The Bank of England (BoE) is set to announce whether it decided to increase interest rates in the country this week.
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A new ITV drama which follows a doctor at the centre of a malpractice case will air this week.
Malpractice, starring Niamh Algar as Dr Luncinda Edwards, explores the aftermath of a 'nightmare' A&E shift that results in the death of an opioid overdose patient. Throughout the five episodes, Dr Edwards' personal life begins to unravel as the pressure of the investigation mounts.
Leading the medical investigation are Dr Norma Callahan and Lucinda’s former colleague, Dr George Adjei. While George feels the patient's death was an unavoidable tragedy, Norma is suspicious of Lucinda’s behaviour and the decisions she made that night.
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Writer Grace Ofori-Attah, who was a doctor for 15 years, says the drama aims to challenge the stereotypes of addiction, and also highlight the huge pressures medical professionals face. She told ITV: "While Malpractice is set in A&E to reflect what was probably the most difficult junior doctor rotation I’ve ever done, the underlying story is really one about psychiatry, mental health, addiction and how that is pervasive. Not just in medicine but in wider society."
Here is the cast of Malpractice - and where you might recognise their faces from.
Irish actress Niamh Algar plays leading role Dr Lucinda Edwards. She is best known for her roles as Dinah in Shane Meadows drama The Virtues and Sue in Raised By Wolves. More recently, she's appeared in films Censor, Deceit and 2022 Netflix film The Wonder.
Dr Leo Harris, who leads the malpractice investigation, is played by James Purefoy. You might recognise him from the HBO series Rome, drama The Following or mystery series Hap and Leonard. He has also had roles in Netflix hit Sex
The Bank of England (BoE) is set to announce whether it decided to increase interest rates in the country this week.
A Scot has shared a photo of unique stretch of road where cars appear to roll uphill.
All eyes were on the Royals during the weekend as they celebrated the King's Coronation, including Princess Eugenie who dressed perfectly for the occasion including a pair of affordable high street shoes.The Princess, 33 who is expecting her second child with husband Jack Brooksbank looked stunning as she wore a black and white Gabriela Hearst midi dress with puff sleeves for the Sunday Coronation celebrations wearing it to both the Big Lunch in Buckinghamshire and evening concert at Windsor. Wearing the versatile look and proving that just because you're a member of the Royal Family doesn't mean you can't wear affordable fashion, Eugenie completed the look with a pair of £85 high-street flat shoes from Dune.
Anyone who spends any time in Scotland will quickly realise that we have countless words and phrases that only really make sense to us.
The countdown is on for the King's Coronation - which, for most Brits, will be the first of their lifetimes.
Vanderpump Rules season 10, , arrived at Andy Cohen's Watch What Happens Live Bravo clubhouse suited up and ready to go. Fans of the show know that Doute has never met a cheating scandal she wasn't ready to blow the lid on, particularly when it involves Tom Sandoval.
A Scottish aquarium on the shores of Loch Lomond that lets visitors feed their sharks is the perfect May day trip destination.
Netflix is gearing up to release its next instalment in the Bridgerton series. The hotly anticipated Queen Charlotte – a spin-off from the hit period drama – will drop later this month.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter Sydney Chandler has been cast as a lead in Noah Hawley’s “Alien” series currently in the works at FX, Variety has learned. Plot and character details are being kept under tight wraps on the project, which was first announced in December 2020. The only detail that has been confirmed is that the show will take place on Earth in the not-too-distant future. The role brings Chandler back to FX, as she previously made her network television debut in the cabler’s 2022 limited series “Pistol” from Danny Boyle, which told the story of the legendary band The Sex Pistols. Chandler starred in the series as Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders. Chandler’s other credits include the film “Don’t Worry Darling” and the Facebook Watch series “SKAM Austin.” She is also set to appear in the upcoming Apple series “Sugar” opposite Colin Farrell.
