‘Inside No.9’ is coming to London’s West End as a stage adaptation

The period drama Bridgerton has been one of Netflix’s biggest successes, with the Regency-set story focusing on the lives and loves of the Bridgerton family and their friends.The new third season starts on Thursday 16 May with the arrival of the first four episodes (the final four episodes will drop on Netflix on Thursday 13 June), and this time around the heart of the tale is the blossoming romance between old friends Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton. It means that the actors playing them – Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton – are now in the spotlight, with Luke stepping up to be the leading man of the series, taking over from Rege-Jean Page (season one) and Jonathan Bailey (season two).

Coronation Street's Bernie Winter, portrayed by the talented Jane Hazelgrove, has been on a heartfelt quest to find her long-lost son Zodiac, and it looks like she might be getting closer to the truth. In a recent episode, Bernie was seen continuing her search for the child she gave up for adoption nearly three decades ago. She thought she had found him in a man named Christopher Green - Zodiac's name after adoption - but he denied being her son.

James Martin's relationship with his new girlfriend, personal trainer Kim Johnson, is still going strong.Their romance comes after the Saturday Kitchen host, 51, ended his 12-year relationship with Louise Davies earlier this year, with the pair thought to have remained friends. It is not known when James and Kim first got together, but they were spotted browsing watches in a shop in Mayfair on March 16, 2024. Kim was previously married to was businessman Arun Nayar, the entrepreneur behind technology company Direction Software Solutions.

EXCLUSIVE: Succession star Sarah Snook plays her final performances Saturday night at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket in the enthralling, award-winning play The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the actress now has signed on take it to Broadway for a season in the spring of 2025.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Stahl-David (Cloverfield), Scottie Thompson (Crown Vic) and Michael Weston (Home Before Dark) are in production in Ohio on Down to the Felt, an indie dark comedy with action elements from filmmaker Jon Osbeck. The trio joins a cast that also includes Jo-Ann Robinson and Cullen Douglas.

The Met Gala brings Hollywood’s finest together… Or in Kendall Jenner and Bad Bunny’s case, back together!

Disney will add select live games and studio shows from ESPN to its flagship streaming service Disney+ by the end of 2024, CEO Bob Iger announced this morning.

Pet Shop Boys have shared that Drake‘s team were “very apologetic” about the rapper’s unauthorised sample of ‘West End Girls’ in one of his tracks.Last October, the UK pop duo claimed that the Canadian rapper sampled their 1985 hit without their knowledge or permission.On Drake’s track ‘All The Parties’ from latest album ‘For All The Dogs’, the artist sings: “East End boy and West End girls.”The lyrics and melody mirrored the Pet Shop Boys’ own track, in which they sing: “In a West End town, a dead end world/ The East End boys and West End girls.”“Surprising to hear Drake singing the chorus of ‘West End Girls’ in the track ‘All the Parties’ on his new album. No credit given or permission requested,” the band wrote on Twitter after the release.Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe shed more light on the beef in an interview with NME, sharing that it has all been resolved.

What’s Michael Sarnoski up to after “A Quiet Place: Day One“? Deadline reports the “Pig” director has his next project ready for the upcoming Cannes market through WME Independent. And “The Death Of Robin Hood” sounds great: a dark take on the outlaw legend with Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer set to star.

BBC sitcom star Angela Thorne has left her £1.6million fortune including a home in London to her two sons. The actress, who was best-known for playing Marjory Frobisher in To The Manor Born from 1979 to 1981, died in June last year aged 84. According to The Sun, probate documents revealed that her son, actor Rupert Penry-Jones, 53, was bequeathed a coastal home in Anglesey.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Amazon Prime Video has ordered a series adaptation of the Michelle Frances novel “The Girlfriend” with Robin Wright set to star and direct, Variety has learned. In addition, Olivia Cooke (“House of the Dragon,” “Sound of Metal”), Laurie Davidson (“Mary and George”), and Waleed Zuaiter (“Gangs of London”) will star alongside Wright. The official description of the series states: “Laura (Wright) wants for nothing.

