsh, whose twin sister Michelle also walked down the aisle as part of the show. While the couple were the only one to stay together after their season ended, and after Sharon moved across the country to try and make things work, they eventually broke up.

The race for next week's Official Albums Chart Number 1 hasn't even started yet, and already the battle lines are being drawn! 

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Nick Bakay has had a 30-year career in TV and film, including writing on traditional network sitcoms like “Young Sheldon” and “The King of Queens.” But the industry has shifted in recent years. Now he’s working on “How to Be a Bookie,” an eight-episode series for Max. The show is scheduled to wrap production on April 28, getting in just under the wire before a possible strike by the Writers Guild of America. “The game has suddenly changed so drastically,” Bakay says. “If you’re going to go from 22 episodes and residuals to eight episodes and no residuals, that’s a body blow.”

Strike action planned by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) next week has been called off on one day after a High Court judge ruled it would be unlawful.

As negotiations for a new Writers Guild contract enter their final phase, the Association of Talent Agents has sent its member-agencies a 22-page summary of the “force majeure” provisions contained in the contracts of the WGA, SAG-AFTRA and the DGA. Force majeure, the ATA notes, “is a provision in a contract that addresses the parties’ obligations if an extraordinary event directly prevents one or both parties from performing.”

Coronation Street saw heart-wrenching drama centred on two of its characters in Wednesday night's episode (April 26). The harrowing scenes saw Amy Barlow and Paul Foreman at the hospital for different reasons, but both were left facing-up to trauma and confronting their fears.

Joel Kinnaman (For All Mankind) is attached to star in They Found Us, an alien abduction thriller to be directed for AGC Studios and Temple Hill by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (District 9), which will head into production in Australia later this year.

EXCLUSIVE: Waco: The Aftermath has proved to be a streaming win for Showtime.

Kourtney Kardashian has hit back after being slated for showing off her wealth with copious bouquets and displays of flowers for her birthday.The millionaire megastar, who is best-known for the reality TV show Keeping up with the Kardashians and is now starring on The Kardashians, celebrated turning 44 last week. As the mum-of-three, who shares children Mason, 13, Penelope, 10, and Reign, eight, with her ex Scott Disick, excitedly posted some of her gifts and incredibly extra birthday floral displays on Instagram, some of her followers were less than impressed. Kourtney, who was blasted for "gross" images of her eating off the top of a toilet lid recently, faced a huge backlash as critics claimed she was being "excessive" and criticised the "ridiculous" number of bouquets.

There’s a lot at stake in this week’s race for the UK’s Number 1 Album, as both acts currently leading the race are in with the chance of scooping their first-ever chart-topping LP.  

Michael Appler Al Pacino passed on taking a trip to a galaxy far far away. During a talk Wednesday at The 92nd Street Y, New York, the Oscar winner recalled being offered the role of Han Solo in “Star Wars.” “Well, I turned down ‘Star Wars.’ When I first came up, I was the new kid on the block, you know what happens when you first become famous. It’s like, ‘Give it to Al.’ They’d give me Queen Elizabeth to play,” Pacino said. “They gave me a script called ‘Star Wars.’ … They offered me so much money. I don’t understand it. I read it. … So I said I couldn’t do it. I gave Harrison Ford a career.”

It was originally described as the “big one,” or even more pointedly, a straight-up “bloodbath.”