Vanessa Bryant is remembering her daughter.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “Thanks for coming to my dad’s birthday party,” said Micah Nelson, a few songs into an all-star tribute to Willie Nelson at the Hollywood Bowl, attended by a sold-out house happy that Willie had found a way to schedule the 90th anniversary of his birth on a Saturday night. With roughly seven decades of songwriting and recording to commemorate, though, the party is stretching over two nights, bundled together and sold as a single ticket, where by the end of Sunday night everyone will have heard about 50 artists perform a total of about 75 songs. Ironically, one of the first numbers performed Saturday evening was young Texas country artist Charley Crockett doing a cut that Nelson had a hit with as a budding songwriter in the late ’50s: “The Party’s Over.” That title proved as un-prescient for Nelson’s career 65 years ago as it proved unprophetic for the scope of the Bowl celebration this weekend. But a little irony is always welcome in Willie’s world.
Michael Appler It’s quiet on the roof of the St. James Theater. Up here, less than 10 stories above 44th Street, the clamor of an opening night on Broadway drifts away. Below, titans of the American theater — actors like Chita Rivera and Joel Grey — are gathering to attend the opening night of a new musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb, a duo who gave Broadway shows like “Cabaret” and “Chicago.” But on the roof — on top of “New York, New York” — the air is still. Up here, in the few moments of serenity before red carpet interviews, an opening night performance and a long evening of parties, the musical’s two stars, Colton Ryan and Anna Uzele — newcomers to all the fuss below — stop to catch their breath.
Thousands of Scots will take to the streets across major cities next weekend to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter Donald Sutherland is the latest addition to the cast of the Bass Reeves series currently in the works at Paramount+. The show is now officially titled “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” and is now described as an anthology series with future installments to follow other iconic lawmen who have impacted history in subsequent seasons. The logline for the Bass Reeves season states it will “bring the legendary lawman of the wild west to life. Reeves, known as the greatest frontier hero in American history, worked in the post-Reconstruction era as a federal peace officer in the Indian Territory, capturing over 3,000 of the most dangerous criminals without ever being wounded.”
Alison Herman TV Critic “Love & Death” feels familiar, as it should. The Max drama is the second series in less than a year to take on the same story: the case of Candy Montgomery, a Texas housewife who killed her friend and neighbor Betty Gore with an ax in 1980. This version follows closely on the heels of “Candy,” which aired on Hulu last year. The proximity practically demands comparison, and it’s tempting to draw up a laundry list of differences and call it a review. “Love & Death” casts Elizabeth Olsen as Montgomery, while “Candy” stars Jessica Biel. (The more jarring contrast is between the former’s Jesse Plemons and the latter’s Pablo Schreiber, two physically opposite actors who both assume the role of Allan Gore, Betty’s husband and Candy’s ex-lover.) “Candy” is inflected with horror, while “Love & Death” is more naturalist. “Candy” flashes back from the day of the murder, which saw Montgomery toggle from brutal homicide to eerily banal errands, while “Love & Death” is more linear in structure. The effect is not unlike that of 2019’s competing documentaries about the viral quagmire known as Fyre Festival, with the same details refracted through distinct sensibilities. But instead of racing to cover a recent event, these shows converge on a tragedy more than four decades old.
A new medical drama which follows the aftermath of a 'nightmare' A&E shift is airing on ITV.
A deleted scene from “Vanderpump Rules” is making noise after Ariana Madix’s words appear to eerily predict the ‘Scandoval’ cheating scandal that has rocked the Bravo airwaves.
While the nation is celebrating King Charles' Coronation, there will be another big bash happening several thousand miles away. Meghan Markle is set to skip the Coronation and will remain in California, where she and Prince Harry are based, with the couple's two young children, Prince Archie, three, and Princess Lilibet, one.The historic event falls on Meghan and Harry's son Archie's fourth birthday, and this is believed to have been a factor in Meghan's choice not to attend.
The medal awarded to the NHS following the pandemic to recognise the heroism of staff is going on tour - and will be going on display in Manchester.
Hopeful stargazers across the UK may be able to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights this week.