Idris Elba teams up with wife Sabrina to produce show on black stars

Idris Elba has joined the sequel of a popular Netflix film, which releases this month.

The Libertines singer Pete Doherty has welcomed a baby daughter with his wife Katia de Vidas, their first as a couple. The 44 year old musician shared the news on his Instagram page with two adorable snaps, including one of his little girl’s hospital tag. It informed that the newborn tot was born on May 31, as well as announcing that the couple have decided to call their daughter Billie-May Doherty.There was also a gorgeous image of the baby girl all curled up.

Kelvin Fletcher is set to return to ITV seven years after he left Emmerdale - with his own reality show. The actor, 39, will give his fans a glimpse at his family's life on his farm, with new series Fletcher’s Family Farm. Former Strictly Come Dancing winner Kelvin and his wife Liz will welcome viewers into the home they share with their four children, Marnie, six, Milo, four, and one-year-old twin boys, Maximus and Mateusz.

The Season 3 (and presumed series) finale of Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso brought closure for most of the characters, including Phil Dunster’s reformed bad boy Jamie Tartt. After one more squabble with foe-turned-friend and mentor Roy Kent over who can date Keeley — a dilemma she easily solved by throwing both of them out of her house — Jamie and Roy are seen in the final seconds having a beer together, sitting alongside Keeley and their AFC Richmond teammates. In the flashforward, Jamie also has a friendly conversation with his father, a sign of a possible reconciliation.

Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) subsidiary Aniplex Inc has acquired Origamix Partners Inc, the management company of Alice In Borderland director Shinsuke Sato, and will  relaunch the company under the name Myriagon Studio as of June 1.

Mario Falcone has announced that he and his wife Becky have welcomed their second child together. The former TOWIE star, 35, took to Instagram on Tuesday to confirm their jovial baby news, sharing that they have welcomed a baby girl. He shared a sweet picture of his wife Becky, 33, and their first child Parker Jax, four, sitting in the hospital bed with the new addition to the family.

Hang onto your seats, for a seven-part thriller Hijack, starring Idris Elba.

Paramore’s recent show in Atlanta, frontwoman Hayley Williams paid tribute to the late, great Tina Turner by interpolating the chorus of her 1984 hit ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’ into one of the band’s own songs.The show itself went down at the State Farm Arena last Thursday (May 25), with the tribute coming just over halfway through Paramore’s 22-song setlist. For their performance of the ‘After Laughter’ single ‘Told You So’, Williams swapped the last chorus out for the lyrics to ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’. Turner released the titular song in 1984, marking the third single from that year’s ‘Private Dancer’ album.

Ed Ames, the youngest member of the popular 1950s singing group the Ames Brothers, who later became a successful actor in television and musical theatre, has died. He was 95.

Loose Women viewers were surprised to see panellist Jane Moore overcome with cramp after an ad break on Friday (May 26). The cameras returned to the programme to see Nadia Sawalha pushing on Jane's foot on the desk.

Idris Elba wants you to buckle up.

Kanye West is putting his unique sense of style on display for his latest outing.

It’s a no from her. Whoopi Goldberg thinks American Idol is to blame for some of society’s problems —seemingly forgetting that the competition show airs on the same network as The View.

Apple TV+ has released the trailer of the new real-time series “Hijack.”

Blake Shelton might be leaving behind, but the connections he made there carry on.The country singer announced on Thursday that he's teaming up with former producer and four-time Emmy Award-winning showrunner Lee Metzger to launch Lucky Horseshoe Productions.The pair has already collaborated on, an unscripted USA series where Shelton — along with Nikki Garcia and  host Carson Daly  -- opens up his famous Ole Red bar in Nashville to play fun drinking games with his famous friends. Now, they'll begin a new chapter of projects following Shelton's departure from after 23 seasons. «I'm excited to partner with my longtime friend and creative rainmaker Lee Metzger,» said Shelton in a press release about the new partnership.

Not interested in Idris Elba reprising his iconic detective role “Luther: The Fallen Sun” on Netflix? Well, Elba has another thriller hitting another streamer soon: “Hijack,” which premieres on Apple TV+ next month. READ MORE: The 70 Most Anticipated TV Shows & Mini-Series Of 2023 The seven-part thriller stars Elba as Sam Nelson, a business negotiator who must put his professional strategies to the test after his plane to London gets hijacked.

Naman Ramachandran Zinc Media label Supercollider has partnered with Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures and Sabrina Elba’s Pink Towel on documentary series “Paid in Full: The Battle for Payback” (working title) for public broadcasters CBC and BBC. The series (3 x 60′), produced in association with Catalyst, examines the exploitation of Black artists by the music industry and explores what it would look like for Black artists to receive reparations. It documents the extent of the historic injustice suffered by the music industry’s Black artists, including the disparity of profits received by them, despite having created the records that have driven the fabric and culture of popular music. The series will also look at racial inequality in the music industry both today and in the past.

Kumar Mangat Pathak’s Mumbai-based Panorama Studios is teaming with South Korea’s Anthology Studios, co-founded by former Warner Bros exec Jay Choi, Cobweb director Kim Jee-woon and Parasite star Song Kang-ho, on a Korean-language remake of India’s Drishyam franchise. 

Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie are expecting their third child in "just a few weeks".

When two British-born powerhouses get together — Idris Elba, an actor-director-producer of Sierra Leone, Creole and Ghanaian descent, and Nigerian-rooted Mo Abudu, largely considered the go-between for African content to the rest of the world — they have a powerful chemistry. Remarkably, though, they’ve never made anything together.