Sheridan Smith has said she's 'honoured' as her next role has been revealed as she moves on from the early close of her West End play. It has been confirmed that the actress will play the leading role in a gritty new drama set to air on ITV.

EXCLUSIVE: Faith Omole, one of the stars of Nida Manzoor’s Peacock/C4/Working Title punk comedy series We Are Lady Parts, will have her debut play produced on the London stage next month starring BAFTA Award winner Rakie Ayola.

Ellise Shafer The Royal Television Society has revealed the dates and initial speakers for its annual RTS London Convention. This year’s event will take place on Sept. 17 at Kings Place in London and is chaired by Anna Mallett, Netflix‘s vice president of production for EMEA and the U.K.

David Benedict When, at a dramatic peak, the lead character is running for her life and she’s teetering on a perilously tiny walkway on the outside of a very tall building, and terrified, certain thoughts shouldn’t be occurring to an audience. Chief among them is, “But she’s only about ten feet from the floor.” Our heroine may be scarily disengaged from everything she thought she knew, but we need to be fully invested. That we rarely are is the overwhelming problem with this strongly designed but tension-free adaptation of “Minority Report.” In this gender-switched stage version not of Steven Spielberg’s movie but Philip K.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Visinema Studios, the family division of leading Indonesian entertainment company Visinema Group, is set to make its debut in live theater with “Keluarga Cemara: The Musical.” “Keluarga Cemara” (aka “Cemara Family”) has previously existed as a classic Indonesian novel about a family facing up to financial hardship, but emerging resilient and optimistic. It has since been adapted as two feature films “Keluarga Cemara” and “Keluarga Cemara 2,” which attracted over two million theatrical admissions, and the recent “Keluarga Cemara: The Series” which played on Disney+ Hotstar Indonesia. The stage show will be presented with cultural institution Galeri Indonesia Kaya and the Teater Musikal Nusantara.

Throughout his lifetime, Simon Newton has had quite the career. From serving in the British Army to being a bodyguard for celebrities including Michael Jackson and Kendall Jenner, his career has gone from strength to strength. Now an actor, Simon has opened up about his time working as a professional bodyguard and how a chance opportunity in 2003 saw his career take a very different turn.

Glastonbury has shared details about its 2024 West Holts stage line-up, including a host of new names such as Nia Archives and 47soul. Check it out below.The iconic Worthy Farm festival shared its official 2024 line-up for Glastonbury last month– with Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA confirmed as headlining the iconic Pyramid Stage this summer, while Shania Twain performs in the legends slot on the Sunday.In the time since that main announcement, the organisers have begun counting down the weeks to this year’s edition by gradually announcing the artists playing at other stages around the site.

Bargain Hunt's Caroline Hawley is not just a whizz on the show, helping the red and blue teams uncover hidden treasures, but she's also a savvy businesswoman with her own antiques shop in Yorkshire.The star has given fans a sneak peek into her life away from the cameras, revealing that she lives in the stunning Albion House and boasts an incredible collection of designer dresses. Reminiscing about a lucky find at a car boot sale, Caroline shared with the Yorkshire Post: "I'd just about given up finding anything, but on one stall I saw this bit of old black cloth lying on the ground and I picked it up carefully, and there, without a shadow of a doubt, was that unmistakable label." She recounted the moment she snagged a bargain, saying: "I turned to the guy on the stand and I asked how much he wanted for it.

Naman Ramachandran “My Neighbor Totoro,” a stage adaptation of Miyazaki Hayao‘s beloved 1988 Studio Ghibli film, is transferring to the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London’s West End in early 2025. The production is a collaboration between multi-award-winning composer Joe Hisaishi, who executive produces, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Improbable and Nippon TV. Adapted by Tom Morton-Smith (“Oppenheimer”), it opened at London’s Barbican in 2022 and broke the venue’s box office record for most tickets sold in a single day.